Dr. Pradnya Parasher
ThreeFish Consulting
If you have any interest in psychology and haven’t yet discovered this podcast by Shankar Vedantam, I highly recommend that you listen in. A few episodes and you are likely to get hooked, as I am.
My son introduced me to this podcast during a long, dreary, rainy drive on one of those boring Interstate Highways in the US. We were on a family vacation, the drive seemed endless, and we had pretty much exhausted our conversations with each other, at least for the time being. That’s when my son switched on this podcast. Driver’s privileges – he had total control on what we would listen to.
As the podcast website says – Hidden Brain explores the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior and questions that lie at the heart of our complex and changing world.
Every episode features a psychologist who is an active researcher / scientist, deeply studying a particular aspect of human psyche – whether it is emotions, relationships, creativity, or you want to dive deep into feelings of emptiness, depression, anxiety that seem to be the malaise of the modern world. The interviews are relaxed conversations and deepest of ideas are brought to us in a very easy to understand way. You will hear cognitive, social, clinical psychologists sharing powerful ideas. There are occasional sociologists and political scientists bringing insights about human behaviours in the larger societal context.
Start anywhere, listen to any episode and I know you will walk away with at least one new idea, insight or even a nugget of truth for you to reflect. https://hiddenbrain.org/
