Daniel J. Levitin

Coming up next on The Jordan Harbinger Show. There's not two kinds of medicine. There's not Western medicine and alternative medicine. If something's been shown to work, we call it medicine. If it's not been shown to work, there are some people out there who will call it alternative medicine. If we knew that it worked, it would not be an alternative. It would just be plain old medicine.

Coming up next on The Jordan Harbinger Show. There's not two kinds of medicine. There's not Western medicine and alternative medicine. If something's been shown to work, we call it medicine. If it's not been shown to work, there are some people out there who will call it alternative medicine. If we knew that it worked, it would not be an alternative. It would just be plain old medicine.

Coming up next on The Jordan Harbinger Show. There's not two kinds of medicine. There's not Western medicine and alternative medicine. If something's been shown to work, we call it medicine. If it's not been shown to work, there are some people out there who will call it alternative medicine. If we knew that it worked, it would not be an alternative. It would just be plain old medicine.

Well, experiential fusion is a term coined by Richard Davidson at University of Wisconsin-Madison, who works closely with the Dalai Lama about altered states and meditative states and such. And the idea is that it's sometimes referred to as flow, although it's slightly different, a flow state. You're in the zone if you're a basketball player, or if you're a coder, you just lose track of time.

Well, experiential fusion is a term coined by Richard Davidson at University of Wisconsin-Madison, who works closely with the Dalai Lama about altered states and meditative states and such. And the idea is that it's sometimes referred to as flow, although it's slightly different, a flow state. You're in the zone if you're a basketball player, or if you're a coder, you just lose track of time.

Well, experiential fusion is a term coined by Richard Davidson at University of Wisconsin-Madison, who works closely with the Dalai Lama about altered states and meditative states and such. And the idea is that it's sometimes referred to as flow, although it's slightly different, a flow state. You're in the zone if you're a basketball player, or if you're a coder, you just lose track of time.

But the experiential fusion that you and I are talking about with music is that under the right circumstances, you forget that you're listening to music. You might even forget who you are. You become one with the experience. And the brain basis of this gets to a circuit called the default mode network that my colleague Vinod Menon discovered at Stanford.

But the experiential fusion that you and I are talking about with music is that under the right circumstances, you forget that you're listening to music. You might even forget who you are. You become one with the experience. And the brain basis of this gets to a circuit called the default mode network that my colleague Vinod Menon discovered at Stanford.

But the experiential fusion that you and I are talking about with music is that under the right circumstances, you forget that you're listening to music. You might even forget who you are. You become one with the experience. And the brain basis of this gets to a circuit called the default mode network that my colleague Vinod Menon discovered at Stanford.

It is an altered state of consciousness where you're not in control of your thoughts. You're not directing them. They're self and internally directed. And we call it the mind wandering mode. And music can certainly activate that. And it's a healthful and restorative mode to get into. And it's a good antidote or reset button for the kind of hyper-caffeinated work schedule many of us follow.

It is an altered state of consciousness where you're not in control of your thoughts. You're not directing them. They're self and internally directed. And we call it the mind wandering mode. And music can certainly activate that. And it's a healthful and restorative mode to get into. And it's a good antidote or reset button for the kind of hyper-caffeinated work schedule many of us follow.

It is an altered state of consciousness where you're not in control of your thoughts. You're not directing them. They're self and internally directed. And we call it the mind wandering mode. And music can certainly activate that. And it's a healthful and restorative mode to get into. And it's a good antidote or reset button for the kind of hyper-caffeinated work schedule many of us follow.

So we talk about paying attention. It's an apt metaphor because attention, like money, is a limited capacity resource. And the cost of attending to something is metabolic. We use up blood oxygenated glucose in order to attend to things, to focus on things. And every time you make a decision, you're using a little more of that glucose. And it gets depleted and you need to take a break.

So we talk about paying attention. It's an apt metaphor because attention, like money, is a limited capacity resource. And the cost of attending to something is metabolic. We use up blood oxygenated glucose in order to attend to things, to focus on things. And every time you make a decision, you're using a little more of that glucose. And it gets depleted and you need to take a break.

So we talk about paying attention. It's an apt metaphor because attention, like money, is a limited capacity resource. And the cost of attending to something is metabolic. We use up blood oxygenated glucose in order to attend to things, to focus on things. And every time you make a decision, you're using a little more of that glucose. And it gets depleted and you need to take a break.

What many of us do is we'll just have another cup of coffee or something, you know, the bump of caffeine, and that doesn't really help the brain. It doesn't replenish the glucose. It just masks the symptoms of us being tired. Yeah, and it kicks the can a little farther down the road and all that. But what you want to do is then take a break.

What many of us do is we'll just have another cup of coffee or something, you know, the bump of caffeine, and that doesn't really help the brain. It doesn't replenish the glucose. It just masks the symptoms of us being tired. Yeah, and it kicks the can a little farther down the road and all that. But what you want to do is then take a break.

What many of us do is we'll just have another cup of coffee or something, you know, the bump of caffeine, and that doesn't really help the brain. It doesn't replenish the glucose. It just masks the symptoms of us being tired. Yeah, and it kicks the can a little farther down the road and all that. But what you want to do is then take a break.

And this gets to the Pomodoro method of work and break cycles.

And this gets to the Pomodoro method of work and break cycles.