Finding Your Focus With Amishi Jha, PhD: Mindfulness Expert | #ThePlaybook 491

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David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

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🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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On this episode of #ThePlaybook, Amishi Jha, PhD, Professor at the University of Miami, Director of Contemplative Neuroscience for the Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative, and Author of PEAK MIND, shares her insights on: [1:33] - How we can use our minds to “time travel” and receive benefits in the process [5:10] - Why entrepreneurs should focus on where they are investing their attention [15:00] - Why it only takes 12 minutes to have a demonstrable positive impact on your mental sharpness [18:20] - What it means to have cognitive resilience and how you can increase yours Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On this episode of the playbook, I have Dr. Mishi Jha.
0:03.9	She is a professor of the U of M. That's right.
0:06.4	Ray Lewis, no, she's the director of contemplative neuroscience for the mindfulness research
0:12.0	and practice initiative and the author of Peak Mind.
0:17.2	And we're going to talk about why I'm switching my 520 rule to the 512 rule.
0:23.2	Learn about all of this and more on the playbook.
0:26.8	This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook.
0:29.1	For each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities and entrepreneurs
0:34.4	to talk about their personal and professional playbook to success
0:38.3	and what made them champions on the field and in the boardroom.
0:42.9	I'm your host, David Meltzer.
0:45.1	Boy do I have a treat for you today. We have an extraordinary playbook.
0:48.6	Mishi Jha, she's the professor at the U of M. I usually have the University of Miami people
0:54.6	about football but more importantly this excites me to show you how my life is transformed.
0:59.8	Mishi, she's the director of contemplative neuroscience for the mindfulness research
1:06.7	and practice initiative and more importantly author of Peak Mind which believe it or not is my pursuit.
1:16.3	So I believe in two constructs.
1:18.8	I believe in the man-made construct of time based on the speed of light.
1:22.5	And I think in order to understand mindfulness we have to understand where we live
1:27.6	which is in the space where 186,000 miles per second exists but in order to understand
1:34.8	mindfulness, attention, resilience, all the things that you write about in Peak Mind.
1:39.6	We have to understand that the speed of thought moves so much faster than 186,000 miles per second.
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