Dr Iain McGilchrist is a former literature scholar at Oxford University before an interest in the mind and body led him to studying medicine, which paved the way for him to become a consultant Psychiatrist.

Dr McGilChrist is an associate of Green Templteton College in Oxford, a fellow of the royal college of Psychiatrists, a fellow of the royal society of arts and Iain has also conducted neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Iain is the author of the Master and his Emissary, a book that I was recommended by Robert Greene. Recently Iain has his latest book; ‘’The matter with things’’, which took him 12 years to write and his almost 600,000 words. The equivalent to 6 PhD Thesis’.

In this conversation today, Iain and I discuss the following:

00:00 - Hemispheric Differences

08:30 - The epidemic of mental illness

13:58 - Biohacking, Death & Finding Meaning

30:40 - Meditate On Your Mortality

40:45 - Don't Make Beautiful Things Explicit

46:00 - Know thyself or find flow?

53:30 - What To Do If you feel lost, hopeless and depressed

01:01:45 - Connect with Dr McGilchrist