277: Dr. Peter Whybrow: The Well-Tuned Brain (Part 2)

Peter C. Whybrow, M.D. is Director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California in Los Angeles. He is also the Judson Braun Distinguished Professor and Executive Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine and CEO of the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA.

Whybrow argues that while the affluent environment we have created for ourselves is compelling it does not fit easily with our biological heritage, generating a mismatch that threatens disruption of both mind and body. In the latest book and the last of his trilogy, The Well-Tuned Brain: Neuroscience and the Life Well-Live, this evolving mismatch is explored by asking two fundamental questions, "Who do you think you are?" and "How to live?" By harnessing modern science to better understand the nature of ourselves and by returning to ancient human truths that in our frenzy we now overlook, Whybrow asserts that we can live not only better individual lives, but also build together a thriving future that serves the common good.

Thom WaltersMay 21, 2015Comment

276: Dr. Peter WhyBrow, Author of The Well-Tuned Brain: neuroscience and the life well lived (Part 1)

Peter C. Whybrow, M.D. is Director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California in Los Angeles. He is also the Judson Braun Distinguished Professor and Executive Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine and CEO of the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA.

"Minimalism is the intentional promotion of things we most value and the removal of any thing that distracts from that" - Joshua Becker

A minimalist lifestyle should not be confused with a bohemian way of living. You aren't cutting things out whimsically. You are eliminating the things in your life that are not serving a purpose. Just like eliminating people who don't add to your life, you are jettisoning things that hold you down, sap your energy.

Today I talk about the ways living a minimalist lifestyle makes you calmer. It starts by not purchasing things that are valueless and then ends with a room by room evaluation of need and want.

Listen to how to live calmer with a minimalist lifestyle.