The Innovation Show

Are our brains wired to hate?

Is social media to blame for an increase in hateful abuse?

What can we do with hate on the rise to turn the tide?

Drawing on twenty years of pioneering research - as well as his own experience as a hate-crime victim - our guest, a world-renowned criminologist explores one of the pressing issues of our age.

We welcome the author of The Science of Hate: How prejudice becomes hate and what we can do to stop it.

Find Matt here: https://hatelab.net

Timestamps:

00:00:00 Intro

00:01:12 Matt's Hate Crime Origin Story

00:11:15 The Benefit of Criminology as an Intersectional Discipline

00:16:12 Criminology is Based on a study of Prejudices

00:26:35 Intergroup Hate, A Hierarchy of Hatred

00:34:29 Gordon Alport and Push v Pull Prejudice

00:45:43 Statistics of Hate

Today's episode explores innovation from different perspectives: historical, scientific, sociological, cultural and practical — all through the feminine lens. It addresses the shortage of women in innovation and how important it is to address this as the first step to inclusion. This book reveals that any innovator can acquire the necessary skills to create meaningful innovation.

It is about celebrating the duality of the feminine and the masculine in all human beings and dares us to activate both energies to create innovation that brings true value to our world. To date, the world (and innovation) has been mainly driven by masculine energy, and we can no longer ignore gender. This book will help you discover that you have latent feminine skills and that, wherever you stand on the masculine/feminine spectrum, rebalancing towards the opposite makes you a more centred human being in your personal and professional life.

It's a pleasure to welcome the author of Venus Genius: The Female Prescription for Innovation, Fabienne Jacquet .

Find Fabienne here: https://innoveve.com

Find Fabienne's husband's art here: http://pdeshayes.com

Courses are taught in MBA and executive development programs that provide a lot of information about the job. Direct reports and teams also observe leaders in action. But it's not until you assume a leadership job that the reality of the position hits home.

The reality is that leaders operate in a crucible, one in which emotions run high and interpersonal relationships are at risk. Being in the spotlight, not having nearly enough hours in the day to address key issues, confronting right-versus-right decisions - all of this ratchets up the degree of difficulty.

We welcome back the author of Hidden Truths: What Leaders Need to Hear but Are Rarely Told, David Fubini

Find David here: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=102821

In today's knowledge economy that prizes intellectual capital—where we need all individuals to build passions and develop their full human potential—our education system is no longer sufficient. Amid the disaster since the pandemic's assault on society and schools over multiple school years, there is an opportunity to rebuild better by altering the fundamental assumptions undergirding our present-day schooling model. Today's book isn't about disruptive innovation. Nor is it about the devastation and disruption that the pandemic caused. It's about what we build out of this devastation. What we choose to create. And our guest proposes that It starts with educators.

We welcome a friend of the show and someone I have also become to see as a friend, he is here to share his new book, From Reopen to Reinvent, Recreating School for Every Child, Michael Horn

Find Michael here: https://michaelbhorn.com

Topics we cover:

• 00:01:18 The Imagination Network in the Brain
• 00:03:34 Creativity is about Inhibition as well as activation
• 00:05:48 Brainstorming
• 00:08:22 Convergent and Divergent Thinking
• 00:10:58 Educating People out of Creativity
• 00:12:29 Organisations and Creativity
• 00:16:39 Creative Exercises like de Bono's 6 Thinking Hats
• 00:22:22 The Von Restorff Effect

Find Helena here:

https://www.chequeredleopard.com

We welcome back Helena Boschi, the author of "Why We Do What We Do Understanding our brain to get the best out of ourselves and others"

Here are our topics today

If You Are Human You Are Biased

Cognitive Dissonance and Motivated Reasoning

Cognitive Energy Choice Overload, Complexity Avoidance

Anchoring Effects and Wine Lists

How Language Shapes Behaviour

We Are Poor At Judging Risk

The Availability Heuristic

In Group/Out Group

Find Helena here: https://www.chequeredleopard.com

The brain is the basis of everything we do: how we behave, communicate, feel, remember, pay attention, create, influence, and decide.

Today's book combines scientific research with concrete examples and illustrative stories to clarify the complex mechanisms of the human brain. It offers valuable insights into how our brain works every day, at home and at work, and provides practical ideas and tips to help us lead happy, healthy, and productive lives.

The thoughts you have and the words that you speak all have an effect on your neural architecture - and this book explains what that means in a way you can understand.

We welcome Helena Boschi, the author of "Why We Do What We Do

Understanding our brain to get the best out of ourselves and others"

Find Helena here:

https://www.chequeredleopard.com

Today's book aims to unpack the neuroscience of reward and, in so doing, enable us to find a better, healthier balance between pleasure and pain. But neuroscience is not enough. We also need the lived experience of human beings. Who better to teach us how to overcome compulsive overconsumption than those most vulnerable to it: people with addiction. Whether it's sugar or shopping, voyeuring or vaping, social media posts or The Washington Post, we all engage in behaviours we wish we didn't, or to an extent we regret.

This book offers practical solutions for how to manage compulsive overconsumption in a world where consumption has become the all-encompassing motive of our lives."

It's a pleasure and a reward to welcome the author of Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence With Dr Anna Lembke

Find Anna here:

https://www.annalembke.com