Diego Parassole makes people laugh about serious things, and gets them thinking while they are still laughing.
A comedian, actor and science communicator, after studying Veterinary Medicine he trained at the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica Paolo Grassi in Milan, a change of direction that usually leads to driving a taxi, but instead led to Zelig, the Maurizio Costanzo Show, Ballarò and dozens of different stages. Over time, his career has taken a clear direction: using irony as a tool for communicating science.
Today he works on the "ecology of the mind and the environment", bringing comic talks about sustainability and neuroscience to businesses and theatres: how the brain makes decisions, manages change, responds to stress, builds relationships and gets fooled by its own mental shortcuts. Someone once described him as "the only comedian with a scientific committee". That is not far from the truth.
He is a mindfulness instructor and a corporate trainer in communication, public speaking and managing emotions. His book "All you can eat" was among the fifty finalists for the Premio Galileo for science communication.
He believes that to know yourself, you first need to understand how your brain works, and that having a laugh about it is the most honest way to begin.
