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Open Socrates

Agnes Callard ISBN 9780241476192

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This book by Agnes Callard came up once on Diary of a CEO in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Lisa Feldman Barrett. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

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“it's a really wonderful book”
“I'm just reading for the second time this book. It's called Open Socrates. Okay. And it's a really wonderful book and I've learned a lot”— Lisa Feldman Barrett

The guest here is Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett: A world-leading neuroscientist and one of the top 0.1% most-cited scientists, known for the theory of constructed emotion and her books on how the brain builds emotions and reality. Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett explains how your brain predicts rather than reacts, and how that gives you the power to change who you are.

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