Minding the Mind with Jonathan Schooler: Meta Awareness, Creativity and Impact

Dear Rosewoman Community, 

Are you interested in how to engage your creativity and grow your mental flexibility, openness, and curiosity?

 

In today's episode, we invite you to listen to an enlightening conversation with Dr. Jonathan Schooler, head of The META Lab (Memory Emotion Thought Awareness) at UC Santa Barbara.

Dr. Schooler is a Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and the Acting Director of the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind at UCSB.  His research explores neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology. 

In this episode, we cover the following:

  • Mind-wandering and Daydreaming

  • Meditation and the Finding Focus App

  • Meta Awareness: Aware of Being Aware (and how it is measured)

  • Alcohol impacts awareness, creativity, inhibition, and the flow state.

  • Where Ideas Come From

  • Creative Emergence

  • Leisure, Creativity, and Productivity.

And more!

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