Dr. Mark McLaughlin: ...how the core principles behind brain surgery can apply to our daily lives

Nobody Told Me!

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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We talk with Dr. Mark McLaughlin, a neurosurgeon at Princeton Brain and Spine Care, who believes that all of us can benefit by taking the core principles behind brain surgery and applying them to any of life's problems. It's a fascinating concept, and one that Dr. McLaughlin writes about in the book, "Out-Thinking Fear: A Neurosurgeon's Secrets for Making Life's Hard Decisions", which will be available in 2019. You can learn more about Dr. McLaughlin by checking out his website (http://www.markmclaughlinmd.com).

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black.
0:14.0	And I'm Laura Owens.
0:15.5	Joining us for this episode is Dr. Mark McLaughlin, a neurosurgeon at Princeton Brain and Spine Care, who believes that
0:22.3	all of us can benefit by taking the core principles behind brain surgery and applying them to any
0:27.7	of life's problems. It's a fascinating concept and one which Dr. McLaughlin writes about in an upcoming
0:33.3	book. Dr. We thank you so much for joining us. My pleasure. Delighted to be here. We mentioned you
0:39.2	have a fascinating concept and you also have a fascinating background. Share that with us,
0:43.3	if you will. Well, thanks. I'm a neurosurgeon. I've been practicing for 20 years. I'm also a husband
0:51.1	of 26 years to my lovely wife, Julie.
0:55.0	I have four kids, and I'm a former collegiate wrestler.
0:59.4	Wow.
1:00.1	A wrestler turned brain surgeon.
1:02.9	Yes, yes.
1:03.9	Some people say that I'm a wrestling coach trapped in a neurosurgeon's body.
1:08.1	Well, how did you get the idea to become a neurosurgeon?
1:13.9	Well, ever since I was a kid, I wanted to be a physician. I used to follow my grandfather around. I don't know if you remember
1:20.0	the black bag, but I used to carry his black bag on house calls. Wow. And I knew that I wanted to go
1:27.1	into medicine.
1:28.2	So when I got the chance in college and got an opportunity to go to medical school,
1:33.0	I jumped at it and followed my dreams all the way to the University of Pittsburgh for training
1:38.0	and got a dream job of becoming a neurosurgeon.
1:42.6	And you said that wrestling and brain surgery are alike in some ways.
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