Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff
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Speaker 1: My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Julie Douglass. Julie,
Speaker 1: what do you think when you hear novelty junkie? Like,
Speaker 1: what does that entail? What's the division? Um? I think
Speaker 1: about the dude who who came up with like this
Speaker 1: squirrel jumping wingsuit and jumps regularly off cliffs. We'll see.
Speaker 1: Now that's that's pretty cool. Like that's somebody that's like
Speaker 1: in the novelty and they're out there and doing it right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're getting done. Like the vision of novelty junkie, it
Speaker 1: comes to me is actually, Um, there's a Portlandia sketch
Speaker 1: the other day about where the the wife is going
Speaker 1: to some sort of meeting in the evening and so
Speaker 1: she has to get a babysitter for the husband so
Speaker 1: that he doesn't sit around and watch random YouTube videos
Speaker 1: all night, drink beer and then fall asleep in his
Speaker 1: clothes with all the lights in the house on. Because
Speaker 1: that's I mean the like things like YouTube, things like Wikipedia,
Speaker 1: they allow one to really flex the novelty seeking muscle
Speaker 1: in the brain to where it's like, you know, random
Speaker 1: duck driving a car watching it, vomiting, competition waking. I
Speaker 1: don't know, we just did a competitive eating related podcasts
Speaker 1: like a vomiting on the brain. But you know it's
Speaker 1: like one of both of these are examples if you
Speaker 1: can just go from one subject in another, from one diverse,
Speaker 1: tid dead or random weirdness to another without ever really
Speaker 1: absorbing much of anything, sort of like an A D
Speaker 1: D state, Right, Yeah, But I guess that is the
Speaker 1: downside of it, right, because then a culture that we
Speaker 1: have right now, you know, um, we apparently consume about
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand words each day from various media, which,
Speaker 1: according to Winnifred Gallagher and No Journalists says, that is
Speaker 1: a walpping three increase measured invites over what we handled
Speaker 1: back in nineteen Yeah, because I mean thinking back, like
Speaker 1: even thinking back then when I was, when I was
Speaker 1: a kid, Like if you wanted to learn new stuff,
Speaker 1: like you're just sort of picking up new information or
Speaker 1: fulfilling that novelty portion of your brain, Like you had
Speaker 1: to go to library and you look around, you had
Speaker 1: to look through your dad's, your your mom's books, and
Speaker 1: you know old books and or encyclopedia. Like the encyclopedia
Speaker 1: itself was always a great novelty seeking tool, but the
Speaker 1: Internet really opens it up. You're just to keep a
Speaker 1: few key strokes away from just an abyss of sometimes useless,
Speaker 1: often useless information. Yeah, And I mean that's the thing
Speaker 1: about neophilia or or seeking novelty really is that it
Speaker 1: spurs us to try to explore and find new things,
Speaker 1: which is really cool, but it can also feed into
Speaker 1: ours restlessness or distraction. And by the way, did you
Speaker 1: know that the word boring didn't even enter the dictionary
Speaker 1: I think into like the nineteen hundreds, like it. That's
Speaker 1: kind of fascinating, you mean, so it's like a twentieth
Speaker 1: century luxury being able to board with anything right, right,
Speaker 1: because you know, otherwise there's there's work to do, there's
Speaker 1: stuff to do, like what are you doing? How can
Speaker 1: you possibly be bored? Right? But when you start automating things,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you've got extra time on your hands, right,
Speaker 1: or once you know you which from being an a
Speaker 1: grarian society to an industrialized society, than you know, you're
Speaker 1: not in the fields for twelve hours a day, um,
Speaker 1: And then of course, I think that we're seeing the
Speaker 1: extreme example of this right now in our day and age. Um,
Speaker 1: and that's what we're talking about today is just kind
Speaker 1: of getting behind this idea of what is the science
Speaker 1: behind novelty? Why do we seek out new experiences? How
Speaker 1: many of us are neophobes, neophiles, neophiliacs, You're crazy maniac
Speaker 1: novelty runner aftersh And that's what we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about and try to explore. So, yeah, let me get
Speaker 1: back to this Winnifred Gallagher character. Besides me or journalist,
Speaker 1: she also has written a couple of books, and she
Speaker 1: argues that neophilia, this this desire for new experiences has
Speaker 1: always been the quintessential human survival skill, whether adapting to
Speaker 1: climate change or um, you know, some sort of new
Speaker 1: geographical area, or coping with the latest digital toy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like you're marching over a hill. Suddenly there's a
Speaker 1: slightly different environment going on. You're like to do this.
Speaker 1: Let's see what's edible, Let's see what's poisonous. Let's see
Speaker 1: what animals I can domesticate, Which ones I I need
Speaker 1: to kill with a rock, Let's do it. I'm all
Speaker 1: up for new experiences when other people might peek over
Speaker 1: that hill and they're like, I don't know about this
Speaker 1: new environment. I'm just gonna creep back here and need
Speaker 1: more of those grasshoppers. Right, you might be a neopho,
Speaker 1: and you might have a different genetic disposition to explore
Speaker 1: new things and infect In the article What's New Exuberance
Speaker 1: for novelty has Benefits by John Tierney on The New
Speaker 1: York Times, they actually talked about this migration gene. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so this is the migration gene. This is a DNA
Speaker 1: mutation that occurred roughly fifty thousand years ago. It's believed
Speaker 1: as the humans we're leaving Africa, and these mutations are
Speaker 1: actually the most prevalent in the in the most far
Speaker 1: flung population so done, like Indian tribes in South America
Speaker 1: that are descended from neophiliacs across the Bearing Straits. Understandably,
Speaker 1: you see the strongest occurrence of these genes and the
Speaker 1: people who traveled the farthest right, right. And the coolest
Speaker 1: thing about this is that the genetic variations affect the
Speaker 1: brains regulation of dopamine. And I feel like we've been
Speaker 1: talking about Yeah, Yeah, The New York Transmitter that gives
Speaker 1: us that kind of high that you know that the
Speaker 1: ding ding reward. Right. So the variations, these variations have
Speaker 1: been linked to more um, well it should say, faster
Speaker 1: reaction times and individuals that possess them attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, right,
Speaker 1: which we've seen a lot, or it seems like that's
Speaker 1: been in the news a lot in the last decade
Speaker 1: or so, and a higher penchant for novelty seeking and
Speaker 1: risk taking. So it's like fascinating that so much of
Speaker 1: this ties back to our DNA or our migratory patterns
Speaker 1: that you know, you could come into this world and
Speaker 1: be a bit hardwired for these experiences, maybe your neophobe
Speaker 1: and you know you're not comfortable with new experiences and
Speaker 1: you want to, you know, retract a little bit. You
Speaker 1: can imagine individuals in that situation being more inclined to
Speaker 1: stick around in their existing area and sort of fine
Speaker 1: tune their exploitation of that environment, sort of like, well,
Speaker 1: let's I'm I'm really not into going over that hill
Speaker 1: and checking out what's going over there. I'm going to
Speaker 1: figure out how to farm better here, or how to
Speaker 1: better manage the animals I need to catch to survive
Speaker 1: that kind of thing exactly. UM. And you know, maybe
Speaker 1: these are the agrarians um of of history. Uh. And
Speaker 1: of course it's not as simple as it just sort
Speaker 1: of dills down to you having a you know, varying
Speaker 1: to in this gene. There are other factors that play
Speaker 1: environmental um. In fact, they were talking about in this
Speaker 1: article uh from the New York Times about novelty perhaps
Speaker 1: even um being the key to happiness, and a lot
Speaker 1: of that again has to do with what sort of
Speaker 1: environmental factors are present, not just what genes you possess, right,
Speaker 1: only know, that's one of the whole reasons for like
Speaker 1: most people are a lot of people. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: sort of different versions of people going on vacation. Some
Speaker 1: people like to go back to a familiar spot that
Speaker 1: they have this investment and that's a place they go
Speaker 1: every year and it's full of memories. Other people they
Speaker 1: like something new, They want to they want to be
Speaker 1: blown away by a new environment. Uh, new sides, new sounds.
Speaker 1: I feel like my wife and I are definitely more
Speaker 1: in that category. Worry. UM. I mean there are places
Speaker 1: we have memories attached to as well, but there's nothing
Speaker 1: like going to like a new city, a new place
Speaker 1: and exploring it, and I mean it really your perception
Speaker 1: of time changes in those environments, like because everything is novel,
Speaker 1: everything is new. It's like your kid again because when
Speaker 1: your kid, everything is everything is novel, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: in time slows down and everything's bright, Well you think
Speaker 1: differently about your role. I mean to me, travel and
Speaker 1: and having new experiences forever changes you as a person, right, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: And that's what I love about. In fact, I took
Speaker 1: the uh, the little quiz that New York Times article
Speaker 1: has again, it's called what's new Exuberance for novelty has benefits?
Speaker 1: And it turns out that I am a neophiliac. Huh.
Speaker 1: You know. I started taking the same quiz, but then
Speaker 1: someone something this YouTube video this go for right the
Speaker 1: three wheeler, and it was amazing. All right, well let's
Speaker 1: talk about that. Let's talk about this this idea that
Speaker 1: neophiliacs or people who are neophiles, you know a little
Speaker 1: bit to a lesser degree but still seeking out new experiences,
Speaker 1: are their brains are bifurcated with all this different data
Speaker 1: and harness it in a way that you can actually
Speaker 1: make something of this yeah, it's estimated that you you
Speaker 1: really need a trio of traits to really to to
Speaker 1: to be the guy in the squirrel suit of skydiving,
Speaker 1: as opposed to the guy who's falling asleep watching a
Speaker 1: bunch of different YouTube videos. The individuals in this perdious study,
Speaker 1: they scored high in noveli seeking as well as in
Speaker 1: persistence and trelp and self transcendence. So persistence, of course
Speaker 1: is the is sticking to it. Some some people are
Speaker 1: may be disinclined to take up new hobbies because you
Speaker 1: try it and you suck at it. Like that's pretty
Speaker 1: much how a lot of things go. It's rare that
Speaker 1: we find some new skill or some new you know,
Speaker 1: artistic endeavor that we the first time we try it,
Speaker 1: we got it. I mean a it's not very rewarding
Speaker 1: if there's no room for growth, right. Part of the
Speaker 1: reward is seeing your improvement. But you gotta have some
Speaker 1: persistence to stick with it. You gotta be willing to
Speaker 1: suck at something for a certain amount of time before
Speaker 1: you are good at it and before it's maybe ultimately
Speaker 1: more rewarding. Persistent like in our there are two opening examples.
Speaker 1: The guy with the squirrel suit. That dude had a vision,
Speaker 1: but he had to have a certain amount of persistence
Speaker 1: to see it through. Like he couldn't just play like
Speaker 1: what am I doing this weekend? I'm making a squirrel
Speaker 1: suit and I'm gonna jump off of a mountain and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do that successfully my first try. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: not that's not gonna happen. Whereas the the individual watching
Speaker 1: the YouTube videos, he might say, watch a video of
Speaker 1: Australian rules football and be like, WHOA, that's weird. I
Speaker 1: didn't know there was Australian rules football and that's the
Speaker 1: end of it. Where he had more persistence, he might
Speaker 1: be like, well, I'm gonna really look into this. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna maybe, you know, get into watching Australian roles football.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm going to start a league. You know. There
Speaker 1: would be this this higher level of engagement with the topic. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and there would be this other thing called self transcendence,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about that right after this break. All right,
Speaker 1: we're back. We're ready to self transcend letting right now. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's not the same thing as it. Yeah, okay, so
Speaker 1: self transcendence. We know about this in terms of let's
Speaker 1: say that the flow state. This is something that um,
Speaker 1: you're doing that you're really invested in, but you're also
Speaker 1: getting a lot of reward out of you. That's again
Speaker 1: what helps with the pursual and the persistence is that
Speaker 1: you're achieving this state of flow, this self transcendence. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like it's it's it's not like I'm going to work
Speaker 1: on painting these miniatures and I'm gonna get really good
Speaker 1: at it. I'm gonna get really good. You know, you're
Speaker 1: not thinking like that, you get you're losing yourself in
Speaker 1: the process of doing it. Like the again, the guy
Speaker 1: making the squirrel suit, he is into the process of
Speaker 1: doing it to the point where he's not thinking about
Speaker 1: this is a results oriented adventure, right right, So, I
Speaker 1: mean it's the short term payoff with a long term right.
Speaker 1: And I was even thinking about this novelty and genius
Speaker 1: because we've talked about this before. In fact, when we
Speaker 1: were covering I believe it was the podcast on Einstein's brain. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: thanks the brain of a genius. It's not just a
Speaker 1: purely anatomical exercise because you're gonna have a genius level brain,
Speaker 1: but it's only being used to watch YouTube videos. Right.
Speaker 1: But the and we talked about this to this this uh,
Speaker 1: this idea that the brain is not a static thing.
Speaker 1: There's something called neural plasticity, which means that your brain
Speaker 1: can change throughout your lifetime. And one of the key
Speaker 1: ingredients in changing your brain for the better at least
Speaker 1: is having new experiences. And when we talked about genius
Speaker 1: in the podcast about Einstein, we talked about how some
Speaker 1: people actually are more genetically predisposed to be open to
Speaker 1: new experiences, and that certainly helps. But anytime you have
Speaker 1: a new experience, um, you know, even like if you're
Speaker 1: right handed and you brush your teeth with your left hand,
Speaker 1: or you juggle and you're not a juggler, you're creating
Speaker 1: new white cells, these glial cells, and you want to
Speaker 1: do you want to throw in a juggling shown you.
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about, like like should we all do that?
Speaker 1: Should we all go home this evening or you know,
Speaker 1: the next scheduled brushing in our day, we should use
Speaker 1: an opposite hand just to yeah, because this is the
Speaker 1: glial cells, these white cells which are created from new experiences.
Speaker 1: These are the things that help strengthen our helps think faster,
Speaker 1: connect more ideas, new ideas, UM, and again neuroplasticity. We
Speaker 1: can continue to change our brain as we age. Um.
Speaker 1: Does it help if we have more experiences before the
Speaker 1: age of twenty Yeah, yeah, because the bulk of your
Speaker 1: brain is going to be established by age twenty UM.
Speaker 1: So it's great for kids to have as many new
Speaker 1: experiences and new skills as possible. But that doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that we're stuck with the same clump of three pounds,
Speaker 1: you know. For the restaurants, it's it's certainly what you have.
Speaker 1: Like going to museums is important when you're when you're
Speaker 1: growing up, traveling to whatever extent is manageable, it just
Speaker 1: helps change you. Like I think I look back on
Speaker 1: like you said, I feel like any travel, any worthwhile
Speaker 1: trip changes who you are. You don't just go to
Speaker 1: somewhere like like a Thailand or a Coasta, Rica or whatever.
Speaker 1: You don't you don't just go to and come back.
Speaker 1: You you go to and you come back with a
Speaker 1: little of it in you, you know. Yeah. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: and I'm not just talking about lower intestinal infections. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would just say or the Thaigh red Bull that
Speaker 1: you speak so fondly of, Yeah, that was good. But
Speaker 1: and like, I look back on trips that I took
Speaker 1: before the age of twenty and I feel like they
Speaker 1: definitely had an influence on decisions I made later. And however,
Speaker 1: the world following Yeah, and again, in a very basic level,
Speaker 1: there's those white uh you know, breen cells being created,
Speaker 1: and it's just lovely to think that all these things
Speaker 1: are happening behind the scenes and all you have to
Speaker 1: do is brush your teeth with a non dominant hand
Speaker 1: and when you master that, moved to your feet. Brushing
Speaker 1: with your feet. Yeah, sure, why not? So it kind
Speaker 1: of both new affiliate downstad it boils down like a
Speaker 1: lot of things in human nature, you kind of want
Speaker 1: a moderation of it, like too much neophilia. You end
Speaker 1: up just being this YouTube junkie who maybe doesn't even
Speaker 1: leave the house because he's not willing to actually or
Speaker 1: she is not willing to actually invest in this novelty seeking.
Speaker 1: They're not they're not actually getting any kind of transcendent
Speaker 1: experience out of it. And then you have the other
Speaker 1: individual who is not leaving the room because they don't
Speaker 1: want the new experiences, right, They're they're afraid of encountering
Speaker 1: them to log Yeah, neophiliax UM. In the past have
Speaker 1: been tagged as as um as being a bit flighty
Speaker 1: or impulsive or irritable um. And then neophobes again not
Speaker 1: wanting to leave the house um, which is the extreme, extreme,
Speaker 1: extreme example. But again, all of this is changeable, and
Speaker 1: it depends on the experiences that you have throughout life.
Speaker 1: A good example is Eleanor Roosevelt. I mean, she was
Speaker 1: certainly a neophobe in her early life, but through her
Speaker 1: experiences sort of switched over to neophilia UM. So it's
Speaker 1: not again, it's just like the brain. It's it's not
Speaker 1: a static thing, um, just like your personality is not
Speaker 1: static and very much informed by your brain. And I
Speaker 1: was even thinking about the podcast that we did about
Speaker 1: how to Change your Brain the Hard Way John Gage,
Speaker 1: who had um, you know, steel rod go through his
Speaker 1: head and was his personality was completely changed. And of
Speaker 1: course we don't need to all put steel rods in
Speaker 1: our head to significantly change our world views or personality.
Speaker 1: That it is interesting to think about all the little
Speaker 1: different ways in life that we can change the way
Speaker 1: we think. All right, So UM, on that note, let's
Speaker 1: see what the neophiles out there and the listening audience
Speaker 1: had to say, let's call over the robot. All right,
Speaker 1: here's here's a little email from a listener by the
Speaker 1: name of Don Don Wrightson and says, Robert and Julie,
Speaker 1: thank you for the great podcast. My inner geek is
Speaker 1: very happy. I just listened to your monogamy shamogamy podcast,
Speaker 1: and I have to say I can never resist a
Speaker 1: George Michael reference. However, as the queen of pop culture references,
Speaker 1: I must insist that it was the I Want Your
Speaker 1: Sex video that featured George Michael scrawling the world monogamy
Speaker 1: on his lover's back and red lipstick. Of course, thanks
Speaker 1: for being a part of what is now a fun commute.
Speaker 1: Don So yeah, I think we who were thinking it
Speaker 1: was is it freedom but not un totally makes sense
Speaker 1: that it was I Want Your Sex. We have to
Speaker 1: give George Michael a little apology there for tonal consistencycause
Speaker 1: it turns out I Want Your Sex. Well no, I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe there's still a weirdness there, but at
Speaker 1: any rate, it makes a little more sense with I
Speaker 1: don't know. We we clearly need to go back on
Speaker 1: our George Michael catalog and revisit. All right, there's another one.
Speaker 1: This one is from Sean in Ottawa, Canada. Hi, long
Speaker 1: time listener, first time writer, persistent procrastinator. I did have
Speaker 1: one comment on your Gay Animals podcast. You repeated the
Speaker 1: danger of anthropomorphizing animals, which I feel does us a
Speaker 1: greater disservice in the end, which is failing to biomorphize humans. Uh.
Speaker 1: The very fact that research into animal sexuality can help
Speaker 1: shed light on human sexuality points to the fact that
Speaker 1: try as we might to think ourselves separate from the
Speaker 1: rest of nature, we most certainly are not. There maybe
Speaker 1: qualities and motivations that guide human behavior that simply don't
Speaker 1: exist or correlate outside of our culture, but not when
Speaker 1: it comes to the birds and the bees. We are
Speaker 1: all animals in the end. Some are more complex, some
Speaker 1: more social, some more adaptable. Anthromomorphize away and in doing
Speaker 1: so keep biomorphizing us. Huh. I thought that was really interesting.
Speaker 1: We I apologize. I don't remember the person who put
Speaker 1: on our Facebook page a comment about the same episode,
Speaker 1: but he was sort of talking the taking the opposite
Speaker 1: tact would which would be that we are not We
Speaker 1: can't create ourselves with animals because then we're you know,
Speaker 1: condoning incest or rape or other things. UM, so I don't.
Speaker 1: This is all really interesting conversation that came from this. Um,
Speaker 1: both sides of the perspective. I always like to get
Speaker 1: different when we get emails about different sides of it,
Speaker 1: because it makes me feel like everybody is really for
Speaker 1: coming in on the conversation and considering all parts of it.
Speaker 1: Stimulating the brain tanks for sure. UM. We also heard
Speaker 1: from a listener by the name of h Ta Ta
Speaker 1: right soon and says, do you Robert and Julie, I
Speaker 1: sent this email last week, only to listen to one
Speaker 1: of the more recent podcasts this morning and discovering that
Speaker 1: your email has changed. And again we should mention this
Speaker 1: at the end of the podcast too, but we are
Speaker 1: now blow the mind at Discovery dot com right Um, anyway,
Speaker 1: should continues. I just finished listening to the Santa Claus
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Speaker 1: Universal Creator Machine in trans Metropolitan by Warren Ellis, there
Speaker 1: are makers which create whatever you want you need in
Speaker 1: your home, mostly food, but some of them have been
Speaker 1: modded to create weapons, humorous part of the plot involves
Speaker 1: the makers getting hooked on drugs. Because they can synthesize anything,
Speaker 1: why not making toxicans for themselves. That has since been
Speaker 1: stopped by some modifications by the producers of the maker. Additionally,
Speaker 1: since everyone has them, there is a sort of hierarchy
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Speaker 1: output is base block, something that is super dense and
Speaker 1: has to be replaced every so often. However, the poor
Speaker 1: who cannot afford these these blocks collect garbage from the
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Speaker 1: a chance check trans Metropolitanality. It's pretty excellent about a
Speaker 1: rogue journalist in a very technological future. Indeed, I've I
Speaker 1: haven't read the entire series, but I did read the
Speaker 1: first not In addition, like the first volume of trans Metropolitan,
Speaker 1: it's pretty gonzo. Character Spider Jerusalem is kind of this
Speaker 1: like futuristic uh Like, he starts off kind of like
Speaker 1: this bearded Alan Moore character who's held up in this cabin,
Speaker 1: but then he ends up returning to the city to
Speaker 1: do his gonzo journalism. And of course he's kind of
Speaker 1: a futuristic Huntress Thompson character and all sorts of lackiness
Speaker 1: occurs after that. I really need to pick him up again,
Speaker 1: because I did enjoy the first one. I just never
Speaker 1: got around a reading and against the others everything, I'm
Speaker 1: here and I'm liking well cool. Um. So yeah, those
Speaker 1: are some emails from listeners. We we have a whole
Speaker 1: folder of them here, and we never used to. There
Speaker 1: was a time when when we could individually like answer
Speaker 1: every email that was sent to us, and then that
Speaker 1: that hasn't only been the case recently, and and we
Speaker 1: we do receive a lot of really cool emails that
Speaker 1: I wish we had time to read, but we kind
Speaker 1: of have to pick and choose at the last minute,
Speaker 1: sometimes based on lenk. But that being said, please do
Speaker 1: communicate with us, because even if you don't respond, we
Speaker 1: do read them all well, and it also informs you know,
Speaker 1: the direction of the podcast and what we want to
Speaker 1: cover and all that good stuff. Yea, because we'll say
Speaker 1: things like, oh man, that that podcast on such such
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Speaker 1: That's clearly the kind of thing that listeners want to
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