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Most Replayed Moment: Anxiety Is Just A Prediction! Rewrite Old Stories and Build Emotional Safety

with Steven Bartlett

32m21 Nov 2025
Steven Bartlett

Episode Overview

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a Canadian-American neuroscientist renowned for her pioneering work on how the brain constructs emotion through prediction. In this Moments episode, she explains how the brain doesn’t simply react to the world but continually anticipates it, drawing on past experience to shape what we feel, perceive and fear. She reveals why anxiety is often a replay of old predictions - and how to rewire meaning and ease the learned patterns that keep us stuck.

Listen to the full episode here:

Spotify: https://g2ul0.app.link/nCVkRtwSrYb

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Watch the Episodes On YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/c/%20TheDiaryOfACEO/videos

Lisa Feldman Barrett: https://lisafeldmanbarrett.com/

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