And yet when the time comes I often don't make healthy choices. I tell myself I'm going to make time every day to follow an exercise regimen I tell myself I'm going to eat healthy every day. Vedantam: Well, for example, I tell myself that I'm going to exercise regularly. Zender: What something that you would say you're amazed that your mind does? And so to discover that there were whole sections of my mind that actually operate outside of my conscious awareness and that I have in many ways values and judgments that are completely at odds with my conscious values and judgments was a scary idea and I'm fascinated by that idea and in many ways my continuing interest in the subject reflects the fact that I continue to be amazed at all the things that our minds do. I think of myself as being very rational and deliberate person. Vedantam: I have to say that it stems from the fact that I am constantly amazed at my own mind and the fact that my own mind doesn't quite behave the way that I expect it to behave. Zender: And what got you first interested in doing this type of reporting? And the idea that a large portion of how our minds work is hidden from us is unconscious is really sort of the premise of the book and the podcast that I've been doing for NPR the last year. Everything that it shapes everything from how we see the world to how we make judgments to how we feel about things.
Vedantam: Well Hidden Brain is the title of a book I wrote a few years ago, but it's also a term that I use to describe this world of unconscious activity that happens inside our head all the time. So for those who don't know what it is, what is Hidden Brain? KCBX's Bree Zender sat down with Shankar Vedantam, Hidden Brain's host and creator, to talk about making the podcast.īree Zender: Welcome to the program, Shankar. There's several new episodes coming out this fall. NPR's hit podcast, Hidden Brain, explores the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior.
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