Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation. Siegel is clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine. His premise is that we are not hardwired to behave in unproductive ways but instead have the ability to harness the power of our minds to resculpt the neural pathways of our brains in ways that will be life-transforming. “Mindsight is a learnable skill. It is the basic skill that underlies what we mean when we speak of having emotional and social intelligence. When we develop the skill of mindsight, we actually change the physical structure of the brain. This revelation
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