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🗓️ 10 August 2022
⏱️ 84 minutes
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This week’s conversation is with Dr. Mona Sobhani, a cognitive neuroscientist, researcher, entrepreneur and author.
After receiving her doctorate from the University of Southern California, Mona spent the next several years contributing her expertise in neuroscience to fields such as law, business, healthcare tech, venture capital, and research innovation centers.
Then, following what she describes as an “existential crisis,” everything changed. Her strict scientific perspective, frameworks of thinking, and process for truth-seeking were no longer satisfying the bigger questions she had about life – she became fascinated by exploring the crossroads of science and spirituality.
In her new book, Proof of Spiritual Phenomena: A Neuroscientist’s Discovery of the Ineffable Mysteries of the Universe, she details her transformation from a diehard scientific materialist to an open-minded spiritual seeker.
Coming from a scientific background myself, this was a fascinating conversation – Mona has done the brave work to push up against edges of her own deeply-rooted paradigms and beliefs to ultimately reimagine her philosophies of how the world works.
We can all learn from this type of thinking – deeply discerning, challenging beliefs, working your way through new information, and leaning into the fact that there are many things we don’t understand.
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0:00.0 | If it's not obvious, I mean one is just stay open-minded and stay curious. |
0:03.9 | Like one of my personal mantras now is radical curiosity and anytime I find myself |
0:09.9 | sticking to something or like I did with you say I believe I tried to remember no, no, no, no. |
0:14.5 | So stay radically curious. Like let's just keep learning. |
0:17.6 | Okay, welcome back or welcome to The Finding Mastery Podcast. My name is Dr. Michael Jervet |
0:32.9 | and by trade and training, I'm a sport and performance psychologist. |
0:36.9 | Now, the whole idea behind this podcast, behind these conversations, is to learn from people |
0:42.4 | who are challenging the edges and the reaches of the human experience in business and sport and |
0:48.4 | science and in life. And we pull back the curtain to explore how they have committed to mastering |
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