734: How to Train Your Mind to Focus and Handle Distractions Better with Dr. Amishi Jha
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
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Do We Know What It Feels Like to Be Drained Out?
We know what it feels like to be distressed. We know it feels too much after the fact, but we don't have a gauge by which we can tell if our performance is going to suffer. So i wanted to figure out a way to train people so that they could be almost mentally mured against stress. There are so many solutions offered right now, like play brain training games or use this device to zap your brain with a small amount of electrical current. The one thing that tended to reliably, and now, after about 15 years of research in my own lab and many other labs, has been shown over and over again was mindfulness meditation training. It reliably showed protective effects, except
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