Highway To Health Podcast

Jeremy has a conversation with Dr. Mark McLaughlin about his new book, Cognitive Dominance - A Brain Surgeon's Quest To Out-Think Fear, in which he explores what happens to our brains when an unexpected event causes fear to overtakes our executive function.He shares the experience from early in his career when something expected happened post-surgery with a teenager he was treating that affected him profoundly and caused him to leave pediatric neurosurgery for many years until, through writing the book, he developed a new model for sorting these kinds challenges as they arise to be able to make solid quick decisions without fear dominating.  https://www.markmclaughlinmd.comThe Book:https://www.amazon.com/dp/193689162XShow notes: 8:25Why write Mark wrote the book 9:10 Learning to deal with fear 11:15 Holding ourselves to an impossible standard 12:45 What do you do with unexpected events 13:50 Facing our problems, system for processing 16:10 The dream 18:45 Breaking down the dream, metaphor for the brain’s proc