The Science of Training Your Attention | Dr. Amishi Jha
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How to stay focused, fight distraction, and function at your peak.
Dr. Amishi Jha is a professor of psychology at the University of Miami. She serves as the Director of Contemplative Neuroscience for the Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative, which she co-founded in 2010. Dr Jha is the author of the national bestseller, Peak Mind.
In this episode we talk about:
- What peak mind is
- Why meta awareness is important to practice and achieve peak mind
- The suite of mindfulness-based attention training practices
- Why humans developed attention in the first place
- Using the flashlight and floodlight metaphors to help us understand different types of attention
- The mental pushup for attention: focus, notice, and redirect
- The attention benefits for high stress populations who engage in contemplatives practices
- Multitasking vs. monotasking
- The real life and death consequences of confirmation bias
- Part of the reason why we may be experiencing a crisis of attention
- Giving our mind the freedom to choose where it goes next
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Why You Can’t Pay Attention - And How to Think Deeply Again | Johann Hari
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