Dr. Amishi Jha
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2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 4 Jul
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You know, when you talk to yourself in that manner of like, where am I right now?
Is that where I want to be?
All of a sudden, the world doesn't feel as dire like, oh, I'm over here.
I think I want to be over there instead.
I think that's what I should be doing right now is being over there.
Here's the tricky part of having assessing that with children, by the way.
What does it take for you to even know if somebody's on task or off task, right?
They have to have the awareness in something It's something called meta awareness awareness or attention to your attention.
That is also a developmentally slow process So we're getting a fuzzy read on them I mean we could take them into the lab and look directly at their performance on tasks
And yeah, they mind wander a lot.
Their attention can be off often, you know, off task often.
But I don't think that's the thing we want to help cultivate, which is the counterintuitive thing.
And I mean, I refer to it in the book is like a peak mind pivot.
It's like we think that we have to focus better.
We think we need to focus on we need to train ourselves to focus.
And I'm saying no to focus better.
Train your mind to notice when you're not focused.
So, you know, that's a totally different set of you're you're exercising the floodlight and the juggler.
The flashlight will do its thing.
It knows how to do its thing.
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