The Emergency Mind Podcast EP 91: Glenn Fox, PhD, on Gratitude and Performance
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Aug 31, 2023 Neuroscientist Dr. Glenn Fox discusses the transformative power of gratitude on performance. They explore the link between neuroscience and entrepreneurship, lesion studies in neuroscience, and the relationship between emotion, feeling, and decision making. They also delve into the importance of diverse experiences in guiding goal pursuit and the power of gratitude in resilience, performance, and leadership positions.
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Feeling Comes Before Reason
- Emotion precedes and shapes reasoning by monitoring internal bodily states through interoception.
- Glenn Fox links medial prefrontal and insula systems to how feelings guide decisions, showing people often
Train Interoception To Steady Decisions
- Develop interoceptive awareness to manage emotions that influence performance and decision making.
- Fox points to insula activity and meditation practices as routes founders and clinicians use to tune feelings before reasoning.
You Know What To Do Before You Know Why
- People learn optimal strategies via feelings before they can consciously explain them.
- In the Iowa gambling task learners pick winning decks instinctively and only later generate rational explanations.