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How Surprise Events Secretly Change Your Beliefs
By Michael RousellScience
How Surprise Events Secretly Change Your Beliefs episodes
- Episode 15, Meaning Making During a SurpriseIn today’s episode I’ll describe the process of sense-making that goes on instantly during a moment of surprise.4 min
- Episode 14, Agents of InfluenceLearn why asking WHO is most powerful as an agent of influence is not necessarily the best question to ask. The question WHEN appears more enlightening.michaelrousell.com3 min
- Episode 13, Much of What We Do is Driven By Unconscious Processes, Part 2Learn how our brains are essentially prediction machines and their primary function is to reduce surprises by developing an increasingly nuanced model of the world.michaelrousell.com4 min
- Episode 12, Unconscious Processing Makes Evolutionary SenseLearn why much of what we do is driven by unconscious processes. Part 1.michaelrousell.com3 min
- Episode 11, Beliefs About Ourselves are Self-AffirmingLearn how beliefs about the external world are easily verified, but beliefs about ourselves are self-affirming.michaelrousell.com4 min
- Episode 10, Surprise Creates an Opportunity to Change the Experience of an EmotionLearn how the experience of emotional arousal is adaptable. Heightened emotion is the brain telling us that something important is happening. On occasion, this allows us to label that emotion to create the experience.michaelrousell.com3 min
- Episode 9, How Seemingly Simple Comments May Create Self-Perpetuating MindsetsLearn how seemingly simple comments, especially when surprising, may create self-perpetuating mindsets. Once we accept an explanation of our behavior, that explanation continues, and fortifies. It’s one more reason to always focus on positive attributes.michaelrousell.com3 min
- Episode 8, How Advertisers Use Surprise to Create Brands and BeliefsLearn how advertisers use surprise strategically to impress us with their brands and trigger new belief formation. This all takes place instantly, and outside conscious awareness.michaelrousell.com3 min
- Episode 7, Surprises About Our Self Concept Can Be Life ChangingOur self-concept serves as a basis for screening, categorizing, and interpreting our experiences. Surprises that disrupt our self-concept differ from surprises about the external world. Self-concept surprises may trigger life-changing beliefs.michaelrousell.com3 min
- Episode 6, Traditional Uses of SurpriseLearn how movie directors and television shows use surprise strategically to manipulate our emotions, enhance our excitement, and create spontaneous belief transformation.michaelrousell.com3 min
About How Surprise Events Secretly Change Your Beliefs
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-SURPRISECAST is a captivating journey into how your brain secretly changes your beliefs during moments of surprise.
-Using current neurological and cognitive research, Dr. Michael Rousell identifies and maps the consequences of surprise as a trigger for instant belief formation, one of the brain’s greatest survival tools.
-You’ll learn how to craft moments of surprise intentionally and strategically, to be the creator of richer lives.
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