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Daniel Goleman - Emotional Intelligence, Mindfulness, and Learning to Pay Attention

Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat

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Is Meditation Really a Joke?

Matthew was the beginning of studies of yogis these olympic level meditatorsand their brain function is different, it turns out. He reassured people who were very advanced yogis essentially that this was ok. We get ten thousand new brain cells every day of alive till we die. And they go to where they're needed. It's just a fact of how the brain operates. There's this saying, neurons that fire together wire together. The more you train, the stronger the circuitry that you train becomes. This is called or plasticity. So i think of it as an internal gem.

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