Ep 13 | Jamie Wheal
Jamie Wheal: “Neuro-anthropology and Culture Architecture”
On this episode, we meet with Executive Director of the Flow Genome Project, Jamie Wheal.
Jamie discusses the evolutionary importance of music as a coping mechanism, how the United States’ university system fails to prepare students for the crises of the coming decades, and how to find hope in this time of tumult.
About Jamie Wheal
Jamie Wheal is the Executive Director of Flow Genome Project. His work ranges from Fortune 500 companies, leading business schools, Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), to Red Bull and its stable of world-class athletes. He combines a background in expeditionary leadership, wilderness medicine and surf rescue, with over a decade advising high-growth companies on strategy, execution and leadership. He is a sought-after speaker, presenting to diverse and high-performing communities such as YPO, Summit Series, MaiTai Global, TEDx, and the Advertising Research Foundation.
In French, we have a motto that says that a simple drawing is often better than a long explanation. Jean-Marc Jancovici Carbone 4 President
That’s very understandable because with left atmosphere thinking, one of the problems is that you see everything as a series of problems that must have solutions. Iain McGilchrist Neuroscientist and Philosopher
We can’t have hundreds and hundreds of real relationships that are healthy because that requires time and effort and full attention and awareness of being in real relationship and conversation with the other human. Nate Hagens Director of ISEOF
This is the crux of the whole problem. Individual parts of nature are more valuable than the biocomplexity of nature. Thomas Crowther Founder Restor
Show Notes & Links to Learn More
Download transcript00:39 – Jamie Wheal Info, Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work, Recapture the Rapture
03:38 – Michael Pollan’s How to Change your Mind
06:08 – Jonathan Haidt The Righteous Mind
06:32 – Environmental Anthropology
08:06 – Oxytocin
08:40 Nate Hagens on Human Behavior
09:51 – Serotonin
10:23: Robert Sapolsky, Lisa Feldman, Andrew Huberman
10:57 – Limbic capitalism
11:07 – Sapolsky on the unexpected reward and dopamine
11:45 – E.O. Wilson
12:03 – B.J. Falk
13:11 – Anna Lembke Dopamine Nation
14:08 – Rat with the cocaine lever experiment
14:22 – Pavlovian conditioning
15:12 – Homeostasis
15:32 – The Wanting is stronger than the Having
15:48 – Decentralization
16:56 – Vivek Murphy Together
18:46 – Advance Policy
22:58 – Bessel van der Kolk Body Keeps the Score
23:30 – Micro traumas
24:24 – Robin Dunbar on trance dance
27:14 – Daniel Levitin This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
30:05 – Alice Walker
30:39 – Four stages of orgasm
31:08 – Map’s work on MDMA therapy
33:59 – Music therapy
35:33 – Agenda of the gene
33:52 – Scott Barry Kaufman Podcast
36:02 – Home Grown Humans
40:13 – Vaclav Smil Grand Transitions: How the Modern World was Made
51:20 – Seven Generation Consciousness
51:42 – Children with intergenerational consciousness have better resilience
52:58 – New York Times article – A Nation on Hold Wants to Speak with the Manager
53:25 – Denmark is the happiest country on earth – based on expectations
55:11 – Admiral Jim Stockdale and the Stockdale paradox
57:09 – Flow Genome
1:01:39 – Don’t Look Up
1:10:13 – Carol Dweck Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
1:10:26 – Carol Dweck Atlantic Piece
1:11:01 – David Brooks
1:11:20 – Expedition Behavior
1:14:16 – Acton Business School
1:19:33 – Maria Montessori’s Earth Kindergarten
