494: How to Train Your Brain for Maximum Growth with Dr. Tara Swart

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🗓️ 25 September 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Tara Swart explains the science behind neuroplasticity and how to train your brain to brave any challenge.

— YOU'LL LEARN —

1) How to use neuroscience to break out of your comfort zone.

2) The six approaches to problem solving.

3) Simple tricks to turn around terrible work days.

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— ABOUT TARA —

Dr. Tara Swart is a neuroscientist, medical doctor, leadership coach, and award-winning and bestselling author. She works with leaders all over the world to help them achieve mental resilience and peak brain performance, improve their ability to manage stress, regulate emotions, and retain information. She is a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management where she runs the Neuroscience for Leadership and Applied Neuroscience programs, and is an executive advisor to some of the world’s most respected leaders in media and business.

• Tara’s book: The Source: The Secrets of the Universe, the Science of the Brain

• Tara’s Twitter: @TaraSwart

• Tara’s Instagram: @drtaraswart

• Tara’s website: TaraSwart.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Research: "The Glymphatic System in CNS Health and Disease: Past, Present and Future" by Benjamin A. Plog and Maiken Nedergaard

• Twitter: @YouHadOneJob

• Book: Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility by Ellen J. Langer

• Book: Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson

• Previous episode: 273: Taking Control of your Career with Korn Ferry’s Gary Burnison

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.
0:10.0	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.
0:14.0	With your host, Pete McKitis.
0:16.0	Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 494 with Dr. Tara's sport.
0:23.5	Tara is sharing the good research insights on neuroplasticity,
0:28.0	what it means for your brain and what you can do.
0:30.1	So you'll learn one, how to use neuroscience
0:32.1	to break out of your comfort zone
0:33.2	to the six approaches to problem solving and three simple tricks to turn around
0:38.0	terrible work days so if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the
0:41.3	links to albums we've referenced.
0:42.8	Those are at awesome at your job.com slash Epp 494.
0:46.0	Now here's Tara's story.
0:47.5	Dr. Tara Swart is a neuroscientist, a medical doctor, leadership coach, and award-winning
0:51.5	and best-selling author.
0:52.6	She works with leaders all over the world to help them achieve mental resilience and
0:56.0	peak brain performance, improve their ability to manage stress, regulate emotions, and retain information. She's a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management where she runs the
1:04.6	neuroscience for leadership and applied neuroscience programs and is executive advisor to
1:08.9	some of the world's most respected leaders in media and business.
1:11.9	Big thanks to Tara for spending some time with us and big thanks to our sponsors.
1:15.0	Check them out.
1:17.0	Now here's Tara.
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