Tame Your Distracted Mind with Neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley

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Chase Jarvis

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🗓️ 17 January 2018

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Adam Gazzaley is a neuroscientist, speaker, entrepreneur, photographer, author… He’s a hyphen through and through. But what he’s obsessed with these days is using technology to retrain and improve the use of our human brains, using it even to treat ADHD and other mental conditions.

Now more than ever before the world is moving at a pace faster than our 2 million year old brains can catch up. Adam says that as a species our brains aren’t evolving quickly enough so we’re experiencing a cognition crisis and the fallout of this crisis are attention deficit disorders. Through the application of treatments involving video games and mindfulness practices, we can not only be more productive in our life, but also feel more fulfilled in our lives. We talk about how to build our minds to increase our attention, expand our perception, improve our decision making, and better regulate our emotions.

In today’s episode:

The brain is a muscle - it’s trainable.
We may soon be entering a time where doctors prescribe digital medicine - video games as medication for ADHD. Even if you don’t have ADHD or another attention deficit disorder, you can still benefit from training your brain.
You can use monotasking and mindfulness to fight anxiety and be more productive.
The world needs wisdom. Part of the wisdom is the development of our intuition and internal awareness. It’s the foundation of how we approach all things and each other.

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	So happy to welcome another show, this show, the Chase Divers Live show here on Creative Live.
0:10.5	I'm very excited that you put me in your ears and press play today.
0:15.5	You guys know the show is where I sit down with the world's top creators, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders
0:20.0	and do everything I
0:21.4	can to unpack their brains to help you do your best, live your dreams in career and hobby and
0:26.8	life. And my guest today is Adam Gazali. Now, if you have any sort of background in
0:34.2	neuroscience or training your brain, Adam will be a household name. And if not,
0:39.3	stand by for a treat. In short, Adam is a speaker, a scientist, a researcher, an author, and
0:44.4	general all around badass. He, he, there's one part in the podcast today where he says like,
0:51.1	oh yeah, so I finished my PhD and my MD and became a doctor and then I
0:54.7	was working on my master's in this, you know, like just a typical path. And I was like, whoa, whoa, bro.
0:59.6	Typical path. You're like the most educated person I've ever met. Anyway, super, super smart guy. And in short,
1:07.0	he's a hyphen because he works on so many different projects, but his whole world by and
1:11.1	large revolves around training the human brain and how do we use technology to train or retrain
1:17.7	that brain to make it better. Now, if you're like me, anything that sort of says anything about
1:24.6	ooh, make your brain smarter, faster, bigger, stronger.
1:32.6	I'm interested in it because I know it's such a core part of our who we are as creatures,
1:37.1	and it's the centerpiece to some of the things that differentiate us from other species.
1:42.0	Things like creativity, for example, you may have heard me talk about this before.
2:03.0	The mind, I don't use the word our mind. I use the word the mind because it's a two million year old organ that it's not designed to make us happy and great. It's designed to keep us alive. So what I think most people don't realize is that like other parts of our body, we can train this organ, this piece of our human, to work for us rather than to just, quote, unquote,
2:09.9	make decisions based on primarily keeping us alive.
2:12.8	Now, Adam's work to bring it back is he, you know, he's a neuroscientist. He runs a lab called
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