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Ep 13  |  Jamie Wheal

Jamie Wheal: “Neuro-anthropology and Culture Architecture”

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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

00:39 – 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

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