Iain McGilchrist On The Paradox of Living, Finding Awe, and The Drivers of The Mental Health Crisis

Dr Iain McGilchrist is a former literature scholar at Oxford University before an interest in the mind and body led him to studying medicine, which paved the way for him to become a consultant Psychiatrist. Dr McGilChrist is an associate of Green Templteton College in Oxford, a fellow of the royal college of Psychiatrists, a fellow of the royal society of arts and Iain has also conducted neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Iain is the author of the Master and his Emissary, a book that I was recommended by Robert Greene. Recently Iain has his latest book; ‘’The matter with things’’, which took him 12 years to write and his almost 600,000 words. The equivalent to 6 PhD Thesis’. In this conversation today, Iain and I discuss the following: 00:00 - Hemispheric Differences 08:30 - The epidemic of mental illness 13:58 - Biohacking, Death & Finding Meaning 30:40 - Meditate On Your Mortality 40:45 - Don't Make Beautiful Things Explicit 46:00 - Know thyself or find flow? 53:30 - What To Do If you feel lost, hopeless and depressed 01:01:45 - Connect with Dr McGilchrist Links: Connect with Iain: https://channelmcgilchrist.com - (Buy the Matter with Things, and The Master and His Emissary here) https://fathomtrust.com Connect with us: Youtube.com/freedompact Instagram.com/freedompact twitter.com/freedompactpod TikTok.com/personaldevelopment Other: The paradox of cancer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6463REbh2HM Effect of exercise for depression: systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (Study that finds that Dance is highly effective at treating depression): https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/384/bmj-2023-075847.full.pdf