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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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    70: How to Discover Who You Are: An On-Air Session Jun 15, 2017
    Show notes

    Most people assume finding yourself is a spiritual or therapeutic journey. Dr. Lisle says it is something much more mechanical. Your identity is just the set of conditional relationships between you and the world, and the only way to map it is to go have experiences and watch your own nervous system react.

    In this live on-air session, a longtime listener named Dan brings Dr. Lisle a full picture of his life. He is 35, finishing a divorce, sharing custody of a young daughter, caught between traditional Korean-Christian family expectations and his own adventurous personality. Dr. Lisle walks him through the jukebox model of happiness, the Relationships Are Genetic framework, why you discover a partner rather than decide on one, and the uncomfortable truth about why your parents' advice on your mate choice is not actually aligned with your genetic interests.

    Key question covered: How do you find your identity and live according to it when your parents, your culture, and your past relationships all want you to be someone else?

    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


    69: Animal haters, Porn in LTR, Being a nicer person, Decision fatigue & Netflix Jun 08, 2017
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    1. If evolutionary psychology considers parental investment theory and the investment in kin as essential why do so many people in the West keep animals. 2. I used to get really upset when my partner watched . I have relaxed and now feel like it's not the worst thing he can do and will not end my relationship so I shouldn't get upset. What do you think? 3. Can a person's placing on the agreeability continuum be situational? I believe I am more or less disagreeable depending on the dynamics of different relationships. Is there anything a disagreeable person like me can do to Beat My Genes and become a nicer person. 4. Previously, you've mentioned the thing that matters for a woman's pair bond value is her physical attractiveness, and that the female is objectively 1 rating more attractive than the male, who comes with resources. I know a few couples where the male is significantly more attractive than the female, and in which the female has greater resources to offer than the male. This sort of pair bonding relationship should not happen according to you. What's going on here? 5. What can people do to defeat decision fatigue and overcome the allure of Netflix? I have a project that I've been slowly working on, but after work I'm too tired to work on it, and on weekends I'm so overwhelmed by decision fatigue about whether to do more pressing errands (cooking, creating a budget, shopping, etc) or devote time to my project that I end up neglecting everything. 6. You explained male homosexuality from an evolutionary psychology perspective, but what about female homosexuality? 7. Other than being the best renditions of our respective selves, what can one do to build up their perceived status in the village?


    68: Explaining enablers, dating with psychiatric disorders, and having grit Jun 01, 2017
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    Explaining enablers, dating with psychiatric disorders, and having grit


    67: About Dr. Lisle Part 2, Myths of Moderation when making health changes May 25, 2017
    Show notes

    Part 2 of Dr. Lisle's interview on Andrew Taylor's Spud Fit podcast. He disusses the Myths of Moderation along with the Ego Trap with regards to making healthy lifestyle changes.


    66: About Dr. Doug Lisle May 18, 2017
    Show notes

    We'll get to know a little more about how Dr. Lisle became a psychologist and how he learned about evolutionary psychology. This is Part 1 of a two-part interview. Stay tuned next week for part 2.


    65: Finding your edge in life May 11, 2017
    Show notes

    I'll read a follow-up email with one of our listeners. And some fun questions from our listeners this week as well. We will try to get to as many as possible.


    64: Dealing with a Micromanager - An On-Air session with Dr. Lisle May 04, 2017
    Show notes

    Most people assume a micromanaging boss is a control freak who needs to be put in his place. Dr. Lisle says that's exactly the wrong read. Your micromanager isn't a jerk, he's terrified, and the strategies your instincts are telling you to use will only make things worse.

    In this on-air session, a listener describes a new boss who demands daily itineraries, audits his expense reports over the weekend, and sends back his schedule with minutes allotted to every task. Dr. Lisle diagnoses the behavior as hyper-conscientiousness, the same circuitry that drives OCD and anorexia, and walks through a specific strategy: flood the circuit with data, de-escalate rather than push back, and plan the exit early before the golden handcuffs lock.

    Key question: How do you deal with a micromanager boss without losing your job or your sanity?

    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


    63: Marital jealousy, Distancing yourself, Self-limiting beliefs,and more... Apr 27, 2017
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    Question we will try to get to: 1. Is the concept of self limiting beliefs the same as ego traps in evo psych? Why do these occur? 2. My boyfriend and I are very nice people (very agreeable). Frustrating and funny at the same time. We have a problem figuring out what we want, since our first reaction is to please other people. But because we are not alone in the world, what happens a lot is that our decisions are made by others... We decided to try to have a baby. There is simply so much written and said on how to raise a child and even what's best for pregnant women. I'm panicking even just by looking down this hole. Since we are both highly conscientious as well, I'm afraid of falling into "read everything, talk to everyone, worry about advice that don't go well together and try to find the perfect solution". Your last shows sort of comforted me. If almost everything is in the genes, then I don't have to worry as much about bringing up a small child. So my two questions would be: Do you have any special advice for the first time parents? Do you have any sort of suggestions for dealing with relatives, friends, acquaintances for two agreeable parents like us? 3. How does Evo Psych examine dictators, group compliance & control, etc. through an evolutionary lens? Figures like Stalin, Hitler, Jim Jones, Chares Manson come to mind to name a few. Also, how would something like the door-in-the-face technique be explained through Ev. Psych? 4. In my circle of friends and family, it seems to me that those who identify as "Dog" people are skewed on the disagreeable side of the bell curve. While "Cat" people, are heavily skewed on the agreeable side of the curve. Is there any truth to this Cat/Dog person comparison, or is it a gross generalization?


    62: Making it to Date #2, Political Correctness, Self-Limiting Beliefs Apr 20, 2017
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    Listener questions we will try to get to for today: 1. For a successful first date, Dr. Lisle said the goal is to not get ruled out. I'm using online dating and it seems like every time that I've met a girl that meets my standards physically, we'll have a pretty good first date, but then when I try to set up another date I usually hear from them that they didn't feel a connection. Based on what you guys talk about in your podcast it leads me to believe that what they're saying is an inoffensive way of saying I wasn't physically attractive enough myself. But I remember Dr. Lisle mentioning in his advice for guys that we want to take advantage of the repeat exposure effect. How do I take advantage of this effect when I'm consistently told there's no connection from the woman after we've only gone out on one date. And as a side question, has online dating ruined the repeat exposure effect since people feel obligated to judge others for romantic potential very quickly. 2. Why does so much anger exist from groups like Black Lives Matter? What is the evolutionary psychology foundation for political correctness & why is it so pervasive? Why is it so difficult for people to accept political in-correctness without feeling angry or insulted? Is there a way to make someone less sensitive to political in-correctness? 3. What are men and women trying to signal with tattoos? What are women trying to signal by getting tattoos in non conspicuous locations, for example hidden behind the ear, or on the ankle. 4. Is the concept of self limiting beliefs the same as ego traps in evolutionary psychology? Why do these occur? 5. In his session with Olivia, Dr. Lisle alluded to the next phase dealing with disagreeable personalities, but he didn't get into the meat of it. I need the meat. Any chance you could expound?


    61: Marxism, Affairs, Video Games, Tattoo signaling Apr 13, 2017
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    Marxism, Affairs, Video Games, Tattoo signaling


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