Michael Pollan: How To Change Your Mind | E158

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

July 7, 2022

Duration

1h 6m

Channel

The Diary of a CEO

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

This is the last episode of our USA series, over the past few months we've been releasing some incredible conversations that I'm sure you'll agree have brought us more value, more incredible stories, and more world-beating expertise. Michael Pollan is an author who between his five New York Times bestsellers has sold millions of books. Through exploring our connection to the natural world, he reveals sides of ourselves that we never knew we had. Topics: 00:00 Intro 01:32 Follow your passion 05:48 Immersive journalism 09:26 Trying to solve systemic problems with individual acts, BLM & food system 17:09 Caffeine and its impact on us 26:37 Pollination & drugs 30:18 Psychedelics 49:47 Are psychedelics the cure to mental health problems? 52:04 When to do psychedelics 52:04 How to freshen your mind & get out of your comfort zone 01:04:08 Our last guest’s question Michael: https://www.instagram.com/michael.pollan/ https://twitter.com/michaelpollan/ Michael’s book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Your-Plants-Michael-Pollan/ Michael’s Netflix series: https://www.netflix.com/title/80229847 Listen on: Apple podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-diary-of-a-ceo-by-steven-bartlett/id1291423644 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7iQXmUT7XGuZSzAMjoNWlX FOLLOW ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steven/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SteveBartlettSC Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-bartlett-56986834/ Sponsor: Huel - https://my.huel.com/Steven

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Michael Pollan

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• Steven Bartlett

  host

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Diary of a CEO, featuring Michael Pollan and Steven Bartlett, Michael Pollan: How To Change Your Mind | E158 explores michael Pollan On Psychedelics, Caffeine, Consciousness, and Breaking Habits Michael Pollan discusses how his curiosity‑driven, immersive journalism led him from food systems and agriculture reform to psychedelics and now to the science of consciousness. He explains how psychedelics may help alleviate conditions like depression, anxiety, and addiction by disrupting rigid patterns of thought and increasing mental flexibility and awe. Pollan also explores our cultural dependence on caffeine, its hidden costs for sleep and natural rhythms, and how breath work and travel can non‑pharmacologically alter consciousness. Throughout, he returns to the themes of systems versus symbols, the limits of shame‑based social change, and the importance of deliberately breaking habits to stay alive, resilient, and open‑minded.

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