How to Make Peace With Your Past (Stanford Psychologist)

He never met his father. At sixty, he began to find out who his father really was. In Episode 07 of Brain Behind the Book, we look at William Damon's A Round of Golf with My Father in plain English. The Stanford professor grew up believing his father went missing in the war. Decades later, a call from his daughter started a ten-year search. In 5 minutes you will learn what a life review is, how your brain may rewrite a memory each time you recall it, why Viktor Frankl's own title for his famous book was "Nevertheless, Say Yes to Life", and what Damon found about the father who left him. CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold open: the father he never met 1:14 The life review 1:58 Your brain rewrites the past 2:34 Nevertheless, say yes to life 3:19 The father he never knew 3:56 Brain, Heart, Hand Tell me in the comments: what is one turning point in your life that taught you something? Next time: The Power of Ideals, by William Damon and Anne Colby, and why your character is not fixed. Subscribe so you do not miss it. SOURCES William Damon, A Round of Golf with My Father: The New Psychology of Exploring Your Past to Make Peace with Your Present (Templeton Press, 2021) Q&A: William Damon on A Round of Golf with My Father, Hoover Institution (hoover.org/news/qa-bill-damon-round-golf-my-father) Nader, Schafe & LeDoux (2000). Fear memories require protein synthesis in the amygdala for reconsolidation after retrieval. Nature. doi:10.1038/35021052 Pennebaker & Beall (1986). Confronting a traumatic event: Toward an understanding of inhibition and disease. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. doi:10.1037/0021-843X.95.3.274 MyPaadashala. Brain Science for Better Life and Leadership. mypaadashala.org #MakePeaceWithYourPast #WilliamDamon #LifeReview #BrainBehindTheBook #MyPaadashala #BookSummary #ViktorFrankl #Memory #BrainScience #PersonalGrowth