On this episode, we chat about ideas from Chris’s new book, How to Calm Your Mind!

Topics covered include:

• How a calm mind can make us significantly more productive;
  
• How anxiety shrinks our cognitive performance;
  
• What calm actually is;
  
• How anxiety is a spectrum;
  
• How presence is the key to productivity, and how to find it;
  
• The “accomplishment mindset”;
  
• The various drafts of How to Calm Your Mind;
  
• How we need dopamine, and also how it can lead us astray;
  
• Our brain’s “acquisition mentality”;
  
• The three factors that influence the size of the dopamine hit we get from something;
  
• What “superstimuli” are and how they highjack our attention on a chemical level;
  
• How to balance time between the digital and analog worlds;
  
• The various types of chronic stress;
  
• The power science of “savoring” our lives.
  

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Book: How to Calm Your Mind
  

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