TopPodcast.com
Menu
  • Home
  • Top Charts
  • Top Networks
  • Top Apps
  • Top Independents
  • Top Podfluencers
  • Top Picks
    • Top Business Podcasts
    • Top True Crime Podcasts
    • Top Finance Podcasts
    • Top Comedy Podcasts
    • Top Music Podcasts
    • Top Womens Podcasts
    • Top Kids Podcasts
    • Top Sports Podcasts
    • Top News Podcasts
    • Top Tech Podcasts
    • Top Crypto Podcasts
    • Top Entrepreneurial Podcasts
    • Top Fantasy Sports Podcasts
    • Top Political Podcasts
    • Top Science Podcasts
    • Top Self Help Podcasts
    • Top Sports Betting Podcasts
    • Top Stocks Podcasts
  • Podcast News
  • About Us
  • Podcast Advertising
  • Contact
Not in our directory?
Add Show Here
Podcast Equipment
Center

toppodcastlogoOur TOPPODCAST Picks

  • Comedy
  • Crypto
  • Sports
  • News
  • Politics
  • True Crime
  • Business
  • Finance

Follow Us

toppodcastlogoStay Connected

    View Top 200 Chart
    Back to Rankings Page
    Health

    Beat Your Genes Podcast

    Evolutionary psychology with Dr. Doug Lisle, PhD and Nathan Gershfeld, D.C.

    Most psychology advice treats your brain like a broken machine. Beat Your Genes starts somewhere different: your instincts aren’t broken. They’re just optimized for a Stone Age environment that no longer exists.

    Dr. Lisle – Evolutionary psychologist, former Stanford lecturer, and co-author of The Pleasure Trap – has spent decades developing frameworks that explain human behavior from the ground up.

    Nathan Gershfeld, D.C. – trained first as an electrical engineer and then spent 14 years as a Doctor of Chiropractic. He brings a systems thinker’s curiosity to every conversation. He mostly lets Dr. Lisle talk.

    Topics include relationships and attraction, self-esteem, personality, depression and anxiety, willpower, the ego trap, and how pushy people exploit agreeable ones.

    380+ episodes. New episodes every other week.

    New here? Start at beatyourgenes.org/start-here

    Advertise

    Copyright: © BeatYourGenes.org. All Rights Reserved.

    • Apple Podcasts
    • Google Play
    • Spotify

    Latest Episodes:
    180: Subjective experiences, Downsides of overshooting evolutionary advantage Aug 01, 2019
    Show notes

    Dr. Lisle goes in depth about why nature has selected for subjective experiences. The question is as follows: What is your take on why a subjective experience would have been selected for, as opposed to animals simply being like machines with no subjective experience inside? More importantly, what is your take on how a subjective experience can possibly be created in the mind? How could neurons firing create a personal experience? Next, he tackles this broad few questions: Why were we given the intellectual capacity to overshoot our evolutionary advantage and create inventions that cause our demise? Why would our minds become so advanced to create a world where we live with and around multiple pleasure traps daily, where even the strictest, most conscientious of us will fall prey to decision fatigue and give in to a few of these traps, thus affecting our happiness? Why do they have the capacity to do this? It seems as though we would have been happier animals as a species with a little less intellect.


    179: Money & Esteem, Casual mating friends, Communication manipulation, LDR's Jul 25, 2019
    Show notes

    Questions tonight are as follows: Can you please talk about the relationship between money and self-esteem and how to learn to enjoy the money one makes? If women in one's social circles, acquaintances, friends, etc. seem receptive to casual mating, should we go for it without much worry, or is it bound to lead to future problems with them and the group? Why does it appear that people make so much up? (at least on TV when asked questions) Am I the oddball for feeling that when you've known someone for a long time, that means something? Is it because I'm low in openness and introverted?


    178: Stress of decision-making, Esteem choices Jul 18, 2019
    Show notes

    A recent study published in the Journal of Personality & Social Psychology* attempts to tackle understanding the stress of decision making. Nate G goes over the article and Dr. Lisle offers his take. Can the stress of decision making be explained solely by the personality trait conscientiousness? Dr. Lisle and Nate discuss. The next topic stems from a listener's question: "Can we choose who we want the most esteem from? Is there a way I can care less about the esteem from some people? It is sometimes exhausting to try to please everyone." *PDF of the JPSP article : http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/mayarossignacmilon/files/2018/08/Chen.Rossignac-Milon.Higgins.JPSP_.2018.pdf


    177: Does seeking validation hinder happiness? Role of evolutionary mismatch Jul 11, 2019
    Show notes

    In this episode, we review a new study in the science of happiness. The first, by Bruce Headey called, Happiness and Longevity: Unhappy People Die Young, Otherwise Happiness Probably Makes No Difference, explains what effect happiness has on our longetivity. The first listener question is from a young man whose short love life has allowed him to feel the moods of happiness while in a relationship. Since the most recent breakup, he feels as though he has low self-esteem and is curious about whether this low self-esteem is due to his need to seek validation from others. The next question is about evolutionary mismatch and whether happiness may come from correcting as many evolutionary mismatches as possible. To finish out the show, we have a live caller asking about how to fine tune his diet & lifestyle and get over the proverbial "hump" after losing some motivation.


    176: Behavioral Genetics, Hiding w status loss, getting ignored in class Jul 04, 2019
    Show notes

    We start the show with a question about whether a higher extroversion individual would act more introverted due to status loss. Then, we move on to a question about why & what to do when getting ignored or constantly interrupted in an academic setting. Then we move on to a quesiton about whether we have natural, genetic discipline and ambition. Dr. Lisle shares his opinion about a recent book, Blueprint by Robert Plomin.


    175:Ben Franklin effect, Burying feelings, Bottling up emotions, Internet trolls Jun 27, 2019
    Show notes

    Ben Franklin effect, Burying feelings, Bottling up emotions, Internet trolls


    174: Does casual mating doom pair bond chances? Evo psych & spiritual experience Jun 20, 2019
    Show notes

    Does casual mating doom pair bond chances? Evo psych & spiritual experience, sibling rivalry


    173: Being cheap, Loaning money, Alcoholic husband, Influencing others Jun 13, 2019
    Show notes

    Being cheap, Loaning money, Alcoholic husband, Influencing others


    172: Dating a Salesman: Why Relentless Pursuit Isn't Proof He's the One | On Air Session Jun 06, 2019
    Show notes

    Most dating advice tells women that if a man keeps pursuing you, he must really be into you. Dr. Lisle says that's exactly backwards when the man is a salesman. Salesmen are trained to not take no for an answer, and that same wiring shows up in how they chase sex. Relentless pursuit is evidence of strategy, not sincerity.

    In this on-air session with a 31-year-old caller named Jessie, Dr. Lisle walks through the two problems every health-conscious single woman faces: how to advertise her lifestyle without getting falsely rejected, and how to tell casual mating strategy from genuine pair bond interest. He unpacks why every male brain runs both programs, why cheaters are not the same thing as casual maters, and why a salesman's "I found the one" on date one should trigger the stop sign, not the green light. He also gives Jessie a brutal math lesson on how much fertile time she actually has left.

    Key question covered: How can a woman tell the difference between a man who is genuinely pair bond material and a casual mater running a convincing sales pitch?

    Beat Your Genes is co-hosted by evolutionary psychologist Dr. Doug Lisle, PhD and Dr. Nathan Gershfeld, DC.

    New episodes every other week.

    YouTube: youtube.com/@BeatYourGenes

    beatyourgenes.org

    Doug Lisle: esteemdynamics.com

    Nathan Gershfeld: fastingescape.com

    X: @BeatYourGenes

    Intro and outro: City of Happy Ones. Ferenc Hegedus. Licensed for use. Copyright Beat Your Genes Podcast


    171: Advice for an indecisive man, Advice for a teacher, Delusional friends May 30, 2019
    Show notes

    Advice for an indecisive man, Advice for a teacher, Delusional friends


    Previous 1 22 23 24 25 26 41 Next

    Related Podcasts

    The Joe Rogan Experience

    1

    The Joe Rogan Experience Comedy
    Casefile True Crime

    2

    Casefile True Crime Games & Hobbies
    Reply All

    3

    Reply All Games & Hobbies
    Good Life Project

    4

    Good Life Project Education
    Happier with Gretchen Rubin

    5

    Happier with Gretchen Rubin Health
    The Other F Word: Conversations About Failure

    6

    The Other F Word: Conversations About Failure Health
    footer-logo

    Contact Us

    Toll Free: 844-670-7747

    Links

    • Home
    • Top Charts
    • Networks
    • Apps
    • Independents Podcasts
    • Podcast Advertising
    • Podcast News
    • Contact Us
    • About Us
    • Analytics & Insights

    Stay Connected

      Privacy, Terms of Use & Our Code of Ethics Protecting Content Creators Copyrights