Course Overview

Change your bad habits by changing your mind. Discover neuroscience-backed techniques to improve decision-making, break unhealthy patterns, and enhance wellbeing.

Taught by psychology professor Peter M. Vishton, these 24 lectures reveal:

✔️ How your subconscious drives decisions

✔️ Counterintuitive solutions to common challenges

✔️ Science-based methods to boost creativity and performance

✔️ Strategies to overcome procrastination, fear, and negative emotions

Video Lectures

01: Take Control of Your Automatic Brain (34 min)

Explore the gap between conscious intentions and subconscious actions.

02: Beat Procrastination by Doing Nothing (30 min)

Neurochemical roots of delay and 3 evidence-based anti-procrastination techniques.

03: Train Yourself like a Dog (32 min)

Behavioral psychology methods to rewire habits.

04: Clean Your Kitchen, Improve Your Diet (29 min)

How environment shapes eating behaviors.

05: Eat Slow, Eat Small, Eat Smart (28 min)

The hormones driving hunger and why exercise alone won’t lead to weight loss.

06: The Myth of Multitasking (31 min)

Why monotasking beats multitasking for productivity.

07: Future You and Better Decisions (32 min)

Overcoming the brain’s preference for instant gratification.

08: How to Become an Expert on Anything (31 min)

The neuroscience of deliberate practice.

09: Tune Up Your Brain with Meditation (31 min)

Evolutionary roots and cognitive benefits of meditation.

10: Take the Sleep Challenge (30 min)

Why 8 hours matters – the brain’s nighttime activities.

11: Boost Insights and Creativity (32 min)

Practical methods to enhance creative problem-solving.

12: Enhance Performance with Imagery (31 min)

How mental rehearsal improves physical skills.

13: Overcome Your Aging Brain (31 min)

Neuroprotective strategies to maintain cognitive vitality.

14: Grow Your Brain Out of Depression (33 min)

Science-backed approaches to combat mild depression.

15: Hack Your Brain to Unlearn Fear (33 min)

Step-by-step phobia reduction techniques.

16: Use Your Body to Alter Your Mind (33 min)

The smile effect: How physical actions influence emotions.

17: Suppress – Don’t Repress – Anger (31 min)

Neuroscience of emotional regulation.

18: How Little Things Cause Big Persuasion (31 min)

The reciprocity effect and scarcity tactics.

19: How Framing Changes Decisions (31 min)

Sales psychology: Foot-in-the-door vs. door-in-the-face techniques.

20: How Language Changes Your Brain (32 min)

How words unconsciously shape behavior.

21: How Your Brain Falls in Love (31 min)

Neurochemistry of romantic attraction.

22: The Neuroscience of Lasting Love (33 min)

Three brain systems for long-term commitment.

23: How Your Brain Creates Happiness (33 min)

Why money doesn’t buy happiness but time management does.

24: Happy Brains Are Smart Brains (35 min)

Actionable habits for lasting wellbeing.