The Cabrera Lab Podcast

In this week's episode, Drs. Derek and Laura Cabrera teach you how to break habits. Get rid of your unhealthy or unsavory habits, and dive deeper into your own mind than ever before. With the powers of UpThinking, you can take control of your mind and your life. Listen now! 

In this week's episode, Drs. Derek and Laura Cabrera discuss the forced binaries we all experience in everyday society. They demonstrate why these competitions are manufactured between Coke and Pepsi and Democrats and Republicans. Who does it benefit? Why is this line of thinking so popular? Listen now to find out all this and more. 

In this week's episode, Drs. Derek and Laura Cabrera explore interpersonal relationships. Their method (Relationships Sponsored By The Number 3) transforms the way you will think about your relationships with your spouse, your children, your colleagues, and anyone else you may meet in your life. Grab a refrigerator box and listen now!

In this week's episode, Drs. Derek and Laura Cabrera discuss the nuances of emotions, taking things personally, how to get some agency back in your life, and the difference between thinking and feeling. 

In this week's episode, Drs. Derek and Laura Cabrera tackle technology addition. Listen to hear all about the people behind the phones, how they want you to become addicted, and how to help your children (and yourselves) break free of the cycle. 

In this week's special July 4th episode, Drs. Derek and Laura Cabrera of Cornell University take on complexity, the emoji syndicate, the rules of ant life, complex adaptive systems, and why it all means that we have to protect the simple rules of the US Constitution. Happy listening! 

In this week's episode, Drs. Derek and Laura Cabrera delve into neurodiversity. Speaking from personal experience, they talk about what it is like to be neurodiverse, whether the word 'disorder' is an accurate description of the different types of neurodiversity, and how discovering DSRP saved his life. 

In this week's episode, Drs. Derek and Laura Cabrera answer viewer Michelle's question: How do we know what is real? The answer may surprise you... 

In this week's episode, Drs. Derek and Laura Cabrera talk about work/life balance. How can you balance work and life? Should there even be a balance? What if the whole idea of work/life balance is built on faulty mental models? Tune in to find out!

In this week's episode, Drs. Derek and Laura Cabrera dive into the difference between grit, resilience, and antifragility. Using stories and lessons from Derek's time as an Outward Bound instructor, they get to the bottom of this distinction. 

In this week's episode, Drs. Derek and Laura Cabrera discuss how to move from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset. They also tackle ethics and how ethics are actually born of both mind and nature, which leads them to a concluding discussion on how the brain is symbiotic, just like lichens. Listen now!

In this week's episode, Drs. Derek and Laura Cabrera tackle critical thinking. They explore what it means to critically think about something, and if it is always the best way to approach a problem. Additionally, they discuss how critical thinking as a whole, is just a bias. Listen now to learn more!

In this week's episode, Drs. Derek and Laura Cabrera discuss what goop means, why you should be aware of it, and what you can do to avoid the gauntlet of goop. 

In this episode, Drs. Derek and Laura Cabrera discuss the issue of overthinking. More specifically, how there's no such thing as overthinking. Instead, we are underthinking. 

In this emotional episode, Drs. Derek and Laura Cabrera speak on healing from childhood trauma, what it truly means to be an 'adult,' and how to get over something you just can't seem to get over.  

In this week's episode, Drs. Derek and Laura Cabrera rethink the education system while sharing stories from their own personal educational experiences...

Drs. Derek and Laura Cabrera discuss the power of practice, how thinking can be practiced just like anything else, and how dinner time led to being on the cutting edge of cognitive practice. 

In this week's episode, Derek and Laura talk about the IQ test, where it's lacking, and how the TQ is a more accurate and better replacement. 

The Drs. Cabrera discuss what it means to love reality, why you should love reality, and the high cost of ignoring reality. 

In this episode, Drs. Derek and Laura Cabrera discuss what UpThinking is, how to do it, how to measure it, and why we care about thinking so much in the first place.