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Derren Brown's Boot Camp for the Brain

By: Derren Brown, Brian King
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Derren Brown gets into your brain...and reveals how to make it work better.

Do you ever make mistakes? Do you ever lose your temper and then immediately regret it? Are you impulsive? Do you make great plans which you fail to act on? Do you ever behave irrationally?

Don’t worry, it’s not your fault. Your brain is to blame. Extraordinary though it is, your brain is riddled with biases, blind spots and other cognitive weaknesses which can lead you seriously astray. But Derren Brown’s Boot Camp will help you tame your errant brain and fundamentally change the way you think.

In eight episodes, packed with gripping real life stories and cutting edge science, the series takes you into the deeper recesses of the mind, to reveal what’s going on, identify the bits which tend to go wrong and show you how to repair them. Along the way it discloses the secrets of some of Derren’s spectacular tricks of the mind.

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©2021 Derren Brown and Brian King (P)2021 Audible, Ltd Alternative & Complementary Medicine Psychology Psychology & Mental Health
Episodes
  • Ep 1: The Troublesome Brain

    Ep 1: The Troublesome Brain
    Feb 23 2021

    The cognitive story behind a simple act of aggression. How our brain is essentially stuck in the Stone Age, struggling to deal with the complexity and pressures of modern life. And how an ongoing battle between our twin cognitive systems - our fast and slow thinking brains - lies behind much that goes wrong in our lives.

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    29 mins
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  • Ep 2: The Illusion of Free Choice

    Ep 2: The Illusion of Free Choice
    Feb 23 2021

    We enter the Magic Lab, where science and magic meets. We explore how the brain is prey to a whole range of cognitive defaults and errors which impair our ability to make choices which are in our best interests. Derren reveals the mistakes our brains make, but also identifies ways to avoid them – including the cunning Decoy Effect, which causes excessive popcorn consumption.
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    32 mins
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  • Ep 3: What You See Is All There Is

    Ep 3: What You See Is All There Is
    Feb 23 2021

    Our brain is a machine for jumping to conclusions. Derren reveals how the Halo Effect, Anchoring and Confirmation Bias distort our ability to judge one another – when interviewing someone for a job for example. And nothing makes it more difficult for us to read each other than our powerful instinct to lie, and our equally instinctive tendency to believe.

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    32 mins
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excellent!!! learnt a lot. l will listen to the series again. highly recommended. a b

great series

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A wonderful listen and one the best presentations I have listened to in over a decade.
The narrator and author did an outstanding job of interweaving facts, practical applications and examples that
held my attention from beginning to end in one session.

Succinct and Oh so so interesting

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loved this podcast, was a great insight to how we think and the way our brains work. it makes you want to learn more.

Brilliant

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Informative and entertaining. Bite size chunks of knowledge that didn't overwhelm or turn to cliche

Excellent

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A must have in any ones library..Derrens delivery of dainty morsels in his delightful sarky tones opens up a world of insight of why we do what we know .
The 2 brains analytical insight is simply brilliant .

Flipping excellent listen , pay attention to all

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Boot camp for the emotions can be purchased but why not this and the other one in the series?!!!

Brilliant but why can't I buy this?

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Derren Brown captivates you as he narrates ways to strengthen your cognitive brain.
I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Awesome

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lEach episode is enjoyable and interesting. Well delivered and with useful tips.More please! Thanks Derren.

Fun and informative.

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Loved it. So many interesting concepts about the brain and how we perceive the world.
Especially liked hearing about cognitive biases and how they affect the way we make decisions.

Great listening.

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Easy to digest and great topics. 👍 Darren Brown is very clever and has a way of explaining interesting observations..

Great insights

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