The Predictive Brain
🎙️ Your brain doesn't record reality. It predicts it. Dr. Pedram Shojai unpacks predictive processing, the neuroscience showing that the brain constantly generates a model of what it expects to happen and treats sensory input only as error signals to correct that model. Drawing on Karl Friston, Li…
Live Fully By Facing Mortality
🎙️ What would shift in you if you knew, with total certainty, that you had one year left to live? Dr. Pedram Shojai opens with that question and a personal story from Varanasi, where he witnessed cremation rituals on the Ganges. Drawing on Ernest Becker, Irvin Yalom, and Dacher Keltner alongside T…
My 100-Day Gong Is Done: The Real Science of Keeping Your Word
🎙️ Day 100. Dr. Pedram Shojai marks the completion of his personal 100-day gong and uses the milestone to unpack what actually happens when someone commits to a daily practice for 100 consecutive days. He debunks the popular myth that habits form in 21 days, traces it back to a 1960s plastic surge…
Why Sleep Is Your Most Important Health Practice
🎙️ You spend roughly a third of your life asleep, and most of us treat it as dead time after the real day ends. Dr. Pedram Shojai turns that framing around. Sleep is not your brain going offline. It is a distinct mode of consciousness doing work no waking state can replace. He walks through the sc…
Perfectionism Is Not a Personality Trait
🎙️ One more revision, one more check, and the thing that matters just sits there. Dr. Pedram Shojai reframes perfectionism not as a personality trait or a badge of high standards, but as an adaptive response to an environment where love and safety felt conditional. He walks through the research li…
Loneliness Is Not a Mood: Why Being Known Is a Biological Necessity
🎙️ How many people in your life genuinely know you? Not like you, not admire you, but actually know you? Dr. Pedram Shojai unpacks the science of loneliness and why it is one of the most dangerous states the human body can live in. Drawing on John Cacioppo, Julianne Holt-Lunstad, and Naomi Eisenbe…
The Dopamine Trap: Your Phone Is a Slot Machine
🎙️ Why do you keep picking up your phone, scanning it, and putting it back down without feeling any better? Dr. Pedram Shojai breaks down the dopamine trap: how dopamine drives wanting rather than liking, and how technology built on slot machine design keeps your reward system firing without ever …
Decision Fatigue Is Not a Character Flaw, It's Architecture
🎙️ Somewhere between 4 and 7 PM, simple questions start to feel heavy, patience runs thin, and small frustrations trigger outsized reactions. Dr. Pedram Shojai calls it decision fatigue and argues it is not a character flaw but a measurable, neurobiological result of how modern life spends your co…
The Fear of Boredom Is the Fear of Your Own Mind
🎙️ What happens when you stop reaching for the phone and simply sit with nothing? Dr. Pedram Shojai explores the surprising science of boredom and why it is not the absence of something but a motivational signal worth listening to. Drawing on John Eastwood, Sandi Mann, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, a…
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