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Perception podcasts

Below are the best podcasts we could find on Perception.

Perception is our ability and to receive, organize, and process information in a way that gives us understanding. Whether the information is sensory input (like sight, sound, or touch) or whether it is abstract concepts (such as a math problem), we each perceive things in a unique way based on our own history, experiences, and memories. Our powers of perception are the focus of many fields of study from science to mysticism, all of which are interested in unraveling the keys of how hour minds automatically try to fit new information into meaningful patterns, even if that information is incomplete or ambiguous. Understanding how our minds work can help us appreciate our hard-working brains—even when they get things wrong—and help us avoid common mistakes our brains make in our thought patterns.

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Is It Better to Know?

Being able to see what’s happening around us can help us make smart decisions. But knowledge — especially knowledge of how others perceive us — can also hold us back, mire us in needless worry, and keep us from achieving our potential.

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How They See Us

On the surface, the stereotypes that other people hold shouldn’t affect the way we think or act. But our concerns about other people’s perceptions have a way of burrowing deep into our minds. This week, social psychologist Claude Steele explains the psychology of “stereotype threat.”

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Talking with People about Things, with David McRaney

Host Michael Taft speaks with science journalist, author, and podcaster David McRaney about how people do (and do not) change their minds, how brains form their view of reality, conspiracy theory, the method of "technique rebuttal" vs.

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Evolving Ground with Rin’dzin Pamo and Jared Janes

Host Michael Taft speaks with Rin’dzin Pamo and Jared Janes about their new project, entitled “Evolving Ground,” which is a community of practitioners that seeks to reinterpret and revitalize Vajrayana practice in a contemporary Western context.

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Emptiness, Liberation, and Beauty – with Rob Burbea

In this episode host Michael Taft speaks with Rob Burbea about Rob’s book, Seeing That Frees, the power of perception (ways of seeing), his creative methods of working with meditation practice, meditating with a more analytical vs more phenomenological focus, how analytical meditation works,...

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