Srini Pillay: How to Accomplish Your Personal and Professional Goals in 2018
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Why don’t we follow through with our New Year’s resolutions? What prevents us from going through with the goals we set? Dr. Srini Pillay knows why, and he knows what it takes to get past that and accomplish your goals for a new year. Hear the psychological and emotional reasons why you don’t accomplish your goals and how you can change that in our latest episode!
Dr. Srini Pillay is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Part-Time) at Harvard Medical School. He is known for combining “head and heart” (figuratively and literally) in an approach to personal development and goal mastery that blends science, spirituality, and horns-grabbing joie de vivre to combat the stresses faced by ambitious and high-achieving people in academia, business, and life.
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| 0:00.0 | The brain is wired for change, but it resists change because the moment you say, hey, I want to go to the gym, |
| 0:08.6 | your brain sort of like pretty on board with it because it's an idea. Then when you actually make that effort to go, you know, if you're on the East Coast, it's cold in the morning, you've got to go outside. |
| 0:18.0 | If you're on the West Coast, you probably have some other things. Like, you know, I might rather just take in the sunshine or rather just |
| 0:23.6 | sort of be outside the moment your brain knows that you are committed to an action |
| 0:28.3 | it actually starts creating brain chaos which we call cognitive dissonance and when there is |
| 0:35.5 | cognitive dissonance the brain goes back to what it was doing previously so that it |
| 0:40.8 | doesn't have to deal with that chaos. |
| 0:42.6 | So what we know is that even though the brain is wired to change, |
| 0:47.2 | it is often not predisposed to engage in that change |
| 0:51.3 | when that change is an actual action because of the brain |
| 0:54.5 | chaos that results. |
| 0:57.7 | I'm Srenny Rao and this is the unmistakable creative podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who've started movements built thriving businesses written best-selling, and created insanely interesting art. |
| 1:13.9 | For more, check out our 500 episode archive at unmistakable Creative.com. This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats so you can order |
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| 1:47.5 | Sreeney, welcome to the unmistakable creative. |
| 1:49.0 | Thanks so much for taking the time to join us. |
| 1:51.0 | Thanks for inviting me. |
| 1:52.0 | It's really lovely to be back. |
| 1:53.0 | Yeah, so you know you're back for the third time which says a whole hell of a lot about the first two |
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