Dr. Mark McLaughlin – A Brain Surgeon’s Quest to Out-Think Fear
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.com
The Book:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/193689162X
Show 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 process of fear
21:05 Mapping out fear, understanding the sum of its parts
26:40 Recognizing where you’re in the fear matrix
28:40 We all have to travel though a full range of positive and negative experience
31:15 Risk and Reward
34:50 Adaptability
32:30 Levels of Anxiety
33:20 Silencing you inner underminer
34:25 Concilience – Edward O. Wilson – common thread between humanities and science
35:57 What Mark gained through writing the book
