The Shocking New Science Of How To Manage Your Stress - Dr Robert Sapolsky - #693

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Dr Robert Sapolsky is a Professor at Stanford University, a world-leading researcher, and an author. Stress is an inevitable part of human life. But what is stress actually doing to the human body when it happens for such a prolonged period of time? And what does science say are the best interventions to defeat it? Expect to learn the crucial difference between short term and long term stress, how stress actually impacts the human system, the neurodevelopmental consequences of stress and poverty, how to detrain your dopamine sensitivity, what everyone doesn't understand about how hormones work, whether believing in free will is a useful world view, why there is a relationship between belief in free will and obesity and much more... Timestamps: (00:00) What Robert Wished People Knew About Stress (06:00) Where is the Threshold of Short-Term Stress Becoming Long-Term? (12:29) How Brain Development is Influenced by Mother’s Socioeconomic Status (25:50) Does Your Stress Impact Your Descendants? (29:00) Finding Solutions to Manage Stress (35:52) How to Better Enjoy the Good Things in Life (42:50) Can You Actually Detox from Dopamine? (53:18) Why Robert Wanted to Study Our Lack of Free Will (1:01:46) How Having No Conscious Agency Impacts Justice (1:11:10) The Myth of the Self-Made Man (1:32:43) How to Acknowledge Your Lack of Agency & Not Feel Depressed (1:40:22) Where to Find Robert Extra Stuff: Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠ How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠ The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠ - Get in touch. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices