EPISODE 12: ADVENTURE REQUIRES TRUST
Adventures in Uncertainty
Dr Beau Lotto explains how we’re wired to trust and how remarkable it is that most of us are unaware of how omnipresent it is in our lives.
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EPISODE 11: MAKE THE IMPLICIT EXPLICIT
Adventures in Uncertainty
Dr Beau Lotto explains the importance of not weaponising the uncertainty of others … or indeed of yourself.
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EPISODE 10: LEADING OTHERS INTO THE DARK
Adventures in Uncertainty
Dr Beau Lotto explains how what defines a good leader is how she/he leads others into uncertainty … into the dark.
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EPISODE 9: THE RISK OF 'THE RETURN'
Adventures in Uncertainty
Dr Beau Lotto explores the risk of possible self honesty created by returning from an adventure.
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BEAU COMPLETES 'TURNING LEFT' BY BIKE
Misfits News
Having recently ended his bike journey in San Francisco, Beau has turned left again. The 'Adventures in Uncertainty' continue ...
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EPISODE 8: THE POWER OF A REASON
Adventures in Uncertainty
Adventure, as in life, needs a reason and so essential is ‘the reason’ for our vitality that the human brain is perceptually sensitive to its authenticity in yourself and in others.
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EPISODE 7: ADVENTURES REQUIRE A SANDBAR
Adventures in Uncertainty
Beau Lotto discusses how a sandbar enables others to embrace the uncertainty of themselves with courage and agency.
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ANNOUNCING NEUROLAB - LAB OF MISFITS CREATES PARTNERSHIP WITH BCW
Misfits News
Today we are announcing our partnership with BCW ... called “NeuroLab: Neuroscience to Move People."
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EPISODE 6: SHARING YOUR 30 DAY PRACTICE
Adventures in Uncertainty
Misfits share the 30 day practices they've adopted in order to exercise their lives.
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EPISODE 5: EVERY ADVENTURE BEGINS IN THE SAME WAY
Adventures in Uncertainty
Beau Lotto discusses how every adventure begins by leaving and why leaving is hard because it requires letting go.
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EPISODE 4: LIVING IS AN EXERCISE OF LIVING
Adventures in Uncertainty
Beau Lotto explains how we train our bodies and minds by living. We get in shape along the way through the exercise of living.
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EPISODE 3: THE SECRET TO SUCCESSFUL ADVENTURES IS LISTENING
Adventures in Uncertainty
Beau Lotto discusses how you listen and what you listen to is what will define your adventure. Not just now, but in life, in love and in yourself.
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EPISODE 2: HONESTY CREATES THE OPPORTUNITY FOR ADVENTURE
Adventures in Uncertainty
Beau Lotto explores how the human truth - honesty - can move your adventure forwards and how courageous honesty creates the opportunity for unique moments to emerge.
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EPISODE 1: THE POWER OF ADVENTURE: I’M TURNING LEFT
Adventures in Uncertainty
Introducing a new series where Beau Lotto invites you to go on an adventure with him this summer - where he hopes to expand his perception of self, other and the world.
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EPISODE 4: A PLACE WE CAN FIND COURAGE
Thrive In Uncertainty
The fourth in this blog series considers how to thrive in uncertainty requires openness and therefore courage.
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TWO FACED MASKS: MANDATE OR CELEBRATE?
The Art of Perception
Eitan Perlin discusses the history of the Venice Carnival - where wearing a mask was not an obligation as it is today, but a privilege.
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W_NDER: CREATING A SHARED STORY OF PLACE
Expanding Perception
This is the power of place … this is the power of its story. You can be part of it.
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EPISODE 3. RIOTING: REVEALING THE EXISTENCE OF SOCIETY’S GHOST
Thrive In Uncertainty
Dr Beau Lotto discusses the neuroscience behind why we are witnessing the result of the 'ghosts of society' taking action towards thriving from hope.
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SEE THE GRAY
Thought In Motion
Gianni Howell, our creative film designer, describes the creative process for the fourth video in our series of ‘Thought In Motion’.
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EPISODE 2: PROACTION IS A KEY FOR THRIVING IN UNCERTAINTY
Thrive In Uncertainty
This poem, written by Beau Lotto, demonstrates the power of proactive journaling for the unlocking of thought.
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HOW FOOD CAN BRING JOY
Cooking Through Uncertainty
The third in our 'Cooking Through Uncertainty' series, Nino Asaro contemplates how cooking has helped humans rejoice.
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EPISODE 1: THRIVE IN UNCERTAINTY. ACTIVATE YOUR PREFRONTAL
Thrive In Uncertainty
This blog is a transition from Adapting TO Uncertainty to thriving BECAUSE of it. Read the first in our 'Thrive In Uncertainty' series exploring ways that you can apply proactivity.
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MASKS: A DIFFERENT FACE TO THE WORLD
The Art of Perception
In the first of the Lab's new 'The Art of Perception' series, we focus on a theme associated with people's cultural response to and perception of COVID-19.
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EMBRACE YOUR FEARS. COOK.
Cooking Through Uncertainty
The second in our 'Cooking Through Uncertainty' series, Nino Asaro describes how you should combat your fears through cooking.
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SEEING YOURSELF SEE
Thought In Motion
Gianni Howell, our creative film designer, describes the creative process for the third video in our series of ‘Thought In Motion’.
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EPISODE 4: PANIC IS A NATURAL RESPONSE, AND IT'S CONTAGIOUS
Adapt To Uncertainty
When disempowered, which many of our brains are feeling now in the face of COVID-19 uncertainty, panic is a natural, and often collective response.
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BE IN BETWEEN
Thought In Motion
Gianni Howell, our creative film designer, describes the creative process for the second in our series of ‘Thought In Motion’ videos.
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GATHER AROUND A TABLE
Cooking Through Uncertainty
The first in our series that explores the importance of food and cooking for creating positivity during uncertainty, our guest Nino Asaro, describes what it means to gather around a table.
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EPISODE 3: YOUR FEAR OF UNCERTAINTY CAN DISEMPOWER YOU
Adapt To Uncertainty
When we feel in control, our brain feels ‘empowered’. COVID-19 is challenging that sense of control. As a result, billions of brains around the world are feeling collectively 'disempowered'.
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EPISODE 2 - DARKNESS: THE FEAR THAT ARISES FROM UNCERTAINTY
Adapt To Uncertainty
The darkness of night embodies a fundamental, existential threat of all the fears that we carry in our brains from living life including the viral pandemic we are currently experiencing.
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YOU MAKE THE MEANING
Thought In Motion
Gianni Howell, our creative film designer, describes the creative process for the first in our series of ‘Thought In Motion’ videos.
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EPISODE 1 - WHAT IS YOUR BRAIN’S GREATEST FEAR?
Adapt To Uncertainty
If you didn’t know before COVID-19, you do now. And if you don’t know it consciously, your body is feeling it. And it can be debilitating.
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DEVIATE - SPEAKING BUSINESS PODCAST
Expanding Perception
Beau Lotto shares his wisdom on the Speaking Business podcast aiming to help people and organisations adapt to an increasingly uncertain world.
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CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING
Expanding Perception
Our Creative Director, Melanie Lalande, describes the curation and making of our special sand painting video by Veronica Syvorotkina.
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WELCOME TO THE LAB OF MISFITS
Expanding Perception
Welcome to The Lab of Misfits (LoM). We are the world’s only experiential design studio that is also a real neuroscience Lab.
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OUR QUEST: TO THRIVE IN UNCERTAINTY
Expanding Perception
The world is becoming increasingly uncertain. But consider a few general facts about our modern lives before that feeling of uncertainty takes over.
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CHALLENGE YOURSELF
Expanding Perception
When you opened your eyes this morning, did you see the world as it really is? Ask yourself: “Do I see the world accurately?”
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Experiments
Our unique process of neuroscience and experiential design discovers and shares insights into your perception that are personal, emotional and actionable. But be aware! Sometimes what we learn is often not what we thought (or wanted) to be true. But it’s only through such honesty that you will be able to expand what you see of yourself and the world around you.
The Maximising Experiment
Experiment
We all have aspects of our lives we want to maximise. This fun, quick experiment asks a few questions to...
Looking Back
Experiment
The experience of ‘looking back’ helps us to understand the framework by which we make decisions. The...
What's your risk appetite?
Experiment
The aim of this experiment is to assess your appetite for risk. Afterwards, compare your score with...
Insights
The Lab of Misfits is dedicated to expanding your perceptual intelligence. To help you better understand the perceptual assumptions and biases that guide your conscious and unconscious behaviours. Through our INSIGHTS we hope to help you answer the question “Who are you?” in order to live a more authentic, compassion and resilient life. Join us on this journey and learn more.
EPISODE 2: THE LOOKING BACK EXPERIMENT
Looking Back Experiment
Further results of a recent Lab of Misfits experiment where people were asked to imagine being at the...
EPISODE 1: THE LOOKING BACK EXPERIMENT
Looking Back Experiment
We review the results of a recent Lab of Misfits experiment where people were asked to imagine being at...
EPISODE 12: ADVENTURE REQUIRES TRUST
Adventures in Uncertainty
Dr beau Lotto explains how we’re wired to trust and how remarkable it is that most of us are unaware of...