200: How to Instantly Improve Your Focus and Tame Your Wandering Mind | Amishi Jha, PhD
The Genius Life
Max Lugavere
4.7 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Dr. Amishi Jha is a professor of psychology at the University of Miami. She serves as the Director of Contemplative Neuroscience for the Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative, which she co-founded in 2010. She is also the author of Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day, out now! Full show notes: https://maxlugavere.com/podcast/200-dr-amishi-jha
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| 0:00.0 | What up genius lifers, it's episode 200 of the Genius Life, welcome aboard. |
| 0:17.8 | What up everybody, welcome to another episode of the Genius Life. |
| 0:20.5 | I'm your host Max Lugovira, filmmaker, health and science journalist and author of the New |
| 0:24.0 | York Times bestselling book Genius Foods. On this episode of the show, we have a brilliant |
| 0:28.7 | new guest in the studio. We have Dr. Amishi Jha in the house. Dr. Jha is a professor of psychology |
| 0:35.1 | at the University of Miami, my alma mater. She serves as the director of contemplative neuroscience |
| 0:40.6 | for the mindfulness research and practice initiative, which she co-founded in 2010. Her TED talk on |
| 0:46.1 | how to tame your wandering mind has over five million views, and she's the author of Peak Mind, |
| 0:52.0 | which came out on October 19th. In today's episode, we discuss the role that attention plays in our |
| 0:57.7 | lives and how it influences decision-making and emotional regulation. Dr. Jha also helps explain |
| 1:03.4 | the different types of attention and how to use meta-awareness as well as how to control your |
| 1:07.5 | environment to maximize your success. We chat about how to gain perspective, increase your impulse |
| 1:13.7 | control and regulate your emotions. I also had the opportunity to chat with her about what you |
| 1:18.4 | can do to cultivate the presilience. You heard that right, presilience, not resilience, for coping |
| 1:24.5 | with crises before they arise, and how to use the stop method, which she's going to explain, |
| 1:29.6 | to get you started on your mindfulness journey. And finally, we talk about the flashlight |
| 1:34.8 | metaphor, which is brilliant and so clearly explains how concentration works. I thoroughly enjoyed |
| 1:40.0 | my conversation with Dr. Jha. Her approach to conquering your wandering mind is practical and |
| 1:44.6 | rooted in science, two of my favorite things. I truly do hope that you enjoy. |
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