Amishi Jha

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2021

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Dr. Amishi Jha is a neuroscientist and professor of psychology at the University of Miami. Amishi joins the Armchair Expert to discuss growing up as an Indian-American in Chicago, why she started studying neuroscience, and her new book "Peak Mind". Amishi and Dax talk about what percentage of the brain we actually use, how people use confirmation bias to write their own story, and the power of attention on our perception of the world. Amishi explains how she manages her nervousness and anxiety, what the study of mindfulness actually is, and how she defines attentional rubber necking. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome to armchair expert, experts on expert. I'm
0:05.3	Dax Shepard, and I'm joined by Monica Mouse.
0:07.8	Hello.
0:08.8	Hello, how are you?
0:10.1	I'm good. We're in my apartment. I want to do a tease because last time we did
0:16.7	episode we talked about us going to Huston's show and we did and then we deep dive on it in the fact check.
0:24.0	We're going to give a full account of what happened at that show.
0:27.0	Yeah.
0:28.0	And a review and a declaration.
0:30.0	That's right. Okay.
0:31.0	Today we have Dr Amishi Jaa.
0:33.0	She is a neuroscientist and a professor of psychology at the University of Miami.
0:37.5	She is also the Director of Contemplative Neuroscience for the Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative, which she co-founded in 2010.
0:46.9	Her work has been featured at NATO, the World Economic Forum, and the Pentagon.
0:51.6	Most importantly, she is a a spunky gal from Chicago. I got a bang out of her
0:56.6	and we had so much fun talking to her. After we were done recording she was telling us a couple
1:00.4	stories and she knows everyone. Oh yeah, yeah.
1:03.4	She's very connected.
1:04.4	Very dialed in.
1:05.4	She has a new book out called Peak Mind.
1:07.6	Peak Mind teaches you how to train your brain to pay attention differently.
1:12.1	So please enjoy Dr Amishi Jaa.
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