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Podcast: The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy
Episode: E60: Confidence & Why Your Beliefs Matter (with Professor Ian Robertson)
Description: Professor Ian Robertson is a neuroscientist and clinical psychologist, and Professor of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin. He is also known as a leading researcher as to how an individual may harness the attention system to enhance one's autonomy over emotions and thinking. He's the author of several books including: The Winner Effect: How Power Affects Your Brain, The Stress Test: How Pressure Can and Make you Stronger and Sharper and How Confidence works, the New Science of Self-belief. In today’s episode we discuss, the danger of over-emphasising the genetic influences on our psychology, how...