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A weekly show interviewing leaders in their fields, authors, renowned professors, inventors, innovators, change-makers and mavericks to inspire, educate and inform the business world and the curious. This Global show speaks of something greater beyond innovation, disruption and technology. It speaks to the human need to learn: how to adapt and love a changing world. It embraces the spirit of constant change, of staying receptive, of always learning. The show exists to enable people to be fully informed to lead better lives, lives packed with meaning.

EP 142: Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart with James R. Doty MD

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Into the Magic Shop A Neurosurgeons Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain

Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke.

Today, he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor.

As a child, his life was at a dead end until at twelve he wandered into a magic shop looking for a plastic thumb. Instead, he met Ruth, a woman who taught him a series of exercises to ease his own suffering and manifest his greatest desires.

Ruth’s final mandate was that he keep his heart open and teach these techniques to others. She gave him his first glimpse of the unique relationship between the brain and the heart.

Doty would go on to put Ruth’s practices to work with extraordinary results. He achieved power and wealth that he could only imagine as a twelve-year-old.

However, he neglects Ruth’s most important lesson, to keep his heart open, with disastrous results. A spectacular charitable contribution that will virtually ruin him, changed his life.

Part memoir, part science, part inspiration, and part practical instruction, Into the Magic Shop shows us how we can fundamentally change our lives by first changing our brains and our hearts.

More about Jim here:

http://intothemagicshop.com

Meditations mentioned in the show:

http://intothemagicshop.com/exercises

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EP 126: A Life Worth Breathing with Max Strom

EP 128: One Second Ahead: Enhance Your Performance at Work with Mindfulness with author Rasmus Hougaard

Filed Under: Attention, Brain Science, creativity, Diversity, Education, Future Skills, Growth Mindset, Habits, Leadership, Mindfulness, Minfdulness, Neuroscience, Parenting in a Tech World, Podcasts Tagged With: CCARE, Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, Forgiveness, Into the Magic Shop, James R. Doty, Jim Doty, Law of Attraction, Manifestation, meditation, Mindfulness, Stanford Altruism

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