Better ideas create better lives.Freedom Pact is in pursuit of human potential. Through long-form conversations with leading scientists, philosophers, clinicians, economists, authors and innovators, each episode explores the ideas and discoveries that help us think more clearly, understand ourselves more deeply, and build a better future.Past guests include: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Andrew Huberman, Robert Greene, Richard J. Davidson, Paul Bloom, Peter Singer, Anna Lembke, Bessel van der Kolk, Iain McGilchrist, Daniel Goleman, Shawn Achor, Wendy Suzuki and Robert Sapolsky.
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#436: Dr. Roger Seheult - The 8 Pillars For Better Health & Preventing Sickness
Sep 22, 202651 min
Dr. Seheult is quadruple board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care Medicine, and Sleep Medicine through the American Board of Internal Medicine. In this episode, we discuss: 00:00 How much control do we have over getting sick? 05:09 NEWSTART: The eight pillars of health 06:07 Are some health pillars more important than others? 07:02 Water, hydration and the immune system 11:27 Cold exposure, heat therapy and hormesis 14:47 Morning sunlight and the body clock 19:32 Does morning light work on cloudy days? 21:05 Light-meter apps and daylight lamps 22:47 When to get outside for morning light 24:06 Getting daylight without staring at the sun 25:30 Sunlight’s effects beyond vitamin D 28:33 Balancing sunlight benefits with skin cancer risks 34:12 Night shifts, circadian rhythms and meal timing 40:05 Indoor versus outdoor exercise 41:04 Designing hospitals around sunlight and fresh air 44:48 Why hospitals are rethinking their design 46:26 The future of healthcare 47:49 Photometabolism: New research on light and mitochondria 50:07 Where to find Roger’s work DISCLAIMER: The content provided by the Freedom Pact Podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Our content is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on our social media or other platforms. Always consult a medical expert before making any adjustments to your treatment plan. Connect with Roger here: https://www.medcram.com/ Links: https://freedompact.co.uk/newsletter (Healthy, Wealthy & Wise Newsletter) https://www.Instagram.com/freedompact https://ww.twitter.com/freedompactpod Email: freedompact@gmail.com
#435: Professor George Loewenstein - Why You’re Not Designed to Be Happy
Sep 19, 20261h 21m
George Loewenstein is the Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Economics and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University and one of the founders of behavioural economics and neuroeconomics. Across more than four decades of research, his work has transformed our understanding of how emotions, visceral states and psychological forces shape human judgement and behaviour. He has published more than 300 academic articles and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Loewenstein argues that evolution is concerned with survival and reproduction, not our happiness, and that many of the emotions we most want to escape, such as anxiety, envy, loneliness, boredom, regret and misery, exist because they motivate behaviour. Happiness, by contrast, may be something we encounter rather than something we can successfully pursue.We explore why pursuing happiness can paradoxically make us less happy; why modern technology may be making us increasingly intolerant of boredom; and Professor Loewenstein’s influential theory of the hot-cold empathy gap. That is, why the person we become when angry, afraid, sexually aroused, addicted or distressed can behave in ways our calmer self struggles to predict or understand.We also discuss why misery can become self-reinforcing; loneliness, depression and mood-dependent memory; whether psychology has overestimated the power of self-awareness; why understanding ourselves does not necessarily change us; Loewenstein’s own experiences of low mood; and what hundreds of people revealed to him when he asked them about the sources of misery in their lives.Later, George reflects on being the great-grandson of Sigmund Freud, why he spent much of his career trying to escape that intellectual inheritance, and the strange ways in which Freud’s interests eventually resurfaced in his own experimental research. Timestamps:00:00 — Why evolution did not design us to be happy04:26 — Is happiness actually worth pursuing?07:46 — Happiness vs meaning: what should we pursue instead?09:36 — Why happiness never seems to last11:00 — Are smartphones making us more bored?13:38 — The empathy gap: why emotions transform our behaviour20:35 — Why heartbreak, grief and misery feel like they will last forever23:49 — Does understanding our emotions actually help us control them?28:08 — How to protect yourself from your future emotional self31:47 — Why misery becomes self-reinforcing32:44 — How loneliness and depression can trap us37:00 — Choking under pressure and becoming a victim of your own mind40:15 — Has psychology overestimated self-awareness?45:25 — Why George wrote The Opposite of Happiness48:55 — What 500+ people revealed in the “Misery Survey”52:06 — What George’s own experience of low mood taught him59:23 — Being Sigmund Freud’s great-grandson1:00:51 — Why George spent his career trying to escape Freud1:04:59 — How Isaac Newton became a victim of his emotions1:07:24 — Can hope actually make suffering worse?1:14:15 — Why giving up hope can sometimes be liberating1:16:13 — What does a well-lived life actually look like?1:18:54 — Where to find George LoewensteinConnect with us:https://freedompact.co.uk/newsletterhttps://www.instagram.com/freedompactpodhttps://www.twitter.com/freedompactpodEmail: freedompact@gmail.comhttps://www.tiktok.com/@personaldevelopmentConnect with Professor George Loewenstein:George’s website:https://oppositeofhappiness.com/George’s Carnegie Mellon University profile:https://www.heinz.cmu.edu/faculty-research/profiles/loewenstein-georgeGeorge’s academic page and research:https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/sds/people/faculty/george-loewenstein.htmlGeorge’s new book: The Opposite of Happiness: How Bad Feelings Make and Break Us:Official book website:https://oppositeofhappiness.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsmtcQ_39PQ&feature=youtu.be
#434: Professor Dan Siegel - The Myth of the Separate Self
Sep 16, 20261h 11m
Dr Dan Siegel is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist, award-winning educator, executive director of the Mindsight Institute and founding co-director of UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, he trained at UCLA in paediatrics and adult, adolescent and child psychiatry, and later specialised in attachment research and narrative analysis. Dr Siegel is the author of five New York Times bestsellers and more than fifteen other books translated into over forty languages, and as founding editor of the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology, he has overseen the publication of more than one hundred books developing this transdisciplinary framework for understanding the mind and mental health. At the heart of this conversation is a deceptively simple question. What is the mind? Dr Siegel challenges the conventional idea that the mind is simply something the brain produces, arguing instead that it emerges through the body, our relationships and the wider systems in which we live. We explore why he believes integration may be a fundamental principle of mental health; what attachment actually builds in the developing brain; how our sense of self and identity emerges; why the self may not end at the boundaries of the body; what trauma, chaos and rigidity have in common; whether radically different forms of psychotherapy might ultimately work through a shared underlying process; consciousness and the strange relationship between possibility and actuality; and what Siegel believes forty years of studying the human mind can teach us about living well. This is a conversation about a profound possibility. That is, that understanding who we are, and recognising that we may be far less separate than we imagine, could change not only how we understand mental health, but how we relate to ourselves, one another and the world.TIMESTAMPS00:00 — The question behind Dan Siegel’s life’s work: Who are we?03:23 — What actually is the mind?04:32 — Why the mind is bigger than the brain12:50 — Challenging neuroscience’s assumptions about the mind16:00 — Integration: the organising principle of a healthy mind24:11 — The nine domains of integration30:05 — Why integration—and not intelligence or resilience?30:39 — Complex systems, physics and the mathematics of the mind40:33 — How does a human being become a “self”?41:59 — Consciousness, identity and the strange nature of who we are48:02 — Why the self does not end with the individual50:23 — What attachment actually builds in the brain54:59 — What if we have misunderstood mental illness?57:03 — Do all successful therapies work through the same underlying process?59:25 — The limits of interpersonal neurobiology1:00:31 — Why humans create so much division and suffering1:07:28 — Can ideas really change the world?1:08:39 — The most important lesson from 40 years studying the mind1:09:21 — Where to find Dan SiegelConnect with us:https://freedompact.co.uk/newsletter (Healthy, Wealthy & Wise Newsletter)https://www.Instagram.com/freedompactpodwhttps://ww.twitter.com/freedompactpod Email: freedompact@gmail.com https://Tiktok.com/personaldevelopmentConnect with Dr Siegel:Website: https://drdansiegel.com/Wheel of Awareness — free guided practices:https://drdansiegel.com/wheel-of-awareness/Mindsight Institute: https://mindsightinstitute.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drdansiegel/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrDanSiegelYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@drdansiegel-MYBDan’s Wheel of Awareness page includes the basic 20-minute practice, full 30-minute practice and shorter consolidated practice.Dan's new book:The Mindful Therapist, published 20 October 2026:https://drdansiegel.com/book/the-mindful-therapist-an-interpersonal-neurobiology-approach-to-healing-and-wholeness-2nd-edition/
#433: Dr. Peter Salerno - How Narcissists & Psychopaths Actually Think
Sep 14, 202655 min
Dr. Peter Salerno is a licensed psychotherapist, author, and educator specialising in personality pathology, trauma, and clinical psychology. The Difference Between Narcissists & Psychopaths 00:00 How a Narcissists Studies You 04:00 What They Teach us About Human Nature 06:15 Are Some People Born Narcissistic? 09:20 The Narcissist’s Offence Mechanisms 11:50 How They Chose Their Victims 16:20 Is AI Chat Boys Fuelling Narcissistic Supply? 23:00 Inside The Mind of A Psychopath 28:00 Who Can’t They Control? 31:40 What Happens When Two Narcissists Meet? 36:00 How They Establish Psychological Control? 37:30 Can A Narcissist Change? 43:00 How Studying Narcissists & Psychopaths Changed Peter’s Outlook 51:00 What Makes Life Worth Living? 52:00 Disclaimer:Dr. Peter Salerno is a licensed psychotherapist in California. All content shared here is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute therapy, diagnosis, or clinical advice.Connect with us: https://freedompact.co.uk/newsletter (Healthy, Wealthy & Wise Newsletter) https://www.Instagram.com/freedompactpod https://x.com/freedompactpod Email: freedompact@gmail.com
#433: Dr. Peter Salerno - How Narcissists & Psychopaths Actually Think
Sep 1, 202655 min
Dr. Peter Salerno is a licensed psychotherapist, author, and educator specialising in personality pathology, trauma, and clinical psychology. The Difference Between Narcissists & Psychopaths 00:00 How a Narcissists Studies You 04:00 What They Teach us About Human Nature 06:15 Are Some People Born Narcissistic? 09:20 The Narcissist’s Offence Mechanisms 11:50 How They Chose Their Victims 16:20 Is AI Chat Boys Fuelling Narcissistic Supply? 23:00 Inside The Mind of A Psychopath 28:00 Who Can’t They Control? 31:40 What Happens When Two Narcissists Meet? 36:00 How They Establish Psychological Control? 37:30 Can A Narcissist Change? 43:00 How Studying Narcissists & Psychopaths Changed Peter’s Outlook 51:00 What Makes Life Worth Living? 52:00 Disclaimer:Dr. Peter Salerno is a licensed psychotherapist in California. All content shared here is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute therapy, diagnosis, or clinical advice. Connect with us: https://freedompact.co.uk/newsletter (Healthy, Wealthy & Wise Newsletter) https://www.Instagram.com/freedompactpod https://x.com/freedompactpod Email: freedompact@gmail.com
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