Ep: 19 Robert McClure: Mindfulness and Compassion: Skills for Successful Leadership

About Robert McClure: Bob is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Certified Mindfulness Facilitator and Instructor at UCLA Mindful Awareness Center. He's also a Senior Educator and Certified Compassion Cultivation Training Teacher for Stanford University Center for Compassion, Altruism, Research, and Education (CCARE). He's also a trained L2 Coach for Unified Mindfulness. Bob is a Human Resources Consultant at Sharp Healthcare in San Diego and teaches mindfulness and compassion skills to healthcare professionals which include emergency room doctors and nurses as well as other high-stress physicians.   In this episode, Jordan and Robert discuss: Mindfulness as concentration, sensory clarity, and equanimity. Compassion is the intention that other people or beings not suffer. Happiness is a skillset and burnout is empathy overload and fatigue. Key Takeaways: See compassion as a skill for someone you love, yourself, a stranger, someone difficult, and then the entire world. Chronic stress degrades the ability to pay attention, your working memory, and your emotional regulation while mindfulness and compassion training enables the ability to maintain a steady-state.  Recognize ineffectual habits within our brains and take the necessary steps to retrain our brain and change our bad habits with skills training.    "Mindfulness is paying attention to our present moment experience with openness and curiosity." —  Robert McClure Connect with Robert: https://www.uclahealth.org/marc/    http://ccare.stanford.edu/  https://www.compassioninstitute.com/   https://unifiedmindfulness.com/    Connect with Jordan:   Get a free copy of Jordan's book at www.workplacewarrior.com   Website: www.workplacewarriorinc.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordangoldrich1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jordan.goldrich Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jordangoldrich/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgoldrich/