Dr. Amishi Jha

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1,114 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 4 Jul

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The Mel Robbins Podcast · 12 Minutes to a Better Brain: Neuroscientist Reveals the #1 Habit for Clarity & Focus · 27 Oct 2025 podcast

Part of my journey into why I'm interested in working with groups like elite performers and military and medical and nursing professionals is because we know, like all of us, attention matters.

But there are going to be circumstances, high demand, high stress circumstances, where it will become challenged and may fail.

And nobody wants that to happen.

All of them fail.

And we'll talk about specifically how they fail.

But I just wanted to say that if anybody deals with high-stress circumstances and it feels like life isn't working, that you're feeling fuzzy and foggy, probably the logical thing to do is change your life.

Just do something that doesn't produce those effects.

Change your job.

Don't do so much stuff.

Give up in some sense.

Well, what I was going to say is my whole orientation toward dealing with the situation that said, I'm not changing my life.

I am going to change the way my brain functions, came from those formative experiences seeing literally a patient change his own brain.

So the notion of neuroplasticity is the reason I turned toward the situation and said, I've got to figure out how to train this brain so that it can

face the challenges that it's experiencing right now.

And I'm really glad that I happen to be a neuroscientist who knew that this was possible.

Yeah, I mean, I think the biggest insights that excite me are that,

Each of these systems, the flashlight, plug light, and juggler, are incredibly powerful when we think about elite performers, but really anybody that would feel the sense of agency and success in their life.

You don't have to be an Olympian to experience this, but we know what that feels like when the flashlight is on the right thing, when you're broad and receptive when you want to be, and narrow and selective when you want to be, when the goals are in your mind and your actions are aligned with it.

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