Part 1 of an exclusive How To Academy talk. Watch part 2 here:    • Anger is a good motivator | Robert Gr...  

Drawing upon more than 20 years of research into anxiety and the addictive behaviour it drives, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr Judson Brewer joins us in an exclusive How To Academy talk, with a solution-oriented way to calm our agitated brains and regain focus.

Judson Brewer MD, PhD, is an internationally renowned addiction psychiatrist and neuroscientist. He is an associate professor in the School of Public Health, and Medical School at Brown University. His 2016 TED talk, A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit, has been viewed over 16 million times. He has trained Olympic athletes and coaches, government ministers and business leaders. His first book, The Craving Mind, was published in over 16 languages.

On YouTube, his appearances on TED (A simple way to break a bad habit), TEDx Talks (You’re already awesome, just get out of your own way), Rich Roll (Breaking bad habits, a neuroscientist on unwinding anxiety), Tom Bilyeu (behavioural neuroscientist shows you how to break the coronavirus anxiety cycle), Lewis Howes (All successful people break these bad habits), Palouse Mindfulness (Measuring Mindfulness), and his own channel DrJud (5 Finger breathing, everyday addictions, understanding coronavirus anxiety) have amassed tens of millions of views combined.

Matthew Stadlen is a broadcaster, writer and regular How To Academy host. Previously he was an LBC presenter, wrote The Matthew Stadlen Interview for the Telegraph and presented the TV series Five Minutes With and On The Road With for the BBC. He is a birdwatcher and photographer, and his book How To See Birds is out now. Twitter: @matthewstadlen