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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
Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralysed 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 throughout the show here:
http://intothemagicshop.com/exercises
Similar shows here: http://www.theinnovationshow.io/2018/10/19/ep-126-a-life-worth-breathing-with-max-strom/
http://www.theinnovationshow.io/2018/10/31/ep-128-one-second-ahead-enhance-your-performance-at-work-with-mindfulness-with-author-rasmus-hougaard/
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Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralysed 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 throughout the show here:
http://intothemagicshop.com/exercises
Similar shows here: http://www.theinnovationshow.io/2018/10/19/ep-126-a-life-worth-breathing-with-max-strom/
http://www.theinnovationshow.io/2018/10/31/ep-128-one-second-ahead-enhance-your-performance-at-work-with-mindfulness-with-author-rasmus-hougaard/
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