Dilip Jeste, MD: Wiser, Faster

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Dilip Jeste is a professor of psychiatry and neurosciences and the director of the Center for Healthy Aging at UC San Diego. He's spent the last 20 years studying aspects of healthy aging and the neurobiological roots of wisdom. With Sounds True, Dr. Jeste has written a new book titled Wiser: The Scientific Roots of Wisdom, Compassion, and What Makes Us Good. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Dr. Jeste about wisdom—what it is, how we can cultivate more of it in our own lives, and how we can grow into a wiser society. They explore a new definition of wisdom that incorporates neurobiological and evolutionary components of what makes us wise, as well as the social and cultural ones we might be more familiar with. Dr. Jeste and Tami also discuss the future of wisdom, including the potential of a metaphorical "wisdom pill.” Finally, they speak on the importance of helping our society become wiser, faster.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by Sounds True. My name is Tammy Simon. I'm the founder of Sounds True, and I'd love to take a moment to introduce you to the new Sounds True Foundation. Take a
0:15.0	wiser and kinder world, the Sounds True Foundation is dedicated to creating a wiser
0:19.0	and kinder world by making transformational education widely available.
0:25.0	We want everyone to have access to transformational tools,
0:30.0	such as mindfulness, emotional awareness, and self-compassion, regardless of financial, social, or physical challenges.
0:40.7	The Sounds True Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to providing these transformational tools to communities in need, including at-risk youth, prisoners, veterans, and those in developing countries.
0:55.4	If you'd like to learn more or feel inspired to become a supporter, please visit
1:00.9	Sounds True Foundation.org.
1:03.0	You're listening to Insights at the Edge.
1:08.0	Today my guest is Dr. Delip Jaste.
1:15.0	Delip is the Senior Associate Dean for Healthy Aging and Senior Care.
1:20.0	He's a professor of psychiatry and neurosciences and the director of the Center for Healthy
1:26.0	Aging at the University of California, San Diego.
1:29.7	He's also a past president of the American Psychiatric Association and someone who is really
1:36.4	on the edge of a new field that he calls positive psychiatry. He's a neuropsychiatrist who specializes in
1:46.4	geriatric issues and he spent the last 20 years studying aspects of healthy aging and the neurobiological roots of wisdom.
1:58.1	With sounds true, Dr. DeLeep Jaste has written a new book it's called Wiser, the scientific roots of wisdom, compassion,
2:09.0	and what makes us good.
2:11.7	What moved me the most about this meeting with
2:14.8	DeLeep was yes his sincerity and his humility and also his all-out
2:21.5	commitment to help us evolve more quickly as individuals and into a
2:29.3	wise society, something we need so much at this time. Here's my conversation with Dr.
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