18th July 2013 |
So when Latitude asked ‘what defines us, science or primal instincts?’, we pulled over a leopard-skin chair, placed one of our manicured hands on their taut thighs and said, ‘well, haven’t you come to the right place?’ So began a creative cultural curation by Salon London for Latitude 2013 to examine if we are just a slave to our dominant neural pathways, or bundle of sexual neuroses that would sleep with our grannies if we thought no one would find out.
So in the Literary Arena on the Friday afternoon at 2:30pm we are running our first Salon with Latitude about the brain. First we delving deep in to the grey matter literally with Suzy Lishman the Vice President of the Royal College of Pathologists who is will conduct the world’s first virtual brain autopsy LIVE to see what’s hiding in there. Following Suzy in our brain theme Salon we have famed classicist Natalie Haynes who’s going to be taking us back to the time of the ancients. She will delve deep in to the centuries before psychology to see how we coped before we worked out blaming our parents was the answer. Finally, we have the QI writer and only Salon speaker we’ve ever seen mobbed Stevyn Colgan who will be showing joined up thinking in action taking 10 shouted out things from the audience and finding ways to link them together.
On Saturday morning in the Literary Salon, we’ll be hosting our inaugural Breakfast with Salon London in which we invite you to croissants and coffee with Professor of Psychology Kevin Dutton and world-renowned neuro-scientist Elaine Fox. We will enter in to their worlds to work out whether our natural inclination in this work is as a Playmate or a Psychopath. Elaine’s decade of work culminating in the revolutionary read ‘Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain’ explains the idea that if we change our behaviour, we can change who we are, and Kevin Dutton’s work ‘The Wisdom of Psychopaths’ lets you love your inner psychopath, even put it hard at work to make you healthier, wealthier and wiser.
On Saturday afternoon at 2pm international, neuro-scientist bigwig Ian Robertson will appear at the Literary Salon to introduce our crowd to ‘The Winner Effect’. Success it seems changes the chemistry of the brain, making us more focused, smarter, more confident and more aggressive and the more you win, the more it will keep happening. But the downside is that winning can become physically addictive. By understanding what the mental and physical changes are that take place in the brain of a 'winner', how they happen, and why they affect some people more than others, Ian also answers the question of why some people attain and then handle success better than others.
Habitual winners, like the Salon audience can add up to four years to their life expectancy so what better reason to try Salon’s positive mental Latitude.
