557: How to Outthink Fear with Dr. Mark McLaughlin
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 26 March 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Neurosurgeon and author Mark McLaughlin shares the science of fear and what to do about it.
You'll Learn:
1) How fear affects our decision-making
2) How to manage your fears effectively
3) The two techniques to help you outthink your fears
About Mark:
Mark McLaughlin is a practicing board-certified neurosurgeon, a national media commentator, author of the book Cognitive Dominance: A Brain Surgeon’s Quest to Outthink Fear, and acclaimed keynote speaker.
He is the founder of Princeton Brain and Spine Care where he practices surgery focusing on trigeminal neuralgia and cervical spine surgery. McLaughlin is also a thought leader in performance enhancement and physician hospital relations.
Items Mentioned in the Show
- App: Ten Percent Happier
- Book: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward Wilson
- Book: 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works--A True Story by Dan Harris
- Book: Traveler’s Gift by Andy Andrews
- Personality: Camillo Golgi
- Personality: Rene Descartes
- Personality: Sanjay Gupta
- Personality: Santiago Ramon y Cajal
- Planners: Franklin Planner
- System: Cartesian Coordinate system
- System: David Allen-Filing System
- Term: Consilience
- University: William & Mary
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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. |
| 0:19.2 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 557 |
| 0:22.1 | with Dr Mark McLaughlin. |
| 0:24.2 | We recorded it to this episode a number of weeks ago, |
| 0:26.7 | but I think it's so perfect for the situation |
| 0:28.6 | we find ourselves now. |
| 0:30.1 | He's got some pro tips on how to outthink fear. |
| 0:33.4 | If you're experiencing some fear with this virus or other matters, |
| 0:37.2 | he's got some pro tips and solutions. |
| 0:39.4 | You'll learn one, how fear affects our decision-making, |
| 0:42.0 | two, how to manage your fears effectively. |
| 0:44.0 | And 3. The two techniques that help you outthink your fears. |
| 0:48.0 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to |
| 0:50.0 | as we've referenced, check your episode notes or description or drop on by all. The Now here's Mark's Mark's story. Dr Mark McLaughlin is a practicing board certified neurosurgeon, a national media commentator, |
| 1:07.0 | author of the book Cognitive Dominance, a brain surgeon's quest to outthink fear, |
| 1:11.0 | and an acclaimed keynote speaker. |
| 1:12.0 | He is the founder of Princeton |
| 1:14.1 | Brain and Spine Care where he practices surgery focusing on trigiminal |
| 1:19.3 | neuralgia and cervical spine surgery. McLaughlin is also a thought leader in |
| 1:23.9 | performance enhancement and physician hospital relations. Big thanks to Mark |
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