How to motivate yourself to change your behavior | Tali Sharot | TEDxCambridge [WWwH5hy9Nr-]

How to motivate yourself to change your behavior | Tali Sharot | TEDxCambridge [WWwH5hy9Nr-]

| 1h 28m 28s | Video has closed captioning.

What does make us change our actions? Tali Sharot reveals three ingredients to doing what's good for yourself. Dr. Tali Sharot is a neuroscientist at University College London and the director of the Affective Brain Lab. She is a faculty member of the department of Experimental Psychology, a Wellcome Trust Fellow, and currently a visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on how emotion, motivation, and social factors influence our expectations, decisions, and memories. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at