They sometimes disagree and they focus on completely different things. Lizard brain only cares that you stay alive.So it controls your breathing, heartbeat, digestion.
had not been done before and that was going to be uh where lizard but then it ends up being a disc after you have to um reimagine it so
deal yeah exactly you know so it was really nice and they flew you know it was like unbelievable going to like lizard Island and you know like lunch it was crazy it was like this crazy thingbut um so in the end the whole trip was basically I would tweet from you know
Nobody would finance the movie, basically because we weren't stars. Broken Lizard was basically about to break up. We packed up our office.
to this flashy prefrontal cortex, that we differ the most from our closest ancestors in this part of the brain. And lizards have basal ganglia, so how sophisticated might it be? I think the-- so what the basal ganglia do, so the basal ganglia are a series of nuclei that live right in the middle of the brain,
is a the the frontman of a of a very beloved progressive rock band, uh King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. And they took their music off Spotify in protest of Spotify funding uh a the their founder funding a defense company.
And it is-- I use shorthand for it-- our lizard brain. It's not literally lizard brain, but our limbic systems are a big part of it. We need to, in so many areas of life, apply our reflective thinking.
they're responsible for. The oldest areas of the brain can be grouped in so-called pallium reptilian complex just there at the bottom of the brain, or also called lizard brain, for short. A newer addition to it is called pallium mammalian brain or mammal brain, in short, which is just in the middle of the brain there.
Let me use a metaphor of those really simple vehicles to illustrate how much energy those different centers need. Imagine the lizard brain is like one of those annoying Vespas. It's always active, and it doesn't need much energy to be on, so lizard brain centers are active day and night to make sure that your vital organs are
We have common terns in Israel. And this lizard was giving me quite a show.
I think that's probably fairly self-evident coming into Google to talk about that. So the lizard brain is the amygdala.
I think that's probably fairly self-evident coming into Google to talk about that. are because the lizard brain is having some big response to it.
I think that's probably fairly self-evident coming into Google to talk about that. So recognizing that that lizard brain is often going to try and sabotage.
I think that's probably fairly self-evident coming into Google to talk about that. Also just overrides that lizard brain thinking of like, oh, I'm not capable.
Every time you hear a rustling, you're going to kind of imagine that there's a snake there. If a lizard darts across, you're probably going to think it's a snake for a while. That's an illusion. It's also unpleasant.
And I was like, OK, what if instead we make five $20-million movies and we'll put some up-and-comers in it, like Broken Lizard ? And you know, whatever, we'll make some cheaper movies and we'll be able to make more of them and we'll make them more quickly.
had not been done before and that was going to be uh where with a sort of lizard like spaceship so
them for and modern snakes are still shaping our lives in the way in which we even have a lizard diabetes drug all
You're lucky enough to not have to worry about attacks from predators. But the lizard brain thousands of years ago evolved to stay busy, constantly switched on. And bless it's cotton socks, it needed to do that, because if it switched off for one minute, you'd get eaten, correct?
It just happened to happen to me. But I watched my lizard voice in action. I was walking up the ramp.
What happens is most of us fuse with our lizard voice. We think our lizard voice is this font of wisdom, and we listen to it. What we need to do is learn to actually defuse from it.
I can't believe I'm doing this. That's just your lizard voice. It doesn't know what it's talking about.
And that's the other thing. Laughing at your lizard , writing it down and seeing what it says tends to make you go actually why would I think that? So that's another way of defusing from the lizard .
And you are looking down down down down, and you're about to dive into a pool of toxic sludge. Quiet the lizard . Defuse the lizard .
And you are looking down down down down, and you're about to dive into a pool of toxic sludge. Quiet the lizard . Excellent.
And you are looking down down down down, and you're about to dive into a pool of toxic sludge. Be aware of the lizard .
are sensitive. They're wet. And this lizard basically pulls up the shades. And it does it in a way that predators would think that they were still being watched.
This is on the 600 mile Bibbulmun Track. You see that big lizard . The southwest corner of Australia, so just beneath Perth-- yeah, big spiders.
There's a badge reader over by the door. Is he a lizard or something?
It's the ancient lizard part of your primordial brain.
where someone wrote in lizard people for all of his votes. This led to one of the most
And the smaller ones have adapted the ability to run on two legs to elude predators. And then the bigger lizards that chase those lizards run on two legs, kind of like a miniature Jurassic Park happening all across the California desert, which to me was so fascinating.
And there were lizards and there were gorgeous birds, and it was steamy, and there were all these cool-- probably not as exotic to you-- but palm plants and stuff.
There are a few lizards and some insects that are able to walk across the surface of water, but not many.
Then he was into lizards , and of course, the story better center around him changing color so that he could defend himself or scare people away.
But if you look at a lizard , particularly if you look at something like a crocodile, you see this massive, massive block of muscle sitting on the first
What could go wrong with that possibly? And that's catering to the lizard brain, right? That is what could go wrong with it, is that you are-- those eyeballs and those clicks and those likes are driven by our lizard brains.
the good parts of the internet. If it's learning it off lizard -brain humans, we're screwed.
And wrote all these films from Broken Lizard .
She had that. And yet her lizard was telling her otherwise. I actually was able to watch my lizard voice in action a year or two ago. And I have to say, this story makes me sound way cooler than I actually am.
And everyone will forever know you as the singer who completely fluffed up the Rolling Stones concert. So this is what our lizard voice does. It feeds us lies to keep us safe and small and hidden.
So I have three tips for your. First one relates to the lizard voice. These tips are around building confidence, success, energy in the workforce.
Tip number one. Quiet the lizard . We need to quiet that lizard . Feel free to take notes if this is useful.
together. But before I do that, I'm going to tell you a story. So everybody can see this lizard that's on the screen. This is a baby desert iguana.
You want to be a lizard ?
I wish I was a lizard .
And how we can let the lizard relax by doing these breaths and then the mind and can work in a more sharp way.
Chris: Guys like Jay Chandrasekhar from Broken Lizard .
And you know seeing the lizard that -- Larry the lizard , who waits for us every day at our compost thing. I believe it's the same guy.
I'm a behavioral scientist. So my ears perked up when you were talking about lizard brain and in-group bias and negativity bias and all of these things that both make us hardwired for generosity and struggle to access that hard wiring.