#1203 Nicole Karlis: Your Brain on Altruism
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Nicole Carly. She is a health and science journalist, and today we're talking about her book, Your Brain on Altruism, The Power of Connection and Community during times of crisis. So Nicole, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one.
Thank you, Ricardo. I'm so happy to be here. Great. So I mean Perhaps tell us first, what is the main argument of your book?
Mm-hmm. Yes. So the main argument of my book is that when we think about self-care, we often think about like doing something for yourself in a, you know, solitary way. But actually through nearly like eight years of research, interviewing psychologists, neuroscientists, sociologists, all different types of scientists, I found that actually the act of altruism being of service to others can help you build resilience. And in other words, it can be
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