149 - Martial Artist and Clinical Neuropsychologist David Brown
From The Strenuous Life Podcast
David Brown has spent many decades studying and teaching martial arts, including Muay Thai and Wing Chun. He's also a clinical neuropsychologist which gives him a unique insight into the mindset at work within martial arts cults. Then we also went down some major rabbit holes, including the science of sticking people's brains into scanners and the elimination of disease through new genetic technologies. I hope you like this one as much as I did!
01:02 - A journey through the martial arts
04:15 - The business of running a school
07:51 - Martial arts cults and the psychology of delusion
20:29 - Passive vs authoritative teachings
26:26 - Research in the autism field
44:35 - Treatment of autism
49:37 - Gene modification and CRISPR
57:52 - Muay Thai vs Wing Chun
You can find out more about David's school in San Antonio, Texas, at totalconfidencemartialarts.com
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