Google Personal Growth Series: Mindsight: The New Science of

[newguy786]

Loved the Book, resonates with the experiences of my days.

Reflection, awareness, integration...WOW.

SO plainly and well described:)

[springstern]

I'm so glad I've found this video. It will definitely help my understanding of the world. Thanks for google techtalk for sharing it with us;

[mofomoffin]

I loved his book! :)

[pitero3333]

amazing !!

[puntingpugs]

First, urn off the TV. Second, clear your mind of all expectations. Third, trust your instincts. Fourth, take action. Please read Lemonade Lives for an inspirational perspective on taking control of your life.

[rozaal786]

Thank you for sharing this ....a good and healthy one hour session

[mintun122]

Thank you so much, it's hard to find something awesome like this

[gondwanas]

Thank you for sharing.

[greetasdf]

Just one request: show me reliable, independent data. put them in your commentary - otherwise your talk is worth way less than you actually sell it for.

[dattucha]

@greetasdf nobody's gonna show you shit. it's called BOOKS. go read one - might help you.

[Xsteppin]

@misdelivery u should check out richard davidson's tech talk.

[DonnaMerrillTribe]

Thank you Google and Dr. Siegel. This was the BEST on the internet that I found on personal relationships. I practice several modalities of brain growth. I'm currently in a DBT group for that reason. To stop, and use the "wise mind" to improve myself. This lecture has heightened my awareness. I am an intuitive and use that part of my brain every day. It's given me more empathy in my life. So here I can see the patter. Thank you so much for helping me understand mySelf.

Donna

[sherwinjtb]

whoah watch the duration, it's a one hour lecture. it's nice to learn though. sharing is caring.

[misdelivery]

Google is wasting their money. They need to be brining in Human Potential experts who understand this SO MUCH BETTER than academic psychologists.

[merylste]

@misdelivery There are many ways to approach things that are better... many that are worse. Comparison like this is unhealthy. Clearly, may people found this valuable.

[Kundan33]

A brilliant presentation. Such a great teacher. Bringing together the latest scientific finding to help the understanding of the effectiveness of mindfulness! Such an important collection of information.

[CrippledNasty]

what the top thumbed comment is saying is summed in one word. Neuroplasticity.

[antigone76]

Thank you Dr. Siegel for being so informative, captivating and clear.

[UrbanMininstry1]

I agree with valtari51. the insight on bi polar disorder at the end was a surprise treat for myself who was diagnosed with the disorder.

[qulearn]

Great talk! I was especially intrigued by: 1) the parallels between the 9 functions of the middle prefrontal brain & the 9 personality types of the Enneagram; 2) the interpretation of the 2 mindfulness-training tips (be aware of your awareness & pay attention to your intention) based on the feedback principle applied to human systems; & 3) the evident applicability of the phrase “the mind uses the brain to create itself” to almost every Eastern approach to enlightenment and personal growth.

[peteback]

This mindfulness, brain plasticity research of the last ten years is changing everything we thought about the brain/mind/consciousness. The reductionist/deterministic attitudes of the past especially regarding the brain are now proven wrong. Our mind shapes our brain just as our brain projects our mind. Just another example that science is not truth, but an explananation (albeit our best explanantion).

[mindtalkcoach]

A brilliant and engaging talk.  Thanks Google for sharing.

[SeGaLMuSiK]

I really like this conference, i think. I can't make up my mind.

[MardukHail]

@platinumpaycheck1 I have no problem with buddhism as a moral life path. My problem is with the totally subjective pseudo science of psychiatry/psychology. He's not a scientist. He's a superstitious moral philosopher who is attempting to repackage age old buddhist philosophy as modern science, which it simply is not.

[phattown213]

i like how he treats googlers like pre schoolers.

[MardukHail]

Psychiatrists aren't scientists. This guy is simply repackaging buddhism. He should put on an orange sheet and UCLA should stop giving doctorates to philosophers, theologians and psychologists. It sullies the true neurologists out there.

[Titan5Omega]

@MardukHail I think someone is suffering from a bit of rigity... :P

[platinumpaycheck1]

@MardukHail and what is the problem w/ Buddhism? I am not one, but i have read and understand there goal.

[UrbanMininstry1]

@MardukHail maybe what is called Buddhism is repacked psychology.What good is neurology with the mind that moves it. PEACE and MAY ALL BE HAPPY

[parv08888]

awsn awsn talk dude

[nikolakopo]

Dr. Siegel showed us an extraordinary way to understand our brain systemically, and new ideas and research that will make us self improve ourselves! 

[videoctavio]

mind sight = awareness?

[arekayvee]

@videoctavio I think he didn't say awareness because it's not really using all the parts of awareness and it's like awareness of awareness, too; like he says at about 46:45

[nilbud]

He's speaking of the American mind, it does explain a lot.

[h4ck3rm1k3tng]

Very interesting video, have to watch again. Need a transcript.

[MelloTraumatic]

Bah, what a bunch of pulp.

EVERYTHING in the universe acts as a regulator of energy and information.

And everything we want to look at separately will have some relationship to its environment.

When it comes to brains, we can learn from everything in our environment.

Relationships are just part of it.

We have multiple specialized parts in our brain, those that deal with relationships are not the only ones.

[MelloTraumatic]

Bah, what a bunch of pulp.

EVERYTHING in the universe acts as a regulator of energy and information.

[supergopi]

@MelloTraumatic

Duh!

you have unknowingly stumbled on something called 'computationally universal'.

there is no reason why there shouldn't be another 'mind' which is not necessarily based on meat inside your head.

[peppeddu]

If Google would have the links to the books mentioned in these videos, they would profit also from the sales of it.

[Dina379]

I just love the lecture series on GoogleTechTalks!!! Thank you!!! All the speakers are brilliant and very interesting!!!

[antydaja]

Hi Bart,

Nog een videolink van Siegel.. Deze duurt langer, maar sommige onderdelen zijn heel bruikbaar om in een lezing, cursus of training te verwerken. Het gaat om de invloed van mindfulness op onze hersenen en het ontwikkelen van geestelijke gezondheid. Het is een lange lezing, maar wel erg duidelijk. Het geeft ook meer inzicht in wat beoefening doet op hersenniveau, relaties en gedrag zonder jargon of boeddhistische termen. Enjoy! Tycho

[tfelluss]

As a holistic psychotherapist, I've spent a good part of my 27 years in practice searching for a working definition of not only the mind, but of consciousness. I've often said that "good mental health is not a natural sport." Our natural response is to react; which frequently gets us into all kinds of trouble. Good mental health requires skill, knowledge and practice. I appreciate the work of Dr. Siegel, as he offers concrete suggestions as to how to achieve healthy functioning.

[nilbud]

@evelutionofone So you think the little mind is lower than the big mind, unlike balls and tits.

[DreamsofMajesty]

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[armagedontoulon]

Along with Ledoux, Cozolino among a few others Siegel is changing the way we understand not only psychotherapy but the world around and at far...

[CosmicSeaman]

AHAHAAA It's muthafucking Ming...AGAIN.

[qaplatlhinganmaH]

watch his other talk:

TEDxBlue - Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. - 10/18/09

[chrissh85uk]

It's not brainwashing; it's just an opinion. Take it or leave it depending upon if you agree with it or not.

[perplexed76]

another american brainwasher

no use $hit

[GmoUnit]

good video im on page 85 of the book just about to get into the meat of it right on

[haarongo]

Really appreciate Thanks!

[MarketingTips101]

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down, Stay blessed in all you do, D

[interlac]

"energinformation" isn't in the dictionary.

[rizlas2]

0:31:30  xD Robert Downey Jr. in the movie Sherlock Holmes, when the big man spits him in the ring

[rizlas2]

one person only accumulates so much knowledge in his lifetime,then he dies and the process starts over...thats why we are progressing so slowly as a human race...we need to make videos like this one and invent a computer that will be able to absorb all that information from a medium like youtube, analize it and catagorize it...

[rizlas2]

then pour it with some other technology in the human brains...like in the movie matrix, when Neo says:I know Kung Fu! after few hours of that transformation flow...laugh if you want, but todays fiction is tommorows reality and vice versa...

[likemusicwhat]

this video should have more views because its such an important message

[javierislas91711]

BOOOOORING

[byScrooby]

"God: Hidden Science" - Google it!

[qaplatlhinganmaH]

for a podcast/mp3 interview with Dr. Dan Siegel , google/search:

Brain Science Podcast Dan Siegel

[Jefferdaughter]

weestro7 - your friend's breif guide to meditation sounds like a great topic for another YouTube video!

[dlangables]

I think Google should be president

[weestro7]

(Sorry, continued from last post)

Just a month after starting four years ago, I was better able to respond appropriately (and cheerfully!?) to particular situations. Thank you for reading my comment.

[weestro7]

(Sorry, continued from last post)

...a cow metaphor that some Buddhist teachers came up with (cow is mind, stake is meditative focus, grass over there is impetus to wander). My friend was passing on what he learned from his lessons from a Zen temple as well as his subsequent experience.

I'd be willing to forward it to you and answer questions if you would like to take meditation on for yourself. In case you are wondering, it is a concentration meditation, focusing on breathing.

[Haliotro]

I'd be interested in the 400 word guide... Thanks! Can you send it in a message?

[weestro7]

If someone is interested in a 400-word guide on how to meditate for beginners, I will be glad to send it to you. I have been following its advice for the past four years, spending 15-25 minutes a day. In my case, my sense of well-being has increased quite a lot, and negative emotion has become far less strong in my inner life.

Four years ago my friend wrote me this guide, after I asked him via e-mail for instructions on how to meditate. The guide is very nice in restating...

[diamondheartful]

Great lecture that is very optimistic about the ability of the mind to change, the importance of relationships and the power of meditation.

[Skipberkes]

I feel like I've heard many of my own ideas reiterated in not even a very different form than my own thought in this fantastic lecture. But I will suggest that ultimately what he is calling mindfulness or mindsight, and which I entirely agree is the critical issue of strengethening the mind - of intellect - is a philosophical issue of introspection and critically relies on a proper epistemology. Taking the time out of your day to introspect, to be self-aware should not be "time out of the day"

[Skipberkes]

It should be the consistent norm established by a certain epistemological method. Using a term that I once thought was completely bogus of Ayn Rand's but is entirely the topic of this lecture .. "psycho-epistemology" or man's mental habit of being aware is indeed a habit he can and should be developed constantly. I'm leaving out the critical SOCIAL correlation Daniel correctly pointed out which was NOT a part of Ayn's (expressed) ideas. Times up, Sorry for partially abusing the comment system =)

[Skipberkes]

So basically, mental health is a process of definition. Ayn Rand said the same thing, used the same terms (Integration, differentiation) relating mathematics and epistemology, and died after she had just begun to meander into neuroscience. The social/empathetic aspect is highly stressed, but it remains the same core idea of Ayn's that man's humanity (social, and individual) is his capacity for reason. His capacity to integrate, to empathize. And most crucial to grasp, his free will.

[hbar1212]

@Skipberkes You have to note that Ayn Rand was also very intuitive, as was Einstein, Poincare, Aristotle, oh the list in endless.

[mayaluvsmusic]

man this shit is cool

[lovebugblossom]

Awesome

[qaplatlhinganmaH]

great podcast interview with him google:

"Brain Science Podcast Dan Siegel"

[mugenishere]

Here are my thoughts on this please feel free to disagree:

1. The speaker began researching the brain not to improve the mind but to better understand his patients.

2. He began studying the brain to understand the mind. What he ended up with is an observation of the mind processes.

3. The video was titled mindsight but it only an observation of mindfulness - a technique thats supposed to be thousands of years old in the east.

4. If you want to improve urself u dont need this. Learn meditation.

[DefiningConcepts]

13:47 Important point about relationships: Relationships shape the firing in the brain; and when neurons fire, they actually change their synaptic connections with each other. The way we learn, the way we grow, the way we develop is by experiences in addition to genes shaping the synaptic connections in the nervous system. We know that relationships shape those connections.

[hbar1212]

@DefiningConcepts DefiningConcepts Also as we relate to situations the brain organizes itself and has a better model of reality than we are aware of. The secret to the mindshift is that we can access our genius by relating to both our non verbal and verbal skills, rather than trying to only use our logical thinking for everything. Logic is more for checking our whole brain thinking.

[DefiningConcepts]

16:08 Good starting point for explanation of Triune Brain, using curled hand to represent the brain.

[DefiningConcepts]

Defining Concepts notes:

05:17 simplest definition of mind: mind is a process that regulates the flow of energy and information

06:22 an embodied and relational process that regulates the flow of energy and information

06:35 it is striking that people who study mind DO NOT DEFINE the mind

09:35 process of seeing mental activity with clarity and efficacy is defined as Mindsight

12:49 3 point triangle: brain (mechanism), relationships (sharing energy and info), mind (regulatory process)

[qaplatlhinganmaH]

Incredible!!

check out:

Dan Rather Reports - Mind Science (Part 1 thru 6)

[dazzahypno]

Learn N.L.P. if you want change

[valtari51]

An important talk. Thanks to Dr. Siegel and Google for sharing it. These contents are not easy to find in free form and they are very necessary to help us in this part of the world understand what inner growth is about. Listening, re-listening and taking notes is the best way to enjoy it.

[hbar1212]

@valtari51 They say you have to read something and study it several times to get and retain it. The Army has long used that technique by teaching something three times over. Three is pretty much the minimum.

[shallbeagain]

Great talk.

[hanzahar]

he's buddist!

[symptomy]

Great Lecture! The analogy of the mother intrigues me as I've observed this. While she was a result of an accident, it shows me that when you apply the concept of integration & attunement, it's possible for someone to "attack" that medial pre-frontal part of the mind in an attempt to shut it down, to remove them from the information flow. That intent could very possibly influence the mind of another as well.

[startxxx1991]

If you want to study what IS the Mind... you should study about E-Prime.

[crzyvi]

A good talk !

[BuddhaHippie]

Hmm.. Sounds a lot like buddhism..

[symptomy]

not buddhism, reality. Buddhism might translate this information but it would apply no matter what philosophy.

[BuddhaHippie]

Of course.. I'm just saying, as a buddhist, it sounds familiar.. "The mind uses the brain to create itself.." You could also think of the brain as the radio, not the radio-station..

[symptomy]

I disagree, if the mind is receptive to transmission, then it is equally capable of broadcasting, so to speak :)

[BuddhaHippie]

The mind IS the transmission.. The brain can influence and transform the mind, but not create it.. Mind and brain is not the same..

[MrGreen112]

Yeah nice!

[catsaysmeow007]

awesome! Thanks!