Event Details
Tue, June 17, 2025
18:00 – 19:30
LIMONAIA
Villa La Pietra
Via Bolognese, 120
50139 Florence, Italy
Leading neuroscientist (and NYU’s Dean of Arts & Sciences) Wendy Suzuki discussing her pathbreaking book, which the New York Journal of Books described as “erudite, practical, reader-friendly, deeply personal, and sure to help even the most anxious among us.”
There are about 40 million people— or 18% of the population—suffering from clinical anxiety disorders today. However, formal diagnoses merely scratch the surface of anxiety’s impact. Hundreds of millions suffer from everyday, low-level, non-clinical anxiety.
Popular science suggests that this persistent, low-level anxiety is detrimental to our health, performance, and wellbeing. But what if our preoccupation with avoiding anxiety is costing us something? What if we could learn how to harness the brain activation underlying our anxiety and make it work for us, turning it into superpowers?
In Good Anxiety, Dr. Wendy Suzuki unpacks the cutting-edge science that will help readers channel their anxiety for positive outcomes. This shift from bad to good anxiety accelerates focus and productivity, boosts performance, creates compassion, and fosters more creativity. These are some of the superpowers that come from learning how to channel good anxiety, making it infinitely more valuable than bad anxiety or even no anxiety at all!
Accessible, insightful, and life-changing, Good Anxiety, will transform our understanding and experience of everyday anxiety forever.
The conversation will be moderated by:
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Wendy Suzuki
DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, AND PROFESSOR OF NEURAL SCIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY
Dr. Wendy Suzuki is breaking boundaries as the first Asian-American Dean of the College of Arts and Science at New York University and a Professor of Neural Science and Psychology. She is a passionate thought leader, spreading the understanding of how we can use the principles of brain plasticity to maximize our brain’s performance and transform our lives for the better. She regularly serves as a sought-after expert for publications including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and The Washington Post. Her TED talk has more than 65 million views and she is the author of two books, Good Anxiety and Healthy Brain, Happy Life. She recently released a course on MasterClass entitled Brain Health.
In April 2025 she will travel to the World Ageing Festival in Singapore where she is very proud to receive the Global Ageing Influencer Award.