Dr. Alok Kanojia

So in psychotherapy, we try to get rid of that bad stuff, but let's understand how stuff goes in.

Because if we can understand how the mind is programmed, and this is, it's so simple, so neuroscientific, okay?

Or maybe you can tell me it's not neuroscientific, but I'm pretty sure it is.

Okay, the first thing is the one pointedness of the mind allows things to sink in.

So if I'm trying to study optic nerve anatomy, okay?

and I'm in a burning building with people yelling at me, I can have my eyes look at the paper, but I'm not gonna learn anything.

This is the really crazy thing.

is a lot of people study repetitively, right?

So I read the paper again and again and again and again, but it's not like each time I read the paper, I get 10% of the knowledge.

If you really pay attention to your mind, when you are focused, when your mind is one pointed, you just need to read it once.

What we're basically doing is we're rolling the dice.

Am I focused this time I read the page?

Am I focused this time I read the page?

Am I focused this time I read the page?

This is also why we have studies on things like writing.

So when you write, it improves your capacity to focus.

So that's when things enter your memory a little bit more.

So one pointedness of the mind is what leads to things being learned.

Now, this is how trauma works.

So when you are intensely emotional, it actually focuses your mind.