Daniel J. Siegel, M.D.
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Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti
4.4 • 717 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Elle Russ chats with Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. - a graduate of Harvard Medical School who completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry. He is currently a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, founding co-director of UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center, founding co-investigator at the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain and Development, and executive director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational center devoted to promoting insight, compassion, and empathy in individuals, families, institutions, and communities.
Dr. Siegel’s psychotherapy practice spans thirty years, and he has published extensively for the professional audience. He serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which includes over 70 textbooks. Dr. Siegel’s books include his five New York Times bestsellers: Aware: The science and practice of presence; Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human, and two books with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D.: The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline. His other books include: The Developing Mind (2nd Ed.), The Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology, Mindsight, The Mindful Brain, The Mindful Therapist, Parenting from the Inside Out (with Mary Hartzell, M.Ed.), The Yes Brain (also with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D). He has been invited to lecture for the King of Thailand, Pope John Paul II, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Google University, and TEDx.
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| 0:24.6 | Today we have a five-time New York Times best-selling author, an incredible contributor to the |
| 0:30.6 | cultivation of well-being in our society, Dr. Daniel Siegel, MD. |
| 0:34.9 | He's a graduate of Harvard Medical School and is currently a clinical professor |
| 0:38.5 | of psychiatry at UCLA's School of Medicine. He's the founding co-director of UCLA's Mindfulness |
| 0:44.8 | Awareness Research Center and the founding co-investigator at UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and |
| 0:50.9 | development, and also the executive director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational |
| 0:56.3 | center devoted to promoting insight, compassion, and empathy in individuals, families, |
| 1:01.6 | institutions, and communities. |
| 1:03.6 | And we're going to talk about his latest bestseller, a wonderful book called Aware, |
| 1:07.6 | The Science and Practice of Presence. |
| 1:09.7 | Welcome to the show. |
| 1:13.0 | Great to be here with you. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:31.1 | So I know one thing from in your book that you believe, and maybe we can just start here, is that it is never too late in life to develop, grow, and transform. And I know that that's what your work is about. Tell us, how did you even get into this arena? |
| 1:32.8 | Wow. |
| 1:43.9 | Well, the first thing is to say it's absolutely true that you can always grow throughout life, no matter what your age is. |
| 1:44.2 | I've worked with people in their 90s who have significant transformation, and they are |
| 1:50.2 | shocked because we have a myth that we carry around with us that, oh, my God, you only grow |
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