UIOK 43: Don't be afraid of the random walk with Dr Sarb Johal

Today is episode 43 and I’m chatting with Dr Sarb Johal. Sarb is a clinical psychologist and health psychologist. He holds two doctoral degrees. One from the University of Cardiff and one from the University of London. Sarb is also the Associate professor in Disaster Mental Health at Massey University. He has over 20 years’ experience working as a psychologist in various realms. Sarb is also into a whole lot of other things but today we focus mainly on the psychology aspects so I’ll have to get him back again to chat about all the other stuff.

I first met up with Sarb towards the end of last year as he was starting out his own podcast, “Who cares? What’s the point?” and thankfully got to chat with him about podcasting. Sarb is a real nice guy and I thought that he would be able to teach me a lot and hopefully you guys too.

Today we have a chat about how Sarb became a psychologist, including the uncomfortable path of going against expectations and traditions to do so. We talk about the overarching themes of psychology and how the human experience is so different between individuals. We chat about the art of applying science. The mind body connection, how we think and the way we represent the world in our mind has a direct effect on us at a cellular level.

Sarb talks today about how we don’t often do enough to train ourselves to deal with change, he helps us change our attitudes to change and uncertainty.

I had a great time talking with Sarb, I hope you guys enjoy the conversation. Let us know what you think of the conversation you can tweet at us @Chrisdesmondnz and @sarb. Hopefully we’ll get Sarb back again for another chat. Thanks for getting uncomfortable with us today.

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