![]() Yes, climate change needs cultural solutions now. One thing we can do is try to learn from religions, because they have been successful in harnessing collective actions that scientists would say are not in people’s rational self-interest, like giving up food, embracing lifelong chastity and other privations. Thinking about giving up cars and air-conditioning triggers fear in the primitive part of the brain but that’s not well-designed to deal with a profound tragedy of the commons. Hitting people with more and more data is just not moving the needle because they are not willing to pay today the cost for tomorrow’s danger. Losing Alaska: The debate about climate change is no longer about science, except the science of human behaviour. To ace the JEE exam, a student should repeatedly practise taking it. But if you take a skill that is encoded in procedural memory and start to think about it deliberately using working memory, you go back to thinking like a beginner, your reading of the field or your next play dips, you choke.Įxposure therapy where you mimic pressure situations and familiarise yourself with the anxiety-inducing trigger in advance, helps close the gap between training and competition. A lot of work we do from procedural memory, sort of on autopilot. Stage Fright: Human beings’ working memory is limited. In every episode he engages with experts and studies on a new topic, and sometimes the listener stops listening only because she is now chewing on her own experiences or relationships in fresh light. Such questions, the endless ways in which our unconscious mind affects our daily behaviour, are the subject of Hidden Brain, a podcast hosted by social science writer Shankar Vedantam. But what is going on inside the heads of those who choke under the pressure? The sport here is really as much mental as physical. If their performances were predicated on their past records, if we knew who is going to win and who is going to lose, we wouldn’t bother watching. ![]() Only the world’s top athletes are at the Olympic Games. ![]()
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