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Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Kelly Boys: Illuminating Our Blind Spots

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Kelly Boys is a teacher and author who directed the launch of the renowned Search Inside Yourself training program, based on the emotional intelligence and mindfulness program developed at Google. With Sounds True, she has published The Blind Spot Effect: How to Stop Missing What's Right in Front of You. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Kelly speaks with Tami Simon on the different kinds of blind spots, how we develop them, and how to finally see through those blockages. Kelly describes what drew her to the subject and also leads the audience in a guided practice for homing in on their own blind spots. Tami and Kelly talk about "the endowment effect"—a psychological need to grasp onto what is familiar even if it no longer serves our best interests. Finally, they discuss the greatest (and most common) blind spot of all: the feeling that we are separate from the rest of humanity. (62 minutes)

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0:00.0

This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.

0:04.0

At sounds true.com you can find hundreds of downloadable audio

0:08.0

learning programs, plus books, music, videos, and online courses, and events.

0:14.3

At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves

0:17.2

as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,

0:20.2

offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.

0:24.0

Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Kelly Boys.

0:44.9

Kelly Boys directed the launch of Google's Search Inside Yourself Leadership Training Program

0:50.8

for neuroscience-based emotional intelligence and mindfulness.

0:55.0

She's taught war veterans, women in prison, cancer survivors,

1:00.0

those with substance abuse addictions

1:03.4

humanitarian workers and psychotherapists.

1:06.7

With sounds true, Kelly Boys has written a new book called The Blind Spot Effect,

1:13.9

how to stop missing what's right in front of you,

1:17.4

where she explores our many kinds of blind spots,

1:21.4

from the physical to the interpersonal, how we get them, how to reveal them, and

1:27.3

how to work with our newfound awareness.

1:31.0

In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Kelly and I spoke about different kinds of blind spots and the biggest blind spot of all, feeling like a separate self.

1:42.0

She also took us into a guided experience

1:46.0

where we could begin to identify at the level of our felt sense

1:50.0

how we are contracted and holding energy and information out of our consciousness.

1:57.8

We also talked about the endowment effect, how we hold on to what is familiar, even when it causes us suffering.

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