[Music] Do you know that your heart has a brain of its own. Yes, your heart has a brain. I mean it literally.Your heart has its own neural network about 40,000 neurons working independently of your brain. Scientists call it the intrinsic cardiac nervous system or more simply the little brain in the heart. The heartmat institute had discovered that the heart's magnetic field is about 60 times stronger than your brain.It's constantly communicating with your brain influencing your emotion, thoughts and also th ...

artificial general intelligence, super intelligence. Some of us are very excited about it. Some of us are very scared about it. And some of us are excited and scared about it.And I'm here to tell you that that is not going to happen now or any time in the foreseeable future. And I'm going to tell you why it is not going to happen. It is important that we know what machines can do and machines cannot do.It is also important for us to know what human beings can uniquely do and enable value for not just improv ...

Today I'm going to talk to you about instinct, intuition and how we make decisions. And it really matters because of course, the decisions we make have such a huge impact on our lives. And we know indecision is such a huge cause of suffering for people.A few years ago, one of my psychotherapy clients, for the sake of this talk, we will call him Steve, told me about his new relationship. He was in love. He felt so good about this new person he was seeing.He told me over and over again how he thought she woul ...

[Music] [Applause] [Music] On the last day of third grade, my babysitter introduced my little brother and me to Monopoly. It was the kind of Florida summer afternoon where playing outside felt like playing in an oven. So, she figured a board game would keep us entertained.The premise seemed clear. Buy properties, collect rent, bankrupt opponents. But whenever I trusted my instincts, I lost.Now, I realized Monopoly isn't just a game of luck or instinct. It's a master class on why data beats impulse on the bo ...

You know that feeling when you have an intuition about how things will turn out. And the more you think about it, the more confident you become. Just until the exact moment you realize you're not.That's intuition. And that's intuition failure. Intuition is safe, cozy, often helpful, yet sometimes can be a disaster.Let me give you an example I love. Imagine it's 1964 and you're standing in a chic art gallery in Sweden. You're surrounded by people gazing at paintings filled with bold, expressive strokes, dyna ...