343: You're missing 50% of your life by being distracted | neuroscientist Amishi Jha, Ph.D.

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🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Amishi Jha, Ph.D.: “Pay attention to your attention. Check in with this precious brain resource—it is the fuel for your ability to think, feel connect, and act.” Jha, a neuroscientist and professor of psychology at the University of Miami, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to pay attention better, plus: - Why there's no such thing as multitasking - The link between a wandering mind & your mood - What to do if you get an upsetting text - How to do "mindfulness pushups" for your brain - The difference between mind-wandering & daydreaming Referenced in the episode: - Jha's book, Peak Mind. - "A wandering mind is an unhappy mind" study. - Learn more about Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.'s mindfulness-based stress reduction program. - Jha's research on mindfulness training and University of Miami football players. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Dr. Amishi Jha is a professor of psychology at the University of Miami.
0:06.5	She serves as the director of contemplative neuroscience for the mindfulness research
0:10.7	and practice initiative which she co-founded in 2010.
0:14.5	She received her PhD from University of California Davis in postdoctoral training at Brain Imaging
0:20.1	and Analysis Center at Duke University.
0:23.3	And today we're going to talk about her latest must read book titled Peek Mind.
0:28.7	Find your focus, own your attention, invest 12 minutes a day.
0:35.7	Amishi, welcome.
0:38.7	It's great to be here.
0:41.7	Great to have you.
0:42.7	I loved your book.
0:43.7	Peek Mind, I think we all want a peak mind, especially me.
0:48.0	And I love the book and I thought I was very impressed with your opening.
0:52.7	You opened with a very strong statement where you said, quote,
0:56.7	you're missing 50% of your life and you're not alone, everyone is.
1:02.7	So that's a powerful opener.
1:06.7	Can you unpack that a little bit for us?
1:09.7	Yeah, sure.
1:10.7	And it's, yes, startling.
1:11.7	Get your attention.
1:13.7	So this number 50% it comes from now an entire body of literature.
1:19.7	That's interested in this topic of mind wandering.
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