The Naked Scientist: Human potential and the psychology of success and pain

Relebogile Mabotja hosts The Naked Scientist · 15 June 2026 · 14m

Speaker 1: Seven or two The Naked Scientist. Speaker 2: Time for the Naked Scientists with doctor Chris Smith. We take your calls on oudible Speaker 2: ONEA A three oh seven O two and the WhatsApp line Oh seven two seven Speaker 2: O two one seven two. Happy Monday, doctor. Speaker 1: How are you doing? Speaker 3: Oh? Speaker 1: I'm very good. How are you? Speaker 2: I am doing well, doctor, And I'm looking forward to getting some of these science Speaker 2: questions in from everybody so that we can jump into all of that, just in Speaker 2: terms doctor of the comrades. And I thought maybe you could wait in here. From Speaker 2: a scientific brain perspective, what would you say is the is the thing that you Speaker 2: know when you surpass what the body is capable of doing. And now it's the Speaker 2: mind over matter. What's happening in a person's brain when they get to that point. Speaker 1: Well, it's all about motivation, isn't it. We know for a fact that when people Speaker 1: want to do something, they tend to try hard, they try for longer, they dig Speaker 1: deeper. And the key to sports psychology and sort of management psychology and success psychology Speaker 1: is getting people to get themselves into that mindset of a can do yet, I Speaker 1: can do this, I can triumph And when you do we know that there is Speaker 1: this thing called a winner effect, which is when people are on a winning streak, Speaker 1: they tend to consistently and continue to perform better. And it's probably because when you

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