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Scott Barry Kaufman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
853 total appearances

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Modern Wisdom
#947 - Scott Barry Kaufman - How To Not Let Your Past Define You

Um, then that, that, uh, they're for some reason they're, they're, they're, they're a salience brain network is not tagging this incoming input as irrelevant. So they, they're, they're able to entertain it. And they also have the working memory capacity to entertain it.

Modern Wisdom
#947 - Scott Barry Kaufman - How To Not Let Your Past Define You

Um, then that, that, uh, they're for some reason they're, they're, they're, they're a salience brain network is not tagging this incoming input as irrelevant. So they, they're, they're able to entertain it. And they also have the working memory capacity to entertain it.

Modern Wisdom
#947 - Scott Barry Kaufman - How To Not Let Your Past Define You

Shelly Carson also did some really great research showing that having a reduced lane inhibition plus an enhanced working memory capacity is kind of like the ideal. state of being for creativity. You can handle this influx of information and sort out what's relevant and what isn't at the conscious level, whereas most people filter out at the subconscious level.

Modern Wisdom
#947 - Scott Barry Kaufman - How To Not Let Your Past Define You

Shelly Carson also did some really great research showing that having a reduced lane inhibition plus an enhanced working memory capacity is kind of like the ideal. state of being for creativity. You can handle this influx of information and sort out what's relevant and what isn't at the conscious level, whereas most people filter out at the subconscious level.

Modern Wisdom
#947 - Scott Barry Kaufman - How To Not Let Your Past Define You

Shelly Carson also did some really great research showing that having a reduced lane inhibition plus an enhanced working memory capacity is kind of like the ideal. state of being for creativity. You can handle this influx of information and sort out what's relevant and what isn't at the conscious level, whereas most people filter out at the subconscious level.

Modern Wisdom
#947 - Scott Barry Kaufman - How To Not Let Your Past Define You

And schizophrenia. In the most extreme versions, this is what you see in mental illness. We put people in mental institutions for having two extreme versions of this, but for people who can have a moderate version of it seems to be the most conducive towards creative thinking.

Modern Wisdom
#947 - Scott Barry Kaufman - How To Not Let Your Past Define You

And schizophrenia. In the most extreme versions, this is what you see in mental illness. We put people in mental institutions for having two extreme versions of this, but for people who can have a moderate version of it seems to be the most conducive towards creative thinking.

Modern Wisdom
#947 - Scott Barry Kaufman - How To Not Let Your Past Define You

And schizophrenia. In the most extreme versions, this is what you see in mental illness. We put people in mental institutions for having two extreme versions of this, but for people who can have a moderate version of it seems to be the most conducive towards creative thinking.

Modern Wisdom
#947 - Scott Barry Kaufman - How To Not Let Your Past Define You

I also think that social sensitivity, I think being able to be in a conversation and feel what another person is feeling or take in a lot of information, even nonverbal cues, not be blind to them, can be very valuable. It can help you make you a more caring human in a lot of ways. So we have the creativity, we have the sort of social aspects. I think also just appreciating life.

Modern Wisdom
#947 - Scott Barry Kaufman - How To Not Let Your Past Define You

I also think that social sensitivity, I think being able to be in a conversation and feel what another person is feeling or take in a lot of information, even nonverbal cues, not be blind to them, can be very valuable. It can help you make you a more caring human in a lot of ways. So we have the creativity, we have the sort of social aspects. I think also just appreciating life.

Modern Wisdom
#947 - Scott Barry Kaufman - How To Not Let Your Past Define You

I also think that social sensitivity, I think being able to be in a conversation and feel what another person is feeling or take in a lot of information, even nonverbal cues, not be blind to them, can be very valuable. It can help you make you a more caring human in a lot of ways. So we have the creativity, we have the sort of social aspects. I think also just appreciating life.

Modern Wisdom
#947 - Scott Barry Kaufman - How To Not Let Your Past Define You

Being able to see beauty where other people don't see beauty could be a big part of it as well. You do tend to find, they actually have separated, I talk about this study in some of my articles, but they separate the appreciation of beauty and excellence part from the anxiety part.

Modern Wisdom
#947 - Scott Barry Kaufman - How To Not Let Your Past Define You

Being able to see beauty where other people don't see beauty could be a big part of it as well. You do tend to find, they actually have separated, I talk about this study in some of my articles, but they separate the appreciation of beauty and excellence part from the anxiety part.

Modern Wisdom
#947 - Scott Barry Kaufman - How To Not Let Your Past Define You

Being able to see beauty where other people don't see beauty could be a big part of it as well. You do tend to find, they actually have separated, I talk about this study in some of my articles, but they separate the appreciation of beauty and excellence part from the anxiety part.

Modern Wisdom
#947 - Scott Barry Kaufman - How To Not Let Your Past Define You

And I find that if you separate that part of the high sensitivity, it's actually correlated with much higher levels of happiness and well-being. whereas the anxiety part is correlated with lower levels of anxiety and well-being. So I think there are good things we can take from being a highly sensitive person and we can try to manage the other parts.

Modern Wisdom
#947 - Scott Barry Kaufman - How To Not Let Your Past Define You

And I find that if you separate that part of the high sensitivity, it's actually correlated with much higher levels of happiness and well-being. whereas the anxiety part is correlated with lower levels of anxiety and well-being. So I think there are good things we can take from being a highly sensitive person and we can try to manage the other parts.

Modern Wisdom
#947 - Scott Barry Kaufman - How To Not Let Your Past Define You

And I find that if you separate that part of the high sensitivity, it's actually correlated with much higher levels of happiness and well-being. whereas the anxiety part is correlated with lower levels of anxiety and well-being. So I think there are good things we can take from being a highly sensitive person and we can try to manage the other parts.

Modern Wisdom
#947 - Scott Barry Kaufman - How To Not Let Your Past Define You

Yeah. I think this is really important for people like you to admit that. I was in a movie recently called Sensitive Men Rising starring me and Alanis Morissette and Luke Goss. Do you know who Luke Goss is, the actor? No. Google him. Luke G-O-S-S. He reminds me of you a little bit. Okay. He's, you know, he's very buff. Very good looking. He's bald.

Modern Wisdom
#947 - Scott Barry Kaufman - How To Not Let Your Past Define You

Yeah. I think this is really important for people like you to admit that. I was in a movie recently called Sensitive Men Rising starring me and Alanis Morissette and Luke Goss. Do you know who Luke Goss is, the actor? No. Google him. Luke G-O-S-S. He reminds me of you a little bit. Okay. He's, you know, he's very buff. Very good looking. He's bald.

Modern Wisdom
#947 - Scott Barry Kaufman - How To Not Let Your Past Define You

Yeah. I think this is really important for people like you to admit that. I was in a movie recently called Sensitive Men Rising starring me and Alanis Morissette and Luke Goss. Do you know who Luke Goss is, the actor? No. Google him. Luke G-O-S-S. He reminds me of you a little bit. Okay. He's, you know, he's very buff. Very good looking. He's bald.