

I’m wired for that.’ You’re not wired for anything - it’s an ecosystem filled with throbbing hundred billion microscopic jellyfish sparking electricity at each other, trying to approach each other, shaving down, pruning branching, arborizing.” – Dr. All the pictures the brain as gears, and we’re starting to think about as wired. “The simple answer is that the stories we’ve been told about what’s going on in our skull - they’re just wrong. Jandial has studied both the brain and the mind and has a unique perspective on what factors hold us back from thinking in terms of abundance and positivity. Let’s start with understanding why we stay stuck in life. Jandial pulls back the curtain to reveal the depth of a surgeon’s psyche that is continuously pushed to its limits.

Ripped straight from his own personal experiences, Dr. His latest book, Life on a Knife’s Edge: A Brain Surgeon’s Reflections on Life, Loss, and Survival, is a beautifully written account of the resilience, courage, and belief he has witnessed in his patients and the lessons about human nature he’s learned from them. He has authored ten books and over 100 academic articles throughout his career. As a scientist, his laboratory investigates the biology of the human brain. As a surgeon, he now provides complex surgical treatment to patients with cancer.

Jandial was a college dropout and worked as a security guard. Before finding his calling in the operating room, Dr. Rahul Jandial, MD, Ph.D., is a dual-trained brain surgeon and neuroscientist at City of Hope in Los Angeles, California. I’m excited to bring Episode 1,249 to you, so let’s jump straight in! Who Is Dr. We talk about why we stay stuck in life, some lessons he has learned from dealing with thousands of cancer patients, how to optimize your brain, three pieces of wisdom for parents to optimize their children’s brains, and so much more!

Rahul Jandial, a doctor operating out of the City of Hope Hospital in Los Angeles. Today’s guest understands the brain intimately as both a surgeon and a neuroscientist and is here to help us understand how to optimize our brain to help us. How often do you think about your brain? Besides the hundreds of thousands of thoughts we have, our brain is responsible for running our entire body - it’s interpreting the signals from your eyes right now to translate and understand these words.
