Daring to break the rules to rediscover your passion | Women in Science with Rebecca Saxe and Cristina Pujol

<p>Have you found yourself saying:  “IF ONLY I could do this other thing, I would be happy or satisfied or better off.  IF ONLY this happened, everything would be much better. “<br />Or you know you need something but you don't know what that is.<br />What does it take for you to love what you are good at?</p><p>Those are thoughts and questions my guest tried to answer for herself.<br />Today I'm honored to have a friend, a brilliant mind and soul, with whom I share many interests, and that will share with us how she recovered her passion for her life.<br />Rebecca Saxe is a professor of cognitive neuroscience and associate Dean of Science at MIT. She is an associate member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and a board member of the Center for Open Science. She is known for her research on the neural basis of social cognition. Has her own lab: SaxeLab, and a long list of awards, and recognitions, the last one I read, is that she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science for 2022. She has a TED talk watched over 3.5 million times. Has been featured in a Nextflix documentary about babies, just to name a few things.</p><p>In this episode, she shares parts of her journey to becoming the amazing scientist she is today, with its ups and downs.</p><p>And with her we talk about:</p><ul><li>The value of curiosity.</li><li>The importance of good mentors.</li><li>The impact of not being able to do what brings joy in your life.</li><li>Burn-out.</li><li>The trap of seeking external validations.</li><li>The importance of having a healthy balance in how we perceive failure and success.</li><li>How to recover love and passion for what you do.</li><li>The importance of checking your own definition of success.</li><li>The power of a pause and choosing what to pause from.</li><li>She gives a new perspective on “me time” for women.</li><li>She shares some of her findings about our moral judgments about other people's intentions, and our ability to read other people's emotions.</li><li>The importance of humi