Dr Lies Notebaert is a psychologist who examines cognitive processes such as attention, interpretation, memory, and complex planning, in order to find out how these affect mental health and resilience in people who are dealing with adversity. She also happens to be our long-suffering research partner in the Resilience Shield project, who has single-handedly had to endure an almost endless barrage of dumb questions as we work to refine our understanding of what resilience is – and how we can improve it. In particular, Lies has been at the forefront of interpreting and analysing the first tranche of results from our Resilience Survey.
In this episode, we chat with Lies about her background, her areas of research interest and the findings from her analysis of our survey data.
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04:15 Lies’s background – including her desire from a very early age to write a book. (Tragically, the initial concept – about killer Belgian traffic lights – never came to fruition…)
05:30 How Lies became fascinated with psychological research
06:15 Ben talks about his Kings College lecturer, Dr Kenneth Payne, who has just released his latest book, I, Warbot, on the applications of artificial intelligence in warfare.
07:00 Lies’s PhD in cognitive psychology
09:30 Cognitive biases – quite universal across cultures, however changing with age
12:05 OK, so what is resilience? Lies’s definition and how she impacted our ideas on resilience and vulnerability
14:45 The relativity of resilience
16:30 The genesis of the Resilience Shield model, how we developed the Resilience Survey, and the amazing work Lies has done in analysing the data collected from this to date.
19:00 The Body Layer: sleep, diet and exercise - and why this is often the first thing we abandon when things get tough
20:30 The importance of sleep and how much is enough (depending on your age!)
22:20 The Mind Layer – and how it is strong that it broke our statistical model!
26:00 Being a specialist vs being a generalist – and why the latter is probably better for our resilience
28:20 The impact of routine and disruption on our resilience
30:30 The importance of an internal locus of control
35:15 Meditation and mindfulness – good stuff to do, according to science
37:00 Growth Mindset and resilience
39:50 The Social Layer…
41:00 …and its particular impact on decreasing our vulnerability
45:45 The Professional Layer
49:30 Next steps for the Resilience Shield
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