Hello and welcome to the psychology podcast with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman where we give

you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity. Each episode will feature

a new guest who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding of yourself, others, and the world we live in.

Hopefully we'll also provide a glimpse into human possibility.

Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast. cast. Today I'm really excited to have Dr. Dan Siegel on the show. Dan is a clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine,

the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at

UCLA, and executive director of the Mindsight Institute.

He's the author of multiple best-selling books on mindfulness, development, and neurobiology, and his most recent book, Mind, A Journey to the Heart of Being Human, offers a deep exploration of our mental lives as they emerge from the body and our

relations to each other and the world around us.

Thanks for channeling with me today, Dan.

Oh, pleasure Scott, I'm happy to be here with you.

I'm just, your book is, all of your books are absolutely fascinating and really quite

refreshing to read you know from a scientist this very feeling that's very spiritual

feeling of there's something there's always I feel like you're

always seeking for something more than just what's immediately observable by

our numbers yeah well there's there's so much about the mind and this last book mind is a deep dive into that for sure.

Yeah, so why did you write this book? You've written about the mind already in a lot of publications.

Why, what was the, you know, impetus for this one?

You know, with this one, I was really wanting to focus very specifically

on the questions about who we are, what the mind is, even questions like where is the mind

or when does life occur?

All these questions that a journalist might ask

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