How Focus and Attention Powers Your Mind – Amishi Jha, Ph.D. : 940

<p><strong>WE APPRECIATE OUR PARTNERS.&nbsp;CHECK THEM OUT!</strong></p><p><strong>Trigger Autophagy: </strong><a href="https://spermidinelife.us/dave" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://spermidinelife.us/dave</a>, use code&nbsp;<strong>DAVE25</strong>&nbsp;for 25% off your first month’s order</p><p><strong>Meat Sticks! All the Good Stuff-No BS:&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://paleovalley.com/DAVE" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://paleovalley.com/DAVE</a>, use code&nbsp;<strong>DAVE</strong>&nbsp;to get 15% off your first order</p><p><strong>Sleep Better on Natural Memory Foam:&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://myessentia.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://myessentia.com</a>, use&nbsp;code&nbsp;<strong>DAVEVIP</strong>&nbsp;to get an exclusive discount</p><p><strong>IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE™...</strong></p><p>…you’re going to find out why you’re missing 50% of your life to fractured attention and distraction and what it’s doing to your brain.&nbsp;</p><p>Podcast guest&nbsp;<a href="https://lab.amishi.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Amishi Jha, Ph.D.</a>, a neuroscientist and professor of psychology at the University of Miami, researches how people pay attention. She co-founded the Contemplative Neuroscience for the Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative at the University of Miami and serves as its director. For more than 25 years, she’s researched the science of attention through intensive work with the U.S. Military, first responders, medical professionals, business leaders, and elite sports teams.</p><p>She’s found that attention Is both your superpower&nbsp;<em>and</em>&nbsp;your&nbsp;kryptonite.<strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p>As a superpower, attention allows you to time-travel in your mind (future and past), highlights what’s important, helps you problem solve, and shuts out distractions, she explains in her book,&nbsp;“<a href="https://amishi.com/books/peak-mind" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Peak Mind: Fin