Judson Brewer's talk is about the role of mindfullness in the process of breaking bad habits.
Judson says that bad habits have their beginngs in our brains. As examples he brings up the matters of smoking and stress eating. People who do this have some specific process which is codded in their heads: trigger, behaviour, reward. They are stressed, they eat/smoke, they feel good, and they repeat the process the next time. How does he cure it? He suggests focusing of what you're doing. When you smoke, you have to pay attention to it - just like in meditation. Why do you do it? What are you exactly doing? How does it affect you? When we focus on our bad habits, we can fight with them. We have to focus on every moment we have temptation in, and think about why we're doing it.
Vocabulary:
morbidity - the morbidity of a disease is how many people have it in a particular population.
Morbidity of the cancer is really high - more and more people suffer from it.
cognitive - connected with thinking or conscious mental processes
His cognitive skills are developing very slowly, he is behind his peers.
disenchanted - no longer believing in the value of something, especially having learned of the problems with it
I am really disenchanted by you. I thought you are much more responsible.
restrain - to control the actions or behaviour of someone by force, especially in order to stop them from doing something, or to limit the growth or force of something.
When he started fighting, it took four police officers to restrain him
clobbered - hit hard and rapidly
Sven was clobbered by Mark. He has broken nose now.
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Sources of definitions: cambridge dictionary
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