#1723 - Amishi Jha

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Joe Rogan

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4.6 • 228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2021

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Dr. Amishi Jha is a professor of psychology at the University of Miami, and Director of Contemplative Neuroscience for the Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative. She is the author of "Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Joe Rogan
0:05.0	Experience Train by Day Joe Rogan
0:08.0	by night all day.
0:10.0	Hello.
0:13.0	Thanks for doing this.
0:15.0	Um, Peak Mind, huh?
0:17.0	That's right.
0:18.0	Yeah, how long you been working on this?
0:20.0	Um, my whole life.
0:22.0	Your whole life? But the actual book a couple years. And the idea of improving all aspects of the way the brain works. Is this something that's always fascinated you?
0:33.0	Absolutely.
0:34.0	Yeah.
0:35.0	Yeah.
0:36.0	The book isn't necessarily about all aspects, but a very important one that drives a lot of other aspects,
0:41.0	which is the brain's attention system. Yeah, that's a thing a lot of other aspects which is the brain's attention system.
0:43.8	Yeah, that's a thing a lot of people have a problem with today, right?
0:46.4	Phones and distractions and screens and nonsense.
0:50.3	Yeah, but it's always been a problem.
1:03.7	So meaning you can look back to medieval monks and they report, you know, I abandoned my family. I've devoted my life to God and I still keep thinking about lunch when I'm supposed to be praying. So this is not only a modern problem, it's actually a human problem.
1:07.8	Where does it come from?
1:10.2	Is it just a natural function of having a lot of things to think about in the world if you're trying to survive?
1:15.0	What does, where does what come from?
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