Lectures on Tap - "Hacking Your Brain: The Science of Habits and Focus"

Professors, experts, and storytellers giving thought-provoking lectures in Boston bars. 📍 Location: Exact address given in confirmation email 🧠 Lecture: "Hacking Your Brain: The Science of Habits and Focus" 🎤 Speaker: Dr. Sarah Lynch Why is it so easy to know exactly what you should do, and still not do it? Join developmental psychologist Dr. Sarah Lynch for a fast-paced, Psych 101-style tour of the science behind focus, habits, and follow-through. You’ll explore executive functioning—the mental systems that help you hold information in mind, resist impulses, shift attention, plan ahead, and turn intentions into action. Dr. Lynch will unpack why procrastination, distraction, and doomscrolling are usually more than “just” a willpower problem, and how motivation, reward, attention, and cognitive control interact to drive your behavior. Then, dive into the psychology and neuroscience of habits: how repeated behaviors become automatic, why context and environmental cues are so powerful, and what actually helps a new routine stick in real life. Think working memory, inhibitory control, reinforcement learning, and the “habit loop,” translated into tools you can actually use. Dr. Lynch teaches psychology at Berklee and has taught at Boston University, Colby College, and Harvard University. Her work focuses on how biology, relationships, and environment shape behavior over time—and how to use that science to make change feel easier. Get a drink, connect, and learn at Lectures on Tap! 🙌 Agenda 6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key. 6:55 PM – Host introduction 7:00 PM – Lecture begins 7:45 PM – Audience Q&A 8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round 8:30 PM – Wrap up.