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    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

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    Latest Episodes:
    150: How to deal with a micro-managing boss - an on-air session (replay) Jan 03, 2019
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    How to deal with a micro-managing boss - an on-air session


    149: Shy vs bold men, Getting away from a narcissist, Is there a utopia? Dec 27, 2018
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    Shy vs bold men, Getting away from a narcissist, Is there a utopia?


    148: Forgiving and letting go, Lonely older single women, Shy vs bold men Dec 20, 2018
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    Forgiving and letting go, Lonely older single women, Shy vs bold men


    147: Effects of long-term marijuana, Spousal abuse, can severe OCD be beaten? Dec 13, 2018
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    Effects of long-term marijuana, Spousal abuse, can severe OCD be beaten?


    146: Broccoli Binges, Mate Value, and the Mathematization of Misery | Live caller Dec 06, 2018
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    Most people assume that binging only happens with junk food, that we crave what we can't have because scarcity makes things magical, and that playing hard to get will raise your perceived value. Dr. Lisle says none of that is quite right. Your satiation system, your attraction system, and your status system are all running objective evaluations underneath, and most popular advice in these areas misreads what is actually happening.

    In this episode, Dr. Lisle unpacks the two satiation mechanisms behind food cravings, introduces his concept of HCNCs (hyperconscientious nut cases), explains why mate value is far more objective than people admit, and lays out the fish trick and its very real limits. A live caller named Stephanie then brings a difficult situation to the show involving grief, a new pregnancy, and extended family in Utah, and Dr. Lisle walks her through boundary strategy, the "you're not a tree" principle, and the mathematization of misery.

    Key question covered: Why do we want what we can't have in relationships, and does playing hard to get actually increase our perceived value?

    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

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    Doug Lisle: esteemdynamics.com

    Nathan Gershfeld: fastingescape.com

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


    145: It's Always an Esteem Problem: Dr. Lisle on Holiday Food Fights, Ego Traps, and Family Estrangement | Live caller Nov 29, 2018
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    Most people believe self-esteem is something you talk yourself into. Stand in front of the mirror, repeat affirmations, tell yourself you're enough. Dr. Lisle says that's nonsense. Self-esteem is a reputation mechanism, and the only audience whose opinion you can actually move is the one inside your own head.

    In this episode, Dr. Doug Lisle walks through four real listener dilemmas, from holiday food-shaming at family dinners to a 29-year-old fitness influencer trapped by her own Instagram abs, to a sister furious at her brother for smoking weed, and finally a live caller whose adult daughter has cut her off from her own grandchildren. Dr. Lisle unpacks his Esteem Dynamics framework: the ego trap, the internal audience, pseudo esteem versus self-esteem, flooding the circuit, and why disagreeable personalities cannot be argued with, only managed.

    Key question covered: How do you build real self-esteem when external validation keeps failing you?

    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


    144: Gaining your edge in life (replay) Nov 22, 2018
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    Gaining your edge in life (replay during the holiday)


    143: Restriction/binges? Healthy mom pushing health on family, 2 callers Nov 15, 2018
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    Restriction leads to binges? Healthy mom wants her family to eat healthy. 2 callers: Girlfriend has a question about her boyfriend. Parent asks about child's grades and about genetic determinism.


    142: Why do boys pick on girls, giving gifts, people you dislike Nov 08, 2018
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    Why do boys pick on girls, giving gifts, people you dislike


    141: Facial cues, Guess the personality, non-food potential pleasure traps Nov 01, 2018
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    Facial cues, Guess the personality, non-food potential pleasure traps


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