Beat Your Genes Podcast
BeatYourGenes
Evolutionary psychology with Dr. Doug Lisle, PhD and Nathan Gershfeld, D.C.
Most psychology advice treats your brain like a broken machine. Beat Your Genes starts somewhere different: your instincts aren't broken. They're just optimized for a Stone Age environment that no longer exists.
Dr. Lisle - Evolutionary psychologist, former Stanford lecturer, and co-author of The Pleasure Trap - has spent decades developing frameworks that explain human behavior from the ground up.
Nathan Gershfeld, D.C. - trained first as an electrical engineer and then spent 14 years as a Doctor of Chiropractic. He brings a systems thinker's curiosity to every conversation. He mostly lets Dr. Lisle talk.
Topics include relationships and attraction, self-esteem, personality, depression and anxiety, willpower, the ego trap, and how pushy people exploit agreeable ones.
380+ episodes. New episodes every other week.
New here? Start at beatyourgenes.org/start-here
Most psychology advice treats your brain like a broken machine. Beat Your Genes starts somewhere different: your instincts aren't broken. They're just optimized for a Stone Age environment that no longer exists.
Dr. Lisle - Evolutionary psychologist, former Stanford lecturer, and co-author of The Pleasure Trap - has spent decades developing frameworks that explain human behavior from the ground up.
Nathan Gershfeld, D.C. - trained first as an electrical engineer and then spent 14 years as a Doctor of Chiropractic. He brings a systems thinker's curiosity to every conversation. He mostly lets Dr. Lisle talk.
Topics include relationships and attraction, self-esteem, personality, depression and anxiety, willpower, the ego trap, and how pushy people exploit agreeable ones.
380+ episodes. New episodes every other week.
New here? Start at beatyourgenes.org/start-here
Episodes
Mentioned books
Aug 3, 2017 • 1h 1min
77: Child prodigies, Cat-fishing, Being born w a deformity
Child prodigies, Cat-fishing, Being born w a deformity
Jul 27, 2017 • 1h 13min
76: Dating mind-games, Binge-eating
Some fun listener questions
Jul 20, 2017 • 55min
75: Helping friends/family, self-confidence vs. self-esteem
Helping friends/family, self-confidence vs. self-esteem
Jul 13, 2017 • 52min
74: Millenials
Millenials
Jul 6, 2017 • 51min
73: Parenting styles, Millenials, Bringing back purpose
Parenting styles, Millenials, Bringing back purpose
Jun 29, 2017 • 50min
72: Confidence, Intolerance, finding your purpose
We'll go over an interesting study, some listener emails/questions.
Jun 22, 2017 • 59min
71: Hard-wired: Nature vs. Nurture
Tonight's episode: - Two recent studies - Listener emails - A very funny caller with a great question
Jun 15, 2017 • 48min
70: Finding your identity - an on-air session w Dr. Lisle and a listener
Dr. Lisle talks with a listener during an on-air session about life direction, identity, and finding happiness.
Jun 8, 2017 • 57min
69: Animal haters, Porn in LTR, Being a nicer person, Decision fatigue & Netflix
1. If evolutionary psychology considers parental investment theory and the investment in kin as essential why do so many people in the West keep animals. 2. I used to get really upset when my partner watched . I have relaxed and now feel like it's not the worst thing he can do and will not end my relationship so I shouldn't get upset. What do you think? 3. Can a person's placing on the agreeability continuum be situational? I believe I am more or less disagreeable depending on the dynamics of different relationships. Is there anything a disagreeable person like me can do to Beat My Genes and become a nicer person. 4. Previously, you've mentioned the thing that matters for a woman's pair bond value is her physical attractiveness, and that the female is objectively 1 rating more attractive than the male, who comes with resources. I know a few couples where the male is significantly more attractive than the female, and in which the female has greater resources to offer than the male. This sort of pair bonding relationship should not happen according to you. What's going on here? 5. What can people do to defeat decision fatigue and overcome the allure of Netflix? I have a project that I've been slowly working on, but after work I'm too tired to work on it, and on weekends I'm so overwhelmed by decision fatigue about whether to do more pressing errands (cooking, creating a budget, shopping, etc) or devote time to my project that I end up neglecting everything. 6. You explained male homosexuality from an evolutionary psychology perspective, but what about female homosexuality? 7. Other than being the best renditions of our respective selves, what can one do to build up their perceived status in the village?
Jun 1, 2017 • 56min
68: Explaining enablers, dating with psychiatric disorders, and having grit
Explaining enablers, dating with psychiatric disorders, and having grit
