643: Srini Pillay | The Power of the Unfocused Mind

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🗓️ 15 August 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Srini Pillay (@srinipillay) is a world renowned, Harvard-trained psychiatrist, former Director of the Outpatient Anxiety Disorders Program at McLean Hospital, and author of Tinker Dabble Doodle Try: Unlock the Power of the Unfocused Mind. "Most of us spend about 46.9 percent of our days daydreaming anyway. So why not learn to unfocus in a more productive way?" -Srini Pillay The Cheat Sheet: When 90-98 percent of mental activity is unconscious, focus can only get you so far. How focus and unfocus work in the brain. How positive constructive daydreaming helps us become more creative. Why doodling can improve memory by 29 percent. Discover the concept of possibility thinking for solving seemingly intractable problems. And so much more... Full show notes at https://theartofcharm.com/643/ Find out more about the team who makes The Art of Charm podcast here! With pain-free invoicing, FreshBooks helps entrepreneurs and freelancers save time and avoid a lot of the stress that comes with running a small business. Try a month of unrestricted use for free here (no credit card required)! Enter ART OF CHARM in the How You Heard About Us section. Learn over 500 subjects (no tests or homework!) at The Great Courses Plus -- The Art of Charm listeners get one month free here! Does your business have an Internet presence? Now save a whopping 50% on new webhosting packages here with HostGator by using coupon code CHARM! With Business Platinum from American Express, it's not about where you are, it's about where you want to take your business next. Explore the Power of The Business Platinum Card here! Catch season two of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath on A&E! Free yourself from typing notes, reports, and documents by going with the transcriptionists we trust here at AoC: TranscriptionOutsourcing.net -- 99% or higher accuracy guaranteed! HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dig the show, please subscribe in iTunes and write us a review! This is what helps us stand out from the crowd and help people find the credible advice they need. Review the show in iTunes! We rely on it! http://www.theartofcharm.com/mobilereview Stay Charming! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Most of us spend about 46.9% of our day's day dreaming anyway.
0:04.3	So why not learn to unfocus it on more productive way?
0:15.2	Welcome to the Art of Charm. I'm Jordan Harbinger and I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo.
0:20.7	On this episode we're talking with Dr. Srini Palais. He is a Harvard trained psychiatrist
0:26.6	and a mainstream psychiatry expert who can help apply brain science to everyday psychological
0:32.0	challenges to help deal with psychiatric issues especially as they relate to stress and anxiety.
0:36.9	There's a whole lot more to this guy other than that of course and that's what we're going to
0:40.1	get to here on this episode of AOC. Today we'll learn how focus and unfocus something he calls
0:46.3	unfocus anyway, work in the brain. 90 to 98% of mental activity is unconscious. Focus can
0:52.2	only get you so far and we'll explore the unfocus side of things. We'll also explore how something
0:56.9	called positive constructive day dreaming can help us become more creative and we'll discover
1:03.2	the concept of possibility thinking. It sounds a little woo woo but I promise it can help us solve
1:08.8	seemingly intractable problems. There's a whole lot more here. We went a little bit long with
1:13.2	Dr. Palais and it was worth it. So enjoy this episode of AOC with Dr. Srini Palais.
1:18.7	The book is very much in line with what we teach here at AOC in that we're talking about a super
1:26.4	power that everybody has but a lot of people have not yet discovered and movies and comic books
1:32.4	and things like that of which Jason and I are of course somewhat fans. Some people more than
1:36.8	others right Jason. There's a lot of superpowers involved in the human psyche and the brain that
1:41.2	we really don't know about and a lot of us think if we just try hard enough if we just focus hard
1:46.9	enough maybe we can discover those or maybe we can hone those or maybe we can make those happen
1:51.2	and what I thought was really interesting about Tinker Dabble Doodle Try was it's almost like
1:56.0	trying less. There's a process to everything but it's a little bit like doing less in certain ways
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