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The Distracted Mind During a Crisis (2020)
Matt Mullenweg speaks with neuroscientist Dr. Adam Gazzaley, co-author of the book The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World, about how our brains work, particularly during times lik…
He is currently the David Dolby Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco, and the Founder & Executive Director of Neuroscape, a translational neuroscience center at UCSF. In the context of the Distracted Mind and the concepts that we talked about, that our brain has an inability to take in everything at the same time, decisions have to be made on where we direct our limited resources, it helps to have a clean workspace externally. For a long time, I mean like hundreds of years, neuroscientists really thought that after critical stages of development the brain was basically static and the only changes it made was degradation.
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