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Category: Well Being

Biased? Certainly. But Working on It

Posted on March 7, 2023March 7, 2023by JC AgidLeave a comment

Biased? Certainly. But I’m Working on It
A conversation with Dr. Violetta Zujovic, Neuroscientist at the Paris Brain Institute

Talk at FIAF and meeting with Violetta Zujovic and Alyse Nelson
New York | March 15th | Decoding Gender Bias | Register Here

Everything that follows in this post is biased. 

I would like to write you the opposite, to reassure you, even to convince you of the authenticity of my words. But in the interests of sincerest dishonesty, and according to Violetta Zujovic, a doctor in neuroscience and team leader at the Paris Brain Institute, I am biased. 

I might as well accept it. Besides, I am not the only one. “We all are,” Violetta explains. 

“Everything around us is a reproduction that our brain creates to simplify our lives,” Violetta tells me. “Our brain spends its time storing information and sometimes reconstructing a reality that is sometimes an illusion.”

By simplifying, taking shortcuts, analyzing, and judging the other as quickly as possible, our conclusions are not based on the reality of a person or a situation. Instead they are the result of a narrowed perception influenced by our experiences, our culture, and our education.

I believe that I should also share here the motivation and context of this paper.

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Posted in Amazing Women, Byline JC Agid, Fire Chat With, Gender Issues, New York, Uncategorized, Well Being, Women can have it all, Women Empowerment, Women Entrepreneurs
Tagged Alyse Nelson, Assouline, Contessa Brewer, Decoding Gender Bias, Gender Bias, Institut du Cerveau, Martine Assouline, Mathilde Augé, Maurice Levy, Paris Brain Institute, Tatyana Franck, Violetta Zujovic, Vital Voices

Let’s Make New York Sexy Again

Posted on June 18, 2021June 19, 2021by JC Agid1 Comment

Let’s Make New York Sexy Again
A French Version of this article was published by Le Petit Journal | Click Here

It felt like a never-ending story. We lived in cramped apartments, unsuited to a life of confinement, kids went to school in their bedrooms while adults adapted to remote working (how often with roommates in the next room?), exercising in our living rooms, sometimes if it only meant pushing around the sofas and other furniture. If we were lucky enough to have internet access, we could shop for our groceries online. And through the windows, as the city skies grew lighter each day, out on the streets, the cars became scarce. An unusual silence descended on New York.

The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed all the flaws of the urban model, says Saint-Gobain Chairman Pierre-André de Chalendar in his book The Urban Challenge (Odile Jacob).

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Posted in Architecture, Byline JC Agid, Covid-19, New York, Politics, Society, Well Being
Tagged Anne Hidalgo, Carlos Moreno, Covid-19, COVID19, Enkidu, French American Foundation, Green gas emissions, Jerry Seinfeld, Kathryn Wylde, Le Défi Urbain, Michael Bloomberg, New York City, New York Times, Odile Jacob, Paris, Partnership for New York City, Pierre-André de Chalendar, Saint-Gobain, Shamat, Smalls Jazz Club, So you think New York is dead, The Urban Challenge, Uruk

At Your Home Without Me with Vanessa Serrano: Confined Bodies, but Free Souls

Posted on March 28, 2020July 25, 2022by JC Agid2 Comments

At Your Home Without Me with Vanessa Serrano
Confined Bodies, but Free Souls. At Last

‘When I bared my soul it seems you did not hear‘
Joe Jackson | Body and Soul

Singer and songwriter Erykah Badu recently posted on Instagram a drawing of a person seated in a lotus position. “If you can’t go outside,” the caption read, “go inside.”

“A sound advice,” wrote Diane Von Furstenberg who shared the post @therealdvf.

‘If you can’t go outside, go inside’ is exactly what Mexican author and entrepreneur Vanessa Serrano—who has developed her professional work as a path to search for her own purpose—invites people to focus on.

“I believe we should take today’s opportunity to observe our minds,” Vanessa told me in a phone interview.

To ease people’s confinement, Serrano has created a series of free online sessions in Spanish  called Healing Detox and Spiritual Awakening. 

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Posted in Amazing Women, Byline JC Agid, Mexico, Mexico City, Mujeres, Not At Home With, Spirituality, Ten Questions With, Uncategorized, Well Being, Women in Mexico
Tagged Awakening, Awareness, Confinement, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Empathy, Jacques Attali, JC Agid, Meditation, Mexico, Soul, Spirituality, Vanessa Serrano, Wake Up, Well Being, Women Empowerment, Women's Forum Mexico, Yuval Noah Harari, Zertu

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