Daily Influence

About Daily Influence

It turns out we systematically fall back on habits when trying to change how others think and behave. Many of these instincts are ineffective because they are incompatible with how the mind operates.

Tali Sharot will share strategies to get people on your side by understanding how the human brain works. She will also share elements from her ground-breaking new study of how disrupting our well-worn routines, both good and bad, can rejuvenate our days and reset our brains to allow us to live happier and more fulfilling lives.

About Tali Sharot

Tali Sharot is the director of the Affective Brain Lab. She is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the department of Experimental Psychology and The Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry at University College London and on the faculty of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Tali's research integrates neuroscience, behavioural economics and psychology to study how emotion and motivation influences people’s beliefs and decisions.

Tali's award winning books include The Optimism Bias (2011) and The Influential Mind (2017). Her latest book, co-authored with Cass Sunstein, Look Again: The Power of Noticing What was Always There was published in February 2024.  Her two TED talks have been viewed more than 15 million times. Tali has also written multiple Op-Eds for the NYT, Time, Guardian, Washington Post, CNN and others.