Become a modern Machiavelli | Robert Greene on power

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Published 2021-12-13
Part 1 of an exclusive How To Academy talk. Watch part 2 here:    • Anger is a good motivator | Robert Gr...  

Drawing upon more than 20 years of research into anxiety and the addictive behaviour it drives, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr Judson Brewer joins us in an exclusive How To Academy talk, with a solution-oriented way to calm our agitated brains and regain focus.

Judson Brewer MD, PhD, is an internationally renowned addiction psychiatrist and neuroscientist. He is an associate professor in the School of Public Health, and Medical School at Brown University. His 2016 TED talk, A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit, has been viewed over 16 million times. He has trained Olympic athletes and coaches, government ministers and business leaders. His first book, The Craving Mind, was published in over 16 languages.

On YouTube, his appearances on TED (A simple way to break a bad habit), TEDx Talks (You’re already awesome, just get out of your own way), Rich Roll (Breaking bad habits, a neuroscientist on unwinding anxiety), Tom Bilyeu (behavioural neuroscientist shows you how to break the coronavirus anxiety cycle), Lewis Howes (All successful people break these bad habits), Palouse Mindfulness (Measuring Mindfulness), and his own channel DrJud (5 Finger breathing, everyday addictions, understanding coronavirus anxiety) have amassed tens of millions of views combined.

Matthew Stadlen is a broadcaster, writer and regular How To Academy host. Previously he was an LBC presenter, wrote The Matthew Stadlen Interview for the Telegraph and presented the TV series Five Minutes With and On The Road With for the BBC. He is a birdwatcher and photographer, and his book How To See Birds is out now. Twitter: @matthewstadlen
All Comments (21)
  • @lebmc2148
    I think it's funny that people believe 48 Laws of Power is evil. All he did was identify, and specifically point out social behaviors we develop naturally.
  • @smhollanshead
    What Robert Greene is not telling you is: embrace failure when failure occurs. There is no shame with failure. With failure, replace shame with learning. Learn every time you fail. While victory and success is the great healer, failure is the great teacher.
  • @jims6274
    Great interview. You did well to let the guest do the talking, while maintaining a focus on the topics and questions.
  • @fotobea
    I had about the same amount of Jobs and I am 38… Robert as understand. The life is just about to begin for me.🙂
  • @raginald7mars408
    ... as a German Biologist - from my own experience - this is about intense Inner Strength training develop the mental RADAR to detect from afar and RUN fast
  • @petyrbaelish8291
    Eish..watching this late....I always wanted to ask Robert greene questions
  • @martinchoo3949
    Thanks for this, very stimulating. The description is on Judson Brewer not Robert Greene though
  • @ladymarycrawley6613
    Failure isn't a good thing necessarily, it's an 'opportunity' to convert it into a good thing. Everyone who comes across failures doesn't learn. Ie. If you open an business and it flops you automatically don't learn anything, not a single thing, unless you introspect and understand what the shortcomings were (the common reaction is to blame others, partners, business climate, etc and repeat the same mistake, since you're patterns are more primal unless you learn from your mistakes and turn a new leaf)
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  • @diannerussell9653
    I have always been perplexed with the human nature. One of the questions I ask myself when I see an injustice done to someone or me I always ask myself why. Why dose it have to be this way with them. I know that we have a built in survival mechanism Darwin explains this quite well you see it in the animal kingdom as well to dominate strive and conquer.However human beings do it at the expense of other human beings where we really should all be trying to get along love is the key. I feel it’s a very hostile planet it doesn’t have to be this way I have a feeling that humans are their worst enemy we seem to be always on the brink of being paranoid about who is going to use the latest diabolical nuclear weapon. I don’t know if there was a Jesus there could’ve been a man like Jesus there could’ve been many Jesus type people in the world however there are some good keys to follow in the New Testament. The biggest commandment of all is to love your neighbour as an extension of yourself and that’s everybody. Greed and the pursuit for things and money and pleasure when you’re not taking care of your neighbour and you have the attitude of I’m okay Jack and I don’t care about you is the reason why this world is in the shit. People seem to want to use each other for a purpose instead of loving each other and nurturing each other. I do believe in honesty you have to speak from the heart and not pretend to be something you’re not harking back to Jesus comments he didn’t let anybody push him around and he did tell people off when he needed to and he did lose his temper more than once.😊
  • @DJK-cq2uy
    English boy and blonde brain surgeon open up what's really important