How your mindset shapes your health, happiness and longevity | Tools to tackle stress & fear

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A MIND-BLOWING SCIENCE FESTIVAL OF IDEAS AND DISCOVERY COMBINING THE BEST OF IN-PERSON AND VIRTUAL EXPERIENCES Join us as we bring you two days of incredible content streamed live from Manchester right to your screen, wherever you are in the world.  Watch though-provoking talks on technology and the earth to the universe, and the body and brain by the greatest minds in science. Renowned for their bold vision and daring ideas, our expert speaker line-up will discuss their transformative research.  Get your online ticket now to join us live on Saturday 12th - Sunday 13th March or watch on-demand after the live show.  All talks will be available on-demand for 12 months giving you access to 20+ hours of content from 30 world-class science speakers to watch at your leisure. FIND OUT MORE | BOOK YOUR TICKET  EARLY BIRD TICKETS ARE SELLING OUT FAST AND WE ONLY HAVE A LIMITED NUMBER LEFT. BOOK TODAY TO GET THE BEST DISCOUNT. MEET FOUR OF THE BODY AND BRAIN SPEAKERS HOW YOUR MINDSET SHAPES YOUR HEALTH, HAPPINESS AND LONGEVITY Did you know that your overall expectations of your fitness can influence your risk of an actual heart attack? That labels for diet foods can make you hungrier than if you had eaten nothing at all? Or that people who associate aging with personal growth live for seven years longer than those who associate it with frailty and disability? Drawing on a pioneering new theory of the brain, David Robson will explain the power of your mindset to influence your health, fitness, happiness and longevity. FIND OUT MORE David Robson Science writer and author Jennifer Wild Associate Professor & Consultant Clinical Psychologist, University of Oxford BE EXTRAORDINARY: 7 KEY TOOLS TO TACKLE STRESS AND FEAR Understanding how people that have experienced challenging and traumatic circumstances and have bounced back, transitioning from ordinary to extraordinary gives us the knowledge to transform our own lives without first suffering trauma. In this talk Jennifer will reveal a life-changing formula that will lead us on the path to being extraordinary even when we encounter setbacks along the way. FIND OUT MORE Giles Yeo Principal Research Associate University of Cambridge WHY CALORIES DON'T COUNT A calorie is a calorie, so they say. It shouldn’t matter whether it comes from steak, a carrot or a doughnut. Except it does, as metabolic researcher Giles Yeo will explain. Our body works harder to extract calories from some food compared to others, which is why calories don’t always count. It all adds up to an important insight: we eat food, not calories. FIND OUT MORE TOWARDS A RATIONAL LIFE: HOW THINKING SCIENTIFICALLY CAN HELP NAVIAGTE TODAY'S WORLD The modern world is complex and unpredictable, and we navigate through it the best we can.  But there are steps that can be taken that give us some control over the way we deal with the complexity of the world.  Jim Al-Khalili borrows from what is best about the scientific method and suggests ways to apply it to our daily lives to help us confidently navigate the modern life. FIND OUT MORE Jim Al-Khalili Professor of Theoretical Physics University of Surrey GO BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE ENGAGE STAGE   The new Engage Stage joins both live and online experiences using a mix of fireside chats and Q&As, interactive elements and a roving camera taking you behind the scenes. 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