Advice Goddess Radio, Today's Show: John Coates On How Science-Based Risk-Taking Empowers Success
Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science.
There's something major missing in our understanding of how we succeed, and that's the biological side of things.
That's what my guest tonight, John Coates, provides -- fascinating biological nuances that explain how to approach risk, manage stress, use our gut feelings, and optimize ourselves to achieve even the loftiest goals.
Coates is now a senior research fellow in neuroscience and finance at the University of Cambridge, but he came to that after a very successful career on Wall Street where he ran the trading desk at Deutsche bank. His terrific book is "The Hour Between Dog And Wolf: How risk-taking transforms us, body and mind."
Listen now (we taped the show at 1pm today because my guest is in the U.K.) and find out how you can train yourself to manage stress rather than being crushed by it and actually toughen yourself both mentally and physically so you can be at your fittest to reach your goals.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2013/09/15/john-coates-how-science-based-risk-taking-empowers-success
Don't miss last week's show on making more effective choices by using "deep rationality."
Decisions that we make that seem stupid can actually make a lot of evolutionary sense, meaning that they would have made sense in the ancestral world; they just don't make sense in the world in which we now live.
Unfortunately, we can't just tell our genes, "Hey, it's 2013! There are no hungry tigers roaming the streets of Baltimore and, by the way, my girlfriend's on The Pill."
But, my guest, evolutionary psychologist, psychologist and marketing professor Dr. Vladas Griskevicius, gives us the background to make wiser choices in the future by helping us understand the ways we can be primed to act against our modern interests.
His fascinating book, co-authored with Dr. Douglas Kenrick, is "The Rational Animal: How Evolution Made Us Smarter Than We Think."
Listen at this link or download the podcast:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2013/09/09/dr-v-griskevicius-make-wiser-choices-via-deep-rationality
Join me and my fascinating guests every Sunday, 7-8 p.m. Pacific Time, 10-11 p.m. Eastern Time, here at blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon or subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher.
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