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The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Srini Pillay

The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Self-improvement, Education, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Buddhism

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2014

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Srini Pillay M.D. Founder and CEO of NeuroBusiness GroupSrini Pillay, M.D. is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Invited Faculty at Harvard Business School. He is also the Founder and CEO of NeuroBusiness Group. He graduated with the highest number of awards during his residency training at Harvard. He is also a Certified Master Coach. His specific expertise is on helping companies reach their goals by coaching strategy acceleration, change management, innovation, sales optimization, stress management and many other corporate goals. He has 17 years of experience in brain imaging and has an international reputation as a human behavior expert with special emphasis on stress and anxiety. His latest book is: Life Unlocked: 7 Revolutionary Lessons to Overcome Fear.  In This Interview Srini and I Discuss...The One You Feed parable.The power of possibility.The difference between conscious fear and unconscious fear.What brain science tells us about unconscious fear.How unconscious fear is a major factor in our lives.The CIRCA method to manage unconscious fear.Chunking your issues into smaller, more manageable pieces.Ignoring the mind's chatter.Giving your self a reality check.Remembering that "this too shall pass"Keeping our thoughts on what we can control.Focusing our attention on positive things for some amount of time."Yoga Rage"Turning on the default node network.Dealing with "bottom up anxiety".How to handle emotional flooding.Being willing to make mistakes and be wrong.How simple action can be the highest form of intelligence.Taking small risks by tinkering.Using preemptive perception to make better decisions.Embracing the complexity of who we are.How we are wired to manage disappointment versus achieving fulfillment.Probability vs possibility thinking.Mimicking the exceptions rather than the rules.Srini Pillay LinksNeuroBusiness GroupSrini Pillay on TwitterSrini articles in the Harvard Business ReviewLife Unlocked: 7 Revolutionary Lessons to Overcome FearYour Brain and Business: The Neuroscience of Great LeadersSome of our most popular interviews that you might also enjoy:Kino MacGregorStrand of OaksMike Scott of the WaterboysTodd Henry- author of Die EmptyRandy Scott HydeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

If you're going to do a cognitive exercise, then probably what you want to do is something like acceptance.

0:05.1

Some of these words, they kind of make you want to puke.

0:16.2

Welcome to the one you feed.

0:18.0

Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,

0:22.7

quotes like, garbage in, garbage out, or, you are what you think, ring true.

0:28.4

And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.

0:32.7

We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.

0:37.4

We see what we don't have instead of what we do.

0:40.3

We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.

0:43.8

But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter.

0:47.2

It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.

0:52.0

This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,

0:56.4

how they feed their good walls.

1:26.4

Thanks for joining us.

1:40.0

Our guest today is Dr. Shreeney Palais, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

1:46.4

and invited faculty at Harvard Business School.

1:49.9

He graduated with the highest number of awards during his residency training at Harvard,

1:54.3

and his latest book is Life Unlocked, Seven Revolutionary Lessons to Overcome Fear.

2:00.3

Here's the interview.

2:01.3

Hi, Shreeney, welcome to the show.

2:03.1

Thanks so much for having me here.

2:04.5

Yeah, it's a pleasure to have you on.

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