Modern Wisdom

#957 - Anne-Laure Le Cunff - How To Live Freely In A Goal-Obsessed World


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Anne‑Laure Le Cunff is a neuroscientist, founder, and an author.

We live by unconscious mental scripts. Most of the time, we don’t even realize it, until we wake up and see the life we’re living isn’t what we truly want. So how do we unlearn what no longer serves us and rewire our mind to align with who we really are?

Expect to learn what the problem is when people obsess over finding their purpose, how to know if you’re following your own dreams or someone else’s, the tactics you can learn to begin unlearning cultural scripts, how to get more comfortable with uncertainty, how to deal with the shame of letting go of busyness and driving toward your purpose, why posture is so overlooked in mental health, how to improve a destructive mindset, and much more…

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Timestamps:

(00:00) The Process Of Finding Your Purpose

(09:03) The Relationship With Humans & Uncertainty
(20:45) The Usefulness Of Liminal Spaces
(26:43) What is Compensatory Control Theory?
(37:59) What is Time Anxiety?
(56:52) Dopamine Loops & Our Sleep-Wake Cycles
(1:06:24) Find Out More About Anne-Laure

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