Learn to Strengthen Your Focus / Joe De Sena & Dr Amishi Jha
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
You can build your capacity for attention and focus, just like you build your muscles. Today's guest Dr. Amishi Jha is a professor of psychology at the University of Miami and is the Director of Contemplative Neuroscience for the Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative, which she co-founded in 2010. Her work has been featured at NATO, the World Economic Forum, and The Pentagon. She joins Joe De Sena, founder & CEO of Spartan, to explain how you can use simple focus exercises, like push ups for the brain, to strengthen your attention, focus, and mental resilience.
Dr Amishi Jha’s Book “Peak Mind” https://amzn.to/3snIydy
More about Amishi Jha and her work https://amishi.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Like what happens? I turned into an Avenger, I'm able to build a business, people want to hang out with me more or what? |
| 0:08.0 | So it ends up that the brain system that I study in my lab, which is attention, is the fuel for our success. |
| 0:15.4 | We need it in order to think, really make decisions, deliberate problem spaces, learn, and attention happens to be a system that is extremely powerful but |
| 0:25.3 | quite vulnerable. So what we see is when we offer people these practices, they're essentially |
| 0:30.1 | regaining those capacities that tend to become depleted because of |
| 0:34.4 | demanding circumstances in their lives. |
| 0:37.0 | Welcome to the Spartan Up Podcast with Joe Descena, |
| 0:41.0 | founder and CEO of Spartan Race. |
| 0:45.2 | We are talking about overcoming obstacles. |
| 0:50.0 | The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course, |
| 0:53.0 | we will teach you here on a Spartan Up podcast to get over obstacles in your mind. |
| 0:57.5 | What if you could build your capacity for attention and focus? |
| 1:01.0 | Build that strength, just like you build your muscles. Today's guest, Dr. Amishija, author of |
| 1:06.4 | Peak Mind, find your focus, own your attention, joins Joe to tell you how you can. |
| 1:15.0 | Do you want to be ready for anything? Download Joe's free ebook at Spartan.com |
| 1:18.0 | slash ready for anything. |
| 1:20.0 | This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Athletic Brewing Company and |
| 1:25.1 | FITA. Race Dirty, recover clean with FITA Sports Recovery Drink. |
| 1:29.6 | Visit Life Aid Devco.com and enter the code Spartan 30 at checkout to get 30% off their full line of functional lifestyle |
| 1:36.7 | beverage blends and Go Powder Sticks. Athletic Brewing Company. Their innovative process allows them to brew great tasting craft beer without |
| 1:45.9 | the alcohol. New customers can get 10% off their entire order with the Code Spartan 10, |
| 1:51.5 | limit one per customer. |
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