Daring to break the rules to rediscover your passion | Women in Science with Rebecca Saxe and Cristina Pujol

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Have you found yourself saying: “IF ONLY I could do this other thing, I would be happy or satisfied or better off. IF ONLY this happened, everything would be much better. “
Or you know you need something but you don't know what that is.
What does it take for you to love what you are good at?

Those are thoughts and questions my guest tried to answer for herself.
Today I'm honored to have a friend, a brilliant mind and soul, with whom I share many interests, and that will share with us how she recovered her passion for her life.
Rebecca Saxe is a professor of cognitive neuroscience and associate Dean of Science at MIT. She is an associate member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and a board member of the Center for Open Science. She is known for her research on the neural basis of social cognition. Has her own lab: SaxeLab, and a long list of awards, and recognitions, the last one I read, is that she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science for 2022. She has a TED talk watched over 3.5 million times. Has been featured in a Nextflix documentary about babies, just to name a few things.

In this episode, she shares parts of her journey to becoming the amazing scientist she is today, with its ups and downs.

And with her we talk about:

The value of curiosity.The importance of good mentors.The impact of not being able to do what brings joy in your life.Burn-out.The trap of seeking external validations.The importance of having a healthy balance in how we perceive failure and success.How to recover love and passion for what you do.The importance of checking your own definition of success.The power of a pause and choosing what to pause from.She gives a new perspective on “me time” for women.She shares some of her findings about our moral judgments about other people's intentions, and our ability to read other people's emotions.The importance of humility and revising our expectations.We talk about identity in times of changeShe also talks about Universities as a place to grow and learn.

So much to learn from this brilliant woman.

To contact or know more about Rebecca Saxe:

Twitter: @rebecca_saxe
Web: Saxelab.mit.edu
Wikipedia: Rebecca_Saxe
TED talk: (https://www.ted.com/talks/rebecca_saxe_how_we_read_each_other_s_minds?language=en)

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