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Dr. Amishi Jha - Find Your Focus

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How to Optimize the Mind for Personal Success?

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Sally Kohn: Is it possible to optimize the mind for personal success? She says attention can be a matter of life and death in some professions. Kohn has been trying to figure out how to train the mind for people like soldiers, first respondes, health care professionals,. students, athletes.

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. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California–Davis and postdoctoral training at the Brain Imaging and Analysis Center at Duke University.

Dr. Jha's newest book is available now: Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day.

Read more about Dr. Jha at: amishi.com.

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