Braincare

Samantha Clarke wants you to feel connected to your work. The happiness consultant, TEDx speaker, and author of Love It or Leave It - How to be Happy at Work explores the ways in which our workplaces shape us, and what we can do to shape them too.
Today, Samantha shares her expert knowledge on happiness at work. We discuss the pillars that constitute workplace satisfaction, why employee engagement is a two-way street, and how to bring a little levity to our lives during these trying times.
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"When I was a boy, I could often be found atop of the tallest tree..."Today, Adam Martin takes us into the magical kingdom of GABA to can experience the beauty and genius of Adam’s soundscapes first hand and sit still with the antidote to the velocity of modern life. So instead of filling your brain with new info, let us fill it with sounds and calm, and normal service will resume next week.

Adam Martin wants to tickle your gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor. The podcast-pro-turned-mindfulness-expert swapped a faced paced career in tech for poetic meditation and binaural beats.
Today, Adam Martin invites us into the world of GABA, the neurotransmitter, the name of his podcast, and the emblem of his philosophy. We discuss how meditation and mindfulness can help calm a busy mind, and hear his unique perspective on work and creativity.
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It's Brain Awareness Week! A week where institutions all over the world promote the amazing work they're doing to look after our most valuable asset: our brains.

This week, we're sharing our 10 Pillars of Braincare! These principles have been developed by the Heights team over the past couple of years. We've written over 150 newsletters based on scientific journals and research, performed interviews with over 100 of the world's leading experts, and received a whole load of customer feedback, and now we're sharing what we've learned with you!

Nir Eyal wants to add a little mindfulness to mindless behaviour. In a very meta way, the behavioural engineer learned how to boost his productivity through the 5 years process of writing the best-seller Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.
Today, Nir Eyal explains the benefits of inserting effort and friction between us and our distractions. We discuss how to flip your distraction into action, why you should throw away your to-do list, and how to tame the beast that is your email inbox!
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Nir Eyal knows how to hack your behaviour. The author and behavioural engineer has spent his career designing products that keep users hooked, but now he's on a different mission: busting distraction.

Today, Nir Eyal shares his expert advice on how to control your attention and choose your life. We discuss how society forms our behaviour, the extraordinary power of tech companies, and how and why you can get intentional with your time.
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Dr. Carl Hart wants us to rethink our relationship with drugs. The professor of neuroscience and psychology at Columbia University and author of Drug Use For Grown-Ups is a frequent commentator on the dearth of negative outcomes that drug prohibition has cause on our society and us as individuals.

Today on The Braincare Podcast, Dr. Carl Hart discusses how the war on drugs has caused pain for many while lining the pockets of a few. Plus, he shares his thoughts on staying mentally and physically healthy while engaging in drug use.
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Dr. Carl Hart wants us to rethink our relationship with drugs. The professor of neuroscience and psychology at Columbia University is known for his research in drug abuse and drug addiction, and his highly polemicising view on so-called 'illegal' substances.
Today on The Braincare Podcast, Dr. Carl Hart makes the case for normalising drug use for adults, from cocaine and amphetamines to opiates. We discuss the processes that happen in our brain on these substances, and why he believes society needs to allow us the freedom to choose.
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Stephen Fry is regarded as one of the UK's brightest brains. He's a prolific writer and actor who can apply his shrewd analysis and razor-sharp wit to just about any subject. So how does he keep his mind curious? 

On today's Braincare Podcast, Stephen shares his thoughts on intelligence of every shade - cognitive, mathematical, poetic - down to the very tautology of the word, and where he falls on the nature-nurture divide. 

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Launched on World Mental Health Day, 2020 - welcome to the Braincare Podcast

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