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Delia received her PhD from Adelaide Medical School and her present research focus is on the neurobiology of stress and lifestyle choices. Delia’s knowledge about the brain’s requirements for optimal well-being, her enthusiasm for sharing complex science in an easy-to-understand format, and her ability to share practical and actionable steps with her audience, make her a speaker that keeps her audience engaged and enthralled from start to finish.

Chapters in this episode include:

• A Neuroscientist’s View of the OODA Loop and John Boyd
• Our Environment Shapes the Brain and Our OODA Loop
• This is Your Brain. This is Your Child’s Brain on Technology. Any Questions? 
• False Perception of the Environment 
• The Dangers of a  Synthetically Engineered Orientation 
• Dopamine 
• Our Brains & the Strategic Game of Interaction and Isolation
• Making Sense of Stress and its Impact on Orientation 
• The Mind-Body Stress OODA Loop 
• The Impact of Stress on the Workplace 
• Neurons That Fire Together, Wire Together 
• Alcohol-Caffeine Cycle 
• Some Context on Context Switching 
• How to Change Your Organization's Default Mode of Operation
• Decision Fatigue
• What Can Leaders Do?
• Making Work Visible 
• Ego, Default Mode Network, Our Brain 
• PTSD, Ego Suppression,  Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies.
• Why Do I Remember My First Girlfriend When I Smell Bubblegum? 
• The Interplay of Genes, Culture, Environment and Previous Experience
• Flow
• How to Connect with Delia McCabe, PhD   

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John R. Boyd's Conceptual Spiral was originally titled No Way Out. In his own words: 

“There is no way out unless we can eliminate the features just cited. Since we don’t know how to do this, we must continue the whirl of reorientation…”

March 25, 2025

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