Modern Life Numbs You. Here’s The Neuroscience Of Waking Up

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Modern Life Numbs You. Here’s The Neuroscience Of Waking Up | Tali Sharot

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Modern Life Numbs You. Here’s The Neuroscience Of Waking Up | Tali Sharot

It’s so easy, especially these days, to numb out. To get bored. To move through life on autopilot. There is even a scientific term for this: habituation.

Sep 09, 2024

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Today we’re talking to a researcher who co-authored a new book about the neuroscience of habit and how to wake up again. To make things exciting. Or as she says, to “re-sparkle”.

Tali Sharot is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London and MIT. She’s written several books including The Optimism Bias and The Influential Mind. Her latest, co-written with Cass Sunstein, is called Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There.

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