Summary of Amishi P. Jha's Peak Mind

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The first few years of integrating new parenthood into an already busy life were challenging for me. I was engaged in the constant, all-consuming work of running the lab, writing grants, conducting studies, teaching courses, and mentoring students.
#2 I was used to being able to study my way to success, but now I was unable to logic my way out of my problem. I couldn’t analyze or think my way back from feeling out of step with my life. I realized that if I was unwilling to change my life, I would have to change my brain.
#3 I was born in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, and when I was a baby, my parents moved to the United States so that my father could complete his graduate work in engineering. I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and as Indian kids, we knew there were only three acceptable professions for us: doctor, engineer, or accountant.
#4 My job was to take people who had suffered traumatic brain injuries outside for some fresh air. I got to know one of the patients particularly well. His name was Gordon, and he had been in a motorcycle accident. He would spend hours every night memorizing the motion of his hand as it pressed the lever.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Bien-être émotionnel
• Bien-être
• Bien-être
• Bien-être
• Bien-être
• Personal development
• Happiness

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 19 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781669354413
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Amishi P. Jha's Peak Mind
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The first few years of integrating new parenthood into an already busy life were challenging for me. I was engaged in the constant, all-consuming work of running the lab, writing grants, conducting studies, teaching courses, and mentoring students.

#2

I was used to being able to study my way to success, but now I was unable to logic my way out of my problem. I couldn’t analyze or think my way back from feeling out of step with my life. I realized that if I was unwilling to change my life, I would have to change my brain.

#3

I was born in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, and when I was a baby, my parents moved to the United States so that my father could complete his graduate work in engineering. I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and as Indian kids, we knew there were only three acceptable professions for us: doctor, engineer, or accountant.

#4

My job was to take people who had suffered traumatic brain injuries outside for some fresh air. I got to know one of the patients particularly well. His name was Gordon, and he had been in a motorcycle accident. He would spend hours every night memorizing the motion of his hand as it pressed the lever.

#5

I became interested in the brain’s fragility, its resilience, and its capacity for change. I wondered how the brain controls all these different functions.

#6

Attention is the key to all of our other brain systems operating properly. It allows us to solve problems, learn, and survive in a constantly changing world. It allows us to travel to different realities and memories.

#7

Your attention system is constantly shutting out things and highlighting certain things. It was your attention system’s capacity to do this that was messing with you during those overwhelming teeth-numbing months.

#8

Your brain is built for bias. It does not treat all information equally. For example, humans can see better than they can smell, while dogs can smell better than they can see.

#9

The brain has built-in structural biases that are essential. They were born out of the evolutionary pressures endured by our ancestors to advantage their survival. We rely on them all the time, from moving our eyes to check who’s coming in to directing attention.

#10

The brain is a war zone where neurons, nodes, and networks compete for prominence. Networks can exert more influence than individual neurons, and they are especially important when they link up into networks.

#11

Attention is the superpower that determines the richness of your perception. It biases brain activity, and whatever you pay attention to will have more neural activity associated with it.

#12

Your attention can be like a flashlight. You can point it at anything you want, and it will become brighter and more salient. Whatever is not in the flashlight’s beam is suppressed, and remains dampened, dimmed, and blocked out.

#13

The alerting system is the opposite of the flashlight. It is broad and open, and it shines a floodlight on whatever or whoever is in your environment. It is diffuse and ready to rapidly deploy your attention in any direction.

#14

The central executive is the overseer of the entire process, and it is responsible for making sure that your actions are in line with your goals. It keeps all the balls in the air.

#15

Attention is a currency that is used for nearly every aspect of our lives. It is used for perception, and it operates across three types of information-processing domains: cognitive, social, and emotional.

#16

Working memory is a temporary workspace in the brain where you can manipulate information over short periods of time. It is closely related to attention, and they work together to process information and navigate life.

#17

Attention is a superpower that can be used for good or bad. It can limit and constrain what you perceive, zoom through time and space, and simulate imagined futures and other realities.

#18

Attention is a superpower that can be used to help us survive and thrive, but it is not invincible. Certain circumstances are kryptonite for attention, and unfortunately, they just so happen to be the circumstances of our lives.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Attentional hijacking is when your attention, which is a spotlight created by your mind, is constantly being yanked away from where you want it to be and onto something else, something that your mind has decided is more relevant and urgent.

#2

The three main factors that determine when our attention is deployed are familiarity, salience, and our own goal. Our goals are the most vulnerable of all these attention pulls.

#3

Our attention is a superpower that can be used to focus on one thing, but we often have no awareness of where it is or who or what is in control. We spend much of our lives under conditions that are like kryptonite for our attentional superpower.

#4

When we experience too much stress for too long, we get caught in the downward spiral of attention degradation. The worse our attention gets, the less we’re able to control it, which only makes our stress worse.