Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2025-02-20
Books mentioned on How Your Brain Rewires, Makes Decisions, and Shapes Your Reality | Dr. David Eagleman | EP 523
Jordan Peterson discussed Incognito by David Eagleman and The Odyssey.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Incognito
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman is an engaging exploration of neuroscience that reveals the vast machinery of the human mind operating beneath the level of conscious awareness.
Discussed“I was reading let me just the secret Incognito The Secret Lives of the brain and you spend a fair bit of time in that book talking about perception”
Where to get it
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The Odyssey
The Odyssey by Homer is an epic ancient Greek poem that follows Odysseus on his long, perilous journey home after the Trojan War, remaining one of history's most influential foundational narratives.
Discussed“um just as a you remember ulyses odys was coming home from the Trojan War and realized he was going to pass the island of the sirens and he wanted to hear the song of the sirens but he knew that like any mortal man uh he'd crash into the rocks and die so you remember what he did he”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Incognito
“so what my book Incognito was about of course was that almost everything in the brain is happening unconsciously you just don't have any access to it and really no awareness or acquaintance with it either”
Plugged Livewired
“what's interesting by the way I talked about this in the brain plasticity course um and in my book live wir what's interesting is that given who you are and what you've already packed down into your Machinery that determines what is relevant to you for the next thing”
Plugged Livewired
“and um and in my book live wir what's interesting is that given who you are and what you've already packed down into your Machinery that determines what is relevant to you”
Ad read The Way of the Cross
“drawing from the profound writings of St Jose Maria esrea in the way you'll deepen your faith daily throughout Lent”
Plugged Inscriptions of the Iron Age
“well I I'm I'm running a couple of new books and um so one of them is called Empire of the invisible and this is about all the stuff that we don't see”