What can you learn about your own brain – from lobsters?
For the past 40 years, a renowned neuroscientist called Eve Marder has researched how lobsters brains work. Her studies have led to a much greater understanding of how human brains work too. Eve is one of the pioneers of the study of something called neuroplasticity.
Neuroplasticity is your brain’s ability to change itself throughout your life, in response to the experiences you have. We can always learn new things. Our brains can recover from illness. Thanks to neuroplasticity, we can retrain, or rewire our brain.
Lobster Brain the Podcast:
Lobster Brain is a new podcast, hosted by our founder Lisa Morton transformational coach Danny Donachie, that takes this knowledge and examines it up close, to see what can be learnt from successful people. Or as we’re calling them – top lobsters.
Lobsters fight to find out who’s going to be the top lobster. Every time a lobster wins or loses a fight, their brain chemistry changes. The lobster that loses is reduced to that status for the rest of its lobster life, and its brain has to change in order to be able to cope with that loss. And the lobster that wins becomes – you guessed it – a TOP LOBSTER.
That’s neuroplasticity too.
While lobsters carry their status for the rest of their lives, this isn’t the case for our human brains. We’re very different from the lobster world in that we CAN rewire our brains, so that means if you lose one fight, it doesn’t have to be that way forever. With the right support, you can still become a top lobster – even if you’ve had more knocks than other people.
Your hosts Lisa Morton and Danny Donachie have interviewed highly successful people, many of whom have come back in the face of adversity. People like world champion boxer Tony Bellew, renowned clinical psychologist and professor Dr Lisa Miller, entrepreneur and author Mo Gawdat, and former Everton goalkeeper, Tim Howard.
Their interviews delve deep into the mindset and motivation of people who are at the very top of their game. When you look at successful people, it’s all too easy to assume that they’ve got it made. In reality, these people have experienced difficult times, just like us. So, what makes them successful? Have they had a leg up that the rest of us haven’t had OR is there something different about them – something that’s innate?
Lobster Brain wants to find that out.
Lobster Brain Launch:
The first episode of Lobster brain is out this Thursday, featuring former world champion boxer Tony Bellew. Tony had to fight for his place in society, from a very young age – just like a top lobster. What effect has that had on him and his approach to success? What setbacks did he face and how did he come out on top? You’ll find out this week.
Danny Donachie works with World-class athletes and leaders to improve performance through greater presence. He has held several leadership positions in elite sports, including working with a leading premiership soccer club in the UK. Danny brings his lifelong practice of meditation from Eastern traditions, alongside a more psychologically informed approach to his work. Through his business, Embodyism, he consults with high performing individuals and groups.
Lisa Morton is the CEO and founder of Roland Dransfield, one of the most established communications agencies in Manchester, England. Lisa is also co-founder of podcast production and marketing specialists, Purposeful Podcasts. For the last 26 years, Lisa has worked to forge meaningful, lasting business relationships that create both business growth and social impact alongside her team of award-winning strategists, journalists, creatives, digital, and social media specialists.
To find out more about Danny go to embodyism.com, and to find out more about Lisa, head to RDPR.co.uk.