Episode #124: Minding the Mind with Jonathan Schooler
Dear Rosewoman Community,
Are you interested in how to engage your creativity and grow your mental flexibility, openness, and curiosity?
In today's episode, we invite you to listen to an enlightening conversation with Dr. Jonathan Schooler, head of The META Lab (Memory Emotion Thought Awareness) at UC Santa Barbara.
Dr. Schooler is a Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and the Acting Director of the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind at UCSB. His research explores neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology.
In this episode, we cover the following:
- Mind-wandering and Daydreaming
- Meditation and the Finding Focus App
- Meta Awareness: Aware of Being Aware (and how it is measured)
- Alcohol impacts awareness, creativity, inhibition, and the flow state.
- Where Ideas Come From
- Creative Emergence
- Leisure, Creativity, and Productivity.
And more!
Helpful links:
- Jonathan Schooler - Read about the Inside and the Selection of Ideas
- Finding Focus App
- Kaplan Course
- DRUNK: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization by Edward Slingerland
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“Are you interested in how to engage your creativity and grow your mental flexibility, openness, and curiosity?”
Frequently asked
Who is Dr. Jonathan Schooler?
Dr. Jonathan Schooler is a Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at UC Santa Barbara and head of The META Lab, which studies memory, emotion, thought and awareness.
What is meta-awareness?
Meta-awareness is being aware of your own awareness. Dr. Schooler's research looks at how to measure it and how mind wandering and daydreaming relate to it.
Does alcohol affect creativity, according to this episode?
The episode discusses how alcohol can affect awareness, inhibition, creativity and access to a flow state, drawing on ideas from Edward Slingerland's book Drunk.
What tool does the episode mention for building focus?
The Finding Focus app is mentioned as a tool tied to meditation and attention training discussed in the conversation.
References
- Listen: Minding the Mind with Jonathan Schooler— The Rose Woman Podcast
- Jonathan Schooler / The META Lab— UC Santa Barbara
- Finding Focus App— Finding Focus
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