4.6 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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My guest today is Amishi Jha, a professor of psychology at the University of Miami. She serves as the Director of Contemplative Neuroscience for the Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative, which she co-founded in 2010. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California–Davis and postdoctoral training at the Brain Imaging and Analysis Center at Duke University. Watch her TED Talk on “How to Tame Your Wandering Mind” with 5 million+ views here.
The topic is her book Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
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| 0:00.0 | This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.5 | Now this is one of those conversations that requires you to be mindful, to turn it all off, and to listen. |
| 0:44.4 | Because you're going to hear something different. |
| 0:48.0 | My guest today, Amishi Jha, neuroscientist. |
| 0:53.0 | She knows something about how our minds work. |
| 0:57.3 | Very specifically, she has an expertise in mindfulness. |
| 1:01.8 | Her new book, Very Cool Stuff, is called Peak Mind. |
| 1:06.7 | Our conversation today is wide-ranging. |
| 1:09.8 | But there is put aside any skepticism you may have or may not have. |
| 1:16.2 | But if we can find the opportunity in this day and age to be more mindful, guess what? |
| 1:24.8 | The quality of everything in your life is going to increase your work, your love life, your exercise. Every last thing will increase if you have some type of mindfulness practice in your world. |
| 1:43.0 | Look, that's not being hippie spiritual or hippie religious or whatever. |
| 1:48.5 | My guest today is a scientist. She's using her understanding of mindfulness and the brain |
| 1:55.3 | imaging techniques. And it's all tying together into multiple aha moments. |
| 2:02.7 | Without any further delay, let's jump right into my conversation today with the Mishi |
| 2:07.3 | Ja. |
| 2:23.8 | In advance to this conversation and and even our pre-talk right there, it got me thinking because you said something about letting me see your picture, like a static picture. |
| 2:29.5 | And I wanted to tell you, like, I've been doing this for so long without video that my attention, I don't |
| 2:36.4 | really want to see anybody. I want to hear the words. Now, it's a different conversation if you're |
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