Three Cognitive Scripts That Rule Your Life | Anne-Laure Le Quunff Full Interview
About Anne-Laure Le Quunff: Anne-Laure Le Quunff is a neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and author. A former Google employee, she returned to university to pursue a PhD in psychology and neuroscience at King's College London. As the founder of Ness Labs and a widely read newsletter, she writes about evidence-based ways to help people maximize their minds, cope with uncertainty, and practice lifelong learning. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals and popular publications such as WIRED, Forbes, Rolling Stone, Fortune, Entrepreneur, and others. 00:00 Managing Your Thinking 00:16 Experimental Thinking 01:22 What is a maximalist brain? 02:20 How did you discover experimental thinking? 04:29 Why is thinking so important? 05:18 What attitudes are holding us back? 07:29 What type of thinking should we strive for? 08:39 How can we develop experimental thinking? 12:04 How to analyze collected data? 13:43 How have you personally applied experimental thinking? 15:20 What small experiments can everyone conduct? 16:33 Why should we strive for curiosity? 17:29 The illusion of certainty 19:13 How are uncertainty and anxiety related? 20:07 Why has our brain evolved to fear uncertainty? 21:10 How should we approach uncertainty? 22:20 What is a linear model of success? 23:50 How to move from linear success to flexible experimentation?
About Anne-Laure Le Quunff: Anne-Laure Le Quunff is a neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and author. A former Google employee, she returned to university to pursue a PhD in psychology and neuroscience at King's College London. As the founder of Ness Labs and a widely read newsletter, she writes about evidence-based ways to help people maximize their minds, cope with uncertainty, and practice lifelong learning. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals and popular publications such as WIRED, Forbes, Rolling Stone, Fortune, Entrepreneur, and others. 00:00 Managing Your Thinking 00:16 Experimental Thinking 01:22 What is a maximalist brain? 02:20 How did you discover experimental thinking? 04:29 Why is thinking so important? 05:18 What attitudes are holding us back? 07:29 What type of thinking should we strive for? 08:39 How can we develop experimental thinking? 12:04 How to analyze collected data? 13:43 How have you personally applied experimental thinking? 15:20 What small experiments can everyone conduct? 16:33 Why should we strive for curiosity? 17:29 The illusion of certainty 19:13 How are uncertainty and anxiety related? 20:07 Why has our brain evolved to fear uncertainty? 21:10 How should we approach uncertainty? 22:20 What is a linear model of success? 23:50 How to move from linear success to flexible experimentation?