Dr. Daniel Chao, Halo Neuroscience Co-Founder
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
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🗓️ 24 October 2018
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Dr. Daniel Chao, co-founder of Halo Neuroscience.
Dr. Chao’s whole life has been dedicated to understanding the brain and its function — specifically, how electrical stimulation can help the brain more rapidly improve performance, cognitive function, and overall happiness.
As some of you are already probably aware, we recently partnered with Halo Neuroscience because I’m bullish on their technology, Halo Sport, which accelerates movement based learning through transcranial direct current stimulation (TDCS).
I wanted to have an in-depth conversation with Daniel to learn more about how scientists are using brain stimulation to optimize neurological function and go deeper into what’s possible with this technology.
I think this technology is right on the frontier, backed by about 15 years of research and currently used by the best athletes in the world – US Olympic teams, players in the NFL, MLB, NBA, PGA Tour, and more.
In a previous Finding Mastery podcast (#045), psychologist Anders Ericsson argued that expert performers acquire their skill through deliberate practice.
In deliberate practice, it's a full and deep, possibly nauseatingly deep focus, on whatever skill you are working on learning. This involves minimizing distractions and practicing just outside one's comfort zone.
Well what if adding a layer of technology to deliberate practice could accelerate the rate of learning by up to 50%?
That’s something we discuss in this conversation and Daniel believes we’re just scratching the surface of what’s possible.
As someone who’s always been captivated by the power of the mind, this conversation was such a treat for me so I can’t wait for you to learn from Daniel.
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| 0:00.0 | Anybody who's a serious athlete, they need to think about their longevity, and why do athletes slow down? |
| 0:05.4 | I mean a big part of that is just load on the body, like physical load on the body, |
| 0:11.2 | and the vast majority of physical load on the body comes from practice, |
| 0:15.2 | not from performance, it comes from practice. |
| 0:19.0 | So what if you can make practice more efficient. Alright, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I am Michael Jervais, and by Trade and Training, |
| 0:37.0 | I'm a Sport and Performance Psychologist, as well as the current co-founder of Compete to Create. |
| 0:42.0 | And the idea behind these conversations is to the current co-founder of Compete to Create. |
| 0:42.6 | And the idea behind these conversations |
| 0:44.6 | is to learn from people who are on the path of mastery. |
| 0:47.9 | And what that really means is we want to better understand |
| 0:51.1 | what they're searching for. We want to dig to |
| 0:53.4 | understand their psychological framework and how they see the world, themselves in it, |
| 0:56.9 | how they explain events, and also understand the mental skills they've used to |
| 1:01.1 | build and refine their craft. |
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