Podcast appearances and mentions of Paul Ekman

“Understanding the ways humans make decisions is integral in everything we do from maintaining security to communicating with the people in your life. Social engineering skills, when used properly, can make your life so much better.” – Chris Hadnagy  Welcome back to Turmeric & Tequila with your host, Kristen Olson, where we dive into the delicate balance of disruption and dialogue in pursuit of a better way. In this episode, we're thrilled to have Chris Hadnagy, a distinguished leader in the field of social engineering. Kristen and Chris explore the complexities of human behavior, uncovering the motives behind our actions and the profound influence of ethical social engineering. From Chris's diverse career path to his work in cybersecurity and his nonprofit organization, the Innocent Lives Foundation, this conversation is rich with insights on communication, ethical influence, and the intersection of human connection with modern technology. Tune in as we discuss the importance of emotional intelligence, the evolving landscape of AI, and the ways we can use social engineering practices for the greater good. If you're passionate about understanding and improving human interactions, this episode is a must-listen.   Time Stamps: 00:00 Sponsors Shoutout and Highlights 05:48 Ethical Hacking Framework Development 09:22 Creative Pretexts for Infiltration 11:01 Cybersecurity: Protecting, Educating, Enhancing Lives 14:47 Geolocating Dark Web Exploiters 17:22 Addressing Digital Sextortion Challenges 19:54 Supportive Parenting Through Mistakes 23:09 Instant Gratification's Hidden Costs 28:28 Podcaster on Human Stories & Challenges 30:48 Workshops on Elicitation and Non-verbals 34:12 Parental Safety Advice Scenario 36:28 Apologizing Builds Respect 40:00 AI: A Double-Edged Sword 43:30 Connect with Me on LinkedIn 47:10 Family Over Fortune 49:39 "Life Skills Through Sports"   Chris Hadnagy: Chris Hadnagy is the Founder and CEO of Social-Engineer, LLC. During Chris' 19 years in information security, he created the world's first social engineering framework and newsletter. He has also hosted the first social engineering-based podcast. Chris is the Founder, Executive Director, and Board Member, for the Innocent Lives Foundation, a nonprofit organization that identifies anonymous child predators and helps bring them to justice. Having written five books on social engineering, Chris is also a well-known author. His most recent book, “Human Hacking: Win Friends, Influence People and Leave Them Better Off for Having Met You,” was released January 5, 2021. Chris leads the way in educating people about social engineering. He created the world's first Social Engineering Capture the Flag (SECTF) to raise awareness of this serious threat. Chris is also an Adjunct Professor of Social Engineering for the University of Arizona's NSA designated Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations (CAE-CO). And he also lectures and teaches about social engineering around the globe. Moreover, he was invited to speak at the Pentagon and other high-security facilities. Chris works with some of the world's leaders in scientific research for the purpose of acquiring a deeper understanding of social engineering. Notably, Chris authored a book with Dr. Paul Ekman regarding the use of nonverbal communication by social engineers. Chris is certified as an Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP), as well as an Offensive Security Wireless Professional (OSWP). He is also the creator of the Social Engineering Pentest Professional (SEPP), Certified Ethical Social Engineer (CESE), and Master's Level Social Engineering (MLSE), certifications.   Chris' published books include: – Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking – Unmasking the Social Engineer: The Human Element of Security – Phishing Dark Waters: The Offensive and Defensive Sides of Malicious E-mails – Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking 2nd Edition – Human Hacking: Win Friends, Influence People, and Leave Them Better Off for Having Met You https://www.facebook.com/socialengineerllc/ https://www.instagram.com/socialengineerllc https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherhadnagy/   Connect with T&T: IG: @TurmericTequila Facebook: @TurmericAndTequila Website: www.TurmericAndTequila.com Host: Kristen Olson IG: @Madonnashero Tik Tok: @Madonnashero Website: www.KOAlliance.com WATCH HERE   MORE LIKE THIS: https://youtu.be/ZCFQSpFoAgI?si=Erg8_2eH8uyEgYZF   https://youtu.be/piCU9JboWuY?si=qLdhFKCGdBzuAeuI https://youtu.be/9Vs2JDzJJXk?si=dpjV31GDqTroUKWH  

In this enlightening conversation, I sat down with Corey Jackson, a prominent figure in mindfulness research and emotional regulation, to explore the intricate world of mindfulness and metacognitive approaches to emotion. We traversed through the realms of Buddhist psychology, the impact of mindfulness on anxiety and depression, and the importance of attentional control. What You'll Learn: Mindfulness and Metacognitive Therapy: Corey discussed the differences between traditional cognitive-behavioural models and metacognitive models. He detailed how the latter focuses on metacognitive beliefs and how adjusting these beliefs can affect anxiety and depression more effectively. This model, often overlooked, offers a promising avenue for those dealing with mental health challenges. Attention and Its Role: Corey and I delved into the critical aspect of attention in shaping our reality. Drawing parallels with William James's theories and contemporary neuroscience, we examined how controlled attention can lead to better emotional regulation. Corey emphasised the importance of knowing not just what you pay attention to, but how you attend to it, and how this awareness can transform your emotional and psychological well-being. Traditional vs. Modern Mindfulness Practices: A significant portion of our conversation focused on comparing traditional Buddhist mindfulness practices with the modern, often simplified versions popularised in the West. Corey highlighted the rich history and depth of traditional practices, which often encompass a broader system of mental cultivation beyond just breath awareness. The Importance of Judgments: We explored the role of judgments in our mental and emotional lives. Corey challenged the popular Western notion of nonjudgmental awareness, explaining how traditional practices encouraged good judgment to guide behaviour aligned with personal goals and virtues. The Role of Emotions: Corey shared insights from his work with emotional balance, particularly how emotions serve as signposts indicating important events. We discussed strategies from both Eastern and Western philosophies to manage emotions, transform emotional states, and cultivate a balanced emotional life. Key Takeaways: Mindfulness as a Multifaceted Tool Attention and Emotional Control Judgment is Crucial Traditional Practices Hold Rich Insights Emotions are Indicative, Not the Enemy Resources: Visit Corey Jackson's website for more about his work and offerings. Explore Amishi Jha's research on mindfulness and attention for further insights into the neuroscience behind these practices Support and Share: If you found this conversation insightful, consider exploring Corey's online courses to further your understanding and practice of mindfulness and emotional balance. Cultivating emotional balance is a skill that benefits everyone, and Corey’s expert guidance offers a valuable path toward achieving it. 00:59 PhD Journey and Challenges 02:45 Exploring Mindfulness Mechanisms 04:30 Metacognitive Model and Therapy 08:15 Traditional vs. Modern Mindfulness 10:13 Brooding vs. Reflective Rumination 12:45 Contemplative Practices and Wisdom 17:26 Secularisation of Mindfulness 29:08 Acceptance Commitment Therapy and Observing Thoughts 29:59 Comparing Buddhist and Tibetan Views on Thought Observation 31:23 Attention and Attentional Control in Various Fields 33:20 The Role of Attention in Tibetan Buddhism 35:07 Managing Anger and Emotional Reactions 37:28 The Stoic Approach to Anger 39:14 Paul Ekman's Insights on Emotions 44:17 Controlled vs. Captured Attention 50:41 Brain Activity Patterns in Meditators 53:15 Corey Jackson's Work and Online Programs 55:13 Concluding Thoughts and Future ProjectsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Happiness Solved with Sandee Sgarlata. In this episode, Sandee interviews Christopher Hadnagy. Christopher Hadnagy is the Founder and CEO of Social-Engineer, LLC, and the Innocent Lives Foundation, bringing 19 years of experience in information security. A pioneering figure in social engineering, he created the first social engineering framework and hosted the first social engineering podcast. As the Executive Director of the Innocent Lives Foundation, he helps identify anonymous child predators. Christopher is a prolific author, with five books on social engineering, including his latest, “Human Hacking: Win Friends, Influence People, and Leave Them Better Off for Having Met You.” He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Arizona's NSA-designated Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations (CAE-CO) and has presented at high-profile venues like the Pentagon. His collaborations with leading scientists have enhanced the understanding of social engineering practices, including co-authoring a book with Dr. Paul Ekman on nonverbal communication. Christopher states, “Understanding the ways humans make decisions is integral in everything we do… Social engineering skills, when used properly, can make your life so much better.” Connect with Christopher: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/socialengineerllcTwitter: https://twitter.com/SocEngineerIncLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/social-engineer/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/socialengineerllc/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/SocialEngineerOrgWebsite: www.innocentlivesfoundation.org Connect with Sandee: Website: www.sandeesgarlata.comPodcast: www.happinesssolved.comFacebook: www.facebook.com/coachsandeesgarlataTwitter: www.twitter.com/sandeesgarlataInstagram: www.instagram.com/coachsandeesgarlata

Entendemos las emociones como experiencias internas únicas de cada individuo, que se caracterizan por ser más espontáneas y cortas que los sentimientos.En Documentos RNE entramos en el universo de las emociones, unas reacciones que creemos conocer por la familiaridad de sus respuestas, pero que su estudio revela su gran complejidad y su dependencia de múltiples factores.El psicólogo Paul Ekman ofreció una clasificación en 1972 agrupándolas en seis emociones básicas y universales: alegría, tristeza, miedo, ira, sorpresa y asco. Pero estudios posteriores han puesto de manifiesto, que las emociones no siempre se manifiestan de manera homogénea en todas las culturas ni en todos los individuos, sino que dependen de la evolución histórica y de la persona y su contexto.Hoy en día, el estudio de las emociones adquiere matices distintos dependiendo de la disciplina desde la que se aborde: la neurobiología, la psicología, la sociología, la historia y la filosofía, intentan descifrar la compleja profundidad de su enigma.Con la firma de Lara López, este ensayo-sonoro expone la diversidad de planos que comporta su estudio con ayuda de los especialistas: Edgar Cabanas, investigador y profesor de filosofía en la UNED, coautor de los libros Happycracia: Cómo la ciencia y la industria de la felicidad controla nuestras vidas y La vida real en tiempos de la felicidad; Javier Moscoso, profesor de investigación de historia y filosofía de la ciencia en el Instituto de Historia del CSIC, autor de Historia cultural del Dolor e Historia del columpio; y José Miguel Fernández-Dols, catedrático de Psicología Social en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid e investigador del Equipo del Laboratorio de Ciencias Afectivas.Asimismo, recuperamos del Archivo de RTVE los testimonios de las filósofas Victoria Camps, autora de El gobierno de las emociones, y Josefa Ros Velasco, autora del ensayo La enfermedad del aburrimiento.Escuchar audio

5 Anzeichen von unterdrückter Wut in deinem Körper (Kurzfolge) Jeden Samstag um 12 Uhr gibt es wie gewohnt eine reguläre (lange) Folge in meinem Podcast: "Selbstheilung durch Gedanken" „Wie kann ich meine Wut zulassen, ohne andere zu verletzen?“ Wenn auch Du zu denjenigen gehörst, denen diese Frage im Kopf herumschwirrt, dann hast Du wahrscheinlich ein sehr schlechtes Bild von der Wut im Kopf: Unkontrollierte Gefühlsausbrüche, Gewalt, Verletzungen... Ich möchte Dich nun bitten, dieses Bild einmal kurz zu vergessen, damit Du die Wut noch einmal neu kennenlernen kannst: Die Wut ist ein Geschenk. Sie ist eine unserer 7 „Basisemotionen“ (nach Paul Ekman). All diese Basisemotionen (Freude, Angst, Trauer, Wut, Überraschung, Ekel, Verachtung) sind sehr wichtig für uns: Sie bringen uns eine ganz bestimmte Energie mit, die wir zu einem ganz bestimmten Zweck einsetzen können: Die Wut mobilisiert eine mächtige Kraft in uns. Sie •⁠ ⁠ist Teil unseres „inneren Feuers“, das für unsere Leidenschaften und unsere Bestimmung brennt •⁠ ⁠gibt uns Energie, damit wir unseren Herzensweg verfolgen können, auch wenn er nicht ganz einfach ist •⁠ ⁠hilft uns, für unsere Werte einzustehen •⁠ ⁠verleiht uns Präsenz in unserem Auftreten und unserer Stimme, damit wir ernstgenommen werden •⁠ ⁠macht Eindruck auf andere und ermöglicht uns dadurch die Abgrenzung, ohne Gewalt einsetzen zu müssen •⁠ ⁠stellt uns körperliche Kraft zur Verfügung, wenn wir uns körperlich schützen und abgrenzen müssen und vieles mehr... Kurz gesagt: Die Kraft der Wut hilft uns, geschützt, aufrecht und voller Leidenschaft unseren Herzensweg zu gehen, um die Welt mit unseren Gaben zu bereichern. Ich wünsche dir viele gute Erkenntnisse

Welcome back to Season 12 of the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning podcast! In episode number 340, host Andrea Samadi speaks with John Ford, an experienced workplace mediator and author of "Peace at Work: The HR Manager's Guide to Workplace Mediation." With a wealth of expertise in conflict resolution, emotional intelligence, and soft skills training, John shares his journey from practicing law to becoming a mediator. He discusses the importance of trust, effective communication, and addressing conflict head-on in both personal and professional settings. Discover practical tools like talking sticks and empathy cards, and learn how to apply neuroscience and emotional intelligence to navigate conflicts and improve workplace dynamics. Don't miss this insightful conversation that bridges the gap between science and everyday application! Watch our interview here https://youtu.be/NShwQio_QAk EPISODE #340 with John Ford on “Peace at Work: Connecting Emotional Intelligence to Conflict Resolution” we will cover: ✔ The importance of acquiring Emotional Intelligence Skills for conflict resolution in our workplaces of the future. ✔ The influencers who inspired John Ford's work (Daniel Goleman, John Gottman, Ken Cloke and many more. ✔ Tools and resources to support Conflict Resolution in our workplaces.      On today's episode #340, we welcome John Ford[i] BA. LLB (UCT) Founder, Author of Peace at Work: the HR Manager's Guide to Workplace Mediation, who is an experienced workplace mediator and works as a Conflict Resolution Coach and Workplace Mediator.  He's also a past president of the Association for Dispute Resolution of Northern California and served as managing editor for Mediate.com for over 10 years. Currently, he teaches negotiation and mediation through UC Law SF (formerly UC Hastings). When I saw the work John has been doing, providing soft skills training on communication, conflict resolution, emotional intelligence, assertion, negotiation, mediation, dealing with difficult behavior, customer service, nonverbal communication, de-escalation, stress management, diversity and inclusion, I knew I had to have him on the podcast. I saw the importance of teaching our next generation of students these important social and emotional learning skills over 25 years ago, working with 12 teenagers, who turned their results in school, sports and their personal lives around, in a matter of weeks. I had to learn more about John Ford's pathway that took him from practicing law, to working on workplace mediation, training others in these important emotional intelligence training skills. Let's meet John Ford, and see what we can learn from his vast experience with conflict resolution to see how he gains trust, with a calming effect in the most difficult and tense situations.  Welcome John, thank you for meeting with me today. Where have we reached you today? (I'm located in Arizona). Q1: John, can you share what inspired you to transition from practicing law to focusing on workplace mediation and soft-skills training? Q2: Can you also explain how your work was influenced by all of these researchers and influencers that our listeners would know well. Like Daniel Goleman, the author of Emotional Intelligence, neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, John Gottman's evidence-based research as well as Paul Ekman's work on facial expressions. Q3: What are some other books that you can point us to improve these important skills, books, like Difficult Conversations (Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Hein), or Nonviolent Communication to help us to improve how to better communicate our feelings in our work and personal lives? Q4: I see you have created tools to help express our feelings without using blame (which we all know takes us down a pathway to more conflict). I don't remember how long along it was that I learned to take “you made me feel” out of my vocabulary, since no one can make me feel anything. It was a good lesson to keep in mind that only I control my feelings. Could you explain how The Empathy Set[ii] and The Talking Sticks work and the benefits they bring to users? Q5: In your opinion, what are the most common challenges organizations face when dealing with workplace conflicts? Q6: What advice would you give to someone who wants to start incorporating empathy and effective communication strategies into their professional or personal life? Final Thoughts: Can you share a success story that highlights the impact of your products or training programs on a team or organization? John, I want to thank you very much for meeting with me today. For people to learn more about you, what is the best place?   CONNECT with JOHN FORD   John Ford www.johnford.com www.empathyset.com www.empathysetapp.com john@johnford.com REFERENCES: [i] https://www.johnford.com/johnford     [ii] https://www.empathyset.com/  

Send us a Text Message.Unlock the secrets of emotional intelligence in financial planning with James Woodfall, our special guest and ex-financial planner turned EQ expert. Discover how emotional intelligence stacks up against traditional IQ in shaping successful careers in financial planning. Learn why EQ is a game-changer in recruitment, training, and its profound impact on the bottom line. James explains why emotional intelligence is crucial for navigating high-stakes financial conversations. We delve into the science behind neuroplasticity and how mindfulness techniques can catalyse personal and professional growth. Witness the transformational power of empathy and self-awareness in enhancing job performance and client relationships.Furthermore, we explore the future of financial planning where AI and emotional insights converge. Imagine AI-driven CRM systems revolutionising client management through tailored, anticipatory service. James provides a glimpse into building in-house EI experts and the exciting possibilities of AI-enhanced emotional intelligence assessments. This episode is a treasure trove of insights for anyone keen to elevate their emotional intelligence and thrive in the dynamic world of financial planning.here's a couple of recommendations from James: Vanguard paper mentions behavioral coaching, and that advisers need to recognise clients' emotions: Emotions Revealed by Paul Ekman is a great read for those interested in emotions and behavior. The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier is recommended for asking better questions. We spoke about why giving advice or asking questions are not optimal first responses, this book contains some good content about why. It's primarily for leaders, but with a few tweaks the questions are great to use with clients. Begin your financial planning career journey todayWhether you are looking to become a paraplanner, administrator, mortgage and protection adviser or financial planner, the Financial Planner Life Academy is for you. With limited entry-level job roles, giving yourself the best financial planning career education, will not only kick start your financial planning journey with relevant qualifications and skills, but it'll also help you achieve success much faster.&nbsBe sure to follow financial planner life on YouTube for extra content about a career within Financial Planning HIT THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON! If you're looking to start your career in Financial Planning, check out the Financial Planner Life Academy hereReach out to Sam@financialplannerlife.com in regards to sponsorship, partnerships, videography or career development.

In this episode, Phil talks to Sukhvinder Pabial (Sukh). They discuss topics such as positive psychology, emotional intelligence, and mindfulness. Sukh discusses the difficulties he faced while writing and promoting his book, offering insights into the distinction between positive thinking and positive psychology, as well as the importance of emotional intelligence in the workplace.   Links   Sukh LinkedIn: Sukhvinder Pabial - Marks and Spencer | LinkedIn   Sukh's book: The Resilience Handbook: A practical understanding of resilience : Pabial, Sukhvinder: Amazon.co.uk: Books   Brene Brown and Dr. Susan David - destructive emotions: The Dangers of Toxic Positivity, Part 1 of 2 - Brené Brown (brenebrown.com)   Dr. Paul Ekman's book, Emotions Revealed: Emotions Revealed: Understanding Faces and Feelings: Amazon.co.uk: Ekman, Prof Paul: 8601300459851: Books   Martin Seligman's Positive Psychology: Martin Seligman's Positive Psychology Theory

Discover various theories of emotions, including the Dutton and Aron suspension bridge experiment and Two-Factor Theory of Emotion, and learn why understanding these theories is crucial for practicing emotional literacy and self-awareness. Amira also introduces Paul Ekman's six main emotions and explains how they are universally recognized through facial expressions. By the end of this episode, you'll have a deeper understanding of how emotions influence every aspect of our lives, from our relationships to our daily interactions. Tune in to enhance your emotional literacy, build empathy, and learn how to love yourself and others through any emotional state. Follow Amira on all major social media channels: @amirasookram Enter the realm of emotional wellness & sign up for free monthly Flow Notes: amirasookram.com

Endlich gibt es mal wieder einen Talk im Podcast. Und dann auch noch zu einem so interessanten Thema! Mimikresonanz basiert auf den Arbeitem von Paul Ekman. Gefühle kann man an der Mimik des Gegenübers "ablesen". Dabei kannst Du Dich mit gezieltem Training deutlich verbessern und umso empathischer auf Deine Mitmenschen eingehen. Genau darüber spreche ich mit Emtrace-Coach und Mimikresonanz-Trainerin Gina Wahner. Hier nun Teil 2

Endlich gibt es mal wieder einen Talk im Podcast. Und dann auch noch zu einem so interessanten Thema! Mimikresonanz basiert auf den Arbeitem von Paul Ekman. Gefühle kann man an der Mimik des Gegenübers "ablesen". Dabei kannst Du Dich mit gezieltem Training deutlich verbessern und umso empathischer auf Deine Mitmenschen eingehen. Genau darüber spreche ich mit Emtrace-Coach und Mimikresonanz-Trainerin Gina Wahner.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Is there software to practice reading expressions?, published by lsusr on April 24, 2024 on LessWrong. I took the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test test today. I got 27/36. Jessica Livingston got 36/36. Reading expressions is almost mind reading. Practicing reading expressions should be easy with the right software. All you need is software that shows a random photo from a large database, asks the user to guess what it is, and then informs the user what the correct answer is. I felt myself getting noticeably better just from the 36 images on the test. Short standardized tests exist to test this skill, but is there good software for training it? It needs to have lots of examples, so the user learns to recognize expressions instead of overfitting on specific pictures. Paul Ekman has a product, but I don't know how good it is. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org

This AI can read emotions better than you can. It was created by Alan Cowen, the cofounder and CEO of Hume, an AI research lab developing models that can read your face and your voice with uncanny accuracy. Before starting Hume, Alan helped set up Google's research into affective computing and has a Ph.D. in computational psychology from Berkely. Hume's ultimate goal is to build AI models that can optimize for human well-being, and in this episode I sat down with Alan to understand how that might be possible.  We get into: What an emotion actually is Why traditional psychological theories of emotion are inadequate How Hume is able to model human emotions How Hume's API enables developers to build empathetic voice interfaces Applications of the model in customer service, gaming, and therapy Why Hume is designed to optimize for human well-being instead of engagement The ethical concerns around creating an AI that can interpret human emotions The future of psychology as a science  This is a must-watch for anyone interested in the science of emotion and the future of human-AI interactions. If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share!  Want even more? Sign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT here: https://every.ck.page/ultimate-guide-to-prompting-chatgpt. It's usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free. To hear more from Dan Shipper: Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe  Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/danshipper  Timestamps: Dan tells Hume's empathetic AI model a secret: 00:00:00 Introduction: 00:01:13 What traditional psychology tells us about emotions: 00:10:17 Alan's radical approach to studying human emotion: 00:13:46  Methods that Hume's AI model uses to understand emotion: 00:16:46  How the model accounts for individual differences: 00:21:08 Dan's pet theory on why it's been hard to make progress in psychology: 00:27:19 The ways in which Alan thinks Hume can be used: 00:38:12 How Alan is thinking about the API v. consumer product question: 00:41:22 Ethical concerns around developing AI that can interpret human emotion: 00:44:42 Links to resources mentioned in the episode: Alan Cowen: @AlanCowen Hume: @hume_AI; hume.ai If you want to demo Hume: demo.hume.ai The nonprofit associated with Hume: Hume Initiative Lisa Feldman Barrett's book: How Emotions Are Made The TV series based on Paul Ekman's theory of emotion: Lie to Me

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Is there software to practice reading expressions?, published by lsusr on April 24, 2024 on LessWrong. I took the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test test today. I got 27/36. Jessica Livingston got 36/36. Reading expressions is almost mind reading. Practicing reading expressions should be easy with the right software. All you need is software that shows a random photo from a large database, asks the user to guess what it is, and then informs the user what the correct answer is. I felt myself getting noticeably better just from the 36 images on the test. Short standardized tests exist to test this skill, but is there good software for training it? It needs to have lots of examples, so the user learns to recognize expressions instead of overfitting on specific pictures. Paul Ekman has a product, but I don't know how good it is. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org

Have you ever felt an unexplainable connection to something greater than yourself, a force that stirs deep within? We wrapped up our year-long quest for holistic wellness with a profound examination of the spirit's role in shaping our emotions and feelings. Drawing inspiration from Paul Ekman's six basic emotions, we invite you on a contemplative exploration to unearth what 'spirit' truly means to you. From the exuberance of a school spirit day to the tender remembrance of a loved one, the concept of spirit transcends the confines of religion, tapping into a universal yearning for purpose and legacy. Over the next episodes, expect to be moved by powerful quotes and stories that have touched my own spirit, challenging us to ponder the enduring impact we wish to leave on the world.Embark with us on a journey of self-discovery, as we employ meditation and journaling to further our understanding of the intricate dance between mind, body, and spirit. Reflecting on the transformative journey of the past year, we share how nurturing our homes, health, and happiness has led to profound personal growth and a fitter self – in every sense of the word. Each episode from our 52-week expedition serves as a beacon, guiding us toward the emotions we aspire to embody in our lives. Join me as we revisit the habits we've cultivated, share in personal challenges, and embrace the importance of connecting with others in the quest to find and fuel our spirits.

And we're back! It's been awhile, friends. Hope you enjoyed your fall and your holidays. Thanks so much for re-joining us—we're super excited to be kicking off a brand-new season of the Many Minds podcast. We thought we'd get things started this year with an audio essay, one partly inspired by some musings and mullings from my parental leave. Hope you enjoy it folks—and we'll see you again in a couple weeks with our first interview of 2024. Now on to ‘Dawn of the smile.' Enjoy!   A text version of this episode will be available soon.    Notes and links 3:00 – Darwin describes his children's first smiles in his 1872 book, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. 4:10 – On so-called Duchenne smiles, see this classic investigation.  5:00 – For a summary of “basic emotions” theory, see any number of Paul Ekman's writing (e.g., here, here). For a recent articulation of the “social tools” theory, see writings by Alan J. Fridlund (e.g., here). For another influential recent critique of “basic emotions” theory, see here.  6:00 – For the classic bowling study, see here. 7:00 – For a recent review of facial expressions in blind people, see here.  7:45 – For a review of smiling and gender (and the importance of “rules and roles”), see here. For one of the studies linking smiliness to historical migration patterns, see here.  8:30 – For the historical shift in smiling—and its possible relation to the Kodak company—see here. For the yearbook photo analysis, see here.  9:30 – See Darwin's discussion of infant laughter in The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. 10:30 – For Darwin's observations of laughter and smiles in primates, again, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. See Jan van Hooff's classic study here.  11:30 – For the study comparing laughter across the Great Apes, see here. For the study of an “ape-like” stage in human laughter, see here.  12:30 – For a review of play vocalizations and laughter across species, see here. 13:20 – For the Marina Davila-Ross's suggestion that laughter and smiles share a common evolutionary source, see here. 13:30 – For research on human infants' open-mouthed smiles, see here.  14:00 – For the idea of the “acoustic origin” of the smile, see here.      Many Minds is a project of the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, which is made possible by a generous grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation to UCLA. It is hosted and produced by Kensy Cooperrider, with help from Assistant Producer Urte Laukaityte and with creative support from DISI Directors Erica Cartmill and Jacob Foster. Our artwork is by Ben Oldroyd. Our transcripts are created by Sarah Dopierala. Subscribe to Many Minds on Apple, Stitcher, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Google Play, or wherever you listen to podcasts. You can also now subscribe to the Many Minds newsletter here! We welcome your comments, questions, and suggestions. Feel free to email us at: manymindspodcast@gmail.com.  For updates about the show, visit our website or follow us on Twitter: @ManyMindsPod.

“Basic emotions: William James in 1890 proposed four basic emotions: fear, grief, love, and rage, based on bodily involvement.[36] Paul Ekman identified six basic emotions: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise.[37] Wallace V. Friesen and Phoebe C. Ellsworth worked with him on the same basic structure.[38] The emotions can be linked to facial expressions. In the 1990s, Ekman proposed an expanded list of basic emotions, including a range of positive and negative emotions that are not all encoded in facial muscles.[39] The newly included emotions are: amusement, contempt, contentment, embarrassment, excitement, guilt, pride in achievement, relief, satisfaction, sensory pleasure, and shame.[39] Richard and Bernice Lazarus in 1996 expanded the list to 15 emotions: aesthetic experience, anger, anxiety, compassion, depression, envy, fright, gratitude, guilt, happiness, hope, jealousy, love, pride, relief, sadness, and shame, in the book Passion and Reason.[40][41] Researchers[42] at University of California, Berkeley identified 27 categories of emotion: admiration, adoration, aesthetic appreciation, amusement, anger, anxiety, awe, awkwardness, boredom, calmness, confusion, craving, disgust, empathic pain, entrancement, excitement, fear, horror, interest, joy, nostalgia, relief, romance, sadness, satisfaction, sexual desire and surprise.[43] This was based on 2185 short videos intended to elicit a certain emotion. These were then modeled onto a "map" of emotions.[44]” -Wikipedia --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/antonio-myers4/support

In this episode we explore emotions and facial expression in depth with one of the world's top experts - the psychologist who pioneered much of the work in this field - Dr. Paul Ekman. We discuss the 6-7 major universal emotions, how emotional reactions are unchanged across cultures, ages, and even species, we discuss micro expressions, reading people's faces, how to manage and control your emotions, and much much more. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Social engineering is all about understanding how people think, react, and make decisions! How can we use it to get what we want and help others at the same time? What drives individuals to unwittingly divulge sensitive information? What can you do if you want to connect better with others?   In this episode we're diving deep into the fascinating world of human behavior with none other than the renowned expert, Christopher Hadnagy. He is the Founder and CEO of Social-Engineer, LLC. During Chris' 19 years in information security, he created the world's first social engineering framework and newsletter. He has also hosted the first social engineering-based podcast. Chris is the Founder, Executive Director, and Board Member, for the Innocent Lives Foundation, a nonprofit organization that identifies anonymous child predators and helps bring them to justice. Having written five books on social engineering, Chris is also a well-known author. His most recent book, “Human Hacking: Win Friends, Influence People and Leave Them Better Off for Having Met You,” was released January 5, 2021.   Chris leads the way in educating people about social engineering. He created the world's first Social Engineering Capture the Flag (SECTF) to raise awareness of this serious threat. Chris is also an Adjunct Professor of Social Engineering for the University of Arizona's NSA designated Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations (CAE-CO). He also lectures and teaches about social engineering around the globe. Moreover, he was invited to speak at the Pentagon and other high-security facilities.   Chris works with some of the world's leaders in scientific research for the purpose of acquiring a deeper understanding of social engineering. Notably, Chris authored a book with Dr. Paul Ekman regarding the use of nonverbal communication by social engineers.   Enjoy

Ever wondered how a self-made real estate mogul found his path to a billion dollar empire? We're set to gain riveting insights into the life journey of Ari Rastegar, author and real estate entrepreneur. Ari rose from a difficult childhood to become a successful businessman. Ari will share the importance of proximity and the 'bartender strategy' he utilized to meet potential investors early in his career.Ari offers his perspective on networking and the impact of being memorable. He'll offer intriguing details about his studies with Paul Ekman, and the art of detecting lies and understanding non-verbal communication.Join us as we explore the power of human connection in a digitally advanced age. Don't miss this insightful conversation with the one and only, Ari Rastegar.Highlights:"I'm a human intelligence company, I am not an artificial intelligence company. I love that I use data to inform a better human decision.""Real integrity is not keeping promises to others. But real integrity is keeping promises to yourself.""If you strike out seven out of 10 times, you're in the fucking Hall of Fame, baseball. And I don't know about you all. But all I've done is failed. More than I've just learned how to fail..."Timestamps: (0:00:00) - Ari Rastegar Introduction(0:11:26) - Proximity and Strategy for Success (0:20:36) - Relationships With Authenticity(0:27:32) - Human Interaction in a Digital Age(0:34:41) - Body Language(0:44:46) - Reflection on Education (0:58:19) - Defining Moment(1:06:01) - Longevity JourneyAbout the Show: ➡️ Learn and burn Entrepreneurship from serial entrepreneur John Gafford On his podcast Escaping the Drift, he discusses all sorts of topics, including what made him successful and some of his core tenants for living life and managing successful businesses.➡️ He is joined by world class guests who share their expertise to help you level up! Escaping the Drift podcast stands to be one of the top sources of knowledge and insights, specifically into real estate and entrepreneurship out there! Not to mention tons of coverage of topical events and insights into our non-commercial lives as well… If that sounds interesting to you, make sure to subscribe.About John Gafford:➡️After appearing on NBC's "The Apprentice", John relocated to the Las Vegas Valley and founded several successful companies in the real estate space.➡️ The Gafford Group at Simply Vegas, top 1% of all REALTORS nationwide in terms of production. Simply Vegas, a 600 agent brokerage with billions in annual sales➡️ Clear Title, a 7 figure full service title and escrow company.➡️ Streamline Home Loans - An independent mortgage bank with more than 100 loan officers. *************✅Follow Escaping the Drift with John Gafford on social media:Instagram ▶️https://www.instagram.com/thejohnmgafford Facebook ▶️https://www.facebook.com/gafford2/

Episode 44 - Persona Non Grata Show Notes Looking at the face that launched a thousand memes. The “Goldwater Rule” Donald Trump Mug Shot “Lipstick Traces” by Greil Marcus Greek idea of "persona" Charles Darwin's "The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals" Famous mugshots Paul Ekman's Facial Action Coding System Affectiva Duchenne's work Franz Xavier Messerschmidt Roland Barthes "Codeshifting/Codeswitching" Bud Light and Codeswitching "The Food That Built America" Send your ideas to hello@brandbox.show Apply to SVA Masters in Branding Program Please subscribe and review BrandBox on Apple Podcasts and consider hitting the Donate button on BrandBox.show! Don't forget to submit your questions, comments, and ideas for future episodes of BrandBox to hello@brandbox.show Thanks for your support!

En este fascinante episodio, tuve el honor de conversar con un distinguido experto en sinergología y negociación de incidentes críticos, que ha llevado su comprensión de la comunicación no verbal a niveles extraordinarios. Nuestro invitado, Juan Manuel García, Guardia Civil español con formación del FBI en negociación de incidentes críticos y análisis del comportamiento, comparte su profundo conocimiento sobre cómo descifrar los gestos y expresiones que revelan lo que realmente sentimos, incluso cuando nuestras palabras dicen lo contrario. A través de años de experiencia manejando situaciones emocionales intensas, como casos de secuestros y homicidios, ha aprendido a leer los estados emocionales de las personas y a utilizar esa comprensión para llevar a cabo negociaciones exitosas y tomar decisiones críticas.    Descubrimos cómo la observación del cuerpo puede salvar vidas y llevar a la persuasión, y cómo su enfoque multidisciplinario ha moldeado a profesionales en diversas áreas, desde la policía y emergencias hasta ventas y liderazgo. Además, nuestro invitado ha obtenido la certificación internacional de Paul Ekman en habilidades emocionales y evaluación de la veracidad, añadiendo aún más profundidad a su capacidad para analizar y entender la complejidad de la comunicación humana. Únete a nosotros mientras exploramos el fascinante mundo de la sinergología y la negociación de incidentes críticos con un verdadero experto en el campo. Puedes seguir a Juan en @cienciasdelcomportamiento ******************** Más de mi trabajo en www.cafedelexito.online y @cafedelexito https://www.instagram.com/cafedelexito/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cafedelexito/support

Learn more about Jeffrey Pfeffer and where you can buy or listen to his books: JeffreyPfeffer.com EPISODE 25 – Dana Carney, Professor & Director of the Institute for Personality and Social Research at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business SHOW NOTES: Dana Carney, a world-leading expert on body language, is a professor at the Haas School at UC Berkeley who also runs the Institute of Personality and Social Research. She shares the most up-to-date tips on the strategic use of body language and facial gestures to persuade other people about your power or an issue. In this episode, you'll learn about: Why people respond to others based on how they look The data shows that taller and good-looking people make more money The why and how people look and come across through gestures The 43 cues that have nothing to do with power The 9 cues that have everything to do with power How to differentiate between who has power and who does not What, in addition to access to and control over resources, creates power What to be careful of if you're taller or bigger Non-selfish, pro-social reasons for mastering your body language Myths and facts around eye contact Why Anna Wintour wears sunglasses to fashion shows The visual dominance ratio Behavioral nudge action planning Physiognomic cues that influence power Why body language, how people look, and the gestures they make are so important Nonverbal communication within the animal kingdom GUEST BIO: Dana R. Carney is a Professor and the Director of the Institute for Personality and Social Research at the University of California, Berkeley in the Haas School of Business. She is also an affiliate Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Department of Cognitive Sciences. Carney is one of the world's leading experts on nonverbal behavior.  Professor Carney's fresh, modern approach to nonverbal behavior has made her the go-to figure in this space, serving as a consultant for corporate seminars, and academic gatherings. From Blackrock Advisors to the Los Alamos National Lab, Carney has consulted private equity, tech firms, and small businesses alike, in addition to speaking at many academic conferences and at most major Universities in the U.S. and beyond. Carney's catchy and informative videos on nonverbal behavior have skyrocketed her account practically overnight, @danarosecarney, to 64K followers over a half a million total likes. She has been featured in Men's Health, Time Magazine, Forbes India, Reader's Digest, Quartz, World Bank Blogs, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, Muse and many more (NYT, WSJ, etc.). Prior to serving on the faculty at UC Berkeley, Carney was an Assistant Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard in the Psychology Department working with esteemed colleagues such as Mahzarin Banaji (implicit bias expert and author of the bestselling book Blindspot) and Wendy Berry Mendes. She received her PhD in Experimental Psychology from Northeastern University (working with the world's expert on the link between nonverbal communication and power, Judith A. Hall) and her master's degree at California State University (working with the world's experts on the link between nonverbal communication and each anxiety and social skills, Jinni A. Harrigan and Ronald E. Riggio, respectively). She received her B.A. from the University of San Francisco (working with one-half of the team of Maureen O'Sullivan and Paul Ekman—the world's leading experts for over 60 years on the nonverbal cues associated with and accurate detection of deception). Professor Carney is currently in the final stages of writing a popular book on nonverbal behavior. Nonverbal communication is, at once, much more complex and much more interesting than the media would have the public believe. https://www.linkedin.com/in/danarosecarney   Produced by The MunnAvenuePress.com  

“In discrete emotion theory, all humans are thought to have an innate set of basic emotions that are cross-culturally recognizable. These basic emotions are described as "discrete" because they are believed to be distinguishable by an individual's facial expression and biological processes. Theorists have conducted studies to determine which emotions are basic. A popular example is Paul Ekman and his colleagues' cross-cultural study of 1992, in which they concluded that the six basic emotions are anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise. Ekman explains that there are particular characteristics attached to each of these emotions, allowing them to be expressed in varying degrees. Each emotion acts as a discrete category rather than an individual emotional state.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/antonio-myers4/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/antonio-myers4/support

What is compassion? How is compassion for others different from compassion for ourselves? Kate and Sarah Jane break down the surprising complexities of compassion and explore its different expressions (generosity, hospitality, objectivity, sensitivity, and tolerance.) They discuss American psychologist Paul Ekman's Four Types of Compassion, and Sarah Jane shares about her year of Metta (lovingkindness meditation.) This episode ends with several action steps to help you develop deeper compassion for yourself and others. Join us as we dive into the second principle of embodiment! Follow @BeWithYourBodyPod on Instagram and Tiktok for more resources, or get in touch with the team at bewithyourbodypod@gmail.com. This episode was created by Kate Martin and Sarah Jane Chapman. It was produced, scored, and engineered by Erik W. Thompson. For more on Erik's work, please visit www.WalterAudio.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bewithyourbody/message

Whether you're aware of it or not, whenever you interact with others, you're continuously giving and receiving wordless signals. All of your nonverbal behaviors including gestures, posture, tone of voice, or eye contact send strong messages. They can work in your advantage or not. Even when you're silent, you're still communicating nonverbally. So yes, this topic is very important!! My guest is the wonderful Khyati Bhatt.  Khyati is the Founder of Simply Body Talk a company that has built a niche internationally in nonverbal communication. She has trained for Mastery in Nonverbal Communications and is a certified expert in reading micro and mini expressions by Paul Ekman. In her work as a Senior Coach and Head Consultant, Khyati helps individuals to sharpen their leadership skills. Her clients include the Elite forces from Indian military as well as leaders from companies such as Google, Deloitte, Discovery, Adani, or Capgemini to name just a few.  Khyati is based in Mumbai in India.   Stay in touch with Khyati: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khyati-bhatt/ Website: https://simplybodytalk.com/ #nonverbalcommunication #bodylanguage #communication #reachingyourgoals #delygate   If you have comments on the show or like to work with Johanna, you can reach her at Johanna.Herbst@delygate.com. You will also find more information on the show at https://www.delygate.com/podcast.  Lastly, to get inspiration in your inbox, please sign up for our newsletter (https://delygate.substack.com/).

Awe is a feeling we've all experienced but often struggle to articulate. Whether it's the sheer scale of a skyscraper, the infinite expanse of a starry night sky, or the miracle of childbirth, moments of awe can strike us at unexpected times, leaving us speechless, inspired, and even profoundly transformed. In this episode, we speak with Dacher Keltner, PhD, a psychologist at UC Berkeley, where he is the founding director of the Greater Good Science Center and the host of The Science of Happiness podcast. Keltner is a leading researcher on human emotion whose work focuses on the socio-biological origins and effects of compassion, beauty, power, morality, love, and social class. His most recent book is AWE: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life. In this episode, we discuss the eight sources of wonder in life, how we can nurture an openness to experiencing awe, and how this openness can help us navigate grief, uncertainty, loneliness, and mortality, ultimately allowing us to lead more meaningful lives.In this episode, you will hear about:How growing up in a family of artists and humanists led Dr. Keltner to psychology - 2:26What the scientific study of emotions looks like - 4:54How scientists grapple with the difficulty of defining and studying emotions and feelings - 8:20A discussion of Jonathan Haidt's revolutionary study of morality, The Righteous Mind - 11:57How Dr. Keltner defines and studies awe and wonder - 14:39The Eight Wonders of Life - 27:31Awe, beauty, and the sublime - 36:16Reflections on how digital technologies have negatively impacted our ability to experience awe - 38:35Advice for how we can practice the experience of awe - 44:26How awe can help with human suffering and physician burnout - 46:39Dr. Dacher Keltner is the author of many books, including AWE: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life, The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence, and Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life.In this episode, we discuss Bertrand Russel's Power: A New Social Analysis, Paul Ekman's work on emotions and facial expressions, William James' What is an Emotion?, Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind, Richard Lazarus' “core relational themes,” Edmund Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow, Anna Lembke's Dopamine Nation, and Jean Twenge's work on social media and self-focus.If you know of a doctor, patient, or anyone working in health care who would love to explore meaning in medicine with us on the show, feel free to send an email to info@thedoctorsart.com.Copyright The Doctor's Art Podcast 2023

Discussion of Licensed Psychologist, Paul Ekman's work on deception detection. Website: https://www.terrortalkpodcast.com Community Membership: https://www.patreon.com/terrortalk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/terrortalkpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TalkTerror/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/newterrortalkpodcast/ Music by Mannequin Uprising --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/terrortalk/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/terrortalk/support

Today's episode features a Q&A with our own Graham Page. Graham leads the Media Analytics business Unit as Global Managing Director of Media Analytics at Affectiva, a Smart Eye company. He pioneered the integration of biometric and behavioral measures to mainstream brand and advertising research for 26 years as Executive VP and Head of Global Research Solutions at Kantar.Over the course of the last year or so, there has been a thread of debate in the media regarding the validity and ethics of facial emotion recognition.  This has often reflected the point of view of some data privacy groups who are concerned about the use of facial technologies across several use cases, or the opinions of commercial interests who offer alternative biometric technologies, or traditional research methodologies.Scrutiny of emerging technologies is vital, and the concerns raised are important points for debate.  Affectiva has led the development of the Emotion AI field for over a decade, and the use of automated facial expression analysis in particular. Listen in to learn more.Links of interest: [Podcast Episode] Lisa Feldman Barrett on Challenges in Inferring Emotion from Human Facial Movement: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lisa-feldman-barrett-on-challenges-in-inferring-emotion/id1458361251?i=1000446966899 [Blog] Face Value: The Power of Facial Signals in Human Behavioral Research: https://blog.affectiva.com/face-value-the-power-of-facial-signals-in-researchAdditional Sources Referenced: [1] Barrett, Lisa Feldman, et al. "Emotional expressions reconsidered: Challenges to inferring emotion from human facial movements." Psychological science in the public interest 20.1 (2019): 1-68.[2] Ekman, Paul, and Wallace V. Friesen. "Facial action coding system." Environmental Psychology & Nonverbal Behavior (1978).[3] Rosenberg, Erika L., and Paul Ekman, eds. What the face reveals: Basic and applied studies of spontaneous expression using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS). Oxford University Press, 2020.[4] Martinez, Brais, et al. "Automatic analysis of facial actions: A survey." IEEE transactions on affective computing 10.3 (2017): 325-347.[5] McDuff, Daniel, et al. "AFFDEX SDK: a cross-platform real-time multi-face expression recognition toolkit." Proceedings of the 2016 CHI conference extended abstracts on human factors in computing systems. 2016.[6] Bishay, Mina, et al. "AFFDEX 2.0: A Real-Time Facial Expression Analysis Toolkit." arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.12059 (2022). Accepted at the FG2023 conference. [7] McDuff, Daniel, et al. "Predicting ad liking and purchase intent: Large-scale analysis of facial responses to ads." IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 6.3 (2014): 223-235.[8] Koldra, Evan, et al. Do emotions in advertising drive sales? https://ana.esomar.org/documents/do-emotions-in-advertising-drive-sales--8059. [9] McDuff, Daniel, and Rana El Kaliouby. "Applications of automated facial coding in media measurement." IEEE transactions on affective computing 8.2 (2016): 148-160.[10] Teixeira, Thales, Rosalind Picard, and Rana El Kaliouby. "Why, when, and how much to entertain consumers in advertisements? A web-based facial tracking field study." Marketing Science 33.6 (2014): 809-827.[11] McDuff, Daniel, et al. "Automatic measurement of ad preferences from facial responses gathered

From overcoming dyslexia and autism to becoming a renowned profiler, Susan Ibitz's journey is nothing short of inspiring. But just when you think you know her story, an unexpected twist takes you by surprise. In this episode, Bill and Susan talk about the power of interpreting body language and micro-expressions for impactful communication, discovering her transformative path toward becoming a human behavior hacker and financial consultant, mastering investing principles like buying low, selling high, keeping costs in check, diversification, and staying tenacious. They also talk about recognizing the importance of crafting a retirement plan and starting to save sooner rather than later.   Meet Susan Ibitz, a human behavior hacker who has spent her life mastering the art of reading people and understanding body language. Susan's unique background includes traveling the world with her diplomat father, immersing herself in various cultures, and learning multiple languages. After discovering her passion for profiling, she went on to study with experts like Paul Ekman and Robert Cialdini. Susan's expertise has led her to work with top financial advisors, helping them improve their communication skills and better connect with their clients. Get ready to learn from this fascinating expert on body language and micro-expressions!   Find more of her at: https://humanbehaviorlab.com/   Show notes: [1:08] Susan's superpower [6:40] Proving someone wrong and proving yourself right [12:38] On reading situations  [17:51] The problem with being so aware [25:15] Getting caught in a lie [31:00] Understanding behavior through eye contact and body language [36:10] How to connect with Susan and find out more of Susan [40:52] A question for Bill: numbers and podcasting [43:34] Outro Connect with Bill Bloom  Web: https://www.bloomfinancialco.com/ https://bloomfinancialco.kartra.com/page/bNJ87 Email: bill@bloomfinancial.us  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bloomfinancial/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/retireasyoudesirepodcast   Securities and investment advisory services offered through Woodbury Financial Services, Inc. (WFS) member FINRA/SIPC. WFS. is separately owned and other entities and/or marketing names, products or services referenced here are independent of WFS.   Views expressed in this podcast are for general informational purposes only and are not intended to provide or be a substitute for specific professional financial, tax or legal advice or recommendations for any individuals. Information is based on sources believed to be reliable; however, their accuracy or completeness cannot be guaranteed.

“There is no separation of mind and emotions: emotions, thinking and learning are all linked.” Eric Jensen[i] But what about our feelings? What's the difference between our emotions and feelings? Have you ever thought about this? And with that introduction, I want to welcome you back to Season 9 of The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, where we cover the science-based evidence behind social and emotional learning (for schools) and emotional intelligence training (in the workplace) with tools, ideas and strategies that we can all use for immediate results, with our brain in mind.  I'm Andrea Samadi, an author, and an educator with a passion for learning and launched this podcast to share how the understanding of our complex brain transfers into our everyday life and results. Each concept we cover here I'm hoping will help you, wherever you might be listening to this podcast in the world, just as much as these ideas are helping me personally and professionally. In keeping with our Season theme of “Going Back to the Basics” we look back to EP #127 on “How Emotions Impact Learning, Memory and the Brain.”[ii] It was on this episode, exactly 2 years ago where we first looked at the impact of our emotions on our daily life with the work of neuroscientist Mary Helen Immordino Yang from the University of Southern California. We first met Mary Helen on our 100th EPISODE[iii] and she shared with us that “it is literally neurologically impossible to build memories, engage complex thoughts, or make meaningful decision without emotion.” She further explained that “30 years ago, we had no idea that one could study human emotions that emerge slowly over time—such as admiration and awe—and compare them psychologically and neurobiologically with emotions that emerge more quickly like surprise or fear.” (page 80. Emotions, Learning and the Brain). Before writing this episode, I had to stop, and think deeply about something I've often quoted. I learned this back in my days working in the speaking industry (in the late 1990s) to be careful what you think about because “it's our thoughts that determine our feelings, that cause us to take certain actions that in turn cause our conditions, circumstances and our environment.”  If we are going to look at our emotions today, we need to understand the difference between our emotions, our feelings, and the actions that we end up taking because of them. Let's Start with How Emotions Are Different Than Feelings. I found a clear explanation of “Emotions vs Feelings”[iv] from Dr. David Matsumoto, the founder of Humintell, who explains that emotions “are quick reactions to certain events that may impact our survival. They are unconscious, immediate, involuntary, automatic reactions to things that are important to us” which is right in line with what we learned from Jaak Panksepp's 7 primal emotions that he mapped out in our brain, and taught us they aren't something that we can control. They are automatic responses.  Dr. Matsumoto further explains that “these reactions include cognitive and physiological changes that help prime our body in a certain way and create sensations in us that we can perceive” which he calls feelings. You can see a diagram of these differences in the show notes that outlines emotions as “quick reactions to certain events that are automatic and unconscious” and feelings “are perceptions in the body that aren't necessarily related to the emotion.”[v] IMAGE SOURCE www.humintell.com Dr. David Matsumoto Since I'm always looking to connect the most current neuroscience research to improve our best practices, I wonder what can I add to this understanding of our feelings vs our emotions, to see if we can gain a deeper self-awareness into why we feel the way we do, and what this might mean for us, individually, in pursuit of our goals. Or to put this simply, what should we all understand about our emotions, our feelings, and how they translate into our life, and results. On today's episode #287 we will explore: What are our emotions. How are our emotions different from our feelings? The debate about emotions in neuroscientific circles looking at Paul Ekman[vi], Carroll Izard[vii], Jaak Panksepp[viii] and Robert Levenson's[ix] Theory of Emotions Using Brain Network Theory to Understand Our Emotions from an early EPISODE #48[x]. Other tools, ideas and strategies available to help us to understand our emotions, and feelings. Examine: How this understanding can help us take better control of our emotions and feelings, to change the actions that we will take, (so we can stay in better control in difficult situations) thus changing our conditions, circumstances and environment (or our results). 3 STEPS for applying this understanding of our emotions and feelings into our daily life. What Are Our Emotions? We've talked about our emotions with our recent episode with Lucy Biven from EP #270[xi] and Gabrielle Usatynski from EP #282[xii] who both dove deep into the work of Jaak Panksepp who mapped out 7 neurological circuits found in all mammals, and then we made the connection with our emotions and our childhood with an understanding of Bowlby and Ainsworth's Attachment Theory[xiii]. While I do think we've covered Panksepp's work thoroughly, who's to say his ideas are correct when philosophers, psychologists, and scientists have been arguing and disagreeing with each other for several thousands of years on this topic. I had to go back to my notes from the neuroscience certification course I took with Mark Waldman, where he taught us that “even today the debate continues in neuroscientific circles. Paul Ekman[xiv], that you might know as the deception detection expert, or co-discoverer of the micro expression, and the inspiration behind the TV series, Lie to Me[xv], showed evidence that there are 6 universal emotions (fear, anger, joy, sadness, disgust, and surprise). Ekman demonstrated how emotions can all be seen in a person's brief facial expression, and we covered this fascinating topic on EPISODE #163 with Dan Hill, “The Faces Guy” on “How to read the Emotions in Others”[xvi] but Jaak Panksepp labelled some of Ekman's universal emotions as secondary emotions, calling them feelings. Before I get bogged down in terminology, deciphering these arguments, and lost reading this research paper I found on Four Models of Basic Emotions[xvii] I thought an easy way to simplify this concept is to put an image in the show notes that explains the similarities between four models of emotions and make up our own minds with which theory of emotion we resonate with the most. While one will disagree with each another, “all four list a positive emotion labelled happiness (Ekman and Cordaro; Izard), enjoyment (Levenson) or Play (Panksepp and Watt) and three distinct negative emotions, sadness (labeled grief by Panksepp and Watt), fear, (they all agreed on this label) and anger.”[xviii] Putting Our Emotions into Action If we want to understand our emotions, we can now begin by thinking about how everyone will respond to these emotions in a different way, since we've all had different experiences from childhood and beyond. (Keeping Attachment Theory in mind). Suppose we were walking through a forest and something jumps out from behind a tree and we instinctively jump (the core emotion of fear that all 4 models agreed with). Then we see it's a harmless dog, wagging his tail and wanting to play with us. Each person will process this situation in an entirely different way. One person will laugh, another will reach out to play with the dog, while another person will remain upset about the scare for the rest of the night. Everyone will have a different feeling (which is another model we will cover another time, a theory of emotion from neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett)[xix]  who says that our feelings change as we think about our past experiences, (maybe we saw that dog this morning and we quickly realize he's harmless). Also, each person will nonverbally express their feelings through their facial expressions, allowing others to “read” what they felt with the experience. (Ekman's work).  Finally, if we can regulate the reaction that we had, and take it a step further and recognize the emotions in the person next to us, we are demonstrating Robert Levenson's Theory[xx], that focuses on the fact that our emotions either improve with age, or they decline, like we see with neurodegenerative diseases. IMAGE SOURCE: Four Models of Basic Emotions: A Review of Ekman and Cordaro, Izard, Levenson, and Panksepp and Watt Published by Jessica Tracy and Daniel Randles October 2011 https://ubc-emotionlab.ca/wp-content/files_mf/emotionreview2011tracyandrandles.pdf How can understanding our emotions and feelings help us? Mark Waldman's Brain Network Theory for Overcoming Our Fears While analyzing this situation of walking through a forest, neuroscience researcher Mark Waldman would say that “while the emotional experience often lasts for a few seconds, some people might ruminate on the negative feelings that came with this experience, to the point that they are diagnosed with depression or an anxiety disorder.”[xxi]  This was the person who remained upset about the scare for the rest of the night. He explains that understanding brain network theory model comes in handy here because he says that “feelings are nothing more than a combination of our imagination mixed with past memories.” Knowing that feelings are not real makes it easier to shift our attention away from the feeling (whatever it might be-fear, anxiety or whatever) and return to being more engaged in the present moment” where he suggests to focus on the positive emotional experiences that are also in our life. Waldman explains that this is the neuroscience of transforming emotions into feelings and feelings into valuable insights, and it has the power to transform our current models of psychotherapy and healing. You can review this powerful concept of Brain Network Theory all the way back on EP #48[xxii] with tips on using this model to increase positivity, reduce stress and anxiety and increase our work productivity and results by learning to consciously shift between your imagination, (DMN) awareness (Salience Network) and thinking (CEN). IMAGE SOURCE: Mark Robert Waldman REVIEW AND CONCLUSION To conclude and review this episode on a deeper dive into “Using Neuroscience to Understand our Feelings and Emotions” here are three concepts to help us to put these ideas into action in our daily life.   REMEMBER: OUR EMOTIONS ARE AUTOMATIC HARDWIRED NEURAL RESPONSES THAT WE CAN'T CONTROL: And many philosophers, psychologists, and scientists have been arguing and disagreeing with each other for several thousands of years on this topic. Some argue where they originate, and the terminology, but we found 4 researchers who could agree on one positive emotion (happiness) and three negative emotions of sadness, fear and anger. But don't forget that while “we cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, we can choose how we will respond to them.” Gary Zukav PUT THIS INTO ACTION: The next time you feel an emotion, notice what it is. See if you can take this understanding and apply it to learn more about yourself. What makes you happy? Do you savor happy moments? What about the negative emotions? Do you have a strategy to overcome your fears, sadness or anger? Or a way to feel them, and not respond to them? YOU CAN TRAIN YOU BRAIN TO RECOGNIZE AND OVERCOME FEAR: This example is a bit close to the heart as it just happened, but it's a good example of why recognizing and overcoming fear is important, so I'm going to include my recent experience here. This week I was waiting for my oldest daughter to finish her gymnastics practice. Both my girls train most nights, and I pick them up at the end of the night. The other night I was waiting in the car, and I could see the coach coming outside to speak to me, and this coach wouldn't be coming outside after a long night to chit chat. I knew something was up the minute I saw him walking to my car. Then it hit me. FEAR. I felt it because I had left my desk writing this episode to pick her up, and here I was with my heart racing, as I wondered “what happened” and wanted the coach to spit it out quickly. I couldn't see her behind him, so now I'm wondering “can she walk, is she bleeding, does she have broken bones?” trying to figure out in my head what the situation was. Then I noticed the feelings come into play. The stomach drops, next, the physical sensation of feeling sick as my imagination went back to all the other injuries we see often, and boy our minds can take us on a trip if we don't learn to focus, think and stay in the present moment, or use the understanding of Brain Network Theory to STOP our Default Mode (Imagination) Network and switch it to our Central Executive Network to stop those ruminating thoughts from taking over our mind. This is all happening in seconds, but when it's happening, it feels like a long time. I finally snapped out of it, and asked questions that brought my thinking (CEN) brain back on track like “what happened, where did it happen, and how does she seem to you?” and the fear started to go off into a corner as soon as I figured out that her coach thought she might have a concussion. Did you know that the opposite of fear is understanding? When we understand something, the fear goes away because the thinking brain allows you to take the action needed to resolve your situation. Life experiences like this will happen and it's crucial to be able to focus and think clearly, and to move from fear to understanding. Can you think of something that happened to YOU this week where one of your emotions took over YOUR mind? Where do certain theories of emotion become evident? With my example, I could feel the fear (all 4 theories), I could also “read” the emotion in the coach's face (Ekman and Levenson), and even more specifically could see the pain on my daughters face that helped me to take certain actions while under stress. USING BRAIN NETWORK THEORY TO BYPASS OUR FEARS by shifting our attention away from the feeling or emotion we are experiencing (whatever it might be-fear, anxiety or whatever) and return to being more engaged in the present moment” and focus on the positive emotional experiences that are also in our life. We have the Default Mode Network, (imagination processes like daydreaming, creative problem solving, and mind wandering). This network is important to tap into, as it also contains our ability for creative problem solving, so it doesn't just contain our worries and fears, but our ability to move past them. We just need to be mindful of what we are thinking about, to prevent the negativity bias from taking over our mind (when we get stuck ruminating on negative thoughts instead of positive creative thoughts).  Be sure that we are thinking positive thoughts, so we don't default into this negative cycle of thinking. This takes practice, but with time, does become a habit and can be very useful during times of intense pressure or stress.   OUR DEFAULT MODE NETWORK:  Is the highest during daydreaming (using our imagination) Decreases slightly during mind-wandering Decreases more during creative thinking Is WEAKEST during goal-directed thought PUT THIS INTO ACTION: See if you can notice yourself “switching” your mind from the imagination, DMN, to the CEN (thinking network) like I did when I had to stop my imagination from running wild when my daughter was injured and actually THINK. THINK ABOUT THIS!    What strategy do you have in place to STOP your Default Mode (Imagination) Network from taking over your mind? The next time you are in a situation where your emotions are flooding you, whether it be FEAR like I felt, or maybe ANGER with difficult situation at work, see if you can use your CEN to bring those Executive Functions (like decision-making) back online. This can be done simply by STOPPPING the automatic negative thoughts (say STOP) and then begin to use your mind to think. Ask questions, and then notice your salience network come into play will create the balance in your brain that's needed in times of stress.   OUR FEELINGS ARE OUR REACTIONS TO OUR EMOTIONS AND WE CAN CONTROL THEM: How do you feel right now? Does this question make you stop and think for a minute? If your feelings don't come to your mind immediately and you've got to think for a second, that's because “our feelings are a complex semi-conscious reaction towards our emotions” (Mark Waldman) or maybe like we learned from Dr. Matsumoto, they might have nothing at all to do with the emotion (like when we feel tired or cold).  This is fascinating area of Marc Brackett's work and his book Permission to Feel that we covered on EP #22.[xxiii] The important part of diving deeper into our feelings is to remember is that they are “shaped by intuitive processes, memories, beliefs, fantasies and thoughts.” (Waldman) and these feelings are “then assigned a private, personal meaning” that's unique to us. PUT THIS INTO ACTION: Ask someone to explain how they feel about something and you might be surprised with the answer they come up with. You will learn something about this person from this question, as they dig deep to answer you.  Watch them closely to see if they have a difficult time putting their feelings into words because they are complex reactions about their own individual experience. THINK ABOUT THIS: What story did they tell you? What did you learn about the person from their story? Could you see their intuitive process, memories, and beliefs at work? We started this episode by saying “There is no separation of mind and emotions: emotions, thinking and learning are all linked.” Eric Jenson, but I think we went much deeper than that proving that our thoughts, feelings and emotions are all connected. It doesn't matter what we call our emotions, just that we recognize the ones that make us happy, and for the negative ones, how we respond to them really does determine the conditions, circumstances and environment we'll create in our life. I learned this week that when the emotion of fear came up, I had to overcome it quickly, bringing those executive functions back online to stay on track by not letting my imagination take over my mind. The more we learn to understand these things called emotions, and the feelings attached to them (or not), the better prepared we can be to deal with life's difficult situations that will come up whether we like them or not. With time and practice, we really can train our brain to move past difficult emotions like fear, worry and doubt, through to understanding, and this will have a significant impact on the outcome of our daily results. I hope you find these concepts to be as helpful and useful in your life as I'm finding them in mine. I'll see you next week. FOLLOW ANDREA SAMADI:  YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreaSamadi   Website https://www.achieveit360.com/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samadi/  Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/Achieveit360com   Neuroscience Meets SEL Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/2975814899101697   Twitter: https://twitter.com/andreasamadi   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andreasamadi/    REFERENCES: [i]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #79 with Eric Jensen on “Strategies for Reversing the Impact of Poverty and Stress on Student Learning”  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/brain-based-leaning-author-eric-jensen-on-strategies-or-reversing-the-impact-of-poverty-and-stress-on-student-learning/   [ii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE#127 on “How Emotions Impact Learning, Memory and the Brain” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/brain-fact-friday-how-emotions-impact-learning-memory-and-the-brain/   [iii] Neuroscience Meets SEL Podcast Episode #100 with Mary Helen Immordino-Yang https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/professor-mary-helen-immordino-yang-on-the-neuroscience-of-social-and-emotional-learning/   [iv] Emotions Vs Feelings Published by Dr. David Matsumoto May, 2022  https://www.humintell.com/2022/05/whats-the-difference-between-emotions-and-feelings/   [v] IBID [vi] https://www.paulekman.com/   [vii] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Izard   [viii] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaak_Panksepp   [ix] https://psychology.berkeley.edu/people/robert-w-levenson   [x] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #48 on “Using Brain Network Theory to Stay Productive During Times of Chaos and Change” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/brain-network-theory-using-neuroscience-to-stay-productive-during-times-of-change-and-chaos/   [xi] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #270 with Lucy Biven on “A Short-Cut for Understanding Affective Neuroscience” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/lucy-biven/   [xii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #282 with Gabrielle Usatynski on “How to Use Jaak Panksepp's 7 Core Emotions to Transform Your Family, Career and Life”  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/gabrielle-usatynski-on-how-to-use-jaak-panksepp-s-7-core-emotions-to-transform-your-relationships-family-career-and-life/   [xiii] What is Attachment Theory by Kendra Cherry Feb. 22, 2023 https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-attachment-theory-2795337   [xiv] https://www.paulekman.com/   [xv] Lie to Me TV Series https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235099/   [xvi]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #163 with Dan Hill, The Faces Guy on “How to Read the Emotions in Others: For Schools, Sports and the Wrokplace”  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/dan-hill-phd-the-faces-guy-on-how-to-read-the-emotions-in-others-for-schools-sports-and-the-workplace/   [xvii] Four Models of Basic Emotions: A Review of Ekman and Cordaro, Izard, Levenson, and Panksepp and Watt Published by Jessica Tracy and Daniel Randles October 2011 https://ubc-emotionlab.ca/wp-content/files_mf/emotionreview2011tracyandrandles.pdf [xviii] IBID [xix] Lisa Feldman Barrett https://lisafeldmanbarrett.com/   [xx] Understanding the Role of Emotion and Aging with Robert Levenson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehqzhj9f8Y8   [xxi] www.MarkRobertWaldman.com   [xxii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE  #48 on “Brain Network Theory: Using Neuroscience to Stay Productive During Times of Change and Chaos” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/brain-network-theory-using-neuroscience-to-stay-productive-during-times-of-change-and-chaos/   [xxiii] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE  #22 with Marc Brackett, Founding Director of the Yale Center of Emotional Intelligence on “Permission to Feel” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/founding-director-of-the-yale-center-of-emotional-intelligence-on-his-new-book-permission-to-feel/  

Season 3 Episode #5 David Szczecinski is coming from Perth Western AustraliaYou can find David at mymilan.com.auAbout our guest – David is an Accredited Mental Health Practitioner, Trainer, Coach & Presenter.  David served in the Health Department as a mental health clinician in the adult, child & adolescent divisions for many years.   David was instrumental in developing the Self Awareness Method® of coaching excellence and his cross-cultural experience with critical incidents, anxiety, stress, grief, family dynamics, marriage, professional relationships and communication has allowed him to develop an effective array of approaches; some of which are unique to Milan.  David is committed to strategies that work and looks forward to helping his clients achieve greater understanding, connection, happiness and wellbeing in their lives. David, thanks for the important work you do and for dedicating your life's work toward helping others find deep meaning to theirs.   David, welcome to the show!TOTD – “Most lies succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.”  Paul Ekman In this episode:What was life like growing up?What are your life's essential ingredientsWhat got you interested in studying human behaviorNeurobiologyWriting a book – The Secret of Life Emotional Self-DefenseWhat are some of your tools and techniques that comprise the Milan Approach?PsychotherapySystems ThinkingWindow of ToleranceThe influence of Dr. Paul Ekman on your practice…To increase the capacity of the window – we need to feel it to heal itWhat are the best things we can do for ourselves to increase our window of tolerance?StressAnxietyLet's talk about the LOVE MAPBody LanguageThe Self Awareness Model – let's talk about the importance of it…Legacy 

I collect concise definitions of the good life. There's something I really like about the idea of having a one sentence mission statement. It's a kind of mantra to check in with from time to time to make sure you're making decisions based on what really matters and not the more immediate, but also more fleeting, worries of the day. My personal favorite, which I recently referenced in a post on meaning and context, comes from the philosopher Bertrand Russell: “The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”One of the things that I think makes for a useful good-life definition is that it puts the focus beyond oneself. One of my first Meaning Lab posts was about an idea which I called the Off-Policy Theory of Happiness, with the claim being that the most efficient way to become unhappy is to spend a lot of time really concerned with your own happiness. You need to aim at something else, something bigger. Your personal well-being—in terms of general satisfaction, at least; maybe joy, rather than happiness—will come as a by-product. And I think that element is present, perhaps in a subtle way, in the two-word definition of the good life given by my guest today. It is: “Find awe.”Dacher Keltner is a Professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research has spanned questions about which emotions we have, why we have them, and what we do with them. His latest book is Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life. And in the introduction to it, he proposes that awe might be at the center of a life well lived.At first, I thought this might be taking things a bit too far. I mean, awe: I could certainly see it as being an interesting target of psychological study, but as epicentral to the good life? Really? As I got further into Dacher's argument, I realized there's a lot more subtlety and a lot more complexity here than I initially gave it credit for.As Dacher argues in his book, and in this conversation, awe is so important because it is the emotional component of meaning. It is what we feel when we engage in meaningful behavior. That's not to say that it's the only thing we feel, or that there's a one-to-one mapping. But they're intrinsically related.Specifically awe is a recognition of one's own smallness is the context of something much larger and more profound. As I argue in the meaning and context post referenced above, meaning can only be found by considering something—an activity, an experience, a pursuit, an object, a book, a word—in the appropriate context. It is a figure against a ground, and without proper recognition of that ground the meaning evaporates. The feeling of awe is an emotional signal that we've made that connection. I found a lot to consider in this conversation, because I tend to think about meaning not in terms of emotion but in terms of, well, thoughts. I think for anyone who is interested in meaning, there should also be an interest in Dacher's argument about awe.Dacher's new book is Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life. It's out now.At the end of each episode, I ask my guest about three books that have most influenced their thinking. Here are Dacher's picks:* The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animalsby Charles Darwin (1872)Before Dacher Keltner, before Paul Ekman—there was Charlie Darwin.* The Wind Up Bird Chronicleby Haruki Murakami (1994)Given without explanation… but maybe Murakami needs no introduction?* The Invention of Natureby Andrea Wulf (2015)Alexander von Humboldt is an underrated figure in intellectual history. Just as Romanticism is an underrated period in intellectual history.(I hope you find something good for your next read. If you happen to find it through the above links, I get a referral fee. Thanks!) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit codykommers.substack.com/subscribe

By now we're all aware of the massive advancements that have been happening in the Artificial Intelligence space. Whether you're afraid SkyNet is about to come online, or a college student using Chat GPT to write your next term paper, we know that AI is  changing the world in a massive way.One of the most fascinating fields to me is video content. For years I've been using a system I call “Creating My Client” to create an avatar of my ideal client before I ever start a marketing or content campaign. It's not a quick process. I get really deep into the psychographics and demographics of the ideal person I want to work with. I give them a name, a family (or not), a backstory, and really try to learn the psychology of the person I most want in my business. This helps me make sure that every piece of content I release stays on message and speaks directly to that person.This is mostly because it's darn near impossible to know what someone is thinking when they're watching a video... or reading an email. Until now…EmotionTrac is a new AI based software that's changing the game completely!This software, after obtaining permission of course, uses the front-facing camera on their test audience's (150M+) device to read the micro expressions on their face, and measure engagement with videos. It uses something called FACS or the Facial Action Coding System developed by Paul Ekman to read the small releases and contractions in our facial muscles. It's really fascinating stuff, and our face really does give away our every emotion. It's just happening so fast that we aren't aware that we're registering it. Realtors, lawyers, filmmakers, marketers, and dozens of other communication based industries are using EmotionTrac to get real  emotional data about their video content before they put it to work in their respective fields.Today we sit down with Aaron Itzkowitz, the CEO of EmotionTrac. Check out this episode of “Guide 2 the Grind”, and have a listen to how this software could revolutionize some of the biggest industries in the world. www.guidetothegrind.com

Ep. 60 (Part 3 of 3) | Michael Murphy, author, co-founder of the world-famous Esalen Institute, and pioneer of the Human Potential Movement starting in the 60s, relates a wealth of intimate experience, knowledge, and wisdom covering his decades of living at the leading edge of transformative practice and the realization of human potential. Mike talks about Esalen's latest research, our current crisis of belief, and the anchoring question that has guided Esalen (and Mike) all along: how best to serve? Mike has watched the developmental process of transformative practices themselves, such as somatics and psychedelics, now circling around after a period of purgation, and talks about current efforts to add research on the mystical and the ecstatic to meditation and mindfulness research in order to better understand what's going on. This podcast is a wonderful mix of tales from the past—including Mike and his wife Dulce's achievements and adventures with Soviet-American citizen diplomacy towards the end of the Cold War—the present, and what's coming up at the Esalen research center now, e.g., asking what is happening on "the other side," and discovering the truth about subtle body phenomena. On a personal note, Mike shares about practicing agnosticism, his respect and admiration for the quality of wonder, and about the magic of reading subtle cues and being increasingly in tune with “the algorithms of his heart.” Friendly, relaxed, and humorous, Mike is one of the world's leading lights on self-transformation. Recorded on February 16, 2022.“With Esalen, life has given me this marvelous laboratory.”(For Apple Podcast users, click here to view the complete show notes on the episode page.)Topics & Time Stamps – Part 3The magic of reading subtle cues and developing increasing discernment to the subtleties of one's own internal psychic mechanism (02:26)Paul Ekman's nonverbal cue study and how aging correlates with greater capacity to discern subtle social cues (06:03)The capacity for childlike wonder is one of the things Mike admires most (08:15)The human potential movement and the complexity of human beings (16:09)Spies, innocence, and transparency (19:08)Mike's suspicions about developmental maps and schemes, especially in the spiritual world (23:37)There is no such thing as a single virtue: for example, you can't have courage without prudence (28:38)Integral Transformative Practice: does it really work? Does it help us grow in virtue and character? (30:18)Mike's calling to continue the inquiry: What's going on on the other side? What is the truth about the subtle body phenomena? (32:33)Mike's general advice: enough good habits, meditation, and tailoring your practice to who you are (33:59)The problem of suffering in this world is only going to be answered with an adventurous, experimentative embrace exploring what's going on here (40:00)Resources & References – Part 3Fritz Perls, well renowned German psychotherapist and psychiatrist known for his notable works on Gestalt therapyHoward Gardner, Multiple Intelligences*

We're re-releasing one of our favorite episodes from the past year with Lisa Feldman Barrett.Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett is among the top one percent most cited scientists in the world for her revolutionary research in psychology and neuroscience. She is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University. She also holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, where she is Chief Science Officer for the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior.Her books include Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain and How Emotions are Made. She has published over 240 peer-reviewed, scientific papers appearing in Science, Nature Neuroscience, and other top journals. Dr. Barrett has been called “the most important affective scientist of our time”. In this episode, I talk to renowned neuroscientist Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett about emotions and the brain. She reveals what the true function of the brain is⎯and it's not for thinking. We also discuss the impact of past experiences on our cognition and what we can do to overcome our own detrimental patterns. Further into our discussion, Dr. Lisa challenges the traditionally held view that emotions are universal. In her own theory of constructed emotion, she argues that variability in emotional expression exists due to socialization and language differences. We also touch on the topics of hallucinogens, culture, education, relationships, and authoritarianism. Website: lisafeldmanbarrett.comTwitter: @LFeldmanBarrett Topics00:01:42 Lisa's interest in clinical psychology00:03:53 A biological approach to emotions00:06:29 Why do we have a neocortex? 00:14:49 The default mode network00:21:47 The brain is not for thinking00:25:06 Authoritarianism during economic hardship00:32:04 Psychological entropy00:35:33 The brain weather forecast00:44:16 The mind-brain problem00:47:37 Relationships are reflexive00:51:46 Emotional expression isn't universal00:58:35 Why you shouldn't trust psychology textbooks / 6 universal emotions?01:03:03 Reaching out to Paul Ekman 01:10:42 The theory of constructed emotion01:16:49 The role of socialization and language in emotions 01:23:43 The never-ending domain-general vs domain-specific debate in cognitive science

------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9m PayPal Subscription 20 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y95uvkao This show is sponsored by Enlites, Learning & Development done differently. Check the website here: http://enlites.com/ Dr. Batja Mesquita is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Leuven, Belgium, where she studies the role of culture in emotions, and of emotions in culture and society. She is director of the Center for Social and Cultural Psychology in Leuven. She is the author of Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions. In this episode, we focus on Between Us. We start by talking about what emotions are, and their functions. We discuss how people think about and categorize emotions, and the MINE (Mental, Inside, Essentialist) and OURS (Outside, Relational, Situational) models of emotions, and their relationship with wellbeing. We talk about raising children cross-culturally. We go through a few emotions, like anger and shame, and love and happiness, how they manifest across cultures, and ask if love is at the basis of all intimate relationships, and if everyone cares about happiness. We talk about how language relates to emotion, and the developmental aspects associated with emotion acquisition. We discuss the applications of research on emotion. Finally, we talk about the work of Paul Ekman, evolutionary approaches to emotion, and “basic emotions”. -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS/SUPPORTERS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, PER HELGE LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, JERRY MULLER, HANS FREDRIK SUNDE, BERNARDO SEIXAS, HERBERT GINTIS, RUTGER VOS, RICARDO VLADIMIRO, CRAIG HEALY, OLAF ALEX, PHILIP KURIAN, JONATHAN VISSER, JAKOB KLINKBY, ADAM KESSEL, MATTHEW WHITINGBIRD, ARNAUD WOLFF, TIM HOLLOSY, HENRIK AHLENIUS, JOHN CONNORS, PAULINA BARREN, FILIP FORS CONNOLLY, DAN DEMETRIOU, ROBERT WINDHAGER, RUI INACIO, ARTHUR KOH, ZOOP, MARCO NEVES, COLIN HOLBROOK, SUSAN PINKER, PABLO SANTURBANO, SIMON COLUMBUS, PHIL KAVANAGH, JORGE ESPINHA, CORY CLARK, MARK BLYTH, ROBERTO INGUANZO, MIKKEL STORMYR, ERIC NEURMANN, SAMUEL ANDREEFF, FRANCIS FORDE, TIAGO NUNES, BERNARD HUGUENEY, ALEXANDER DANNBAUER, FERGAL CUSSEN, YEVHEN BODRENKO, HAL HERZOG, NUNO MACHADO, DON ROSS, JONATHAN LEIBRANT, JOÃO LINHARES, OZLEM BULUT, NATHAN NGUYEN, STANTON T, SAMUEL CORREA, ERIK HAINES, MARK SMITH, J.W., JOÃO EIRA, TOM HUMMEL, SARDUS FRANCE, DAVID SLOAN WILSON, YACILA DEZA-ARAUJO, IDAN SOLON, ROMAIN ROCH, DMITRY GRIGORYEV, TOM ROTH, DIEGO LONDOÑO CORREA, YANICK PUNTER, ADANER USMANI, CHARLOTTE BLEASE, NICOLE BARBARO, ADAM HUNT, PAWEL OSTASZEWSKI, AL ORTIZ, NELLEKE BAK, KATHRINE AND PATRICK TOBIN, GUY MADISON, GARY G HELLMANN, SAIMA AFZAL, ADRIAN JAEGGI, NICK GOLDEN, PAULO TOLENTINO, JOÃO BARBOSA, JULIAN PRICE, EDWARD HALL, HEDIN BRØNNER, DOUGLAS P. FRY, FRANCA BORTOLOTTI, GABRIEL PONS CORTÈS, URSULA LITZCKE, DENISE COOK, SCOTT, ZACHARY FISH, TIM DUFFY, TRADERINNYC, SUNNY SMITH, AND JON WISMAN! A SPECIAL THANKS TO MY PRODUCERS, YZAR WEHBE, JIM FRANK, ŁUKASZ STAFINIAK, IAN GILLIGAN, LUIS CAYETANO, TOM VANEGDOM, CURTIS DIXON, BENEDIKT MUELLER, VEGA GIDEY, THOMAS TRUMBLE, AND NUNO ELDER! AND TO MY EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS, MICHAL RUSIECKI, JAMES PRATT, MATTHEW LAVENDER, SERGIU CODREANU, AND BOGDAN KANIVETS!

Inside Out (2015) PG 1h 35m 3: Inside Out: Giving Us Permission to Cry Our Candy Tears If We Want To and Teaching Us Valuable Emotional Lessons Episode Transcript Episode Page with Pictures Episode Host: Jennie Ziverk Carr Co-Host: Sarah Woolverton-Mohler Screen Cares episode host Jennie walks listeners and co-host Sarah through her own headquarters in a discussion of the Pixar classic Inside Out. Screen Cares hosts share the impact of the film in their roles as mothers, partners, and people and explore how the Inside Out can be used as a tool to broaden the social and emotional vocabulary of the entire family, open doors to sometimes difficult conversations about complicated feelings, and provides room for individuals to accepts the important role of sadness in their emotional lives. Jennie has also created two activities to extend the Inside Out caring into the lives of listeners-more information below. Personality Island Mapping Activity by Screen Cares What's in YOUR HEAD-quarters? Activity by Screen Cares   Screen Shares Rating:  Little-Screen Family Screen   Screen Sparks: What was the obstacle Riley needed to overcome?  Does this movie make you cry? Why/why not?  Are some babies born without Joy to lead the way? How does this shape their personality? At the end Joy says “Riley's 12 now. What could happen?”- What indeed? How do you think the emotional life of the character and yourself changes over time? Which feeling leads your emotions? Are they gendered? (Sadness leads Moms, Riley was Joum and Anger led dads) Can memories change? How fluid are they and what can cause them to shift?   Extra Inside Out Movie Info: Directors: Pete Docter & Ronnie Del Carmen (also brought us other heartfelt animated films like Up and Soul) Soundtrack: Michael Giacchino- who has also scored many other noteworthy soundtracks including Jurassic World, Ratatouille, Up, Many Marvel Movies Starring the voices of: Amy Poehler …Joy Phyllis Smith ...Sadness Mindy Kaling-Disgust Bill Hader...Fear Lewis Black-Anger Richard Kind ...Bing Bong Kaitlyn Dias-Riley Diane Lane-Mom  Kyle MacLachlan-Dad (Trey from S&TC) Paula Poundstone- Forgetter Paula (Wait wait don't tell me regular) Bobby Moynihan-Forgetter Bobby (SNL)   Behind the Scenes:  Maxwell's Personality Islands: Three year old Maxwell created his own personality islands and headquarters using found materials in the backyard.   After the Credits Roll-Links Referenced during the show: Amazing extras in the credits (in case you missed them): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DZVnX8bEAs Inside Out Website by Pixar: https://www.pixar.com/feature-films/inside-out Inside Out isn't just fun- it's science-y and useful: 1.Interview with movie consultant and Berkley Prof Dacher Kelter: https://psmag.com/social-justice/a-conversation-with-psychologist-behind-inside-out Creators consulted with two of the leading minds in the study of emotions, Paul Ekman and Dacher Keltner.  Had to simplify the scope of the emotions that would be covered  No love, sympathy, amusement How to speak to use Inside Out to talk to children (and anyone) about emotions: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/four_lessons_from_inside_out_to_discuss_with_kids Embrace all emotions “Emodiversity leaders to better emotional well being” Prioritize Positivity but don't force happiness Sadness is Vital Joy is only part of happiness  “Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of the best-selling How of Happiness, defines happiness as “the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one's life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.” (emphasis added) So while positive emotions such as joy are definitely part of the recipe for happiness, they are not the whole shebang. Psychology Today Article: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beyond-heroes-and-villains/201506/inside-out-emotional-truths-way-pixar  

A talk with communication researcher Tim Levine about nonverbal behavior and deception detection. Tim takes the stance that there's no evidence that nonverbal behavior is useful for detecting deception. He's the author of Duped: Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and Deception. His work was featured in Malcom Gladwell's book Talking to Strangers.Topics discussed include: what the research says about nonverbal behaviors; why it's so hard to get reliable indicators of deception; common nonverbal behavior myths and bullshit; why we expect others to tell us the truth; why we tend to tell the truth; Paul Ekman's work, including micro-expressions and "truth wizards"; reading behavior in interrogations; the differences between analyzing verbal content and nonverbal behavior; the TV show Lie to Me; poker tells; and more. The Proffitt PodcastThe podcast that shows you tips & strategies to create content with confidence!Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Healthy Lifestyle Solutions with Maya AcostaAre you ready to upgrade your health to a new level and do so by learning from experts...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

RANKED #1 Amazon Accelerator. I help you CRUSH IT on Amazon. $350 Million In Sales. Herbal Ecstacy, Vapir and many more!I've been called many things in my life (including the “Willy Wonka of Generation X”), but my favorite one is simple: the world's leading Amazon industry expert.I'm the founder of the brain nutrition startup Accelerated Intelligence (AI). I'm also an award-winning business mogul, author, filmmaker, and inventor of Herbal Ecstacy, the nootropic that sparked the (100% legal) Smart Drug Movement.My serial entrepreneurial career has spanned more than 30 years, earning over $350 Million. My Amazon products have outpaced Fortune 500 companies' sales on the platform, selling millions of units worldwide. Many of these multimillion dollar companies noticed, which led me to become one of the world's most sought-after Amazon experts.My Amazon sales approach for start-ups and Fortune 500's is the same approach I use to accelerate my own success: a mix of proprietary software, Amazon promotions, copywriting, Amazon ads and social proof. I excel in a variety of niche verticals and have grown brand success for Dr. Breus, Elissa Fisher Harris, Vitagene, KOR Water and many others. In addition to Amazon consulting, I give talks on Amazon, Amazon branding, guerilla PR and product development.In my personal life, I regularly contribute to The Huffington Post, American Express OPEN and many other publications. I'm an avid sportsman with a deep love for Jiu Jitsu. When I'm not working out, you can usually find me reading something by Seth Godin, Dr. Robert Cialdini or Dr. Paul Ekman. I live in Los Angeles, California.You might be wondering why my name sounds familiar. That depends. It might have been from one of my inventions (like Excelerol, the Vapir Vaporizer, Ecstacy Cigarettes, Herbal Ecstacy, or any of my 200+ award-winning products) or a book or film I wrote; and you have yet to see more of me!www.shaahincheyene.comSupport the showNext Steps Share your thoughts with a review - https://www.uncensoredadviceformen.com/reviews/ Let's connect on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuabrucewilson/ Subscribe and Watch on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI11BikVb5CbEwIwjmR89Iw

La ciencia de las emociones ha considerado hasta hace poco tiempo que las emociones son innatas y universales, pero nuevos descubrimientos apuntan a una nueva teoría de las emociones. Les vamos a platicar de las ideas clásicas para explicar lo que ocurre en cuerpo y mente con las emociones, y por qué tal vez estén mal. Hablamos mucho de investigaciones de Paul Ekman, y las críticas que le ha hecho Lisa Feldman Barrett. El contenido extra para nuestros Patreons es desmentir la idea de que el cerebro se divide en tres partes: el cerebro reptiliano, el sistema límbico y la corteza prefrontal.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/mandarax

Durante este tiempo de encierro y crisis, los índices de pensamiento suicidas se han elevado de manera exponencial. En este episodio, conversamos sobre cómo podemos ayudar a una persona con intentos suicidas, con dos expertos internacionales muy queridos y respetados, colaboradores de All4ness. Con una amplia cantidad de certificaciones profesionales internacionales, ambos hacen de esta conversación todo un honor. Dr. Pedro Martín-Barrajón. Responsable Emergencias y Red Nacional Psicólogos para la prevención del Suicidio en Psicólogos Princesa 81. Jefe de Sala SPAP Covid19 Ministerio Sanidad y Consejo Gral Psicología. Docente Internacional Emergencias Cargo Psicólogo Experto en Conductas Suicidas. Docente Atención Telefónica en Crisis Suicidas Psicólogo Docente Mesa Redonda Supervivientes. Coordinador Grupos Ayuda Mutua Duelo por suicidio. Cargo Docente Atención Telefónica en Crisis Suicidas para operadores del 112. Especialista Universitario en Conducta Suicida Juan Manuel García López. Director del Instituto Europeo de Ciencias del Comportamiento. Guardia Civil (policía española) formado en incidentes críticos y análisis del comportamiento por el FBI. Experto en el análisis de la comunicación no verbal no consciente. Certificado internacionalmente por Paul Ekman en evaluación de la veracidad y en habilidades emocionales. Investigador de los rostros de Leonardo da Vinci y de la Gioconda publicados en dos ensayos del miembro de DNA project Cristian Galvez. Docente en varias Universidades Españolas. Miembro de la Sociedad Española de Medicina de Emergencias. TEDxspeaker.

About Ed MiroEd Miro is a cyber security instructor at multiple community colleges, Antisyphon InfoSec Training, and for his own company Miro Labs. He specializes in leadership, professional development, and social engineering. Ed Miro's Contact InformationTwitter: https://twitter.com/c1ph0rTwitter: https://twitter.com/theedmiroshowYouTube: "The Ed Miro Show" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcl9nF6CKLKzayrjMGw5h0g Gleaming The Gibson: A Hacker Podcast Contact InformationWeb: https://www.gleamingthegibson.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gleaminggibson Books mentioned in the episodeInfluence by Robert B. Cialdini https://smile.amazon.com/Influence-New-Expanded-Psychology-Persuasion/dp/0062937650How To Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie https://smile.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0671027034The Code of Trust: An American Counterintelligence Expert's Five Rules to Lead and Succeed by Robin Dreeke and Cameron Stauth https://smile.amazon.com/Code-Trust-American-Counterintelligence-Experts/dp/1250190444 Other Resources mentioned in the episodehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ekman

  سلام. فصل اول پادکست مرد ایرانی با دو قسمت طولانی درباره الکل به پایان رسید. قبل از اینکه فصل دوم پادکست رو شروع کنیم باید یک کم خودمونی با شما که مخاطب من هستید صحبت کنم. ببین دوست عزیز، از روز اولی که من ایده این پادکست اومد توی ذهنم می دونستم چقدر قراره مشکلات داشته باشم ولی یکی از چیزهایی که خیلی بهش توجه نکرده بودم و انتظارش رو هم نداشتم، واکنش منفی برخی افراد بود در مورد ادعاهای مطرح شده در این پادکست و همچنین درباره خودم. برای همین هم مجبورم یک بار دیگه شفاف سازی کنم که من، مطلقا خودم رو متخصص در زمینه های روانشناسی، جامعه شناسی و کلا علوم انسانی نمی دونم و اصولا تحصیلاتم هم در زمینه دیگه ایه. حرفهایی هم که در این پادکست زدم و می زنم همگی به مثابه بستنی خوردن با قاشق پلاستیکیه یعنی هرگز قرار نیست بیشتر از یک خراش سطحی وارد عمق هیچ موضوعی بشم. رویه اس هم که از ابتدای کار داشتم اینه که هر جا که لازم بدونم مرجع یا همون رفرنس صحبتهام که معمولا مقاله های درست و حسابی منتشر شده در ژورنالهای معتبر علمی پیر رویو شده و یا کتابهای معتبر علمی هستند رو معرفی کنم که شما در صورت علاقه برید و اونها رو مطالعه کنید. پس با توجه به اینکه من متخصص نیستم و قرار هم نیست خیلی وارد عمق مطالب بشم، همینجا از متخصصین امر درباره مطالبی که در این پادکست تا اینجا اومده و قراره از این به بعد بیاد عذرخواهی می کنم اگر نتونستم و هرگز نخواهم توانست مثل یک متخصص امور، حق مطلب رو ادا کنم. اگر شما در هر یک از موضوعاتی که تا الان در پادکست مرد ایرانی مطرح شده متخصص هستید و صلاح می دونید در اون موارد توضیحات تکمیلی ارائه کنید یا اصولا ادعای مطرح شده توسط من درباره هر کدوم از موضوع هایی که تا اینجا مطرح شده و از این به بعد مطرح خواهد شد رو رد کنید لطفا به من اطلاع بدید و من هم به دیده منت از هر نوع انتقادی استقبال می کنم و مخلص شما شنونده فهیم هم هستم. اما از اینها که بگذریم، این اولین قسمت از فصل دوم پادکست مرد ایرانیه که میشه سیزدهمین قسمت کلی پادکست. ولی چطوری و با چه فازی قراره وارد فصل جدید بشیم؟ اینطوری: موزیک ابتدای پادکست: King around here, by: Alex Grohl https://pixabay.com/music/beats-electronic-rock-king-around-here-15045/ فصل دوم پادکست مرد ایرانی هم مثل فصل اول قراره از 12 قسمت تشکیل بشه. فصل دوم رو قراره با صحبت کردن درباره یکی از مهمترین ابعاد زندگی آدمها شروع کنیم. چیزی که ما مردهای ایرانی بواسطه نوع تربیتمون و تصویری که جامعه ما از مرد بودن برامون ساخته ممکنه یا اصلا بهش اهمیت ندیم یا فهممون نسبت بهش دچار اشکالات بنیادیه. قبل از شروع اما یک چالش: لطفا این صدا رو بشنوید: صدای اول: آژیر قرمز خوب، چه احساسی داشتید؟ اگر شما متولد دهه های 50 و 60 باشید احتمال داره با شنیدن این صدا احساس ترس کنید. درسته؟ شایدم این صدا برای شما بیانگر حس تنفر باشه. تنفر از جنگ یا شایدم براتون احساس غم ایجاد کنه. یعنی با شنیدن اون، غم از دست دادن یک عزیز در حمله هوایی دوران جنگ به سراغتون بیاد. یا شاید این صدا ممکنه در شما اضطراب ایجاد کنه یا حس انزجار. حالا یک صدای دیگه. این یکی ولی با صدای قبلی یه فرق کلی داره. بشنویم: صدای دوم: گل خداداد عزیزی خوب، چه احساسی دارید؟ احساس شادی که البته خیلی کلیه و هممون اون لحظه رو یادمونه و اینکه چقدر شاد بودیم. اما در کنار اون، حس غرور، حس تعلق یا همون وطن پرستی، افتخار، یا حتی لذت ناشی از انتقام هم ممکنه در شما ایجاد شده باشه. خوب، فکر کنم الان میتونید حدس بزنید قراره راجع به چی حرف بزنیم: بله درست حدس زدید قراره درباره احساسات انسانی صحبت کنیم. احساسات انسانی. خوب، به نظر شما، احساسات انسانی از کجا میان؟ یعنی مثلا اینکه من با دیدن عکس کسی که دوستش دارم احساس دلتنگی می کنم، یا با شنیدن یک موسیقی زیبا احساس آرامش می کنم و یا مثلا اینکه وقتی قراره وارد جمعی بشم که آدمهاش برام غریبه هستند احساس اضطراب می کنم، این احساسات چطور در من ایجاد شدن؟ اصلا معنی اینها چیه؟ و اصولا آیا بروز احساسات یا کنترل اونها در شرایط مختلف چطور در من و شما قابل شناخته؟ وقتی شما چهره کسی رو می بینید و بر اساس حالتی که داره حدس می زنید که اون فرد الان خوشحاله، غمگینه، عصبانیه یا مثلا مضطربه، چقدر می تونید به این حدستون اطمینان کنید؟ درباره احساسات انسانی، روانشناسا و پژوهشگرای زیادی کار کردن و هر کدوم تلاش داشتن که در درجه اول احساسات رو طبقه بندی کنن و در درجه دوم روی هر احساسی اسم بگذارن و ارتباط اون احساس با رفتارهای آدمها در جمع و در تنهایی رو بدست بیارن. قدیمی ترین و شاید اولین طبقه بندی احساسات توسط ویلیام جیمز که به زعمی پدر علم روانشناسی در آمریکاست انجام شد. داستان زندگی این ویلیام جیمز هم خیلی خیلی جالبه و شاید در قسمتهای بعدی وقتی قراره درباره مسئولیت پذیری صحبت کنیم بهش بپردازم. جیمز در کتاب اصول روانشناسی بطور کلی احساسات انسانی رو به چهار دسته کلی تقسیم می کنه: ترس، غم، عشق و خشم. بر این اساس، هر احساسات دیگه ای در هر شرایطی زبر مجموعه یکی از این 4 احساس اصلی قرار می گیرن و نباید به هیچ کدوم از این احساس ها برچسب خوب یا بد زده بشه و بسته به شرایط، هر احساسی می تونه خوب یا بد یا بهتره بگیم مناسب یا نامناسب باشه. به عنوان مثال، شاد بودن همه میدونیم خیلی خوبه و احساس شادی در طبقه بندی جیمز زیر مجموعه عشق قرار داره اما شادی همیشه خوب یا بهتره بگیم مناسب نیست. مثلا اگر من در مراسم خاکسپاری پدر دوستم شرکت کردم، مناسب نیست که با چهره ای بشاش و خندان به دوست عزادارم تسلیت بگم. همونطور که اگر من غمگین هستم، احساس غم در شرایطی که دارم مثلا اگر در کاری شکست خوردم یا عزیزی رو از دست دادم احساس مناسب یا خوبیه و همین احساس در شرایطی که مثلا من موفقیت بزرگی بدست آوردم یا در مراسم شادی شرکت کردم احساس نادرست و بدیه. درباره درست یا نادرست بودن احساسات جلوتر بیشتر صحبت می کنم. موزیک Michael Kobrin - Under Pressure بر اساس مدل چهارگانه ویلیام جیمز، روانشناسای دیگه ای هم تحقیقات خودشون رو انجام دادن و مثلا اریک رابرتسون در کتاب خودش با عنوان استاد احساساتتان شوید (به انگلیسی Master your emotions) احساسات پیچیده تری رو توضیح میده که هر کدوم به نحوی به یکی از اون 4 احساس اصلی بر می گردن، اما یک مدل جامع تر از احساسات انسانی که از مدل چهارگانه جیمز پیشرفته تره رو آقای Paul Ekman روانشناس آمریکایی و استاد دانشگاه کالیفرنیا – سن فرانسیسکو ارائه می کنه که در اون بر اساس حالتهای چهره انسانها میشه 6 احساس کلی رو طبقه بندی کرد که اینها هستن: خشم، نفرت، ترس، شادی، غم و شگفتی یا همون سورپرایز. آقای Ekman برای حدود 40 سال مرجع مکتبی در روانشناسی بود که در اون همه احساسات انسانی زیرمجموعه این 6 احساس کلی بودن و می شد بر اساس یک سری مدلهای مشخص، بین اونها تفاوت قائل شد و حتی این تئوریها در چهره نگاری توسط مراجع قضایی و در هیئتهای منصفه هم استفاده می شد و هنوز هم تا حد زیادی میشه. مثلا وقتی یک متهم به قتل در دادگاه روبروی هیئت منصفه از خودش دفاع می کنه، اگر حالت چهرش حس پشیمانی رو تداعی کنه ممکنه مجازاتش از اعدام به حبس ابد تقلیل پیدا کنه یا برعکس کسی که برای اتهام کوچکی محاکمه می شه، اگر در چهرش احساس شادمانی از کاری که کرده یا عدم پشیمانی یا حس بر حق بودن دیده بشه ممکنه مجازاتی سنگین تر از چیزی که متناسب اون جرم هست شاملش بشه. تئوری Ekman در سال 2011 با انتشار مقاله ای با عنوان What is meant by calling emotions basic که به فارسی میشه چه معنایی دارد که بگوییم احساسات بنیادی اند وارد مرحله جدیدی شد که در اون تعریف احساسات انسانی به اینگونه اومده: احساسات، پاسخهای خودکار و گسسته ای هستند به رویدادهای کلی ولی فرهنگ محور که خاص فرد هستند. این یعنی چی؟ یعنی که پاسخ انسان به یک محرک محیطی بستگی به خود فرد، فرهنگش و هنجارهای انسانی داره. مثلا، رویارویی با یک مار 3 متری در منی که به عمرم مار از نزدیک ندیدم و در فرهنگم مار همواره چیز ترسناکی تعریف شده میتونه احساس ترس شدید ایجاد کنه ولی در فرد دیگری که مثلا ساکن روستایی در هندوستانه و در فرهنگشون مار کبری مقدسه، ممکنه احساس دیگه ای ایجاد کنه یا همون مار رو اگر یک روستایی تایلندی ببینه ممکنه درش احساس شادی بوجود بیاد چون میتونه شکارش کنه و یک شام لوکس برای خودش دست و پا کنه. طبقه بندی ششگانه Ekman بعد ها توسط شاگرداش، Daniel Cordano و Dacher Keltner گسترش بیشتری پیدا کرد و علاوه بر 6 احساس پایه، این احساسات هم در دسته بندی احساسات اصلی جا داده شدن: سرگرمی، هیبت، رضایت، تمنا، خجالت، رنج، تسکین و همدردی. بله بله میدونم ممکنه الان شما با شنیدن این 8 تا بهتون احساس شگفتی یا شایدم احساس ناباوری دست داده باشه. باید بگم که بررسی های این دانشمندان بر اساس مشاهداتی بوده که از فرم صورت و نوع و شکل صدایی که هزاران داوطلب در آزمایشات اونها در مقابل محرکهای مختلف از خودشون بروز دادن. همچنین اونها این احساسات رو هم تونستن بعدها از آنالیز صورت و صدای افراد تشخیص بدن: کسالت، سردرگمی، علاقه، غرور، تحقیر، تسکین و پیروزی. در کنار تئوری احساسات پایه Ekman یک نوع دیگه برای مدلسازی احساسات انسانی هم وجود داره که در اون احساسات رو درسته که طبقه بندی می کنیم ولی اونها رو از هم تفکیک نمی کنیم و مثلا در تئوری چرخ احساسات Plutchik که توسط Robert Plutchik استاد دانشکده پزشکی آلبرت اینشتین نیویورک در سال 1980 میلادی ارائه شد، 8 احساس پایه یعنی شادی، اعتماد، ترس، شگفتی، غصه، نفرت، خشم و انتظار در راس های یک هشت ضلعی قرار داده شدن و اگر بین هر جفت از این احساسات یک خط بکشیم، بر اساس جایگاهشون در این هشت ضلعی، یک احساس ثانویه یا بهتر بگیم یک احساس دوگانه میشه نام برد که بر این اساس با ترکیب دوبه دوی این احساسات اولیه به 24 احساسات ثانویه می رسیم و با ترکیب سه گانه احساسات اولیه به 32 احساسات ثالثیه می رسیم. میدونم میدونم دیگه داره خیلی پیچیده میشه. برای اینکه بفهیم الان چی شد، به این مثالها دقت کنید: احساس حسادت وقتیه که خشم و غصه رو با هم داشته باشیم. احساس عشق وقتیه که شادی و اعتماد رو با هم داشته باشیم. احساس شرم وقتیه که ترس و نفرت رو با هم داشته باشیم. اگر شما علاقه دارید همه این 56 احساسات ثانویه و ثالثیه رو بدونید، لینکش رو میزارم براتون که برید و با رسم شکل ببینید که چی به چیه. باری، حالا که درباره طبقه بندی احساسات انسانی مختصر توضیحی ارائه دادیم، باید درباره احساساتی که در زندگی درگیرشون میشیم ولی بهشون دقت نمی کنیم هم کمی صحبت کنیم تا برسیم به اصل مطلب و چیزی که دارم این همه مقدمه میچینم که بهتون بگم. موزیک: we-confidently-go-to-victory-12006 این نظریه ها و طبقه بندی های احساسات انسانی همگی توسط دانشمندان علوم روانشناسی پایه گذاری و بسط داده شده بودند و در همه اونها احساسات انسانی طبقه بندی میشن و بر اساس این طبقه بندی ها قابل تشخیص هستند. در مقابل این نظریه ها اما یک نظریه جدیدتر و تا حدودی انقلابی هم درباره احساسات انسانی وجود داره که توسط خانم لیزا فلدمن بارت ارائه شده. ایشون در کتاب خودش با عنوان احساسات چگونه ساخته می شوند، از دیدگاه علم اعصاب یا همون نوروساینس به بررسی احساست انسانی و ارتباطشون با تقریبا همه چیز زندگی یک انسان صحبت می کنه و حرفهایی که می زنه حاصل 20 سال پژوهش ایشون و انتشار مقالات علمی متنوعیه که در طی این سالها پیرامون احساسات انجام داده. دکتر فلدمن میگه که اصولا احساسات از بدو تولد در انسان وجود نداشتن و به مرور در مغز ما و به دنبال اتفاقاتی که در زندگیمون می افته شکل می گیرن. این نظریه که با عنوان نظریه احساسات برساخته معرفی شده میگه که ذهن انسان همواره در حال حدس زدن درباره وقایع پیرامونشه و بر اساس این حدسها و درستی یا نادرستیشون قابلیت این رو داره که خودش رو شکل بده. یکی از مثالهایی که ایشون در کتابش می زنه رنگین کمانه. یه سوال: رنگین کمون چند رنگه؟ هفت رنگ درسته؟ میتونید رنگهاش رو بگید؟ قرمز، نارنجی، زرد، سبز، آاااببییی، بنفشششش؟؟؟؟ اما در واقع رنگین کمون هفت رنگ نیست و باید بگم اصلا رنگین کمون رنگی نیست یا چطوری بگم، رنگین کمون اصلا وجود نداره. چیزی که وجود داره، قطره های خیلی ریز آب هستند که در هوا و در صورت قطع ناگهانی بارش باران به جا موندن و اگر نور خورشید به اونها بتابه، مثل منشور عمل می کنند و بخشی از نور رو بازتاب میدن و بخش دیگه ای از نور رو به طیفی از امواج مرئی با طول موج از 410 تا 650 نانومتر تجزیه می کنند. اما مغز ما وقتی این طیف نور رو از طریق چشممون دریافت می کنه چون نمیتونه همه میلیاردها طول موجی که از 410 نانومتر تا 650 نانومتر هستند رو شناسایی کنه، به ناچار میاد و از مثلا 410 تا 470 نانومتر رو میکنه یک دسته و اسمش رو میذاره بنفش، از 470 تا از 470 تا 500 رو یک دسته می کنه و اسمش رو میذاره آبی، و همینجور دسته بندی رو ادامه میده و نهایتا از 600 تا 650 نانومتر رو اسمش رو میذاره قرمز. حالا اگر به منی که توی رنگین کمون 7 رنگ می بینم که آخریش قرمزه، یک موج مرئیی با طول موج 650 نشون بدن، قرمز نمی بینمش بلکه تقریبا قهوه ای مایل به سیاه می بینمش و اگر موج مرئی ای با طول موج 600 نانومتر بهم نشون بدن هم قرمز نمی بینمش و تقریبا نارنجی مایل به زرد می بینمش. اما مغز من وقتی رنگین کمون رو می بینه هم اون نارنجیه و هم اون قهوه ایه رو دقیقا همرنگ می بینه و برچسب قرمز رو می چسبونه بهش. حالا اینا چه ربطی داشت؟ در نظریه احساسات برساخته، این دسته بندی ها وجود نداره و مثلا در اون نمیشه به چهره یک فرد نگاه کنیم و بگیم غمگینه یا خشمگینه یا شرمساره یا شاده یا ترسیده. چیزی که در نظریه های کلاسیک وجود داشت. از اون طرف در این نظریه، اسم گذاری بر روی احساسات هم با نظریه های کلاسیک فرق داره و بر اساس اون، اگر دو نفر که در دو فرهنگ و جغرافیای متفاوت بزرگ شدن رو بیاریم و در معرض مثلا یک محرک عصبی شاد قرار بدیم، امکان اینکه حالات چهره اونها به یک شکل شادی رو نشون بدن بسیار کم و در حد صفره. اما میشه از هر دوی اونها پرسید که چه حسی داری و جواب شنید: شاد هستم. و حتی احساسات پایه مثل شادی، غم و خشم هم فرد به فرد، موقعیت به موقعیت و فرهنگ به فرهنگ متفاوت هستند. به عنوان مثال، اگر با کسی مواجه بشیم که عزیزی رو از دست داده و از این موضوع غمگینه، هرگز نمیتونیم غمش رو درک کنیم مگر اینکه خدای نکرده خودمون هم چنین غمی رو تجربه کرده باشیم. به قول قدیمیها، برادر مرده می داند غم مرگ برادر را. از اون طرف، شادی کسی که آرزوش این بوده که کنکور قبول بشه با شادی کسی که یک میلیارد تومن پول گیرش اومده هم قابل مقایسه نیست. همونطور که خشم کسی که به شعورش توهین شده با خشم کسی که یکی توی خیابون بهش تنه زده قابل مقایسه نیست. یا مثلا در مورد حس بُهت، احساس کسی که برای اولین بار مقابل آبشار نیاگارا ایستاده و داره به منظره نگاه می کنه با کسی که برای اولین بار با معشوقی که سالها از راه دور بهش عشق ورزیده روبرو میشه قابل مقایسه نیست و این اون چیزیه که من این همه مقدمه چینی کردم که به شما بگم.   هوش احساسی یا هوش هیجانی یا هوش عاطفی که به انگلیسی بهش میگن Emotional Inteligence یا به اختصار ایی آی که بعضا هموزن هوش ذهنی یعنی آی کیو، اون رو هم ایی کیو میخونن، یعنی اینکه ما احساساتمون رو بشناسیم و بتونیم بیانشون کنیم و در مواقع لازم بتونیم کنترلشون کنیم یا به شکلی متفاوت بروزشون بدیم. همچنین هوش احساسی یعنی بتونیم از دیگران درباره احساساتشون بپرسیم و پاسخشون رو با حدسی که ذهن ما بطور خودکار زده بود مقایسه کنیم که این خود هنریست بس گرانقدر که هر کس به دنبال خوشبختی و سعادته باید اون رو یاد بگیره. در واقع، ما آدمها اگر به دنبال بهبود روابط خودمون با دیگران هستیم باید یاد بگیریم که بهترین راه برای اینکه احساساتمون رو به دیگران انتقال بدیم اینه که بیانشون کنیم یا بهتر بگم، بطور صحیح و قابل فهم برای دیگران بیانشون کنیم. مکالمه تلفنی: صدای بوق تلفن... رستوران ایتالیانو بفرمایید. سلام. میخواستم غذا سفارش بدم. بله حتما. چی میل دارید. خواستم خواهش کنم 140 گرم خمیر رو پهن کنید و اون رو به شکل دایره ای به قطر 30 سانتیمتر در بیارید و روش سس گوجه فرنگی بمالید. بعد روش پنیر موتزارلا رنده کنید و بهش برشهای نازکی از قارچ سفید و فلفل دلمه اضافه کنید و مقداری هم گوشت چرخ شده نیمه پخته روش بریزید و در انتها هم چند برگ پنیر پروولون بزارید روش و بعد برای ده دقیقه بزاریدش توی فر در دمای 450 درجه و بعد از پخته شدن اون رو به 10 قسمت مساوی تقسیم کنید و توی جعبه بزارید تا من بیام و ببرمش. بله حتما. چیز دیگه ای نمیخواستید؟ نه. ممنون. حدود 15 دقیقه دیگه سفارش شما آمادست. مرسی. موزیک: Triste درباره این مکالمه تلفنی چی میشه گفت؟ اگر شما جای اون آقای گیرنده سفارش بودید به اون خانم چی می گفتید؟ احتمالا می گفتید که شما پیتزای گوشت و قارچ با پنیر اضافه سفارش دادید. یا شایدم توی رستوران شما به این غذا میگن پیتزای مخصوص. البته همین غذا ممکنه در یک رستوران دیگه مثلا اسمش باشه پیتزا آلفردینو یا پیتزا فوتوچیکو یا چه میدونم یکی از همین اسمهای قلمبه سلمبه که توی منوی رستورانهای این روزها می بینیم. اما گذشته از اون، فکر نمی کردید که اون خانم شما رو دست انداخته یا داره باهاتون شوخی می کنه و این کارش رو نوعی بی احترامی به خودتون تلقی نمی کردید؟ بعضی وقتها من یا شما در شرایطی قرار داریم که نمیتونیم احساساتمون رو بیان کنیم و به همین دلیل مثل اون خانمی که اسم پیتزا رو بلد نبود، به روشهای دیگه ای برای بیان احساساتمون متوسل میشیم. مثلا حالتی رو در نظر بگیرید که به شما خبر دادن که در یک مصاحبه کاری مهم مردود شدید و در همون لحظه همسرتون بهتون تلفن می زنه و میگه که شب برای شام قراره خواهرش اینا بیان منزل شما و ازتون میخواد که چلوکباب بخرید. شما به جای بیان احساستون در اون شرایط، عصبانی میشید و شروع به دعوا با همسرتون می کنید که چرا با شما هماهنگ نکرده بوده و مهمون دعوت کرده. در حقیقت اون حرفهایی که دارید به همسرتون در حین اون دعوا می زنید، مثل پیتزا سفارش دادن اون خانمه. به جای اینکه به همسرتون بگید که در اون لحظه به شدت احساس یاس و عصبانیت همزمان دارید چون خبر بسیار بدی بهتون داده شده، سرش داد می زنید و دعوا. یا مثلا حالتی رو تصور کنید که شما توی پیاده رو دارید راه میرید و سرتون توی گوشیه که یک نفر ناغافل به شما تنه میزنه. در اون لحظه شما بلافاصله فکر می کنید که اون فرد قصد مزاحمت برای شما داشته و سرش داد می زنید که: هوی یابو، مگه کوری؟ ولی پاسخ می شنوید که: ببخشید قربان، حواسم به گوشیم پرت شده بود و جلوم رو ندیدم. در حقیقت اون فرد هم دقیقا در شرایط شما بوده ولی عصبانیت لحظه ای شما رو درک کرده. اما اگر اون فرد هم در پاسخ به شما بگه: خودت کوری مرتیکه بی شعور. میتونید تصور کنید که قائله به کجا قراره ختم بشه دیگه. ما مردهای ایرانی در طول روز با آدمهای بسیاری سر و کار داریم که اونها هم به نوبه خودشون با آدمهای دیگه ای سر و کار دارن. آدمهایی که ما نمیدونیم قبل از اینکه به ما برسن در چه شرایطی بودن و الان احساسشون چیه. مثل حالتی که من تا دوستم رو ببینم شروع کنم و براش یه جوک دسته اول بگم بدون اینکه از حالش پرسیده باشم و بدونم که همین چند دقیقه پیش بهش خبر بدی دادن. دوستم غمگین بوده و من نفهمیدم. دوستم هم چون غمگین بوده به جوک من نخندیده و من فکر کردم که خودش رو برای من گرفته و از دستش ناراحت بشم و شود انچه نباید می شد. راستی، چند تا آدم دور و برت می شناسی که رابطت باهاشون خراب شده چون در یک بزنگاه اون آدم نفهمیده تو چه احساسی داشتی و حرفی زده یا کاری کرده که در اون لحظه از نظر تو و در شرایطی که بودی نادرست بوده یا برعکس، تو کاری کردی یا حرفی زدی که با شرایط طرف مقابلت جور نبوده؟ از اون طرف، من مرد ایرانی تا چه حد درباره احساسات خودم، همسرم، فرزندانم و اطرافیانم آگاهی دارم؟ یا اصلا در طول روز چند بار احساسی که نسبت به چیزی یا کسی یا شرایطی که باهاش در ارتباطم رو برای خودم شناسایی کردم؟ من مرد ایرانی در طول روز چند بار در ارتباط با دیگران ازشون پرسیدم که چه احساسی دارن یا حدسی که درباره احساس اونها در لحظه یا شرایط خاصی دارند رو براشون بازگو کردم؟ در قسمت بعدی پادکست قراره بیشتر درباره هوش احساسی و آنچه مرد ایرانی میتونه و باید انجام بده تا باهوش احساسی باشه بیشتر صحبت خواهیم کرد.   فصل دوم رو با این توضیح شروع کردم که من، در زمینه هایی که در این پادکست در موردشون صحبت میشه متخصص نیستم و فقط چون علاقه داشتم درباره اونها مطالعه کردم. اما زمینه ای که من درش تخصص دارم، مهندسی عمرانه. لازم دونستم در پایان این قسمت احساس اندوهم از ظلمی که به مردم شریف آبادان در حادثه ساختمان متروپول رفت رو به شما بگم. اندوه از اینکه چطور هموطنان عزیز من بی گناه در این حادثه کشته شدند. همچنین احساس خشم خودم رو باید درباره مسئولینی که با فساد خودشون سبب ساز برروز چنین فاجعه ای شدند بیان کنم. ای کاش که عدالتی برای این ظالمین به جان و مال مردم عزیز خوزستان و ایران وجود داشت... ای کاش... من علی رضائی فر هستم و امیدوارم قسمت بعدی پادکست رو در شرایطی ارائه کنم که حال من و شما و مردم ایران بهتر باشه. امیدوارم.  

Shaahin in his own words: "RANKED #1 Amazon Accelerator. I help you CRUSH IT on Amazon. $350 Million In Sales. Herbal Ecstacy, Vapir and many more! I've been called many things in my life (including the “Willy Wonka of Generation X”), but my favorite one is simple: the world's leading Amazon industry expert. I'm the founder of the brain nutrition startup Accelerated Intelligence (AI). I'm also an award-winning business mogul, author, filmmaker, and inventor of Herbal Ecstacy, the nootropic that sparked the (100% legal) Smart Drug Movement. My serial entrepreneurial career has spanned more than 30 years, earning over $350 Million. My Amazon products have outpaced Fortune 500 companies' sales on the platform, selling millions of units worldwide. Many of these multimillion dollar companies noticed, which led me to become one of the world's most sought-after Amazon experts. My Amazon sales approach for start-ups and Fortune 500's is the same approach I use to accelerate my own success: a mix of proprietary software, Amazon promotions, copywriting, Amazon ads and social proof. I excel in a variety of niche verticals and have grown brand success for Dr. Breus, Elissa Fisher Harris, Vitagene, KOR Water and many others. In addition to Amazon consulting, I give talks on Amazon, Amazon branding, guerilla PR and product development. In my personal life, I regularly contribute to The Huffington Post, American Express OPEN and many other publications. I'm an avid sportsman with a deep love for Jiu Jitsu. When I'm not working out, you can usually find me reading something by Seth Godin, Dr. Robert Cialdini or Dr. Paul Ekman. I live in Los Angeles, California. You might be wondering why my name sounds familiar. That depends. It might have been from one of my inventions (like Excelerol, the Vapir Vaporizer, Ecstacy Cigarettes, Herbal Ecstacy, or any of my 200+ award-winning products) or a book or film I wrote; and you have yet to see more of me!" https://www.shaahincheyenne.com/ Make sure to subscribe to the podcast so that you are notified of new episodes!

Today's guest on the Prosperity Perspective brings his incredible story from literally living homeless on beaches to the multi-million-dollar Amazon master he is today. Shaahin will share what flipped the switch for him when he decided to start investing his hard-earned money, all motivated by a desire to do what he couldn't as a poor immigrant. Gain his one-of-a-kind advice on mentorship, money, and financial freedom.3 Key TakeawaysWealth is not a matter of how much money you have but of how comfortably you can live within your means. Seek council! You should not rely on your own knowledge to solve your problems; some problems aren't there for you to solve. Embrace the grit that comes from pushing through adversity as an entrepreneur. This is what teaches you how to achieve your goals. ResourcesBooks by ShaahinShaahin's new booking agency: podcastcolaWebsite: shaahincheyenne.comShaahin's Podcast: Hack and Grow RichEmail: darkzess@gmail.comAbout Shaahin CheyeneShaahin has been called many things in my life (including the “Willy Wonka of Generation X”), but his favorite one is simple: the world's leading Amazon industry expert. He is the founder of the brain nutrition startup Accelerated Intelligence (AI). Shaahin is also an award-winning business mogul, author, filmmaker, and inventor of Herbal Ecstacy, the nootropic that sparked the (100% legal) Smart Drug Movement. My serial entrepreneurial career has spanned more than 30 years, earning over $350 Million.Shaahin regularly contributes to The Huffington Post, American Express OPEN and many other publications. He is an avid sportsman with a deep love for Jiu Jitsu. When he's not working out, you can usually find him reading something by Seth Godin, Dr. Robert Cialdini or Dr. Paul Ekman. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

[Season 2 Finale!] Who doesn't love a good laugh? If you're lucky, you laugh so hard you cry, your stomach cramps, you can't breathe and you hopefully collapse on the floor. Nothing better. Professor Sophie Scott, Director of University College London's Speech Communication Lab, studies the science of laughter. Occasionally she'll even use her tight five as a standup to further inform her research on the power and effects of laughter. Not only is laughter fantastic for your mental and physical health, it is also an important social, communication and diplomatic tool (looking at you Bill Clinton). Ever peed your pants from laughing so hard? There's an absurd reason for that. Ali also answers a bunch of listener questions she's been waiting to dig in to. If you have questions or guest suggestions, Ali would love to hear from you. Call or text her at (323) 364-6356. Or email go-ask-ali-podcast-at-gmail.com. (No dashes) Links of Interest: Ali's New Book: Ali's Well That Ends Well Sophie Scott, Why We Laugh, TED 2015 (4.4M views): https://www.ted.com/speakers/sophie_scott Sophie Scott, What's in a Voice, TEDx 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeHlgJSM-wM UCL Speech Communication lab: https://speechcommunicationlab.weebly.com/ Sophie's podcast: The Neuromantics, a podcast about science and art https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-neuromantics/id1455641494 Sophie's New Book: The Brain: 10 Things You Should know (releases 9/2/222) Koko and Robin Williams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9I_QvEXDv0 Boris Yeltsin & Bill Clinton Press Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=951Tz2GfgQQ Liam Neeson & Ricky Gervais: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpKwqiAWWrA Ricky Gervais - Humanity (2018) (clip regarding dogs): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBWyyHfrlbU See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Paul Ekman is often called “the human lie detector,” and he's considered the world's deception detection expert.He's the inspiration behind the hit series Lie to Me, and he consulted on the movie Inside Out. He's also trained organizations, such as police departments and the TSA, on how to tell when someone is lying. TIME Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He's also been ranked fifteenth among the most influential psychologists of the 21st century.Some of the things he talks about today are why people lie, the biggest myths we believe about detecting lies, and how you can actually tell if someone is being deceptive.

Dr. Alan Cowen is the Executive Director of The Hume Initiative (https://thehumeinitiative.org/), a non-profit dedicated to the responsible advancement of AI with empathy, and CEO of Hume AI (https://hume.ai/), an AI research lab and empathetic AI company that is hoping to pave the way for AI that improves our emotional well-being. Chad talks with Alan about forming clear ethical guidelines around how this technology should be used because there is a problem in that the public is skeptical about whether technology is used for good or bad. The Hume Initiative is intended to lay out what concrete use cases will be and what use cases shouldn't be supported. Hume AI is built for developers to construct empathic abilities into their applications. The Hume Initiative (https://thehumeinitiative.org/) Hume AI (https://hume.ai/) Follow Hume AI on Twitter (https://twitter.com/hume__ai) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/hume-ai/). Follow Alan on Twitter (https://twitter.com/AlanCowen) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-cowen/). Follow thoughtbot on Twitter (https://twitter.com/thoughtbot) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/150727/). Become a Sponsor (https://thoughtbot.com/sponsorship) of Giant Robots! Transcript: CHAD: This is the Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots Podcast, where we explore the design, development, and business of great products. I'm your host, Chad Pytel. And with me today is Dr. Alan Cowen, the Executive Director of The Hume Initiative, a non-profit dedicated to the responsible advancement of AI with empathy, and CEO of Hume AI, an AI research lab and empathetic AI company. Alan, thank you for joining me. DR. COWEN: Thanks for having me on. CHAD: That's a lot of words in that introduction. I'm glad I got through it in one take. Let's take a step back a little bit and talk about the two different things, The Hume Initiative and Hume AI. And what came first? DR. COWEN: So they were conceptualized at the same time. Practically speaking, Hume AI was started first only because it currently is the sole supporter of The Hume Initiative. But they were both conceptualized as this way to adjust two of the main problems that people have faced bringing empathic abilities to technology. Technology needs to have empathic abilities. If AI is going to get smart enough to make decisions on our behalf, it should understand whether those decisions are good or bad for our well-being. And a big part of that is understanding people's emotions because emotions are really what determine our well-being. The Hume Initiative addresses one of the challenges, which is the formation of clear ethical guidelines around how this technology should be used. And it's not because the companies pursuing this have bad intents; that's not the point at all. The problem is that the public is probably justifiably skeptical of whether this technology will be used for them or against them. And The Hume Initiative is intended as a way of laying out what the concrete use cases will be and what use cases shouldn't be supported. Hume AI is introducing solutions to the problem of how we build empathic AI algorithms. And the challenge there has been the data. So there have been a lot of attempts at building empathic AI or emotion AI, whatever you call it, basically ways of reading facial expression, emotion in the voice, and language. And there's been a few challenges, but most of them come down to the fact that the data tends to be based on outdated theories of emotion and/or it tends to be based on people's perceptual ratings of images largely from the internet or videos that are collected in more of an observational way without experimental control. And within those perceptual judgments, you see gender biases, sometimes racial biases, biases by what people are wearing, whether they're wearing sunglasses, for example, because people with sunglasses for some reason are perceived as being proud. [laughter] And the algorithms will always label people with sunglasses as being proud if you're training the algorithm that way. What you need basically is some way to control for people's identity, what they're wearing, get people's own self-reports as to what they're feeling or what they're expressing, and do it in a way that's somewhat randomized so that different people express a wide range of emotional behaviors in a wide range of contexts. And the contexts are somewhat randomized. So that's what we're doing with Hume AI is we're gathering that data, and it requires large-scale experiments to be run around the world. CHAD: In terms of the actual product that Hume AI is going to do, is it a standalone product? Or is it something that people building products will use? DR. COWEN: It's a developer product. It's built for developers to build empathic abilities into their applications. And so we are about to launch a developer portal, and we have a waitlist on our website on hume.ai for that. In the meantime, we've been licensing out the models that we're training and the data that we're using to train those models, which I actually kind of view as somewhat interchangeable. Models are basically descriptions of data. Some people have the resources to train those models on-premise; some people don't. But we're providing the solution to any developer who wants to build the ability to understand, for example, vocal expression into, say, a digital assistant. So can the digital assistant understand when you're frustrated and be able to change its response based on that information? And even potentially update the actual network, the neural network that's being used to generate that response, actually, backpropagate the fact that this was an unsatisfactory response and make the algorithm better. Is this something that you could use for health tech? So people are building out telehealth solutions that incorporate AI in various ways, one of which is can we get an objective classification of emotional behavior that can be used to help triage patients, send them to the right place, put them in touch with the right help? Can it be used to sub-diagnose disorders, diagnose disorders with more statistical power? Because you can incorporate more data and develop better treatments for those disorders, and that can be done in a wide range of contexts. CHAD: So you mentioned training AI models. I don't want to make the assumption that everyone knows what that means or looks like. Maybe if we could take a step back, if you don't mind, talk about what that maybe traditionally looks like and how Hume is actually different. DR. COWEN: Yeah, totally. When it comes to empathic AI, so this is an area where you're trying to train an algorithm to measure facial movements insofar as they have distinct meanings or measure inflections of the voice while people are speaking to understand the non-verbal indications of emotion in the voice. When you are training an algorithm to do that, you're taking in images, video, audio, and you're predicting people as attributions of emotion to themselves or to others and what people are feeling or what people say they're expressing or what other people say they hear in an expression. You need a lot of data for that. Traditionally, people have used smaller datasets and assumed that emotion can be reduced to a few categories. That's been one solution to this problem. And so basically, you'll have people pose facial expressions of anger, fear, happiness, sadness, disgust, and surprise, which are called the basic six emotions. And that was introduced by Paul Ekman in the 1970s. And there are whole datasets of people posing those six expressions or perhaps combinations of them. And usually, those facial expressions are front-lit and front-facing and meet certain constraints. And when you train a model on that data, it doesn't tend to generalize very well to naturalistic expressions that you encounter from day-to-day for a lot of different reasons; one is that the six basic emotions only capture about 30% of what people perceive in an expression. Another is that people in everyday situations have a wide range of lighting conditions, viewpoints, et cetera. And there's more diversity in age, gender than you see in these datasets and in ethnicity and so forth. And so, these algorithms don't generalize. Another approach is to get ratings of data from the internet. So there, you're not creating the dataset for this specific purpose. You're just scraping as many facial expressions or recordings of voices as you possibly can, maybe from YouTube. That's one way to scale up. That's one way to capture a much greater variety of naturalistic expressions. But then you're gathering ratings of these images. And those ratings are influenced not just by what somebody is expressing but also by somebody's gender, ethnicity, age, and what they're wearing, and so forth. CHAD: Well, in those scenarios, a person has also classified the image, to begin with, right? DR. COWEN: Yeah. CHAD: So someone is labeling that image as angry, for example. DR. COWEN: So typically, you're scraping a bunch of videos. You're giving them to raters typically from one country. And those raters are categorizing those images based on what they perceive to be the expression, and there are a lot of influences on that. If somebody is wearing a sporting outfit, and this is a hard bit of context to cut out, you can generally infer this person is likely to be expressing triumph or disappointments or all the different things people express when they're playing sports. And it's very different if somebody's wearing a suit. And so, these different biases seep into the algorithm. We did train probably the best version of this kind of algorithm when I was at Google. And we used it to study people's expressions in other videos from around the world, mostly home videos. And we found that people form expressions in characteristic contexts around the world. And the relationship between context and expression was largely preserved. We were looking at 16 facial expressions we were able to label accurately. And this was probably with the best version of an algorithm trained in this way. But we still only captured about half of the information people take away from expressions because we had to throw away a lot of the predictions due to these biases. So that's how algorithms are traditionally trained. Another way that you could go about it is by training a large model, like a large language model, if you're looking at an emotional language and query it in a special way. So let's say you take a GPT-3 kind of model, and you say, "Hey, what are the emotions associated with this sentence?" And there, you see exactly the same kind of biases as you'd see in perceptual ratings because typically, it's saying what is likely to be in that data. So it might say, "Well, pigeons are disgusting, and doves are beautiful," or something like that. And that's the kind of bias we don't care about. But you can imagine there are a lot of biases that we do care about in that data too. [laughs] And so, what's needed is experimental control. And I think this is actually when it comes to the things we really care about, something that people should consider more often in machine learning. What are the confounds that exist in the data that you're training an algorithm on? And if you really care about those confounds and you want to be scientific about it, about removing them, what's the solution? Well, the solution is to somehow randomize what somebody is expressing, for example. And that's what we do at Hume. We actually gather data with people reacting, for example, to very strongly evocative stimuli, which could be images, videos, paintings, et cetera, music. And we have balanced the set of stimuli in a way that makes it richly evocative of as many emotions as possible. And then what somebody is likely to be experiencing in a given setting is randomized relative to who they are since they see a random set of these stimuli or they undergo a random set of tasks. And so, to the extent possible, we've removed some of the relationships between ethnicity, gender, age, and what somebody is experiencing, or what they're expressing. And so we do this in a lot of different ways. And one thing you do is you can train on basically what is the stimulus that somebody was looking at instead of training on somebody's perception of an expression. CHAD: Hopefully, talking through this a little bit has helped people, one, I guess, understand why this is difficult. And that's where the need for a product by a company that specializes in it is important because it would be pretty difficult for a company just getting started to be able to do this in a scientifically controlled way. And in a sense, it's sort of like pooling the resources behind one product to do it well, and that can really do it well. You recently raised money pre-seed from investors. How obvious was the need to them, and how easy or hard was it for you to raise money? DR. COWEN: I had been basically in this world for a long time before I started Hume AI and The Hume Initiative. So during grad school, while I was publishing a lot of this science that was showing people's expressions were much more nuanced than a lot of these datasets and algorithms had considered before, I was getting inbounds from tech companies. And so, I worked a little bit with some startups. I worked with Facebook. I worked with Google. And I had seen this problem from a lot of different perspectives and viewpoints already. The need for data was very clear. The need for algorithms was clear because people literally had reached out to me and asked, "What are the best algorithms?" And I had to say, "Look, there are a few things, but all of them have problems. And they're mostly focused on the face, and you won't see much for the voice. And you won't see much for language." And what I had trained at Google was not something that was publicly available for facial expression. What is available for language probably the best one is another dataset that I helped put together at Google and algorithms trained on that called the GoEmotions dataset, which is used by Hugging Faces emotional language algorithm. And so I knew that there was this need, and a lot of people were looking for this kind of data, and so that's where it started. So talking to investors, it wasn't too hard to show them all the evidence that there was a need for this, a big market. And we raised a $5 million pre-seed. What we have spent a lot of that so far is in data collection. And that's made a huge difference in training algorithms for facial expression, voice, language, and so forth. And then what turns out to be more of a challenge is delivering those algorithms to people. And we're actually building a platform, an API platform, for that that will be really helpful in getting people started. CHAD: As you took on investors who, you know, they're trying to build a business. They want to create a business that gives them a return. And as you move towards a product in the marketplace, what are the things that you've encountered that are the biggest concerns in terms of the success? DR. COWEN: There's a scientific and sort of almost educational challenge. I think people have been fixated on a few ideas about emotion for a long time; these really sticky ideas like you can reduce emotion to six categories or two dimensions. So even when people take these really nuanced and accurate models that we've trained to distinguish 28 different kinds of facial expression, much broader array of facial expressions or 24 different kinds of vocal expression in vocal utterances like laughs, and cries, and screams, and sighs, and 16 different kinds of speech prosody, typically, people will take these, and they'll take out a few emotions, and they say, "Okay, well, this prediction is for the anger prediction, and that's the one I'm interested in." The challenge is in conceptualizing the phenomenon people are interested in classifying with these models and how they can relate that to what the model is predicting because typically, what constitutes anger is very different from one situation to another. Someone who's angry, who is maybe playing a sport, is going to be much more vocal about it than if you're on a customer service call. And that context is really important in going from an embedding that's general for different expressions, that can recognize 16 different emotional intonations in speech and fine-tuning it for that specific context. And I think that process can be difficult to understand if you're not fluent in the language of emotion science and particularly where it's gone over the last few years. And so part of what we're doing now is actually setting up ways to visualize the outputs of our models really smoothly and with any data so that people can navigate their data and actually see, okay, well, what this model is saying is an embedding of anger for what I'm interested in. Maybe it's customer service calls. Actually, it's a combination of a little bit of contempt and a little bit of disappointment in what people have labeled these expressions with. And now I can take this embedding, and I understand how to use it better. CHAD: Do you anticipate or hope for, and maybe those are the same, and maybe they're different, that you're going to have a few big customers or lots of small customers or something in between? DR. COWEN: We hope lots of small customers. [laughs] I want to get this into as many people's hands as possible. A lot of people are doing really innovative things in the startup world. There's also a huge need in big applications like digital assistants that are mostly in the hands of a few companies basically. We want to have an impact there as well. The difference, of course, will be the manner in which these solutions are delivered. The ease of providing people with APIs, subscribing to a pay-as-you-go model I think is really attractive for startups. And so that's how we're accessing that market. On the other hand, we do already have some big customers who are licensing the data or the models themselves. And I anticipate there will be a lot of that going forward as well. Mid-Roll Ad I wanted to tell you all about something I've been working on quietly for the past year or so, and that's AgencyU. AgencyU is a membership-based program where I work one-on-one with a small group of agency founders and leaders toward their business goals. We do one-on-one coaching sessions and also monthly group meetings. We start with goal setting, advice, and problem-solving based on my experiences over the last 18 years of running thoughtbot. As we progress as a group, we all get to know each other more. And many of the AgencyU members are now working on client projects together and even referring work to each other. Whether you're struggling to grow an agency, taking it to the next level and having growing pains, or a solo founder who just needs someone to talk to, in my 18 years of leading and growing thoughtbot, I've seen and learned from a lot of different situations, and I'd be happy to work with you. Learn more and sign up today at thoughtbot.com/agencyu. That's A-G-E-N-C-Y, the letter U. CHAD: You said you've built up to this point. But how long have you been working at it so far in terms of creating the actual product that will go to market soon? DR. COWEN: The company is only a year old. And we actually just had our first year anniversary. CHAD: Congratulations. DR. COWEN: [laughs] Thank you. Thank you. We are just now about to launch our platform, which I think is going to be our main product going forward. We're also running machine learning competitions in the research community, which there will be involvement from lots of tech companies and researchers around the world. So in many ways, we're still just getting started. But we have already what I think are the best models for understanding facial expression, the best models for understanding vocal utterances or what we call vocal bursts, which is actually different than understanding speech prosody or emotional intonation and language more generally. And we need separate models for that. We have both of probably the best models for those two modalities and are building what we think will be the best model for emotional language as well. And so we have solutions. Part of the product is delivering them, and that's what we're launching now. So we're at the beginning of that. CHAD: So has to get to this point taken longer than you were anticipating, the time you were anticipating or shorter? Did it go faster? DR. COWEN: I think my estimates for actually training these models and beating the state of the art were about on point. [chuckles] I mean, when we got started, I was ready to start running these experiments pretty quickly. So I designed all the experiments myself and started running them around the world, recruiting participants through labs, through consulting agencies, through crowdsourcing websites, a lot of different ways. There were a few challenges along the way, like figuring out how you could adjust the consent form in ways that weren't really relevant to ethics. And we had IRB approval. We had a very robust consent process for people to understand how their data was going to be used but were relevant to figuring out how you come up with language that is consistent with data privacy laws and each individual jurisdiction where you're running data collection. That took a little longer than I thought. [laughs] But suffice to say, we had the data. We had the models pretty quickly. I was able to recruit some of the top AI researchers in this space pretty quickly. We hit the ground running. We were able to take the data and train state-of-the-art models pretty fast. What's taking longer is getting the models into people's hands in two ways. I mean, negotiating enterprise contracts is always a struggle that many people are aware of. And then figuring out we needed to have a really user-friendly platform basically to deliver the models through APIs, and that's taking a little bit longer than anticipated. CHAD: So The Hume Initiative is a group of people that have come together and established some guidelines that companies sign on to in terms of what their solutions are going to take into account and do and not do. Do I have that right? DR. COWEN: Yeah. So we put together a separate non-profit. And we brought together some of the leading AI researchers, ethicists, with emotion scientists, and cyber law experts to this very unique composition of domain knowledge to develop what are really the first concrete ethical guidelines for empathic AI. Let's say for this use case; we support it if you meet these requirements. These are our recommendations. And for this use case, we don't support it. And we actually get really concrete. I think generally, with AI principles efforts or AI ethics efforts, people focus on the broad principles and left it to, I don't know, it's unclear often who is going to decide whether a use case is admissible or not under these principles. Because let's say they're codified into law, then it'll end up being a judge who doesn't necessarily have any knowledge of AI or emotion science or any of these things to say this is a use case that's consistent with these principles or not. We wanted to avoid that. And I think particularly; I think that the public is skeptical too of broader principles where they don't really know whether a given use of their data is compliant with those principles or not. I mean, sometimes it's easier. There are really good policies regarding surveillance that I think most of the big tech companies ascribe to where they say they won't be using your data in ways that you expect to have privacy and you actually don't. So I think there are pretty good principles there. There haven't really been good principles or concrete guidelines for what people might consider manipulative. And I think some technology that incorporates cues of emotion can be deemed manipulative in a sense. In the sense that you might not want to be sucked into a comment thread because something really provocative was shown to you after clicking on a notification that was unrelated to that. But the algorithm may have figured out this is a way to keep you in the app. [laughs] So that can be considered manipulative in some kind of way. I mean, it's bad if the person is vulnerable at that time. If the algorithm is able to read cues of your emotions and maybe through interoperability across different applications or because it knows it or has this information, this data already, it can say this is a person who is vulnerable right now to being provoked because they're in a bad mood. Maybe I can see that they just ordered food, and it's late, and it was canceled, whatever is. It can be any number of things. Or the way that this person queried a digital assistant or a search engine revealed this kind of emotional state. We don't want the algorithm to use that to get us to do something we otherwise wouldn't want to do So the principles we've set up around that are really important. Whenever somebody's emotional behaviors are involved or cues to their emotional state, they should be used to make sure that the algorithm is not using these cues against somebody or using them as a means to an end. What they should be used to do is make sure the algorithm is improving our emotions or improving our emotional state over time on average across many different people so that we're less frustrated on average over time, and we have more instances where we're satisfied, or content, or happy, or all inspired or whatever your measures or indicators of well-being you have present through these behaviors might be. The algorithm should be using these behaviors to enhance your well-being fundamentally. And wherever they're entering into an algorithm, we should be privy to how the algorithm is using them. And so that's essentially what the principles codify and make very concrete, and they say, "In this use case, this is how you can make sure this is the case, you know, health and wellness, digital assistants, photo-taking, arts and culture applications, film, animation." There are all these different applications of empathic AI. So it's a very broadly applicable thing because it applies to any text, any video with people in it, any audio where you hear people's voices. This is just a part of the data that's untapped relatively, or to the extent that it's tapped by algorithms today; it's done in a way that we don't really see, or maybe the developers don't even realize. If we make explicit that these are cues to people's emotions, there's a huge number of applications where we can then have algorithms learn from people's emotional cues and decide whether to enhance certain emotions or use them in certain ways. So I think it's going to be really, really key to get this right. And it requires expertise in how these emotions operate in daily life, in emotion science, in what is the definition of privacy here? What's the definition of a biometric measure which involves cyber law? And how does this intersect with existing laws and so forth? It's something that requires AI research expertise. You have to know how these algorithms work. It's something that requires specific kinds of AI ethics expertise. What is the alignment problem? How do we consider the value alignment in this situation? Which I think really comes down to optimizing for people's well-being. And we have brought together exactly that composition of expertise in The Hume Initiative. CHAD: Hume AI has sort of signed off and said, "We're going to follow these guidelines of The Hume Initiative." Does that apply to every customer who is a customer of Hume AI? DR. COWEN: Exactly, yeah. So we actually require people on our terms of use to adhere to the guidelines. And so, for a lot of people, that won't be that difficult because they'll look through the guidelines. They'll see that their use case is supported, that they're already following the recommendations that are in the guidelines. And so they're good. They're good to go. Some people might [laughs] see that they're not compliant with the recommendations. And then they'll be able to make adjustments to their product so that they're compliant. And then others who are pursuing use cases that are not supported by the ethics guidelines can't use the platform, which is exactly what we want. We don't want people using this for mass surveillance, for example, and that's stated pretty clearly in the guidelines. So yeah, we do require all of our customers to adhere to these guidelines that we've now launched at thehumeinitiative.org. CHAD: How important to you was it to have The Hume Initiative and these guidelines? Was it a precondition of doing all of this? DR. COWEN: Yeah, it was important for two reasons; one is that I felt that this shouldn't be used to exacerbate a lot of the problems that we're going to run into with AI eventually, if not already, where AI could be using our emotional behaviors to optimize for an objective that could be misaligned potentially with our desires, what emotions we want to feel, or with our well-being. Even though when you're privy to these emotional behaviors, you have the opportunity to do what a human does and say, "I have empathy. Therefore, I can say this is probably not a good way to get people to spend more time on this app or to buy this thing because I know that it's exploitative in some way." And I don't think that's the norm. I think, by and large, these strategies that have been used to optimize AI algorithms today have been good proxies for our well-being. Like, engagement is not necessarily a bad proxy for whether we want to spend time on doing something, but it's not good in all cases. And I think there's a huge amount of room for improvement because we don't know in all cases how the AI is getting us to be more engaged. And many of the strategies it uses may not be consistent with our well-being. But particularly going forward, once AI is smart enough, and once it has more control points in the environment, whether there are robots or digital assistants that have control over Internet of Things devices, AI will have an increasing influence on the environment around us, and it'll be smarter and smarter. And before long, it will be very important to make sure that it's aligned with our values. This is the concept of the alignment problem. Eventually, if you have a really, really smart, all-powerful, not all-powerful, but similar [laughter] powerful robot in your house and it's written by AI, and you tell it, "Hey, robot. I'm hungry. Make me the most delicious meal that you can that's healthy for me and satisfies all of these parameters using ingredients that are available in my kitchen." And if your cat happens to be in your kitchen and it realizes that, hey, this is lean meat. I have a great sense of what this person likes, so this is going to be really tasty. And it cooks your cat. [laughs] That's a way of satisfying this objective that you don't like. And so if it understood something about what is it that makes people happy by learning from our emotional behaviors in everyday life, we're not often saying to this robot, "This is something that I don't want you to cook." But if the robot understood this is something that makes you happy in everyday life, that would be one proxy for it to be able to figure out this would be a negative on your well-being if it did this. And so that is ultimately the solution. So we're going from; first, we at least want to optimize our algorithms existing today for people to feel better or indications of their well-being. And then, later on, we just want to make sure that, increasingly, that is the objective of these algorithms. I think that's been really important to me. CHAD: Obviously, it's not like the other companies out there doing this want to create a robot that cooks your cat. DR. COWEN: No. [laughs] CHAD: But it is possible that other companies don't prioritize it in the same way that Hume might. How do you stay motivated in the face of maybe not everyone caring about creating this in the same way that you are? DR. COWEN: That brings me to the other main reason for doing things this way, which is that I think there's enough of an economic incentive that you can create a company that is more successful for having made ethical commitments than otherwise. And I think that's particularly true if your company wasn't going to do anything unethical anyway, [laughs] which we didn't plan on doing and most companies don't plan on doing. Because if your company is not going to do anything unethical anyway, then you might as well be able to explain to people how you made the decision about what's ethical and what isn't and be able to make guarantees to them that actually attract more customers. Because the customers are able to say, "Look, they've made a legal commitment to not doing this." I don't have to suspect that these things are being used against me or in a manipulative way or in a way that doesn't preserve the privacy that I thought I had. I don't have to be skeptical of any of these things because I can see clearly that the company has made this potentially legal commitment, at least that's something that they're committed to publicly." So in that sense, it's purely an advantage. And that's true for AI generally but specifically for empathic AI. I think there's been a hunger for those kinds of ethical guidelines, and you can see it in how people react to news of this technology. There is generally a skepticism in the air. I think it goes back also to maybe sometimes people's concerns about privacy are legitimate if the question is whether what the output is picking up on is going to wind up in the hands of people you don't want it to end up in. And those people are privy to things about your lifestyle, or they're able to use that against you in some way. That is a real privacy issue. It's not necessarily, to me, a privacy issue. If an algorithm is processing these things on device and the data never goes anywhere, and it's only used in a way in which you actually want it to be used, which is maybe to surface better music to you or to have you be taking better pictures on your phone, these are all great things for you. And that data doesn't necessarily go anywhere in the same way that any of the photo data you take doesn't necessarily go anywhere even though it's already processed by lots and lots of algorithms, or your search queries aren't necessarily not private. Just because they're processed by algorithms, maybe even algorithms that are good for the business, they're not necessarily being seen by humans. And so, it's not necessarily a privacy issue. But people have this skepticism about emotion AI, in particular, empathic AI, in particular, because I think there are certain instincts that it plays on, like the idea that you're being watched. Early in our species history and even before our species, it was very important to be very wary of predators watching you from the bushes or from the crevices and all that. And I think that instinct is involved whenever we're being recorded, whenever there's a camera. And that's not just an issue for empathic AI but also for things like facial identification, which brings up legitimate privacy concerns but also, sometimes there are uses that we don't care about at all, or they're clearly good. Like, I think facial identification for unlocking your phone that's a really good use. And that is basically what it's used for by some companies. Some big tech companies are just using it for that and not much else. And so, when you unpack what you're doing with this stuff, it makes it a lot easier for people to be comfortable with it. And that is what the ethics initiative is doing essentially. It's giving people all of these use cases and recipes and unpacking what this is being used for so that people can be more comfortable with it. And I think that's actually something that is in the business' interest. CHAD: That's great. Well, I really appreciate, you know, there are a lot of pushes and pulls when founders are creating new companies. So to put a stake in the ground in terms of what's important to you and the right way to build this product and to go through the effort of creating these guidelines and a whole initiative around it and everything is...well, I can see that not everyone does that because of the concern around oh, is this going to hurt my business? Is it going to make it harder for me to succeed? And so when principals and business case align, great, but even when they don't, I think it's important, and I commend you for making sure that you're leading with your principals. DR. COWEN: Thanks. I mean, there have certainly been challenges to it. But I think that even so, the pros have outweighed the cons both ethically and for our business for us so far. CHAD: Great. So if folks have enjoyed today's conversation and either want to dig in more, you have a podcast, right? DR. COWEN: That's right. We have a podcast called The Feelings Lab, where we explore different emotions that are of concern in everyday life, that guide our everyday lives, and that are changing as a consequence of changes in society and technology. In Season One, we focused mostly on one emotion per episode. We had guests like Fred Armisen talking about horror, which is a really funny perspective to have [laughs] because fear is not always bad, and sometimes we like to watch horror movies. [laughs] And in Season Two, we're focusing particularly on the technology. And so we had the CEO of Embodied Paolo Pirjanian, who has a robot called Moxie that's used to help kids in their emotional development, and it's a great toy. We had the CEO, one of the co-founders of Soul Machines, which was an avatar company. We had VP at Omniverse Platform Developments in NVIDIA talking about how AI is changing the abilities of artists and changing basically the way that film is made. And it's very interesting. So I'd encourage people to check that out. CHAD: Where can people find that? I assume by searching for Feelings Lab in the podcast player. But do you have a domain name too? DR. COWEN: Yeah, you can go to hume.ai, and then you can go to our content hub. That's one way to find it. And you can find the podcast on Apple, SoundCloud, pretty much wherever you get podcasts. And we also have a YouTube channel, The Feelings Lab. Actually, I think the YouTube channel is Hume AI, and then we post content on The Feelings Lab there as well. CHAD: And you mentioned people can sign up now to be on the list for the Hume AI. DR. COWEN: So yes, if you are interested in building an empathic AI technology of any kind and you would like access to our voice models or face models, emotional language models, easy access, one-line API call for streaming or for files, pretty much any use case you might have, you can sign up for the waitlist at hume.ai. And we will be releasing a beta version of the platform over the next few months. CHAD: Cool. Well, if folks want to get in touch with you or follow along with you, where are the places where they can do that? DR. COWEN: Folks who want to get in touch, you can email hello@hume.ai for information about our solutions, offerings, the company, or you can reach out to me personally alan@hume.ai CHAD: Awesome. Alan, thank you so much for joining me. I really appreciate it. DR. COWEN: Thanks for having me. CHAD: You can subscribe to the show and find notes and transcripts for this episode at giantrobots.fm. If you have questions or comments, email us at hosts@giantrobots.fm. You can find me on Twitter at @cpytel. This podcast is brought to you by thoughtbot and produced and edited by Mandy Moore. Thanks for listening, and see you next time. ANNOUNCER: This podcast was brought to you by thoughtbot. thoughtbot is your expert design and development partner. 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Summary: This week on the Act To Live Podcast, Scott and Jaime dive into emotions. They asked each other, “How are you, really” and discover that by simply adding the word “really” at the end, we can encourage others to share some true feelings and emotions, which may be very helpful to learn more about each other and assist those in need. They next took some time to define what emotions are, where Scott asked Jaime to list as many emotions as she can. She does well, and lists 11 (perhaps 12, but the judge is still pondering this). They then discuss that there are upwards of 270 emotional words in the English language. This triggers a conversation about the importance of knowing how to explain our feelings and how that ties into Emotional Intelligence (EQ). They talk about some quotes from Justin Bariso's book, EQ Applied, and then finish with the Action Question/Even of week!  Feel the feels y'all! Action Event of the Week: List as many emotions as you may feel in any given day and see if you can describe what behaviors you are doing when you feel those emotions. Now rank which of the emotions you feel the most often to least often to the most often. Sit with this list and see if you would want to make any adjustments to the emotions you WANT TO FEEL. These actions may help to connect with our values, and who we are at the core. Check out ALL of our Action Events each Week to learn how to begin practicing psychological flexibility and being more you, TODAY!  Where do we walk to next?: On future Act To Live Episodes, we will walk through topics like your neurodiverse mind and the responsibility we have to support each other, along with empowering yourself to advocate for you!!! Come and walk with us! References: Lama and Paul Ekman. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001OC2W1I/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_PKVDHMF9ZKGQERWTHA50  Tchiki Davis. 271 Emotional Words. https://www.berkeleywellbeing.com/list-of-emotions.html  Justin Bariso(2018). EQ Applied: The Real World Guide To Emotional Intelligence. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RTC1NX5/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_250SBT54CHXYEQT2406R  Brene Brown (2021). Atlas of the Heart.  https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B097416CTT&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_N6SX49Z1RMYX80RH6K7Y&tag=mobilea0615b4-20