Dr. Mark McLaughlin

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The School of Greatness · Neurosurgeon: How to Outthink Fear Under Pressure | Dr. Mark McLaughlin · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

But the mind can generate brain growth.

Have you ever studied your own brain?

That's a great question.

But interestingly, Einstein's brain was small, smaller than average.

Really?

Yes.

Then how was he so smart?

He probably just had amazing connections.

And connections and the connection.

So we talked about there's 90 billion neurons in your brain, but there's a hundred trillion connections and you can increase those.

Oh, so a neuron is basically like a cell that fires impulses and they communicate to the other cell.

So those connections are the things that can increase.

Wow.

So say it again, 90 billions?

fully it's the most complex organ in the universe and i get to operate on it and operate on the place where fear lives and that's why i like to dismantle it has there ever been a time where you worked on a brain in surgery where you're just like

Yes, actually.

I had a transformational moment about maybe four years into my career where I was operating on a gentleman who presented to the hospital with some confusion and some sleepiness.

And the scan that we got showed that he had a small cyst in the center of his brain that was clogging the fluid pathways.

So I took him to the operating room and I got the microscope in and I got my, these things are like retractors.

They're like basically metallic tongue depressors that are separating the brain tissue.

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