Episode 8

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12th Oct 2022

Video Games can be Good For Your Brain! With Idriss Aberkane

How close are we to a future where our education system evolves with neuroscience, and video games become brain-enhancing tools? Idriss Aberkane, a groundbreaking neuroscientist and author of Free Up Your Mind!, reveals his radical insights into what’s wrong with today's education, the unexpected benefits of video games, and whether our children might one day need a brain chip. Tune in as Harvest Series host Rose Claverie uncovers the future of learning, technology, and personal development in this thought-provoking conversation.

[1:49] - What is wrong in education today, according to Idriss Aberkane?

[5:10] - Education in the US system.

[6:10] - Why some systems are better than others?

[8:47] - What would be an ideal educative system for Idriss?

[10:50] - How to stimulate the children's attention?

[16:15] - Don't confuse effort and pain, effort and correction.

[19:17] - Video games are good for your brain, really?

[21:28] - The skills developed by video gamers.

[25:46] - Artificial Intelligence: Will the next generation grow up with a chip in the brain? They would be hackable

[29:10] - That's why we need neurowisdom.

[29:56] - If something could be done easily and would make the world a better place, what would it be for Idriss Aberkane?

If you look at Google, there is a controversy about Idriss Aberkane having 3 PhDs. We talked about this, and Idriss says he published them on his website. We didn't evoke it in the episode as it's a short format. https://idrissaberkane.org/pour-mes-amis/

In two weeks, we will release Lisa de Narvaez's interview made in Kaplankaya, about how breathing techniques can bring you bliss. She is one of the Harvesters' favourite practitioners. Don't miss the episode!

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