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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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    02: Stepping Stones to Self-Esteem Feb 25, 2016
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    The self-esteem movement of the 1970s got one thing profoundly wrong. It treated self-esteem as a vitamin you give to yourself with affirmations in the mirror, and it told generations of parents to flood their kids with praise. Dr. Lisle argues the mechanism was never designed to be fooled that easily, and the people trying hardest to fake it are usually the ones suffering most.

    In this episode, Dr. Doug Lisle walks through the evolutionary architecture of self-esteem. He explains Mark Leary's sociometer research, why depression is a signaling device rather than a disease, the critical distinction between esteem and self-esteem, and his own concept of the internal audience. He lays out the three domains where humans compete for status (mating, friendship, trade), why self-esteem is domain-specific rather than global, and the exact fundamentals you can practice to raise the internal audience's regard on a daily basis.

    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


    01: Happiness vs. Pleasure : What is the goal of life? Feb 18, 2016
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    Most people assume life is about pursuing happiness. Dr. Lisle says that's not what your brain is actually built for. Your nervous system was designed to pursue pleasure and avoid pain, and happiness is a secondary guidance system that keeps you moving in the right direction. Confusing the two is one of the most consequential mistakes a person can make.

    In this first episode, Dr. Doug Lisle introduces the foundational framework behind Beat Your Genes: that all human behavior, at its root, is driven by gene reproduction, not happiness. He explains the difference between pleasure and happiness at the neurological level, why the Stone Age brain misfires in the modern world, and how the tension between pair bonding and casual mating strategy plays out in real relationships, including why good girls are wired to be attracted to bad boys.

    Key question covered: If happiness is not the goal of life, what is, and how do we use that knowledge to actually be happier?

    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


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