Alex O'Connor

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2,073 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 25 May

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On Purpose with Jay Shetty · Alex O’Connor: #1 Shift That Stops Endless Overthinking (FINALLY Get Unstuck) · 25 May 2026 podcast

Like they say something like, oh, I was getting a bit...

warm and I just wanted some fresh air.

We know that's not why they did it, but their left brain has convinced them that that is why they did it.

Now, the reason I'm talking about all of this is because this has given rise to the idea that the left brain is the so-called interpreter.

that the right brain kind of intuitively does stuff.

And then the left brain retrospectively sort of rationalizes and justifies that behavior.

In split brain patients, you can prove it experimentally.

But the idea is that in healthy brains, you couldn't prove it, but the same thing might be going on.

So, you know, when you see someone who like, they're arguing with a taxi driver and you're like, why are you shouting at that guy?

And they're like, because, you know, he didn't give me my change.

And you're like, well, actually the reason you're shouting at him is because your dog died yesterday.

That's the real reason that you're shouting at him.

We know that this kind of thing happens all the time, but I think it happens literally all the time.

I think so much of our decision making, we just intuitively move throughout the world.

And then our left brain interprets what we've done and rationalizes it after the fact.

And I think that so much of our philosophizing is very left brain dominant.

And Ian McGilchrist says that one of the problems that we face as a sort of society is that we've become too left brain dominant.

in our thinking.

Everything is sort of hyper-rationalized and discrete, sort of abstracted, and none of it is intuitive, none of it is flux, none of it is continuous, but that is the nature of reality.

So Imogokara's first book was called The Master and His Emissary.

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