Open Socrates

This book by Agnes Callard was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Diary of a CEO. The people who vouched for it on air: Lisa Feldman Barrett. It comes up in conversations about brain health, depression & mood, trauma & ptsd. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

• “I'm just reading for the second time this book. It's called Open Socrates. Okay. And it's a really wonderful book and I've learned a lot”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “it's a really wonderful book”
  Lisa Feldman Barrett · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 202501:54:37

  Said during "No.1 Neuroscientist: you can change who you are in 30 days". The episode features Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett: A world-leading neuroscientist and one of the top 0.1% most-cited scientists, known for the theory of constructed emotion and her books on how the brain builds emotions and reality. Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett explains how your brain predicts rather than reacts, and how that gives you the power to change who you are.