Training Your Brain for Peak Performance

The Urban Monk Podcast by Urban Monk Productions, Inc

May 15, 202653:33Health

🎙️ What if your brain could learn in hours what normally takes years? Dr. Pedram Shojai sits down with Dr. David Bach, serial entrepreneur and former physician now leading Optios, a company born from DARPA research on a...

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