232. Amishi Jha on Learning How to Pay Attention to Your Attention
The Michael Shermer Show
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Living in the Now
The power of living in the now. How do you balance your past and future? We will be mind wandering 50% of our waking moments, says Tran. It is built and baked in a evolutionary inheritance we walk around with. And it's useful. It allows us to productively reflect and plan. There are some people that i talk to that are very high power people who demand these capacities on their own. But they can't get rid of them. They have to learn from my mistakes so that future self has a better life. So how do you balance that? You know, like, my past matters to me. I don't want to miss the now.
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