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Today I’ll be talking with Dr. Srini Pillay, a Harvard trained practicing psychiatrist, brain imaging researcher, brain based technology innovator, the award winning author of Life Unlocked and the author of one of my all-time favorite books – Tinker Dabble Doodle Try!
And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about boosting the brain by letting go of the mind to tap into consciousness, and unleash the greatness that’s inside each and everyone one of us!
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Dr. Srini Pillay is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Part-Time) at Harvard Medical School. He is known for combining “head and heart” (figuratively and literally) in an approach to personal development and goal mastery that blends science, spirituality, and horns-grabbing joie de vivre to combat the stresses faced by ambitious and high-achieving people in academia, business, and life.
After graduating at the top of his class from medical school in South Africa, he received a Medical Research Council Scholarship to study the neurochemistry of panic. Thereafter, he completed his residency in psychiatry at McLean Hospital—Harvard’s largest freestanding psychiatric hospital—with the most accolades ever given to a single resident. Srini also completed fellowships in Psychopharmacology, Structural Brain Imaging and Functional Brain Imaging.
He was Director of the Outpatient Anxiety Disorders Program at McLean Hospital and was Director of the Panic Disorders Research Program in the Brain Imaging Center. There, he spent 17 years studying functional brain imaging. During this time, he maintained an active clinical practice, which he continues today.
Currently, Srini is a member of the by-invitation-only “Group for Advancement of Psychiatry”, an American professional organization of psychiatrists dedicated to shaping psychiatric thinking, public programs and clinical practice in mental health. The founding group was seeking a way in which American psychiatry could give more forceful leadership, both medically and socially, and as a member of the “Disasters and the World Committee”, Srini’s contributions include but are not limited to two chapters in a book called “Disaster Psychiatry”.
Srini is also in multiple collaborations on health-related projects. With Harvard Health, he is developing a model on mindset shifts for burnout. He is also in current collaborations with programmers from Google and MIT to develop technologies that reduce anxiety.
In addition to his work in psychiatry, Srini has also consulted regularly for the past 10 years to companies that invest in biotechnology to assess medications in various illnesses including cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
Srini has a talent for translating complex research findings in psychiatry for consumption by the general public—in print and through radio, television, and the web. He enlightens and inspires with equal measures of insight, humor, and deep human compassion.
He received the “Books for a Better Life” award for his book, Life Unlocked: 7 Revolutionary Lessons to Overcome Fear (Rodale, 2010). This award was conceived with the purpose of recognizing authors across a wide range of disciplines who have had significant influence on human development over the past 75 years. (Prior recipients include Brene Brown and Jill Bolte Taylor.)
With so many business leaders among his clients, Dr. Pillay also became a certified master executive coach. As an expert in brain-based leadership development and the CEO ofNeuroBusiness Group, he has also written Your Brain and Business: The Neuroscience of Great Leaders (FT Press, 2011.)
Srini prepares and delivers top-rated leadership development courses and plenaries for clients such as: Novartis, Lockheed Martin, Willis Group, Prudential, Pfizer, Fortune 500 Food/Beverage Companies, and some of the largest Fortune 100 consulting firms. He has also trained leaders at The MITRE Corporation, The Department of Defense and The Institute for Law Enforcement with great acclaim. When the UN, World Bank and the International Monetary Fund seek to empower their leaders, they call Srini Pillay. He speaks and teaches throughout the US, Canada, London, Paris, Switzerland, India, Greece and Brazil. Being an internationally recognized expert in applied brain science and human behavior, he addresses both specialists and general audiences on these topics throughout the world. In 2016, Srini was invited by McKinsey & Company to join their new “Consortium for Adult Learning and Development” and also is one of the advisors on a new “think tank” exploring the benefits of mindfulness in business. Srini teaches in Executive Education at Harvard Business School and Duke Corporate Education.
He has been an expert guest for CNN, Fox, NPR, The New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Harvard Business School, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Forbes, Fortune, Business Insider and many other news outlets in a variety of media and is known as a highly entertaining guest.
His upcoming book, Tinker, Dabble, Doodle, Try: Unlock the Power of an Unfocused Mindexplains how you can harness your mind’s innate tendency to wander, stall, rest, and unfocus and become more productive—in the boardroom, living room, or classroom. It will be published by Random House (Ballantine) in 2017.
With “renaissance man” bona fides, Srini is an unabashed “dabbler,” a polymath, an accomplished musician, award-winning poet and gourmand who frequently exports insights from neuroscience to other art forms—such as a new program that will combine neuroscience and music for use in corporate development.
Key Topics:
- How does the brain process information outside of language (or pure narrative?)
- What is spiritual consciousness?
- What does it mean to transcend the perceptual world???
- What’s the importance of fiction and fantasy in our lives?
- What’s it mean to create an alternate reality for our lives?
- What’s the science behind the connection between us all?
- What’s the importance of authenticity in your life (and how does it increase your power in the world)
- What’s the difference between inferential and operational knowledge?
- How do we begin to tap into the unconscious mind?
- What is the importance of moving past the rational mind?
- How can meditation help?
- What’s the importance of expressing our child-like needs???
- What’s the importance of curiosity?
- What’s the importance of forgiveness?
- What’s the importance of presence?
- What does it mean to synchronize?
- What happens in terms of consciousness when someone dies?
- What is disintegration anxiety and a threat of loss of identity?
- What happens when we truly realize how connected we are to everyone and everything?
- Is identity really local, or not, and what does that mean for us?
- What is possibility thinking and why do we want to do it twice a day?
- What’s the importance of exploring what’s on your mind – and what does that look like?
- What does it mean to stabilize ourselves?
- How do we boost our children’s brains, and their creativity
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