Our bonus guest is a neuroscientist and pioneer in the field of NeuroLeadership. She trained at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research and is a McKinsey consultant; she delivers brain-based leadership programs to Fortune 500 executives and organisations around the globe to transform how they think, innovate, and navigate change.
Her book “The Leading Brain: Neuroscience Hacks to Work Smarter, Better, Happier” has been translated into several languages and received many awards and that book was the focus of episode 86 of the Innovation show.
Neuroscientist and author Friederike Fabritius shares how fear makes us think less effectively and changes both our physiology and our neurochemistry.
We discuss:
- The Neuroscience of Fear
- The Neurochemistry of fear
- How our thinking is less effective
- How the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting us
- Concerns for the post Covid-19 world
More about Friederike https://www.fabulous-brain.com/
Todd Rimes
8 June 2020 at 4:39 am
Fabritius is the first person on your show whom I’ve thought was absolutely wrong. Encouraging people to ‘think for themselves’ instead of following guidelines set by the government is dangerous. She quotes models that overestimated the number of people who have actually died; but how can she ‘know’ that the very reason those models ‘failed’ was not because of the extraordinary precautions we (mostly) took as whole society? NO ONE KNOW WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED. This ‘Karen’ profiteering off that impossible knowledge is just grotesque. Please reconsider ever having her on again.
Aidan McCullen
8 June 2020 at 8:46 am
Hi Todd,
Many thanks for listening and taking the time to comment.
The main message I thought was valuable was that when we are fearful or in a state of fear, our decision making is (even more) faulty.
Thanks for listening Todd,
Aidan