About this Event
Adelaide
Talks on Tuesdays is a live event series bringing big ideas, real experts, and curious minds together - at your favourite local venues. Think thought-provoking lectures, audience questions, and post-talk mingling over drinks and dinner.
This isn’t a uni lecture. It’s a social, intelligent night out.Come alone or with friends, leave with something to talk about.
Event Schedule:
6.30pm Arrival & Doors Open
7pm Lecture Starts
7.45pm Q&A
8pm Talk Concludes
8.30pm Event Closes.
*Please arrive close to 6.30pm
A La Carte menu and full bar available throughout the night - pay as you go.
Your Topic:
Thinking Without Thinking: Why Your Mind Is Already Made Up
Our mind’s greatest strength, automating our thinking, may also be one of its
greatest vulnerabilities.
Scientific findings suggest that on average, we are not aware of what we are thinking
or doing 48% of our waking day.
This public lecture explores the automaticity of human attention, the brain’s tendency
to shift from slow, effortful, deliberate thinking toward fast, efficient, automatic mental processes. While this allows us to function quickly in a complex world, it also creates
unconscious habits of attention and thinking that shape how we interpret ourselves, other people, and everyday experiences. Under stress, fatigue, or mental overload,
these automated patterns often dominate our behaviour in ways that may conflict
with our goals, values, and intentions.
Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, behavioural science, and popular culture, this talk examines how we can better understand the automatic mind and learn to live with greater awareness, flexibility, and intentionality.
Your Speaker: Associate Professor Maarten Immink
Maarten has dedicated his career to understanding how the mind, body, and environment interact to shape the way people learn, perform, and thrive. A performance scientist, educator, and consultant at Flinders University, his work draws on neuroscience, psychology, and movement science to translate research into meaningful impact for individuals and organisations across sport, health, education, and industry.
He has worked extensively with elite athletic programs including the Australian Cycling Team, Tennis Australia, Cricket SA, and the South Australian Sports Institute, specialising in mental skills training for athletes performing at the highest levels. An internationally recognised public speaker known for making complex neuroscience accessible, engaging, and immediately relevant, Maarten brings both rare scientific depth and a genuine conviction that understanding your own mind can change how you live.
Agenda
🕑: 06:30 PM
Doors open and arrival
🕑: 07:00 PM
Speaker starts
Event venue & nearby stays
Rob Roy Hotel, 106 Halifax Street, Adelaide, Australia
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