07: Understanding your Personality
Everybody loves a personality quiz, but most of what the culture teaches about personality is wrong. Dr. Lisle says astrology is worthless, Jung was off, and Skinner was off, and the actual science wa...
31 Mar 201656min
06: Why Men and Women Are Wired to Want Different Things: The Psychology of Gender Differences
In 2005, Harvard president Lawrence Summers lost his job for saying something Dr. Lisle calls scientifically non-controversial: that men and women have psychological differences rooted in biology, not...
24 Mar 201653min
05: Psychology of Politics: Why Liberals and Conservatives Disagree
Most people assume political conflict is about values, policy, or who is morally right. Dr. Lisle says it is actually about one ancient question your Stone Age brain has been asking for 100,000 years:...
17 Mar 201657min
04: Staying with a Man Who's Not Right For You
Most therapists treat the survival of a relationship as a good thing. Dr. Lisle calls that idea insane. Your Stone Age brain is running an algorithm designed to protect a pregnant woman in an environm...
9 Mar 201655min
03: High Cost of High Expectations
Most parents believe heaping praise on a child is a gift. Dr. Lisle says it is often a trap. Telling a kid they are brilliant, gifted, or a straight-A student when the evidence is shakier than that qu...
3 Mar 201658min
02: Stepping Stones to Self-Esteem
The self-esteem movement of the 1970s got one thing profoundly wrong. It treated self-esteem as a vitamin you give to yourself with affirmations in the mirror, and it told generations of parents to fl...
25 Feb 201658min
01: Happiness vs. Pleasure : What is the goal of life?
Most people assume life is about pursuing happiness. Dr. Lisle says that's not what your brain is actually built for. Your nervous system was designed to pursue pleasure and avoid pain, and happiness ...
18 Feb 201659min
