Dr. Caroline Leaf
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6 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 16 Jun
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And within eight months, she caught up to a 12th grade level, finished school with her peers and went on to get a university degree.
And one of the coolest things was that she was actually a really average student and not even good at math.
After the accident, using her mind to change her brain, she became like a math genius.
You know, I mean, this was like, and I can tell you story after story, and that really motivated me to work across the board with now I really have to understand what's going on.
And I happen to be living in South Africa where I grew up at the time.
I was born in Zimbabwe and grew up in South Africa.
And in the apartheid era, I mean, this is like, it really ages me, doesn't it?
Go back into those, I worked through the apartheid era, the transition and the post-apartheid era.
So I was seeing all the socioeconomic trauma, the racism trauma,
And I worked in that three days a week in those environments with terrible poverty and whatever.
And I worked in Waterloo, Rwanda.
And I worked with the wealthiest of the wealthy, CEOs of corporations, schools everywhere that my laboratory was the world to try and understand poverty.
humans and mind and get away from this scientific concept that consciousness is the hard question and no one is really doing anything we're just talking about it as being as this elusive philosophical thing that we will push aside and one day promissory science will do it one day and I thought I can't do this because
I am mind.
You are mind.
So if I don't manage it, I mean, you can go three weeks without food, three days without water, three minutes without oxygen, but you don't even go three seconds without using your mind.
So my underlying premise was, okay, well, if that's the case, what is it?
And how do we manage it?
And if I don't manage it, what I did from my research is
You can learn to manage it.
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