Optimizing the caveman within us: Elizabeth Stanley at TEDxGeorgetown

Elizabeth Stanley is associate professor of security studies in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and founder of the non-profit Mind Fitness Training Institute. Previously, she served as a US Army intelligence officer in Korea, Germany, and on deployments in the Balkans. She created Mindfulness-based Mind Fitness Training (MMFT)® to build resilience and optimize performance in high-stress contexts; she's collaborated on scientific research about MMFT's efficacy among troops before deployment to combat. Her book, Paths to Peace, won the 2009 Edgar S. Furniss Award for the best first book in the field of national and international security.

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[shiohk]

i'm reading “paths to peace”, it's so difficult.and good literature.