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How can people effectively

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bounce back

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after

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failing

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so that they don't fall into that trap that so many of us do and that you create this identity that you're act that you are a failure?

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Yeah.

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This is great. Uh, so

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the the first thing is we have to realize that we

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all have a narrator

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that narrates our life. The second thing is we choose what that narrator highlights and focuses on.

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So that narrator is gonna dictate what we think and how we view our life and all of that. But it it a lot of this narrator is also about perspective. So, like, all these problems that we've talked about so far are perspective and priority.

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That's it. Perspective and priority.

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And it it sucks to to have this problem throughout our life and then, like, oh, this this one little shift can change this thing I've been dealing with. So we we have some

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mental resistance to that. Like, why would something so simple solve this big complex thing? And I realized that

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people have very complex issues in their life, but this that doesn't mean the solution has to be complex.

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So number one, the narrator

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is there. And number two,

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you can remind yourself or anybody going through this, remind yourself that

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going off of these details,

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saying that I am a failure, and then I know that this won't happen in the future for me,

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uh, that's you're we're starting to border on narcissism

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because

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we're saying I pick to the right perspective.

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I know how I know every detail of the story, and I know what to focus on, and I can predict the future.

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Uh, so we're starting to get into this little narcissistic

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self referential bubble of I know what the future holds.

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So

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number one, change the narrator.

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And number two, anything that's happened in your past,

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um, unless you're some weird psychopath or something, We people need to be

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delusionally

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delusionally

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self forgiving.

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And and that is the biggest step one to start changing the narrator. Narrator.

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It's tough, man. And it's tough because, I mean, I just speak from my own personal experience of,

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like,

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the with with the the toughest part about it is the cognitive dissonance that exists

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where

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you are trying to change the narrative.

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And because you you're so far back in life or you think you're so far back in life,

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like, what's in front of you just doesn't match the narrative you're trying to change.

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And then the idea of creating like, the the positive momentum you are creating doesn't feel good enough because,

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you know, you're paying attention to social media or you're, like, addicted to you were addicted to substances which create this false sense of dopamine.

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Like, how can people,

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you know, start to feel good again and make life kind of exciting for where they're at even though

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they still have a lot to learn and a long way to go on their journey?

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Yeah. I think just dissecting

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some of those beliefs

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is the biggest way to do that. And dissecting it meaning, like, is this objective or subjective?

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Am I really buried in this?

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And then, uh, one of the things I've I've done with a lot of my clients is take one of those beliefs. So let's say we've got somebody that says, I am a failure.

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So

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that means I'm not I can't be successful or I can't do this thing. I can't have this stuff in my life.

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Then we'll make a giant meme,

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like, with beautiful mountains on it, and we'll put the text on the screen, like, uh,

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you have to be perfect in order to be successful,

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which is ridiculous,

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stupid.

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But we see the stupid idea on a regular basis, and we bring it into conscious awareness so we realize how stupid some of this internal dialogue is.

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So we made it like this his desktop wallpaper, this big photo of mountains,

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and then we put on there, uh, I think this guy that I'm referring to right now, he had some, uh,

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money psychology

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stuff.

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But his limiting belief was like, I can't make money or I feel guilty if I make money, and then I can't make a lot of money because that means I'm a bad person because I'm not donating it. So we made we took his limiting belief and made it extreme.

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So we wanna exaggerate that. So we took his limiting belief, and I think, uh, what he put on his desktop wallpaper was my kids don't deserve money.

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Because I I told him, at the end of the day, that's really what you're saying.

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And and if somebody thinks they're a failure, it's my kids and the people that I lead don't deserve,

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uh,

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me at my best.

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They need me to think that I'm a failure.

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Or I might put on the wallpaper,

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if I think I'm a failure, that means I'm a good person.

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Just to kinda bring that into conscious awareness as fast as we can and and show ourselves how absurd and ridiculous some of this stuff is. And I think at the end of the day, you watch somebody go through a psychedelic journey, some spiritual revelation happens in their life, they lose their loved one, and everything in their life changes.

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The first big thing that happens is all the that I thought was a really big deal is not a big deal anymore.

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Everything that I thought was a huge deal is no longer a big deal.

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And this is no matter what kind of huge awakening someone has, that's step one to all of these awakenings

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is everything I thought was a big deal ain't a big deal.

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Shifting gears a little bit, but kind of building off of the the failure conversation

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is I think people

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I think it helps for people to have goals in life. And, like, we talked about this forward thinking approach. I also think, again, this quote, unquote simulation that people live in, it's easy to get sucked into these

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insanely unrealistic

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goals. Like, I wanna be a millionaire by the time I'm 25. Is it possible? Sure. But is it likely? No. Like, all these insanely unrealistic

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goals

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that either, a,

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defeat people in their tracks because they're like, how the hell am I gonna get there? B,

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they end up doing, like,

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horrific things to get there because they want they're they care more about the goal than the journey, and, c,

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they end up falling flat on their face, like, midway through because they've realized,

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like, oh, like,

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life doesn't work this way. How do you how do you think about goal setting, and how can people effectively do so? Yeah. Or they get the million and they're still depressed, and they're like, wait. That too. That there's the oh, yeah. Exactly. I'm logging in. I'm looking at my bank account, and I still feel like

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so any of those goals, I would I would say for everybody,

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and I've studied human motivation for a while. I don't think I'm a goal setting expert,

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but I would definitely say

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that making being a million

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what what was the goal? Having a million dollar for a town of 25.

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That is a that is a thing.

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Right? So that is a symptom of something.

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Owning a yacht when I'm 23 is a symptom of having done something with my life.

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So

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when people are setting goals, what they're typically setting

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are symptoms.

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These are the symptoms that I wanna have, but what they're not setting are the cause of those symptoms.

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So, like, being a millionaire by the time you're 45,

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to do that, for that to be a byproduct,

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what would I have to do with my life? So for all of our goals, we have to go back and say, how do I make my goal, this little shallow goal that I have on the top here, how do I make that a byproduct of how I live my life?

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So that's how we have to set goals. So most people are setting symptoms instead of goals.

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What we wanna set are the causes.

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How can I cause

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that million dollars to be in my bank account? So that means I have to wake up at a certain time. That means I have to do this and this and this. Those should be the goals.

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The byproduct should be the million dollars by by the time you're 25. How do people stay grounded,

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like, in the process when,

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um, when they're when things aren't happening immediately for them, like, and when they're doing all the right things and yet success isn't right in front of them? Like, how can people

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kind of course correct their mind?

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I think that the

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reason that we're we're like, oh, I'm not getting

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success that I want is

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that we're we're seeking and I I'm just gonna go back to this. We're seeking

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we're we're defining success as symptoms

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Right.

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Instead of causes. So if I work on these causes hard enough, that that my lack of success is a lack of me kind of working and getting to the place I need to be. 100, the world's not fair, Never will be. We just gotta get over that.

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It and that sucks.

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But, like, if you read the autobiography

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of, like, Oprah and, like, read how Oprah was born in her early years,

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most people's life doesn't even compare to that level of

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horror and

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nasty

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upbringing and unfairness.

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So that should delete all of your excuses. Like, there are for everything that anybody would say that they've been through, there are a 100 successful people who've been through way worse,

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uh, than than you have. So it's definitely out there.

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But my my vision of success should not be a symptom.

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It should be a con. So am I am I following all these things? Then, yes, then that's that I'm achieving my goals.

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So my actual goals are just these behaviors and habits that I need in order for that million dollars to be there. I know we talked in our last conversation about dopamine and how people get have an unhealthy relationship with dopamine. I'd like to kinda revisit that because I don't think, you know, I don't think things have gotten better with that for people, and maybe there's people who didn't listen to our first conversation.

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Like, why do you think

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or how can people have a better relationship with dopamine so that they can, you know,

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maintain this real sense of joy and fulfillment about life?

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Yeah. So

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the first is to figure out where where we're getting dopamine from.

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And the way to do this is you take a, like, a regular sheet of printer paper. I was looking around to see if I have something here. But you draw a line down the middle,

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a little circle on that line, so you kinda make it look like a little basketball court.

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And on the left side of the page, you write down

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everything that you're getting dopamine from in your life, everything that you're getting pleasure from. And

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confusing pleasure and happiness is the number one way to ruin your life.

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Pleasure and happiness are not the same. They're not even they don't even touch each other at all.

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So where am I getting deriving this dopamine

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pleasure seeking behavior from? Maybe it's chocolate or cheesecake. Maybe it's, uh,

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watching porn,

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or maybe it's, uh, doing drugs or alcohol or, you know, fill in the blank. All these things that I'm getting it from. And

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that's the time, to be honest, that I'm also getting it from

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Twitter or Instagram or Facebook. I'm getting dopamine hits all right there. So I'm I'm gonna draw out a map of where all that dopamine is,

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and then I'm gonna assign a point value. Let's say I'm limited to a 100 points,

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and I'm gonna assign a point value to each one of those. And then on the right side, where is all the places I'm getting good dopamine from?

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And the our number one source of dopamine should be x and y and z. So it's different for everybody. It

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should be us. Right? It should be me.

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It should be if I'm really setting myself up for success and I wake up, I wanna wake up at 4AM,

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the moment that I wake up, I feel fantastic

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because the nighttime version of me took the multivitamin, took the magnesium, uh, went to bed on time, drank a full glass of water, fill in the blank, all of these things to make me present day feel fantastic.

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But if I if I have all these negative things down this one side of the sheet and I go over here and I'm writing stuff like

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doing my course assignments in college or spending time with my kids or doing all the things that that I want to get dopamine from.

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And let's say I gave my kids are getting eight points,

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and Twitter is getting 39.

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You're starting to see this imbalance. So we're it's again, we're taking something unconscious and putting it into conscious awareness.

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So

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the way to know whether or not you're getting dopamine out of something is if it feels good or captures all of your attention

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during that moment, and then it you it doesn't feel good later.

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So I I taught a force once on how to tell if you're in a conversation with a psychopath.

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We and, of course, you can't I mean, this it's hard, but we went through this big checklist. But one of the big ones on there

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was

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if you feel fantastic during the conversation. Everything feels great, and then you you stop the conversation, and all of it just drops off.

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That is a person who's trained for or mentally trained themselves to trigger all of your dopamine hit points.

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And so you didn't a conversation that feels good afterwards is more rooted in oxytocin and and serotonin.

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So if I'm doing something in my life and it the great feeling of it doesn't kind of fade off gently over time,

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probably dopamine, which is what we do with social media and all that. So really identify the sources of dopamine, and I'm willing to bet that most people drew out a map

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of where it's coming from, and here's all the good things that I get dopamine from.

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Where it's coming from is probably not going to be

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the right amount, and we wanna change we we don't wanna tip those scales for sure. Yeah. I think once people can understand what dopamine is, I think their life will dramatically change. I mean, it really shifted for me,

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um, understanding more about, like, addiction,

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you know, and how certain substances just completely

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hijacked the brain. And I think I've talked about this on the show before,

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but, you know, one of the greatest,

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um, descriptions

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of, like, how your reward system is hijacked was when I was I was sitting in a therapist's office who I think I believe he was, like, an addiction therapist or psychiatrist,

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but in any event,

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he he said to me, he said,

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you know, when you're not an addict, like,

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thinking about something like the the Grand Canyon

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is, like, a 10 out of 10 pleasurable experience.

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And he's like, what happens is you start to do some coke,

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and then you get this influx of artificial dopamine.

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Now the coke starts to go from, like, a one to a two to a three, and then the Grand Canyon goes from, like, a 10 to an eight. And then you've, like, reversed it to where now, like, a few months down the road, your reward system has been completely hijacked,

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and the thought of going to a grand the Grand Canyon is so boring to you because you're so used to getting all this artificial dopamine from a substance like Coke. And it really shifted things for me because I remember, like, being that person that, like, I couldn't go to the aquarium. I couldn't go to a football game of baseball. I couldn't do anything without being under the influence of a substance when I was younger.

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And it it totally made sense for me. And I think that it part of

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getting out of the simulation and what we're talking about now, I just think is acceptance of

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normalcy in that,

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you know, your brain your the way your brain is responding is kind of normal based on how you're treating it. Right? And if you're not changing the way you're treating your brain, it's gonna continue to do the same.

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And

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and that's why it's I think these conversations are are paramount.

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And,

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like, how how do you think

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like, what what how can people,

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like, survive in this in this world where,

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again,

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you know, we're talking about dopamine

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recalibrating and stuff? Yet, like, mean, there's just dopamine, like, everywhere. And like you said, you can't, like, live in a hut and, like, turn off everything, but you gotta stay, like, kind of tuned in to, you know, what's really going on around you.

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And I think

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it it sounds so ridiculous, but I think

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you can look at all the researches, peer reviewed research, that

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just mindfulness

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practices

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on their own. And you don't have to, like, sit in a room with incense and,

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like, spa music playing and all that kind of stuff. You can do this while you're

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remulching your yard, uh, if you want to.

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But having a practice of mindfulness and being mindful, not just while you're doing the app or while you have the little mindful audio thing in, But doing that throughout your day while you're in a meeting, while you're in

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traffic,

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while you're cooking,

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while you're stressing out about having to change a diaper or fix a mess or your roof starts leaking,

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can you do the mindfulness in there? So getting good at being present is so powerful because you talk about the Grand Canyon, your face lit up

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because you have memories. You have real core memories of being present in that moment. You talk about the dopamine from Coke, your face didn't light up because we don't have the core memories from that. So the Grand Canyon is not just a bunch of dopamine.

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It's three d experience and being so immersed in a moment.

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That's

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why

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if we have people that really study mindfulness and there's some really neuroscientists

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and and psychologists that are studying the effects of mindfulness, but, I mean, this has been studied for five thousand years, but but they just called it meditation or they called it zen or they called it some other word.

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But it's just forcing it's like Cesar Milan. You're like, you're taking your little animal brain, and you're becoming the dog whisperer, and you're forcing that mofo

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into the present moment as much as you possibly can. Like, every time there's a little shift in awareness, you're bringing it back to the moment bring it back to the moment.

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And then there's a way to find, like, this

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almost a pleasure in everyday things, just enjoying

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your life as it is. And it's not like you're popping confetti cannons every day, but you're just quietly enjoying what's going on in the present moment. My face lit up because, you know, one of the

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most memorable experiences of my life is I was in Vegas by myself for a fitness conference,

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and I had some time to to kill.

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And I was staying at the hotels at the Wynn, and there was, like,

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a

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a flyer for, like, helicopter ride to the Grand Canyon.

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And it was, like, the most

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thing I've ever done was, you know, getting in this helicopter and leaving from Vegas, and you fly, like, into the canyon. It was so cool. I highly recommend

00:19:07.840 --> 00:19:16.720
people try that. I mean, it's just I had never been to the Grand Canyon, but it was a hell of a way to see it. And I'm like, I don't think I ever need to go back because I saw it in, like, the most complete way possible.

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And it got, like,

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thrill, you know, the thrill seeker in me lit up. It got the serenity part of me. Like, all the things were just engaged during that time. And, you know, one of the things that

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that the Grand Canyon does that's similar to psychedelic therapy is it shows you how small you are and how insignificant we are in in the most beautiful way possible. And I just did that that exact same helicopter ride

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probably a month in, maybe two months ago. Oh, really? For the first time ever. Yeah. And we landed down there in the canyon. It was me and my son.

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It was so much fun. Yeah. It's cool. Right? And you're there for, like, thirty minutes, forty five minutes. And did you go through Maverick? Was that the company?

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Yeah.

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Yeah. That's what we did. That's what I did too. That's really cool. And we'd landed a little picnic area. They give you some snacks and stuff. Man, it was

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it it was profound for me to see I'd never seen the Great Canyon until just a few months ago,

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unless it's,

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looking out of a airplane window or something on the way to LA.

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But I think there's a there's a profound perspective shift. When you go to giant things like that, the Grand Canyon shows you

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how tiny you are and how big the world is and how beautiful nature is and how powerful it is and how not powerful we are and not special we are.

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And there's a lot

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a lot that goes on in our life that we get stressed out about is us trying

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to convince ourselves that we're super, super special,

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and we we can't be socially injured. Nobody can

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make fun of us. We can't get any kind of social injury because we're really, really special. What have you found to be, like, the common thread of what typically holds people back from,

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you know, feeling confident, having authority, etcetera? It's gonna be a deep answer. It's not like, oh, it's putting a forgetting a Post it note on your window or something. But

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it will falls back to three things,

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and all three of those things are patterns that we develop in childhood. And if we can identify what those patterns are and how they're how we kind of

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unconsciously put stuff them in this backpack and then carry them into adulthood without us really acknowledging it, without our awareness,

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then we have so much more control over our life. And those three things, if you imagine a triangle

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and we call this the childhood development triangle. And I can send it to you if you wanna, like, overlay it right now or put it down so people can grab it.

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It's what did I do around the age of eight to

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earn and keep friends,

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to feel safe, and to earn rewards from somebody.

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And the rewards are different. Some for some kids, it was like food because they had a rough life. And for other kids, it may have been praised for playing the violin really well.

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But what did I do for friends, safety, and rewards?

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And how did I avoid

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things to feel safe, to get friends, to get rewards? What did I avoid?

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And whatever those responses are, for ninety nine percent of people,

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those are the ways that we handle conflict as an adult.

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Those become the kind of fear of stepping out that we have as an adult because it's a fear of loss. I'm gonna lose friends. I'm gonna lose safety. I'm gonna lose rewards. Those three things. And they start when we're, like, eight or nine years old. And just kind of going back, and this quiz is gonna help everybody that's listening right now with this.

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I can start seeing this pattern. Like, I'm a 44 year old man now.

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I could take this quiz right now and be like, oh, shit. This started

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in middle school.

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I'm still doing this one little thing from middle school.

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And just kind of dragging that thing that file out of the cabinet and putting it out in the open gives me a lot more control over it because I'm conscious of these patterns.

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So now they become a choice of, like, do I wanna continue this or not? Before, we don't have a choice because we never opened that closet and never looked inside and pulled those files out. I've heard you give your thoughts on, like, cognitive behavioral therapy. Like, have you found that any other therapies to be, like, effective at, like, kinda

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revamping the mind? Uh, I'm not a,

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like, a therapy expert.

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But as far as I understand now, the average therapy

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session for

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extreme anxiety,

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stress, PTSD,

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all of those kind of things to kind of get through that is, like, six to nine years.

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And

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it's the same thing that's accomplished in four hours of of psilocybin

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mushrooms.

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The same results,

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like nine years of therapy in in a short little package.

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There are some therapies. Hypnosis has been proven to work with a lot of people,

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and it kinda has, like, about a seventy to eighty percent success rate. Cognitive behavioral therapy has a high success rate over time. So if you keep at it and and keep doing it for several years,

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it will work. Psychedelics

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work

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higher than ninety percent, and that's in, like, four hours. It's in one one session.

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So that's the fastest route to do it.

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Working with a coach, if you can like, if you have a coach that's really digging through and and walking you through a lot of this stuff and unpacking your your your own bullshit to yourself is is the biggest thing.

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Because if if you're just

00:24:35.455 --> 00:24:47.970
sitting there filling out a little workbook along with a book that you got on Amazon or something like that, it's gonna be full of BS because we were very deceptive to ourselves. I mean, I'm an expert in this stuff. I saw a therapist

00:24:48.050 --> 00:24:54.450
probably six years ago, and I was I was full of it until I really unpacked a lot of this stuff. So I'm

00:24:54.450 --> 00:24:55.570
not immune to any of this.

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But that's the fastest way to do it is to get a coach, hypnosis,

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psychedelics,

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and cognitive behavioral therapy are really powerful for that. What have you found to be the relationship between,

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like, dopamine

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and motivation? Because I think a lot of this comes down to people just don't feel motivated to change their life. Yeah. And I think that goes back to the dopamine map. It's like where the where the dopamine's coming from is a big deal.

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And

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they may not be setting the right goals, and the motivation might not be there.

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And here's the thing that nobody's gonna say. You're gonna see all these mindset coaches, therapists.

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You're gonna see people saying you need to think differently. You need to set different goals. You need to wake up earlier in the morning, brush your teeth with your opposite hand,

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all of these little pieces of advice.

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And people try this for eleven,

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twelve, fifteen years,

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and they're not really getting better. And finally,

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they go see somebody

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levels, that tests their neurotransmitter levels, and they discover, oh, I've just had a vitamin d deficiency this whole freaking time.

00:25:59.045 --> 00:26:03.685
They were trying to, like, think their way out of a vitamin deficiency or a neurotransmitter

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problem, and they had a physiological

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problem, not a psychological

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problem. So that is a big powerful thing. A doctor can order those tests.

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And, man, vitamin b, vitamin d deficiencies can severely

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impact your life.

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And then you're gonna every everybody you see is gonna say, oh, well, you need to think more positive. You need to think differently. You might have a hormonal neurotransmitter

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or vitamin imbalance that's just ruining your life.

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The good news, if that's true, is it's a very,

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very easy solution

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ninety nine percent of the time. Well and I and I but I I think, like, from

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the action perspective and behavior perspective,

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I think there

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there needs to be a a strong focus, in my opinion, on, like, small wins for people when they're looking to to change their life. Because what happens is we live in this world of instant gratification where we wanna achieve these big things in, you know, an hour

00:26:59.115 --> 00:27:04.690
when, really, it's just a it's just compounding small wins to achieve that big thing.

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I would love to hear your perspective on it as far as behavior.

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Like, what is the importance of just

00:27:11.490 --> 00:27:17.875
doing the right thing every day having that lead up to something major. Yeah. And they I think all the old

00:27:18.355 --> 00:27:22.675
coaches back in the day would call this right action. Am I am I doing the right action?

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And that's the same with so many people now get upset, and they kind of get

00:27:28.060 --> 00:27:31.900
into a a little emotional rut because they're

00:27:32.540 --> 00:27:37.660
so used to things being quick. They they're kind of thinking, I want the Ozempic version

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of of discipline. I want the give me the Ozempic so I can do x.

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And

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not everything has that, and some things just take time. And those small wins are so critically important.

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But what's more important is my human brain is not fully

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in charge of all of this. It's that mammal. So always think of

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how could I dis how would Cesar Millan

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handle this shit? So if I have a problem with a dog's motivation, I need four things to lead a mammalian brain, whether it's a human mammalian brain, a dolphin, or a dog.

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It's focus.

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Where is all my focus going?

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What are the sources of authority?

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And then tribe

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and emotion.

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Focus, authority, tribe, emotion. Spells out fate,

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and it is your fate for sure.

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So just figuring that stuff out. So how can I change the mammalian focus? So if I have affirmations on my wall or I have a a calendar that has x's on it every time I work out or every time I get into ketosis or or whatever somebody's trying to do,

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and your dog doesn't understand that.

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That's the big piece that everybody seems to be missing.

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A dog can't see that. Your mammalian brain isn't excited about a black and white thing on the wall with a bunch of x's on it unless you have this tremendous emotional attachment to it.

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So that's where, like, these vision boards come in, who we're hanging out with, who we're spending time with, where that why that tribe is so critically important.

00:29:11.665 --> 00:29:22.440
And all of these elements of our life, like, how could I show my goals to my dog? How would I make my dog happy that they're doing the right thing? And do those things for yourself.

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I'm gonna go on a run, and then I'm gonna celebrate with something. If I'm setting goals, I'm gonna put thousands

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of pictures associated with each goal so that there I can see images

00:29:33.925 --> 00:29:36.805
so that the mammalian brain starts to understand

00:29:36.885 --> 00:29:43.365
the direction. So it's not human going this direction, and mammalian brain doesn't know the human wants to go this direction.

00:29:43.605 --> 00:29:46.405
So getting that mammalian brain on board is so critically important.

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So say I I hired you and I said, you know what? Like, Chase, like, I have been struggling with discipline,

00:29:53.330 --> 00:29:54.770
procrastination

00:29:54.930 --> 00:30:01.730
for years, and I just can't seem to figure it out. I got my dopamine chart here, and it's like I'm doing all the wrong habits.

00:30:02.725 --> 00:30:07.685
What how can I quickly, like, start to unlearn some of these bad habits

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and then be able to build

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discipline

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and stay consistent

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even when I don't feel like it? So one of the biggest

00:30:18.070 --> 00:30:24.630
mistakes that I see clients making so if you're my client here and I'm I'm talking to you and this is our our thing here,

00:30:25.270 --> 00:30:32.765
there was a mistake in your language that I hear from so many people, if you don't mind me calling you out. Of course. You said discipline

00:30:32.765 --> 00:30:34.525
to do all of these things

00:30:34.765 --> 00:30:36.125
that I don't wanna do.

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A lot of people see people eating healthy

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and going to the gym, maybe eating a keto diet or or something like that. And they're doing these things all the time. Maybe they're writing a book,

00:30:48.390 --> 00:30:51.430
and they're they're disciplined about writing the book.

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But the our mind says, I wish I had that level of discipline. Or or we internally think they're so disciplined about that.

00:31:00.230 --> 00:31:02.390
Nothing of what you're seeing is discipline.

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That guy who goes to the gym every day, none of that is discipline.

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It's routine.

00:31:08.735 --> 00:31:12.735
The discipline was there when the habit was started only.

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So it's very important that we understand discipline's a finite resource. So let's let's start one habit at a time.

00:31:20.830 --> 00:31:23.230
So we're setting habits instead of goals.

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And the discipline is only we only need, like, a little shot glass full of discipline to kick off a habit. And most people have these 19 goals. Like, they're sitting there eating hot dogs every day, and they're surfing social media for eighteen hours a day. They have this really horrible lifestyle, and they're like, you know what? In six weeks, I'm gonna be muscular, fit, thin,

00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:46.000
successful,

00:31:46.080 --> 00:31:49.760
rich, good looking, and have extremely white teeth.

00:31:50.560 --> 00:31:54.320
So you need one try to do one discipline

00:31:54.560 --> 00:31:58.880
habit formation at a time. And the fastest discipline

00:31:58.595 --> 00:32:05.235
thing that kind of sprouts to rewards in every other area of life is I'm gonna use this little shot glass of discipline

00:32:05.635 --> 00:32:09.395
to start forming a habit of taking care of my future self.

00:32:09.635 --> 00:32:12.515
If I can do that, if that becomes a habit,

00:32:13.080 --> 00:32:13.880
everything

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benefits.

00:32:14.760 --> 00:32:18.440
Every single aspect of my life starts changing because I'm getting

00:32:18.760 --> 00:32:30.175
I'm using my discipline to force this one thing into a habit for, like I think it's sixty four days. It takes to set a habit and whatever number somebody says is wrong. Some of them are are useful,

00:32:30.575 --> 00:32:36.735
but it's probably around around that time. I'm gonna use that little shot glass of discipline to do that.

00:32:37.135 --> 00:32:40.735
So now if I have a habit of prioritizing my future self,

00:32:41.570 --> 00:32:57.745
every other habit that I wanna form starts getting easier because I have an emotional relationship with that future version of me. And if how do I get the mammalian brain involved? You download that app on your phone that's like make me look old or I think it's called face app,

00:32:58.385 --> 00:33:06.385
and it makes you, like, 95 years old. You can take a selfie with it, and it makes you super old. Print those out on a nice color printer and put it on your fridge.

00:33:06.980 --> 00:33:23.315
Put it next to your bed. Put it in your office where you're gonna see it. So we don't really prioritize our future self because we never met them. We have no relationship to our future self. So this helps that mammalian brain start prioritizing and connecting with that longer

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vision, that older version of ourself.

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We've talked quite a bit about

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self awareness

00:33:30.115 --> 00:33:31.475
and understanding

00:33:31.475 --> 00:33:38.590
some of the things in our life that might be limiting us, whether whether it be, like, you know, how we show up in situations, our environment,

00:33:38.670 --> 00:33:40.350
our relationship with dopamine,

00:33:40.350 --> 00:33:40.910
etcetera.

00:33:41.230 --> 00:33:50.270
And you talked about, like you kinda called me out and said the number one mistake that, know, you see people make is that they think that, you know, you said to get people to do things they don't necessarily want to do.

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In that same

00:33:52.655 --> 00:33:53.695
conversation,

00:33:54.175 --> 00:33:58.255
is there anything that you see, like, right off the bat common thread

00:33:58.655 --> 00:34:10.430
that you help people kinda stop the bleeding? Where you're like, alright. Generally speaking, there's, like, three or four or five things that you see most people do time and time again that's destroying their focus and their inability to reach their goals.

00:34:10.830 --> 00:34:17.310
Yes. So we'll go through kind of an I have a separate little inventory I walk each of my clients through. And

00:34:18.190 --> 00:34:19.870
I wanna identify

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where

00:34:20.865 --> 00:34:22.625
you're feeling discomfort

00:34:23.025 --> 00:34:28.705
in your life. So it's social settings and all this other stuff. And then I'm gonna identify where you seek comfort,

00:34:28.705 --> 00:34:29.905
like Instagram,

00:34:29.905 --> 00:34:30.705
TikTok,

00:34:31.105 --> 00:34:35.585
alcohol, all of these things in your life. And we're gonna pull

00:34:34.990 --> 00:34:41.550
cup we're gonna start making it more uncomfortable in those areas and increasing the comfort in the other areas.

00:34:42.430 --> 00:34:45.630
So so much of this stuff comes down to being comfortable.

00:34:46.190 --> 00:34:53.455
So I'm seeking comfort. Like, most people are seeking comfort in video games, TV, Netflix, binging, TikTok, or whatever,

00:34:53.775 --> 00:34:56.175
and that's more acting as an anesthetic.

00:34:56.815 --> 00:35:02.495
So I wanna find out where all of these little situations we have this long questionnaire we go through. But,

00:35:03.210 --> 00:35:05.530
essentially, what are all these little scenarios

00:35:05.930 --> 00:35:08.090
where I experience some kind of discomfort?

00:35:08.730 --> 00:35:21.655
Maybe when I go to the bank, when I when I log in to check my account, when I have to speak on stage, when I have to do a pitch, all of these other things. And then where am I seeking comfort? And then so this is kind of like a dopamine map, except it's stress

00:35:21.735 --> 00:35:25.255
versus anesthetic is really what we're we're finding out here.

00:35:25.495 --> 00:35:31.015
So I'm gonna pull out of the anesthetic and start pulling some of that onto the stress side.

00:35:32.110 --> 00:35:37.230
And you'd be wildly surprised in how fast those things can kind of reverse.

00:35:38.590 --> 00:35:49.015
So where are we seeking comfort? And I can start pull pulling away from that, and it gives more energy, more discipline, more willpower to all of these other things and and start

00:35:49.815 --> 00:36:00.295
it's such a rapid change. I've seen people change in as little as, like, a week and a half, two weeks just from mapping this out and getting super raw and real on a lot of this stuff.

00:36:01.090 --> 00:36:13.250
And hypnosis is is a fast way to do that and a fast way to really make that change that you're asking about. You know, a lot of your work talks about, like, controlling the mind, understanding people's body language,

00:36:13.250 --> 00:36:14.930
under understanding how to read people.

00:36:16.345 --> 00:36:27.145
You know? And I think sometimes people are like, well, how does that apply to me? Like, when am I ever gonna really need to, quote, unquote, do that? Like, the people I'm around, I already trust. You know, when I go into certain situations,

00:36:27.145 --> 00:36:32.380
like, no one's gonna be deceitful. Like, give the elevator pitch as to why people should care

00:36:33.020 --> 00:36:33.740
about

00:36:34.140 --> 00:36:39.260
that area of your work even though they're not, like, in a in the in intelligence agency.

00:36:39.500 --> 00:36:41.260
So I think when people hear

00:36:41.595 --> 00:36:44.075
behavior profiling or body language

00:36:44.235 --> 00:36:44.875
expert,

00:36:45.195 --> 00:36:47.435
they assume that it's about lie detection.

00:36:48.395 --> 00:36:57.355
And the truth is it's it's more about stress detection. I really wanna spot these little stress signals, and I wanna spot what makes somebody really comfortable, what somebody's interested in.

00:36:57.970 --> 00:37:01.810
And everything that I teach in my company goes down to three things.

00:37:02.290 --> 00:37:07.490
And if you look at what determines success in life, we can we can look at

00:37:07.810 --> 00:37:08.610
communication

00:37:08.610 --> 00:37:10.530
skills, like, I communicate,

00:37:10.530 --> 00:37:12.690
persuade, influence very effectively?

00:37:12.930 --> 00:37:13.570
Can I

00:37:14.185 --> 00:37:15.545
master myself?

00:37:15.785 --> 00:37:17.145
So communication,

00:37:17.145 --> 00:37:18.425
self mastery,

00:37:18.905 --> 00:37:20.105
and observation.

00:37:20.745 --> 00:37:24.425
So our failures can be traced back to I failed to communicate.

00:37:24.505 --> 00:37:28.265
I wasn't really in charge of myself. I was sending all the wrong signals, or

00:37:28.770 --> 00:37:32.530
I didn't observe the room. I failed to read the room.

00:37:33.010 --> 00:37:40.130
So this goes back to understanding what people are really feeling and understanding from a behavior profiling perspective.

00:37:40.370 --> 00:37:45.415
They use these three sentences. So I know one of their hidden insecurities insecurities is this.

00:37:45.815 --> 00:37:53.815
So there's hidden information in language that's not just, oh, this guy scratched his nose and he's lying because there's so much of that bullshit on the Internet already,

00:37:54.135 --> 00:37:55.015
which is not true.

00:37:55.910 --> 00:37:57.590
That's one of the biggest myths.

00:37:57.750 --> 00:38:04.710
But we can also develop a little profile of everybody that we know, not as some intelligence asset, but I'm truly

00:38:04.870 --> 00:38:07.830
as a leader, the better I am at understanding people,

00:38:08.230 --> 00:38:09.030
understanding

00:38:09.030 --> 00:38:10.150
that person's needs,

00:38:10.715 --> 00:38:18.875
their the values that they're not even talking about. We can find these things hidden inside of people's language, and this is in everyday conversations.

00:38:19.035 --> 00:38:21.595
One of my books is called six minute x-ray.

00:38:22.075 --> 00:38:24.875
And within six minutes, you can find out a person's

00:38:25.190 --> 00:38:26.310
insecurities,

00:38:26.310 --> 00:38:27.350
their fears,

00:38:27.590 --> 00:38:44.425
their secret desires, how they make decisions, what decision type they are, and all kinds. You would be stunned at how much information you can see in, like, six minutes just getting good at some of that stuff. How can people apply that stuff to better themselves and to improve their life, like, once they know information like that?

00:38:44.745 --> 00:38:54.025
Well, I think it allows you to communicate with everybody a lot differently. I think it makes you a better leader because you're understanding the people that are working for you, the the people that you know.

00:38:54.780 --> 00:38:57.900
But you're also when you're going through this inevitably,

00:38:57.980 --> 00:39:03.340
when somebody goes through this this training with me, especially the six minute X-ray stuff,

00:39:03.820 --> 00:39:13.435
it's a huge lens into ourself as well because we're learning about how we use language and what our language reveals about us, these tiny little pauses and these

00:39:13.995 --> 00:39:15.515
seemingly insignificant

00:39:15.515 --> 00:39:22.920
words that people say. So we're learning not just to be a better communicator, but we're we're getting better at knowing ourself.

00:39:23.480 --> 00:39:32.920
And one of the you ask about the most common problem. I think the most common problem I've ever seen is that that people don't really know who they are. They don't know themselves.

00:39:34.015 --> 00:39:40.335
It's tough. Right? Because it's like you have to be comfortable with all those parts of you. Right? And I think so is there anything else that people can do

00:39:40.655 --> 00:39:44.335
to get good at knowing themselves other than what we've talked about?

00:39:44.655 --> 00:39:52.250
Yeah. I mean, there's there's all kinds of workbooks and therapy and stuff like that, but this just getting to a point of radical honesty.

00:39:52.410 --> 00:40:00.250
So you get to a point of if if I'm in a conversation and I'm feeling that there was an awkward pause, I'll just say that out loud.

00:40:01.130 --> 00:40:05.745
And if I'm feeling, like, nervous about something, I'll say that I'm nervous out loud.

00:40:06.225 --> 00:40:16.545
And starting to get to a point where I used to would have never revealed this little thing because I feared judgment and start getting yourself used to making those little revelations

00:40:16.705 --> 00:40:17.665
in conversation.

00:40:18.820 --> 00:40:19.460
And

00:40:19.700 --> 00:40:26.820
I guess the end result of all of this, the most important thing that I could ever tell you about, like, getting to know yourself

00:40:26.900 --> 00:40:27.780
is that

00:40:28.180 --> 00:40:33.220
if once we start like, the starting point for all of this is, am I able to locate

00:40:33.615 --> 00:40:37.935
me on that childhood triangle? The friends, safety, and rewards.

00:40:38.255 --> 00:40:52.470
And this is the one thing that starts untying all of the other stuff. That is definitely the from what I've seen, the fastest entry point into a lot of that self knowledge. Yeah. I mean, radical honesty is is so important. And I think, you know, people's ability

00:40:52.950 --> 00:40:55.350
to do that, I think, is just so

00:40:55.590 --> 00:40:56.550
transformational,

00:40:56.550 --> 00:41:06.655
like, once they get to that point. You know, you you touched on, like, some of the reading people and talking about how to communicate with other people and the mind control stuff. Like, which one of those skills

00:41:07.055 --> 00:41:15.455
do you think is the most like, if somebody were to to take a deeper dive into your work in that side of things, like, which skill do you think they should they should focus on for first?

00:41:16.040 --> 00:41:17.960
I think going

00:41:17.960 --> 00:41:27.480
into learning how to read people automatically makes you start reading yourself and seeing it in yourself unless you're, a psychopath and you have no no self awareness whatsoever.

00:41:28.040 --> 00:41:34.225
And there's I have a free class. It's like, I don't know, six, seven hours that kind of walks you through this fundamental

00:41:34.225 --> 00:41:36.145
shift on how you view the world

00:41:36.465 --> 00:41:38.145
and how we view other people.

00:41:38.705 --> 00:41:42.625
And I think that is definitely the best place to start because

00:41:43.170 --> 00:41:50.450
if I can learn how to see what's going on around me and learn about myself at the exact same time, that becomes a little pathway

00:41:50.930 --> 00:41:52.690
to self mastery.

00:41:52.850 --> 00:41:54.290
What are your thoughts on

00:41:54.530 --> 00:42:05.535
on motivation? Do you think it actually works? Like, can somebody, like, you know, read something and or look at themselves in the mirror and be like, hey. You know, I wanna make this change. Like, can that carry them, or do you think it's BS?

00:42:05.935 --> 00:42:09.695
I think a lot of motivation is gonna be based in neurochemistry.

00:42:10.575 --> 00:42:17.590
So some people say, had this big epiphany, and it it may not have been the idea that they had. They they might have traveled,

00:42:17.590 --> 00:42:21.110
and they might have taken a supplement, or they might have balanced something inside their heads.

00:42:21.350 --> 00:42:24.150
I think a lot of motivation is is neurochemically

00:42:24.150 --> 00:42:24.870
based,

00:42:25.430 --> 00:42:27.190
and

00:42:26.415 --> 00:42:37.455
there are so many cases where we see people that are going to see a coach. They're working one on one with a coach that's working on their mindset and walking them through these questions, exercises, and all this other stuff.

00:42:38.310 --> 00:42:39.110
Meanwhile,

00:42:39.110 --> 00:42:43.030
ten years later, they discover that they've got a vitamin d deficiency.

00:42:44.470 --> 00:42:48.950
Or later on down the road, they're deficient in zinc or their epinephrine,

00:42:48.950 --> 00:42:50.070
norepinephrine

00:42:50.115 --> 00:43:01.795
brain chemistry is out of whack, and they just need to add something to their lifestyle or their diet to get that back in. So I think we tend to assume that a lot of psychological

00:43:01.795 --> 00:43:03.075
problems,

00:43:03.075 --> 00:43:03.795
symptoms

00:43:03.875 --> 00:43:05.155
are psychologically

00:43:05.155 --> 00:43:08.070
rooted when in fact it's a physiological

00:43:08.070 --> 00:43:11.510
deficit of some sort that's causing the psychological symptom.

00:43:12.070 --> 00:43:36.535
And there's I mean, there's cases where, uh, somebody goes to a therapist's office or goes to see a therapist, they're like, well, my I every time when I'm walking to work, my hands get numb and tingly. I feel really nervous. My heart's racing. I have this weird thing where I stop from walking and just feel kinda paralyzed as I'm I'm doing these things. And they're like, oh, we have social anxiety. Let's work on that. And then they discover a few years later, the person got a brain tumor

00:43:37.090 --> 00:43:39.570
that was causing a lot of these symptoms. So

00:43:40.770 --> 00:43:43.970
we tend as a as a culture, we tend to ignore

00:43:44.050 --> 00:43:47.970
in anything that's happening in our mind, we tend to ignore physiological

00:43:47.970 --> 00:43:49.730
issues that might be causing

00:43:50.690 --> 00:43:51.570
the symptoms.

00:43:52.185 --> 00:43:57.785
Is there anything, like, more recently, like any kind of habits or shifts you've made in your own life

00:43:58.025 --> 00:44:00.985
that you've made that have that have led to some self improvement?

00:44:01.465 --> 00:44:03.305
Yeah. Thirty nine

00:44:04.265 --> 00:44:06.105
yeah. Thirty nine days ago,

00:44:06.505 --> 00:44:08.345
I quit drinking

00:44:09.090 --> 00:44:12.850
because so many of my friends had stopped drinking.

00:44:15.090 --> 00:44:17.890
And it just I was lying to myself,

00:44:18.290 --> 00:44:20.770
uh, that it's not harmful, and I have a brain disease.

00:44:21.275 --> 00:44:21.995
And

00:44:22.075 --> 00:44:22.795
alcohol

00:44:22.955 --> 00:44:27.595
ex with the exception of maybe red wine, uh, alcohol is a neurotoxin.

00:44:27.595 --> 00:44:28.715
It's a neurotoxic

00:44:28.715 --> 00:44:29.435
substance.

00:44:30.235 --> 00:44:31.195
And I

00:44:31.355 --> 00:44:32.715
was hurting myself,

00:44:33.450 --> 00:44:45.770
and, uh, that was the one of the biggest shifts I've ever made. And the shift wasn't being, like, trying to quit and getting through the process of quitting alcohol and going through withdrawals

00:44:45.770 --> 00:44:51.515
and all that stuff. It's shifting your world view to where you know so much truth about

00:44:51.595 --> 00:44:53.915
that alcohol that all the reasons

00:44:54.155 --> 00:44:57.035
that you might come up with for drinking are false.

00:44:57.515 --> 00:45:03.890
So you're flooding your brain with a maximum amount of truth and data to the point where the decision becomes becomes a byproduct

00:45:03.890 --> 00:45:04.770
of your

00:45:05.250 --> 00:45:06.130
knowledge,

00:45:06.530 --> 00:45:08.050
and your awareness

00:45:08.530 --> 00:45:17.170
creates the byproduct of sobriety. Was there anything in your life that was kind of going on in the moment, or were you just like, hey. You know, I got this brain condition.

00:45:17.655 --> 00:45:20.695
My friends are doing this. Like because, I mean, a lot of times with addiction,

00:45:20.855 --> 00:45:23.735
I'm sure as you well know, like, something happens where

00:45:23.975 --> 00:45:28.855
it's like, crap. I'm at this crossroads. I either fix my life or things are about to get much worse.

00:45:29.575 --> 00:45:32.055
I don't think I had a big crossroads. I think

00:45:33.030 --> 00:45:33.990
we, uh,

00:45:35.030 --> 00:45:46.470
our company started growing a lot, and I hired my sister as as my CEO. So I had her quit her old job, and she came on, and she my sister, Holly, is is running our company now.

00:45:47.355 --> 00:45:49.915
And she quit drinking, like, seven years ago.

00:45:50.795 --> 00:45:51.355
And

00:45:51.835 --> 00:46:00.235
what I noticed, we were at, a family Thanksgiving thing. People were kinda pouring out wine, and and everybody was having a cocktail, scotch, and all that kind of stuff.

00:46:01.100 --> 00:46:06.460
And she didn't drink in it. And I asked her, like, if how do how do you resist it?

00:46:06.780 --> 00:46:12.700
That was my question. The the so that conversation with Holly was my big turning point. I said, how do you resist the alcohol?

00:46:13.295 --> 00:46:17.135
She said, there's not a it's not about resistance. It's about education.

00:46:18.015 --> 00:46:24.815
So, like, if if you know enough about it, then you just won't there will be no desire left in your entire body.

00:46:25.295 --> 00:46:31.750
Uh, and that that conversation with Holly was was a big catalyst for that. What did that experience, like, teach you

00:46:32.150 --> 00:46:46.655
about behavior change? Like, going through something like that? I mean, quitting alcohol is, like, for many, it's like nobody people don't do it because it's so tough. And for a lot of people, it's like this challenge that takes months or years. Like, what did that experience teach you? I think that

00:46:47.055 --> 00:46:47.695
we

00:46:48.815 --> 00:46:50.975
very often lie to ourselves

00:46:51.135 --> 00:46:54.735
about the reasons that we do destructive things, whether it's being

00:46:55.030 --> 00:46:56.310
in a relationship

00:46:56.470 --> 00:47:02.230
or drinking too much or getting pissed off in traffic when we when we really shouldn't be.

00:47:02.710 --> 00:47:04.870
We are lying to ourselves, and we

00:47:05.350 --> 00:47:06.150
typically,

00:47:06.230 --> 00:47:14.355
the right amount of truth will get us out of a lot of these negative behaviors like it does alcohol or anything else. I'm just missing pieces of truth,

00:47:14.675 --> 00:47:18.675
which goes back to what we talked about, this massive shift in perspective that

00:47:18.915 --> 00:47:24.930
psychedelics you create is why that helps people stop addictions and stuff because it gives you such a

00:47:25.490 --> 00:47:28.530
it, like, zooms you out so far,

00:47:29.090 --> 00:47:33.170
uh, on everything that, like, you're you're you realize, like, I'm

00:47:33.555 --> 00:47:37.075
I'm spending a whole lifetime thinking that, a, I'm special,

00:47:38.195 --> 00:47:41.235
b, I'm separate from everybody else, and c,

00:47:41.475 --> 00:47:42.915
uh, all of my little

00:47:43.315 --> 00:47:48.820
reasons that I have in my head for doing a lot of weird that I do are completely false.

00:47:49.060 --> 00:47:57.860
I think addiction is a simulation for a lot of people where they're just caught in the cycle of it, and they can't get out. They don't know what to do. And I think these from what I know,

00:47:58.445 --> 00:48:13.005
the first few months of recovery for people are very crucial because it's the time I think when when cravings are really high. It's like you're recalibrating your mental well-being if you were somebody who numbed with substances. Again, I'm not saying you did this. I'm just saying this is generally speaking.

00:48:13.820 --> 00:48:20.460
And I think it comes down to habits, right, and what you're doing on a day to day basis to keep yourself busy

00:48:20.700 --> 00:48:27.980
and, again, towards this future version of yourself. Like, what what types of things do do you do, like, regularly now

00:48:28.335 --> 00:48:29.615
to keep yourself,

00:48:30.255 --> 00:48:33.135
like, away from potentially going back and drinking?

00:48:33.535 --> 00:48:36.895
I mean, I have a I have a full bar in my living room.

00:48:37.695 --> 00:48:38.175
And

00:48:38.655 --> 00:48:45.040
this is for when people come over, somebody wants to make themselves a cocktail or something, or maybe we have a party here at the house.

00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:46.720
I

00:48:48.080 --> 00:48:48.720
think

00:48:49.200 --> 00:48:51.280
just the enjoyment of

00:48:51.440 --> 00:48:55.120
after you break the physical and the physiological

00:48:55.120 --> 00:48:55.520
addictions,

00:48:55.925 --> 00:49:01.925
the enjoyment of not needing that thing feels a lot like freedom to me. I'll speak for myself.

00:49:02.965 --> 00:49:08.805
But I think the that people focus a little too much on the chemical addiction to alcohol.

00:49:09.160 --> 00:49:19.480
I'm gonna go through these withdrawals. I'm gonna have I'm I'm worrying about, uh, DTs, which is delirium tremens like this, micro seizures that can happen when somebody's withdrawing.

00:49:19.880 --> 00:49:25.635
But we forget that about ninety percent of addictions are hand to mouth addictions.

00:49:26.435 --> 00:49:29.875
So I'm overeating food. I'm smoking cigarettes, streaking alcohol,

00:49:30.035 --> 00:49:34.755
or I'm I'm taking drugs or I'm smoking too much weed or whatever it is.

00:49:35.715 --> 00:49:44.810
A lot of these addictions are hand to mouth. So when we try to get off, we miss out this this hand to mouth gesture that that we're so fond of and that we're so used to.

00:49:45.690 --> 00:49:49.610
So replacing that during the process of getting off of addiction,

00:49:50.250 --> 00:49:57.955
um, or getting off of a substance is is really important to have something there to help you wean off of the physical movement

00:49:57.955 --> 00:49:58.755
pattern

00:49:58.835 --> 00:50:01.075
as well as the the chemical itself.

00:50:01.795 --> 00:50:05.875
And so what what can be helpful for for people to do that?

00:50:06.755 --> 00:50:08.835
Well, on the light side,

00:50:08.915 --> 00:50:11.155
kind of the caffeine free diet

00:50:11.580 --> 00:50:24.700
advice part of this would be, like, just having something there. So if I'm quitting drinking, I'm gonna set up a scenario where I'm gonna have something there that I can I'm sipping on throughout the evening or if I drink at night or or whatever it is.

00:50:25.485 --> 00:50:26.125
And

00:50:26.445 --> 00:50:29.645
on the the heavier side of this, and this is not advice,

00:50:29.965 --> 00:50:34.445
uh, for anybody, but, um, you need to talk to your doctor. But psychedelics

00:50:34.685 --> 00:50:38.670
are one of the fastest ways that you can do this, and this is through

00:50:39.470 --> 00:50:43.950
a psilocybin journey. And and now ketamine prescriptions are

00:50:44.430 --> 00:50:45.070
are

00:50:45.230 --> 00:50:46.190
getting more

00:50:46.510 --> 00:50:47.550
commonplace.

00:50:47.550 --> 00:50:50.670
Doctors are feeling less anxiety

00:50:50.385 --> 00:50:57.345
insecurity about writing the prescription for microdose ketamine, like, to be used throughout the day. And this is like a twenty five milligram,

00:50:57.825 --> 00:51:00.385
uh, trochee that you can dissolve under your tongue,

00:51:00.785 --> 00:51:10.320
and it can help with addiction and coming off of things and anxiety and depression and PTSD and so much of these other things. Even though it's a man made,

00:51:10.720 --> 00:51:12.000
uh, substance,

00:51:12.480 --> 00:51:13.200
it's

00:51:13.600 --> 00:51:17.120
it's proven to be so incredibly helpful,

00:51:17.280 --> 00:51:24.465
and its its likelihood for abuse is so low. And, like, if you look at mushrooms, they're anti addictive.

00:51:24.705 --> 00:51:27.185
Nobody's addicting getting addicted to,

00:51:27.505 --> 00:51:34.560
like, psychedelic mushrooms or anything like that. So I think that that's a huge revolution that I think people

00:51:35.200 --> 00:51:40.880
should be taking more advantage of. I mean, our ancestors used this stuff for millennia,

00:51:41.280 --> 00:51:51.195
and we kind of uh, it's good to see that we're going through this psychedelic revolution right now where there's so much of this stuff is starting to come out, and I think people are waking up to it.

00:51:51.675 --> 00:51:53.675
So is there a way to mimic

00:51:54.155 --> 00:51:55.435
that without

00:51:55.710 --> 00:51:56.510
psychedelics?

00:51:56.510 --> 00:52:02.910
Because, obviously, like, there's cost involved with that, and you wanna make sure you're doing it under medical care. And then maybe there's people that

00:52:03.070 --> 00:52:12.345
you know, a a lot of people who struggle have struggled with addiction are, like, completely sober, and that's, like, against their moral compass, especially if they're in, like, 12 step to do anything like that.

00:52:12.745 --> 00:52:13.945
So have you found,

00:52:14.345 --> 00:52:17.065
um, like, any practices that can,

00:52:17.305 --> 00:52:23.465
you know, over time, get you deeply connected to your subconscious so that you can kind of move forward with the pain and trauma in your life?

00:52:24.450 --> 00:52:25.410
There is one

00:52:26.530 --> 00:52:30.930
the the most effective thing I've ever seen that doesn't involve any

00:52:31.970 --> 00:52:40.915
I hate to use the word drug. Uh, it's such a stupid word, and it it's not appropriate to talk about psychedelics at all. But

00:52:41.315 --> 00:52:45.395
the thing that uses just our body is this thing called neurogenic

00:52:45.395 --> 00:52:46.195
tremors.

00:52:46.435 --> 00:52:47.155
And

00:52:47.235 --> 00:52:48.915
if you look at a mammal,

00:52:49.395 --> 00:52:51.155
the average mammal

00:52:51.555 --> 00:52:52.355
is

00:52:52.590 --> 00:52:53.550
programmed

00:52:54.830 --> 00:52:59.070
all mammals are programmed to go through this tremoring process. So when a squirrel

00:52:59.070 --> 00:53:01.630
or a fox or a impala

00:53:01.710 --> 00:53:05.790
or a tiger or polar bear goes through some kind of traumatic experience,

00:53:06.725 --> 00:53:11.125
let's say they're drinking water at some watering hole. Crocodile bites them in the neck,

00:53:12.565 --> 00:53:13.685
and they survive.

00:53:14.165 --> 00:53:19.365
They don't go back to their little tribe area or their den and, like, curl up under a tree

00:53:20.350 --> 00:53:21.790
for weeks at a time.

00:53:22.670 --> 00:53:25.710
And why don't why don't we have that? Why don't we have psychogenic

00:53:25.710 --> 00:53:27.870
trauma in animals?

00:53:28.830 --> 00:53:33.630
And one thing that this guy who did the research on this, his name is doctor David Bercelli,

00:53:33.630 --> 00:53:34.430
brilliant,

00:53:34.430 --> 00:53:35.070
brilliant guy.

00:53:35.905 --> 00:53:37.425
He was a trauma surgeon.

00:53:38.385 --> 00:53:42.145
But he noticed that after these animals had this trauma experience,

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they go into this state that looks like the body's vibrating or shaking, almost like it looks kinda like a seizure.

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And you can even ask if you know a police officer, you can ask a cop. They

00:53:54.940 --> 00:54:01.500
roll up on a car accident, and there's an infant in the back seat in a in a stroller or or a not stroller, like a car seat,

00:54:01.900 --> 00:54:04.860
and they survived, their body goes into the shaking response.

00:54:06.125 --> 00:54:08.045
But think about this for a second.

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Throughout your life, like if you get into something that's super heavy, traumatic, or stressful,

00:54:14.845 --> 00:54:18.765
and your hands are shaking, like, let's say you're trying to maybe dial 911,

00:54:18.845 --> 00:54:24.360
and what's the first thing people say when their hands are shaking? They say, I can't stop

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shaking

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because we develop this instinct to suppress these tremors.

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And we're the we we all have the instinct to to go into these tremors,

00:54:34.405 --> 00:54:42.965
but we have this instinct, like, if I if I lay on the ground and shiver and shake around, that is gonna make me look sick. It's gonna look like a seizure.

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Because what are people gonna do if you're going into this tremor state? They're gonna try to stop you as soon as possible. They will lay you down, tell you to stop, tell you everything's okay.

00:54:52.380 --> 00:54:56.060
So it's socially weird for us to do that, so we suppress this.

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Uh, but the cool thing is you're you're not gonna see a fox or a monkey or a squirrel with depression.

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You're not gonna see it.

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Uh, and the one thing that that we

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really

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suppress that they don't is this tremor response.

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And doctor Bercelli's work is is he had he has named these tremors himself,

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uh, but his system is called trauma release exercises,

00:55:21.610 --> 00:55:28.010
and it's free. You can watch it on YouTube. You can learn about it. And the cool thing is it's not like you have to learn how to do it.

00:55:29.295 --> 00:55:33.375
It's built into your nervous system to handle this trauma response.

00:55:34.095 --> 00:55:43.700
The one thing the thing that takes time to learn is how to stop suppressing it, how to kind of take your finger off of that kill switch and let that stuff start coming out.

00:55:44.100 --> 00:56:00.795
And the the really fascinating thing about it is that it's mostly just brain stem and spinal cord. You can have a full conversation while your body's going into this stuff. You look this up on YouTube separately, but you can watch TV. You can read a book. You can listen to an audiobook. You do not need to be consciously involved in the process.

00:56:01.435 --> 00:56:03.835
So the body really knows how to fix itself.

00:56:04.315 --> 00:56:13.000
Uh, and I've seen this. This is it's so popular and so effective that it was mandatory for us to go through some of this training coming back from a deployments

00:56:13.080 --> 00:56:14.280
overseas.

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And it changed my life. The first time I ever did it, it was life changing.

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And it takes you maybe thirty or forty five minutes to to find your way into this tremor state. But once you do it, once you do it one time,

00:56:29.015 --> 00:56:34.055
you can come back to those tremors very easily within, like, five seconds for the rest of your life.

00:56:34.760 --> 00:56:36.040
That's fascinating.

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That's wild.

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It's cool. And

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when you walk somebody through it, the first phase that

00:56:43.160 --> 00:56:47.320
that we go through is is called the ego phase because

00:56:47.805 --> 00:56:55.405
I'm I'm starting to do these tremors. I might be laying down. We'll put somebody in a stress position for a minute to kind of induce the muscle

00:56:55.725 --> 00:56:56.525
tremors

00:56:56.605 --> 00:57:04.620
so that you're you're saying, yes. I want this. I want this. So you're teaching the brain stem that okay. You're kinda giving the brain stem permission to do what it's

00:57:05.180 --> 00:57:07.900
been not allowed to do for a very long time.

00:57:08.540 --> 00:57:25.205
And but the ego phase is what prevents us from really doing it, and and that's what takes the time, is going through that ego phase of it's okay for me to do this, and I'm I want this to happen. I've heard you say that, like, one of the biggest things that people struggle with to consume your content is

00:57:25.685 --> 00:57:32.960
they feel like they're lacking control in their life. What do you think they're lacking control of? Well, this has multiple levels.

00:57:33.120 --> 00:57:36.720
I think our we are in a pandemic of loneliness,

00:57:37.440 --> 00:57:55.435
and that is the top part of Maslow. Like, the social belonging, confidence, and all of that leads to an increase in the next level, which is our self confidence, our personal discipline, which leads to a failure in the top part of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which is like this self actualization.

00:57:55.435 --> 00:57:59.560
Can I, like, can I accomplish the crap that I wanna accomplish this year?

00:58:00.600 --> 00:58:02.520
And what do you think

00:58:02.840 --> 00:58:04.200
people can do

00:58:04.520 --> 00:58:06.360
if they're feeling lonely,

00:58:06.760 --> 00:58:13.655
out of control, they don't know what their future's gonna hold? Like, what's the first step, you know, that somebody can take to kinda get themselves out of that rut?

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One of the first is

00:58:16.455 --> 00:58:17.655
realizing

00:58:17.655 --> 00:58:21.895
that all of this social media and stuff is a placebo

00:58:22.630 --> 00:58:24.230
of relationships,

00:58:24.230 --> 00:58:30.390
and it doesn't actually fulfill your your primal need for belonging and connection with people.

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And

00:58:32.150 --> 00:58:41.895
the second part is develop just an you know, we we have you heard of locus of control? I haven't. So a person with an internal locus of control says,

00:58:42.295 --> 00:58:47.815
I decide what happens in my life. I'm in charge of the outcomes. It's my fault if something goes wrong.

00:58:48.135 --> 00:58:55.570
And an external locus of control is kind of like the world happens to me. So, like, my control center is all out there.

00:58:56.370 --> 00:59:04.850
So, obviously, people who are successful have that internal locus of control, and they're in charge. But there's also an internal locus of self esteem.

00:59:05.625 --> 00:59:08.425
So where does my self esteem come from?

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Does it come from in here or comments on social media or something like that? And I see your YouTube plaque back there. I've got a

00:59:17.640 --> 00:59:21.160
a bunch of those here. And, like, if I allow those

00:59:21.240 --> 00:59:25.880
those really positive comments and that that's my source of esteem,

00:59:26.040 --> 00:59:32.440
that's the same exact window that opens to for the negative comments to come in and just make me feel like

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so

00:59:34.235 --> 00:59:37.355
that means I have an external locus of self esteem.

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If your self esteem is internally derived, then there's nothing external that can really happen.

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So that would be number one is I'm gonna start doing everything I can to not allow

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this positive things out here to influence how I feel about me, and all the negative things can influence me either.

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So that is an internal self esteem locus. So step two

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is developing that sense of personal discipline,

01:00:04.445 --> 01:00:11.965
and we can dig into that if you want to do that. And there are some proven ways to absolutely do that and that ways that nobody's talking about.

01:00:12.680 --> 01:00:27.075
Yeah. I would love to get into, like, how you can kinda hack your brain to become more disciplined. But first, like, following up on what you just said, I think it it's so true. However, I think it's much easier said than done because I do think that in many ways, like, external validation

01:00:27.395 --> 01:00:28.515
and praise

01:00:28.595 --> 01:00:36.515
can be a great metric for how you're doing in life. Like, you know, I I see the views and subscribers and stuff on YouTube, and it's like, okay. I'm on the right track.

01:00:36.755 --> 01:00:37.155
However,

01:00:37.680 --> 01:00:45.360
you know, if I let that be the basis of how I feel about myself, it can be a very slippery slope. So how can people get how can people

01:00:46.080 --> 01:00:47.920
develop a better relationship

01:00:48.560 --> 01:00:49.360
with

01:00:49.440 --> 01:00:50.720
external validation

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and and not be

01:00:53.235 --> 01:00:55.955
how can people develop a better relationship with the external

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and feel good about themselves without focusing on that? Yeah. So the it starts with one thing, and that is when I see positive or negative information, does that help me act or feel?

01:01:09.690 --> 01:01:16.250
So it should be acting. So it I should act a different way because I'm using these YouTube comments or YouTube metrics.

01:01:16.730 --> 01:01:19.770
Is it influencing how I feel about me? Is it changing

01:01:20.485 --> 01:01:23.205
my self worth? And if I receive love

01:01:23.445 --> 01:01:27.125
if I need sorry. If I need love from strangers,

01:01:27.125 --> 01:01:30.245
that means my door is open to hate as well.

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And these are absolute

01:01:32.005 --> 01:01:37.510
strangers who should never dictate a single ounce of your self esteem or how you feel about yourself.

01:01:37.910 --> 01:01:40.870
So feeling great about it and you can feel good,

01:01:41.190 --> 01:01:45.910
but it dictating your self worth is absolutely toxic. And it's pretty easy

01:01:46.150 --> 01:01:51.745
to start just kind of getting that into your mind on a regular basis. When I'm reading the comments, I'm reading,

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I don't know, messages on social media.

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If

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I allow that to change my self esteem, something is wrong.

01:01:58.945 --> 01:02:01.025
But it should be, I don't know this person.

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I I wouldn't invite them into my house at this point. They they also shouldn't be invited into my head.

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So if if you wouldn't allow them in your in your

01:02:12.480 --> 01:02:21.965
around your kids, hanging around your house, they don't belong in your head either. Well and I think the the thing that takes over is this dopamine trap. Right? I know you talk a lot about dopamine

01:02:22.125 --> 01:02:26.685
and how the most successful people in the world, they, like, know how to harness

01:02:27.085 --> 01:02:29.325
their dopamine, not let it get out of control.

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Like, talk more about what you mean by that,

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and what are some things people can do to have a really healthy relationship with dopamine?

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Your source of dopamine

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your number one source of dopamine should be you, not your kids,

01:02:42.660 --> 01:02:48.815
not your wife, not your family. It should be you and your actions. And we'll get into that in in the discipline part.

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But what most people don't do, like, you just get, like, a simple

01:02:53.135 --> 01:02:57.215
journal. So, like, if you just get, like, a blank page in your journal

01:02:57.660 --> 01:02:59.500
and you kind of draw out

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it looks like a basketball court. So I'm gonna do a circle in the middle here, and then I'm gonna write down all the places in my life I get dopamines.

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And and I'm gonna be honest. I'm gonna put Instagram comments, alcohol

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or drugs or

01:03:13.225 --> 01:03:23.465
pornography or, you know, all these places that people are getting dopamine from. I'm gonna write that down. And then what I do with all of my clients is on a one to a 100 or you have a 100 points,

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and you have to spend all 100 points. You have to put a point value on where you're getting your dopamine from.

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So and that's typically the first time

01:03:33.860 --> 01:03:36.980
ever in somebody's life where they've actually mapped out

01:03:37.325 --> 01:03:43.645
where their pleasure is coming from. Not happiness. Dopamine is not happiness. Dopamine is pleasure.

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And most people confuse the difference between those two.

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So if I have a score of 10

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for throwing the ball for my dogs or playing with my kids

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or things that I that should be higher and the score for alcohol is, 65,

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you've

01:04:00.930 --> 01:04:05.650
once people see that metric, it is very, very hard to ignore.

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So the step two is, like, where where should the dopamine be? So here's where it is now. I'm gonna draw a little map. And on the next sheet of paper, we're gonna draw a new map

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and start,

01:04:16.345 --> 01:04:22.130
you know, drawing an arrow from the negative to the positive. Like, where I'm gonna borrow dopamine from this location.

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Maybe you don't have to quit all the way. I'm just gonna borrow some points

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so at least these two are equal.

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And that's that's the next step. I'm gonna get this from a 12 on this, and this one's like a 50. I'm gonna find out the midpoint of that and borrow dopamine

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from the high dopamine area.

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Does that make sense? Totally. And what do what have you found to be the most, like, effective

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things for

01:04:47.610 --> 01:04:51.930
having a healthy dopamine score? Like, what are the things that people can do for themselves

01:04:52.490 --> 01:04:55.450
that keep their dopamine at the most healthy level?

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Well, that that goes straight into the discipline thing if you're ready to talk about it. Yep. So

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when I said that, like, your number one source of dopamine needs to be yourself,

01:05:05.645 --> 01:05:13.565
there are a few things you can do. The number one thing, when we talk about discipline, the definition of discipline is that no one talks about

01:05:14.180 --> 01:05:20.100
your ability to prioritize the needs of your future self ahead of your own, and that's all it is.

01:05:20.580 --> 01:05:22.740
Can I prioritize future me

01:05:22.900 --> 01:05:25.060
above my present self?

01:05:25.380 --> 01:05:30.525
So over time, I'm gonna try to do things on a repetitive basis

01:05:30.685 --> 01:05:35.565
as often as possible to where future me is getting some kind of reward.

01:05:35.965 --> 01:05:52.040
I might set up the coffee maker the night before. I might put clothes out for myself. I might just put a thing on my phone that reminds me in certain times. And this is short term. Right? So these are small little things. It's springtime right now as you and I are recording this or spring has just started.

01:05:52.760 --> 01:05:53.240
And

01:05:53.815 --> 01:05:54.695
I might

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go into my winter jackets that we're about to take out of this closet and kinda put it down in the basement for a while and put a $100 bill in one of those and write maybe write a note to myself on there.

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So the more actions I can take to set up my future self for success,

01:06:10.260 --> 01:06:13.780
the more once that success comes, I'm looking backwards

01:06:14.020 --> 01:06:17.860
to my past tense self, not with regret, but with gratitude.

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That's the most important shift to make. And I'm gonna continuously do this. I'm essentially acting like a butler,

01:06:25.215 --> 01:06:29.295
except I'm doing it for myself. I am the butler of my future self.

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And this isn't just like folding clothes and and setting up coffee. This is how we spend money. The food that we're eating, the the stuff we're buying at a grocery store is all gonna dictate, am I prioritizing me now or me later?

01:06:44.120 --> 01:06:44.680
And

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a lot of people never really have this conversation of where are my priorities. And they're typically when people are not really getting the results they want out of life, their priorities are now, here and now, and and maybe a little bit in the future, but they're not really prioritizing

01:06:59.185 --> 01:07:00.945
all the things that are happening in the line.

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So what happens is

01:07:04.430 --> 01:07:06.590
my daily interactions

01:07:06.830 --> 01:07:15.790
are a I'm looking backwards or I'm anticipating stuff that my past tense self has set up for me. So I've got dopamine coming in anticipation

01:07:16.030 --> 01:07:25.765
and drive to start setting my future self up, and I'm getting dopamine to get stuff from my past tense self. So I'm getting dopamine from both directions of versions of me.

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And that is the the most powerful

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way that we can start doing that. And just the way to do this, there's not like, here's 17,

01:07:35.720 --> 01:07:39.160
you know, super cool tricks to do this or some formula.

01:07:39.400 --> 01:07:42.760
You just do it as much as you can, and you rate yourself

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every single day. How did I do? Where were my priorities today? And it takes ten seconds to put it in a notebook or journal, calendar, whatever.

01:07:51.655 --> 01:08:04.380
And you put it down. And just the act of rating yourself and bringing it into your conscious awareness is the fastest way to get that process into your life. Because it's the same thing, like, when you buy a new car and you start seeing it all over the place.

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I'm just repetitively

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exposing myself

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to that level of awareness. And you don't need to change anything. Your mammalian

01:08:11.900 --> 01:08:17.885
part of your brain's gonna do that for you. And what have you found to be the most, like, common thing is that people need to, like, reprioritize

01:08:17.885 --> 01:08:24.285
in their lives as far as, like, working on their future self? The most common is probably time management

01:08:25.405 --> 01:08:26.205
and

01:08:26.525 --> 01:08:31.370
environment management. Like, if you're thinking that you're gonna be a multimillionaire

01:08:31.370 --> 01:08:44.085
or you wanna run a company or something like that and you can't organize your office or your desk or and you can't keep your area clean. Like, you can't even pick up after yourself. Every time that you go out and

01:08:44.485 --> 01:08:53.765
you want to look like a CEO, you wanna look like a leader, you're gonna know there's a part of your brain dedicated to knowing that you're faking it. And that's where we have incongruent

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behavior.

01:08:55.010 --> 01:08:59.970
And that's how we we make these gut feelings in other people. We have this conversation.

01:08:59.970 --> 01:09:08.370
Everything looks great. We follow that LinkedIn article that we read of 14 ways to look more confident and command respect like a leader.

01:09:09.115 --> 01:09:20.155
And that person kinda gets a gut feeling. And the gut feeling is like something's not right. Something's not adding up. So no matter what we do, we're sending off these small signals. So environment,

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time,

01:09:21.995 --> 01:09:22.635
appearance,

01:09:23.370 --> 01:09:26.090
And appearance is like my hygiene,

01:09:26.570 --> 01:09:31.850
all of that stuff that might signal that I'm an authority to other people. So environment, time, appearance,

01:09:32.170 --> 01:10:03.260
social skills. And social is one of the ways that we should be getting dopamine, and we're not. We're getting it from social media instead of my closer circle of friends, my next door neighbors that live next to my house, the people that live across the street, the people in three d are where most of your social dopamine should come from three d human beings and not two d human beings, people that you know. And financial is the last one. So I was somebody that was incarcerated on felony drug charges. I share that because one of the hardest things I had to do

01:10:03.660 --> 01:10:10.485
was completely change my identity and transform into this new version of myself. And I think it's so challenging for people

01:10:10.885 --> 01:10:11.685
because,

01:10:12.165 --> 01:10:21.365
you know, for me, I was so used to being a failure. My brain was convinced that I was gonna fail at life because before I was in jail, I failed at everything.

01:10:21.925 --> 01:10:23.605
And so how can people, like,

01:10:24.780 --> 01:10:26.379
quickly or

01:10:26.620 --> 01:10:27.499
efficiently

01:10:27.820 --> 01:10:36.460
kinda trick their brain into becoming that new version of themselves when the old version themselves has been beaten down over and over and over again?

01:10:37.185 --> 01:10:40.865
There's a couple of things. It's and that always comes down to confidence.

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If I have a lot of self doubt, that's gonna be a big one. But even bigger than self doubt is

01:10:46.945 --> 01:10:48.945
shame and self judgment.

01:10:49.550 --> 01:10:57.310
And, you know, most judgment is us kind of casting that off onto other people. So the the fastest way and there's no hack

01:10:57.950 --> 01:11:10.715
for this, but the fastest way to do this is to become so self forgiving that people would think that you're crazy. Like, you're bat crazy because you're so forgiving of yourself. Because

01:11:11.115 --> 01:11:11.755
shame

01:11:12.155 --> 01:11:18.770
and the fear of shame is what holds people back from really doing that stuff. And when it comes to confidence,

01:11:19.170 --> 01:11:24.209
that there's two main elements of confidence, and that number one is radical,

01:11:24.290 --> 01:11:30.050
radical self forgiveness. Like, who gives a crap what happened in the past? Just radical

01:11:30.290 --> 01:11:39.605
to the point where it's insane. Because if you're feeling down, you're in the dumps, like you're a little you're doubting yourself all the time, that's already delusional.

01:11:40.405 --> 01:11:44.965
You're already delusional. So just pick delusions in the other direction and be more

01:11:45.470 --> 01:11:49.550
delusionally self forgiving. The part two of that confidence is

01:11:49.790 --> 01:11:54.350
a generalized it does not need to be specific, but a very generalized

01:11:54.350 --> 01:11:55.310
expectation

01:11:55.310 --> 01:11:56.990
that things are gonna be okay.

01:11:57.550 --> 01:11:58.910
And just those two things,

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you will

01:12:01.265 --> 01:12:04.624
drastically just shed so much weight that

01:12:04.945 --> 01:12:08.385
you notice, like, so many people carry this stuff around, like,

01:12:08.945 --> 01:12:13.505
about some thing that happened, like, when they were 20 or when they were in in high school.

01:12:14.120 --> 01:12:16.920
If you get to the point of radical forgiveness

01:12:16.920 --> 01:12:18.840
for other people and for yourself,

01:12:19.160 --> 01:12:22.440
you get to a point of, I have confidence.

01:12:22.440 --> 01:12:23.000
But

01:12:23.400 --> 01:12:27.240
I would say the third part is stop waiting for permission

01:12:28.095 --> 01:12:31.295
because a lot of people are waiting for some signal.

01:12:31.615 --> 01:12:39.295
Once my bank account reaches this much, once people respect me and I can prove that to myself, they'll they'll just wait on these little milestones.

01:12:39.930 --> 01:12:41.290
And those milestones

01:12:41.370 --> 01:12:48.410
act as little permission slips for us to feel confident. And they're they're completely artificial. They're absolutely placebos.

01:12:48.410 --> 01:13:00.345
They don't do anything to make you more confident. It's just a placebo. So there is no one coming to give you permission. You've just gotta give it to yourself. And speaking of being radical and confident,

01:13:00.905 --> 01:13:05.465
you know, I think one of the tough things and, again, this is just speaking from my own experience and people I've talked to is,

01:13:06.860 --> 01:13:17.980
like, when when you're kind of on the come up and your life isn't where it wants to be, you have this kind of cognitive dissonance going on that's like, well, my finances aren't where they are. My relationships aren't.

01:13:18.220 --> 01:13:22.985
My health isn't, but I'm on the journey up. And it's like, how do I become confident

01:13:23.225 --> 01:13:24.905
even though my circumstances

01:13:25.225 --> 01:13:27.385
are crap? Like, how can people

01:13:27.785 --> 01:13:28.585
become,

01:13:28.985 --> 01:13:29.545
like,

01:13:29.865 --> 01:13:31.385
delusionally confident

01:13:31.385 --> 01:13:38.140
when they're out trying to make it, introducing themselves to other people even though their life at home isn't where it wants to be.

01:13:38.540 --> 01:13:42.780
Yeah. And that that goes back to do I manage my environment,

01:13:42.780 --> 01:13:45.180
my time, appearance, social, financial?

01:13:45.420 --> 01:13:49.820
And if those things are on the up, like you you're actually taking care of yourself, you're living

01:13:50.655 --> 01:13:59.535
life how you really wanna live it, but you're it doesn't matter what the metrics are. If you're doing the right things and you're living off camera

01:14:00.175 --> 01:14:07.150
so not not not your results, but your behavior when you're off camera will dictate how people feel about you.

01:14:07.710 --> 01:14:10.030
So if you try to act confident

01:14:10.110 --> 01:14:12.910
and you're feeling insecure about all of this stuff because

01:14:13.150 --> 01:14:25.845
you haven't made your bed, you didn't get up early, you don't have a lot of discipline, but you're trying to give this appearance of confidence or discipline out in public. You've got to start living that way off camera. So that's it's just a natural thing.

01:14:26.245 --> 01:14:31.570
And most people view confidence as something that you do. Like, it's a thing that I do.

01:14:31.970 --> 01:14:34.050
And all it is is removal

01:14:34.530 --> 01:14:37.330
of things. It's not adding in anything. So

01:14:37.810 --> 01:14:41.010
the biggest lesson I ever learned in my lifetime training

01:14:41.010 --> 01:14:42.050
operatives and stuff

01:14:42.695 --> 01:14:45.255
is that confidence is not additive.

01:14:45.255 --> 01:14:48.935
Like, I don't need to add things to you to to to get you to be confident.

01:14:49.335 --> 01:14:51.255
I need you to remove

01:14:51.255 --> 01:14:55.415
this fear of social judgment. This is why public speaking is the number one fear.

01:14:56.070 --> 01:14:57.030
And second,

01:14:57.270 --> 01:14:59.350
I really need you to remove this

01:14:59.670 --> 01:15:14.755
self shame and all this crap that you carry for no reason. It doesn't make you a better person at all. It doesn't make you a better person to feel ashamed of stuff. It makes you a worse person. It makes you less effective, and it makes you more judgmental of other people.

01:15:15.315 --> 01:15:18.835
And the the final element of this is composure.

01:15:19.475 --> 01:15:25.710
And when most people go out and try to be confident, they're either in posturing mode or collapse mode.

01:15:26.270 --> 01:15:46.635
So in posturing mode, someone's, like, puff their chest out. They speak louder than they they normally would, and they try to overdo confidence. And then the collapse mode is I'm gonna shrink so other people feel more comfortable around me. But I think the middle of that is just composure is the word I would have for that. So just make composure

01:15:46.635 --> 01:15:48.395
like this daily practice.

01:15:48.715 --> 01:15:54.459
And composure is is the fastest route when it comes to practicing things. Composure

01:15:54.460 --> 01:15:56.380
is the fastest route to confidence.

01:15:56.700 --> 01:16:13.705
Yeah. The puffing the chest out, it's kinda like the invisible lat syndrome. Are familiar with that? Where people guys will, like, walk around like this just to give the impression that they're they're bigger than they actually are as far as their upper body. You talked about composure, which I think it it gets into, like, how can you be more comfortable in difficult situations?

01:16:14.105 --> 01:16:16.025
You know, what have you found to be,

01:16:16.345 --> 01:16:21.065
like, a hack or something that you've worked on yourself or with the people that you've trained to help people

01:16:21.680 --> 01:16:24.080
practice becoming more composed,

01:16:24.320 --> 01:16:26.000
you know, during difficult situations?

01:16:26.640 --> 01:16:28.800
So there's a few things. And

01:16:29.440 --> 01:16:33.760
we the first, we have to understand, like, the neuroscience of this and why that works.

01:16:34.640 --> 01:16:35.120
And

01:16:35.635 --> 01:16:42.115
we we have this mammalian part of our brain, this limbic system that kind of governs 99%

01:16:42.115 --> 01:16:46.755
of our life. So we think that we're in charge and this this animal brain is actually in charge.

01:16:47.410 --> 01:16:53.250
And most people need to realize that that part of our brain doesn't speak English. It can't read affirmations

01:16:53.250 --> 01:16:58.290
at all. Like, there's no language ability in that part of our brain. So when it comes to

01:16:58.770 --> 01:17:01.010
coming into life and trying to get

01:17:01.725 --> 01:17:06.045
more composure in conversations and having that that level of

01:17:06.525 --> 01:17:11.165
discipline where you're kind of a lot more in charge. You're not in charge of the room. You're in charge of yourself.

01:17:11.965 --> 01:17:14.445
Mistake number one that destroys

01:17:13.980 --> 01:17:21.820
ninety percent of people. The the biggest mistake, and I've never heard anybody else say this, is thinking in terms of hierarchy and status.

01:17:22.620 --> 01:17:25.260
So am I above or below this other person?

01:17:26.105 --> 01:17:26.745
And

01:17:26.985 --> 01:17:32.665
the the first step to that is, am I willing to agree to treat everyone equally?

01:17:33.145 --> 01:17:39.705
This means that if I meet Jeff Bezos tomorrow, I'm gonna treat him the exact same way as I treat a Starbucks barista.

01:17:40.070 --> 01:17:45.590
Everybody gets the same. There's no hierarchy. I'm gonna I'm gonna be the same to every person that I talk to.

01:17:46.150 --> 01:17:48.070
And that level of consistency

01:17:48.070 --> 01:17:49.430
sets the stage

01:17:49.590 --> 01:17:51.350
for that level of composure.

01:17:51.910 --> 01:17:55.270
So to going going into that mammalian part of this,

01:17:56.345 --> 01:18:00.665
it's a practice. So composure is a a lifelong practice,

01:18:01.225 --> 01:18:05.145
but you get good at it by making your body get involved first.

01:18:05.465 --> 01:18:12.140
So our brains are hardwired to kind of compare with other animals and stuff. So with other other humans.

01:18:12.860 --> 01:18:13.500
And

01:18:13.980 --> 01:18:17.900
the moment you get in a conversation, the way that you should permanently

01:18:18.060 --> 01:18:21.020
change the way you compare yourself is slowness

01:18:22.825 --> 01:18:23.945
and movement.

01:18:24.425 --> 01:18:44.910
And am I willing to be the slowest person in the room, and am I willing to be more relaxed than the other person? That's it. Those are those are the only things. Doesn't matter if it's this multimillion dollar potential client on a sales call or the barista at Starbucks. They're gonna be identical. I'm gonna be slower than the other person, more relaxed, treat everybody the same.

01:18:45.470 --> 01:18:57.675
And that is the fastest way to do that. And then kind of rating yourself at the end of the day. How did I do on a one to 10 on composure? Was I more in collapse? Was did I lean into the posturing side?

01:18:58.235 --> 01:18:58.875
And

01:18:59.275 --> 01:19:00.235
definitely,

01:19:00.395 --> 01:19:01.035
absolutely,

01:19:01.460 --> 01:19:05.300
rating yourself every day is gonna bring more and more awareness.

01:19:05.620 --> 01:19:11.620
And, of course, it's kitschy, and it it's something that's all over the Internet, but mindfulness,

01:19:11.620 --> 01:19:14.420
this practice of mindfulness throughout the day,

01:19:14.740 --> 01:19:21.115
just because it's all over the damn place, there's a reason for that. It doesn't mean we should dismiss it. It's absolutely

01:19:21.115 --> 01:19:25.595
powerful, especially when it comes to composure and and leadership and authority.

01:19:26.235 --> 01:19:27.995
What have you found to be

01:19:28.235 --> 01:19:32.795
the the number one thing that people struggle with as far as being uncomfortable?

01:19:33.620 --> 01:19:35.700
You mean in in social settings?

01:19:35.780 --> 01:19:40.420
Yeah. Like, what's the the biggest thing that you find people to be uncomfortable with?

01:19:40.660 --> 01:19:44.500
I I think it is a fear of future judgment.

01:19:45.395 --> 01:20:15.465
So it's imagining some kind of social judgment, and we're we're tribal animals. And if a a large number of people in our tribe a million years ago started judging us and and making fun of us, we can be outcast. We're not gonna have sex. We're not gonna have babies, and then our genes die. And this is one of the reasons public speaking is the number one fear. We're not afraid of speaking in public. We're afraid of the potential for judgment, and that's a two part thing. So the moment I am thinking about the potential for judgment, my brain automatically defaults

01:20:15.545 --> 01:20:16.505
to saying,

01:20:17.065 --> 01:20:19.065
if there's a potential for judgment,

01:20:19.385 --> 01:20:22.905
that also means that I need to manage how I am perceived.

01:20:23.785 --> 01:20:25.145
So this leads to

01:20:25.480 --> 01:20:34.760
there's a potential fear of judgment. I'm gonna change how I'm acting to to where everything's good. I'm gonna manage everything a lot more, which makes us less us,

01:20:35.320 --> 01:20:49.415
which which sends off a little vibe to people that's like, something's not right. There's something not really fully adding up. And then we see more skeptical facial expressions or more doubting. So it changes who we are. It makes us more self managing and more self managing. So

01:20:50.000 --> 01:20:56.640
we get out of that that need, like, judgment's not gonna hurt me. Your brain is wired to equate

01:20:56.640 --> 01:21:00.720
the fear of judgment with the same as being attacked by a saber tooth tiger.

01:21:01.520 --> 01:21:02.080
So

01:21:02.495 --> 01:21:12.815
the fastest way to get your brain to understand this is the phrase, there are no tigers. And it's gonna remind you that this is a mammalian response system that is outdated,

01:21:13.375 --> 01:21:15.935
and a lot of our society has outdate

01:21:16.550 --> 01:21:21.990
kind of outpaced our brain's ability to adapt to it. So just kind of that reminder, there are no tigers.

01:21:22.230 --> 01:21:23.510
And the second is

01:21:24.470 --> 01:21:27.190
start, like, a daily practice of

01:21:27.510 --> 01:21:29.670
worrying less and less about

01:21:30.005 --> 01:21:31.525
perception management

01:21:31.525 --> 01:21:38.805
because people are looking a lot less than you think. Everybody's thinking how what are they seeing? How are they judging me? They're they probably don't care.

01:21:39.605 --> 01:21:46.130
And it's not gonna matter. It will never matter at the end of the day. Do you think there are things that people can do

01:21:46.610 --> 01:21:53.170
that, like, force them, like, naturally to embrace discomfort? I mean, I know one of the things that's helped me is, like, the cold plunge

01:21:53.330 --> 01:21:54.370
sauna,

01:21:54.770 --> 01:22:06.865
like, doing, like, intense workouts. Like, there's a big trend for that now, and they're linking it to getting better at managing stress and being better in social settings. Like, have you found anything like that to be instrumental?

01:22:06.945 --> 01:22:13.530
Yeah. Those are are proven to work. I mean, the first study on it on it managing mental health stress was, like, 1951.

01:22:14.010 --> 01:22:19.209
They were studying dudes in, like, Norway and Sweden where there's, like, saunas everywhere

01:22:19.290 --> 01:22:21.370
and why they were so emotionally

01:22:21.370 --> 01:22:30.734
resilient to stress. And this was in they were measuring it in combat and soldiers returning from combat and how the saunas and and cold water helped manage stress.

01:22:31.695 --> 01:22:33.374
And those are fantastic.

01:22:33.695 --> 01:22:37.935
Another one to add on to that is just getting into a practice of yoga,

01:22:38.175 --> 01:22:44.990
which a lot of people don't associate with that. But if you have a good yoga instructor, they're gonna walk you through this little yoga session,

01:22:45.150 --> 01:22:52.190
and they're gonna remind you, like, when you're feeling a little bit uncomfortable, they're gonna tell you to smile. They're gonna tell you to breathe slower

01:22:52.510 --> 01:22:58.915
and and smile through that whole process. And it is fantastic at helping somebody manage this

01:22:59.235 --> 01:23:13.390
mind I'm mindful. I'm in the moment. I'm continuing to breathe through discomfort, and your brain starts learning these habits. So that is definitely Doug, you hit it on the head right there. I think that one of the the things that

01:23:13.710 --> 01:23:14.590
people

01:23:14.750 --> 01:23:16.110
are really

01:23:16.510 --> 01:23:19.390
I think one of the things that people really struggle with is fear.

01:23:19.790 --> 01:23:25.295
And fear, like, really, like, can trap them from making a decision. Fear can trap them from

01:23:25.695 --> 01:23:29.615
going out and changing their life, and it can just be completely overwhelming.

01:23:29.855 --> 01:23:33.615
I know we've kinda touched on, you know, some of this stuff already.

01:23:34.015 --> 01:23:41.490
But, like, if somebody came to you and they're like, hey. Like, Chase, like, I want to I want the the bulletproof way to

01:23:41.970 --> 01:23:48.610
crush fear so that it it doesn't let me so it doesn't, like, overpower me and prevent me from, like, living my best life. Like, what can they do?

01:23:49.275 --> 01:23:54.395
Well, the the first way is to start identifying all of those fears.

01:23:55.195 --> 01:24:07.530
Because every fear is like, I don't wanna go out in public. I'm scared of going in public. Well, why? I have a fear of judgment. And then we go, why is that? And why is that? And you kinda get back to, like, well, in middle school,

01:24:08.090 --> 01:24:11.290
I got made fun of. Or in high school, this thing happened.

01:24:11.850 --> 01:24:13.770
And starting to get aware,

01:24:13.770 --> 01:24:18.330
the awareness is the fastest way to start getting some of these things unwired.

01:24:19.525 --> 01:24:33.365
And living in a way where you know that this is kind of a a simulation, and you're kind of gamifying your own life by taking these notes every day. We're living in a way that I'm kind of in a video game, and I want I wanna level up my character.

01:24:33.930 --> 01:24:46.330
I'm gonna live in a way that is as fearless as possible. So to get out of those fears, the fastest way to do that is to really, really dig down on each one of those and figure out what it was. I have a system.

01:24:47.285 --> 01:24:53.685
Actually, if if you do PDFs or show notes, I'll just send you the PDF and you can stick it in the description below the video

01:24:54.085 --> 01:24:55.925
that all of our intelligence

01:24:56.005 --> 01:25:06.940
operators go through to assess their level of authority and what's what's really holding them back in their life, and it's free. It's it's called the authority assessment inventory.

01:25:07.740 --> 01:25:12.940
And that's one of the fastest ways. And if you if you think even if you're not religious,

01:25:13.260 --> 01:25:16.220
if there's any belief in your mind that says

01:25:16.925 --> 01:25:26.765
all of these ancient texts might contain some stuff that's really powerful and some really good wisdom, whether it's the the teachings of Judaism or Christianity

01:25:27.165 --> 01:25:31.005
or reading Hindu texts like the Bhagavad Gita or the Upanishads,

01:25:31.005 --> 01:25:31.485
and

01:25:32.150 --> 01:25:36.070
I mispronounced that. I have no no doubt I mispronounced that.

01:25:36.550 --> 01:25:39.190
But all of these texts have these things in common.

01:25:39.510 --> 01:25:42.790
And just zooming in on one of those, the the Bible,

01:25:43.110 --> 01:25:46.870
the most common phrase in the entire Bible is do not fear.

01:25:47.675 --> 01:25:52.235
It's the most recurring phrase in the entire Bible. It's 365

01:25:52.235 --> 01:25:52.875
times

01:25:53.195 --> 01:25:58.395
reminding you not to be afraid of anything. It's not a big deal. Nothing is a big deal.

01:25:58.955 --> 01:25:59.435
And

01:25:59.840 --> 01:26:06.640
it's every single ancient text that seems to reflect that there's some truth with a lowercase t

01:26:06.640 --> 01:26:13.520
in all of these. And there may may not be one absolute truth, but I think that even Plato, before Christianity

01:26:13.520 --> 01:26:19.855
was even around, Plato wrote about this and wrote about the folly and and waking

01:26:19.855 --> 01:26:22.495
up from kind of the simulation and realizing

01:26:22.575 --> 01:26:24.095
that it kind of is a game

01:26:24.335 --> 01:26:27.455
with the Plato's allegory of the cave, wrote about this

01:26:28.680 --> 01:26:36.120
a long time ago, way before Christianity was around. But no matter what book you look at, if it's an ancient text and this ancient wisdom,

01:26:36.440 --> 01:26:48.535
every single thing that you see is telling us that we're all kind of like one thing. Don't be scared of anything in your life and just kind of go forward and and don't be a douchebag.

01:26:48.695 --> 01:26:59.290
We're all one thing and don't be scared. That's kind of the main theme of all these books. And I think just living your starting to live your life that way is such a powerful move.

01:26:59.530 --> 01:27:06.570
And how can I be less fearful? Is the system rigged to keep people in their twenties and thirties stuck

01:27:06.570 --> 01:27:08.970
in their head, stuck in life forever?

01:27:09.210 --> 01:27:10.170
I think the

01:27:11.290 --> 01:27:13.825
this is a we're going deep pretty fast. So

01:27:14.705 --> 01:27:16.065
I think the system

01:27:16.785 --> 01:27:26.145
is not necessarily rigged as if there's one puppet master, one guy holding the the strings and all this stuff. I think it's many, many things, and

01:27:26.530 --> 01:27:27.410
maybe

01:27:27.410 --> 01:27:31.650
two thirds of it is just the algorithms that are pushing profit.

01:27:31.810 --> 01:27:38.850
But when it comes down to you wanna get anyone stuck, there's three steps that you need to do to get people stuck, and that's p d s.

01:27:39.250 --> 01:27:40.450
That is pacify,

01:27:40.450 --> 01:27:41.810
distract, and sedate.

01:27:42.345 --> 01:27:43.225
Pacify,

01:27:43.225 --> 01:27:44.265
so we're, like,

01:27:44.505 --> 01:27:49.545
pacify you as much as possible, distract you as much as we can, and then sedate you.

01:27:49.945 --> 01:27:52.505
And if you look at the rise

01:27:52.505 --> 01:27:56.825
of things that people are doing in life that are anesthetic

01:27:56.510 --> 01:27:58.910
quality, not just like drugs, but,

01:27:59.390 --> 01:28:01.790
um, people looking at porn

01:28:01.950 --> 01:28:02.750
and

01:28:03.230 --> 01:28:10.510
video games are up, VR is is through the roof, and that becomes kind of an anesthetic for our life. But if we look at modern tactics

01:28:11.065 --> 01:28:16.905
of the psyop that is happening to keep people stuck, it starts with one thing called flooding.

01:28:17.385 --> 01:28:22.745
So we wanna drown out the real signals that are, uh, with overwhelming noise.

01:28:23.180 --> 01:28:28.060
This is memes and drama and fake news and riots. So I wanna I wanna

01:28:28.460 --> 01:28:31.260
drown out as much as I can, just overwhelm.

01:28:31.420 --> 01:28:32.860
And then it's repetition.

01:28:33.340 --> 01:28:35.580
So I wanna repeat a message enough,

01:28:35.740 --> 01:28:38.220
and it becomes an internalized

01:28:37.755 --> 01:28:39.035
truth for people.

01:28:39.595 --> 01:28:41.755
And then the next step is mimicry.

01:28:42.075 --> 01:28:51.275
So the way that it's working now and when I say psyops, I'm not talking about the US army. I'm talking about a psychological operation. I just wanna put that out there.

01:28:52.260 --> 01:28:54.180
But they now imitate

01:28:54.260 --> 01:28:55.620
everyday content.

01:28:55.780 --> 01:28:58.020
And this is TikTok, the Instagram

01:28:58.020 --> 01:29:02.260
posts, influence, and and stuff like that. And then we have gamification.

01:29:03.220 --> 01:29:03.700
So

01:29:04.035 --> 01:29:10.355
the next step of this, the the final two steps are are the biggest. The gamification is where we make ideology

01:29:10.595 --> 01:29:13.635
feel like a lifestyle or a team sport,

01:29:14.515 --> 01:29:16.035
uh, and that's

01:29:16.035 --> 01:29:16.355
big.

01:29:16.870 --> 01:29:23.270
And then just to seal it in, we use false consensus. So we use a bunch of bots or fake accounts

01:29:23.510 --> 01:29:26.150
to simulate popular opinion.

01:29:26.870 --> 01:29:27.430
And

01:29:27.910 --> 01:29:36.415
once that's happening, we get people who can't really grow up. And I think the biggest layer this is a super nuanced answer, but

01:29:36.975 --> 01:29:48.110
the biggest layer is if you look at Maslow's hierarchy of needs, it's this little triangle where you have, like, survival and then safety and then love and belonging, and then we have, like, self esteem and all the other stuff.

01:29:49.070 --> 01:29:54.750
But the love and belonging, that's our social need and what we have on social media now. We have this

01:29:55.310 --> 01:29:57.790
TikTok, Facebook, you know, whatever you wanna say.

01:29:58.030 --> 01:30:01.445
Our brains are not capable, 100%

01:30:01.445 --> 01:30:05.365
not capable of managing a social network that large.

01:30:05.925 --> 01:30:19.700
And the social media serves as a placebo of fulfilling that social need. So what happens is our brains are thinking that we're getting that social fulfillment, but we can never go past it, which means we never get to esteem.

01:30:20.020 --> 01:30:29.355
We never get an actual fulfillment of that. We get these dopamine hits that feel like social connection, but they're not. It's not satisfying that ancestor part of our brain.

01:30:29.675 --> 01:30:32.235
So it is stuck in that place. And

01:30:33.515 --> 01:30:42.110
massively, what happens as a result of that is I can't have empathy for every bad thing that goes on around the world. It's not possible for anybody.

01:30:42.750 --> 01:30:55.870
Uh, so we see people then outrage about one or two things, but there there's a guy that maybe got murdered two blocks away from their house. They don't have time to deal with that because they're worried about Ukraine or they're worried about something else going on.

01:30:57.055 --> 01:30:59.935
So now that we have so much overload

01:31:00.255 --> 01:31:16.090
of social connection and negative news, we have apathy. And and I I do believe that this is an engineered apathy, and that's the that's the real cause of all this. So do you think there's a way out? I do. I make videos about this on my channel, uh, all the time.

01:31:16.490 --> 01:31:25.770
And I think the way out is not just, like, go live in a cave and, like, become Amish. It's, like, throw your your iPad in the trash.

01:31:27.385 --> 01:31:33.145
I think the way out is starting to realize what is simulated and what's not in your life.

01:31:33.785 --> 01:31:35.785
And where are we looking at

01:31:36.505 --> 01:31:42.740
a label of something and thinking that that's the thing? The word is the thing. Where am I looking at social

01:31:42.740 --> 01:31:49.780
connection on Facebook and and tricking myself into thinking it's real? Because what this has made us do is pretend.

01:31:49.940 --> 01:32:02.084
And all of us just fallen into this trap of I need to fake something. I need to pretend like I've got all my together. Like, we see all of these videos online, these content creators, like, everything looks good in the background,

01:32:02.565 --> 01:32:07.445
but you go to their normal life, their off camera life. It's absolutely falsified.

01:32:08.490 --> 01:32:09.370
The

01:32:09.610 --> 01:32:14.330
way that we do this is we realize what's fake in our life and where we are pretending.

01:32:14.730 --> 01:32:15.370
And

01:32:16.650 --> 01:32:21.050
the biggest thing that's been engineered over the last few years is this fear of social injury,

01:32:22.085 --> 01:32:27.925
and that is weaponized. If you look at, like, the the biggest fear of people is public speaking, but it's actually judgment.

01:32:28.565 --> 01:32:33.605
So the the fear of judgment has been weaponized, and we've talked about this, like, with your first question.

01:32:35.480 --> 01:32:36.200
Stop

01:32:36.440 --> 01:32:42.920
being a victim to the fear of judgment is the biggest thing. And even even if you're just starting small,

01:32:43.320 --> 01:32:49.480
just be okay with receiving a a social injury once or twice, and be okay with being nonperfect.

01:32:50.285 --> 01:32:51.005
And

01:32:51.485 --> 01:32:54.925
if you're watching the news on a regular basis, I would say that is a

01:32:56.205 --> 01:33:03.965
that's worse than in my opinion, I would say that's worse than, like, smoking a few packs of cigarettes for your health and for your mental well-being.

01:33:05.530 --> 01:33:07.930
I would say, like, if you're watching the news,

01:33:08.330 --> 01:33:10.170
that would be step one. It's like,

01:33:11.130 --> 01:33:15.370
I haven't watched the news in probably nine years, eight or nine years,

01:33:16.010 --> 01:33:25.235
and it's amazing. But if something's gonna happen here, my neighbor's gonna text me. My family's gonna say, hey. Did you see this thing that happened? Maybe I'll see some events that are important, but

01:33:26.675 --> 01:33:35.075
our brains are not wired to handle a world full of news. Our brains are wired to handle a 100 people max, maybe a 150.

01:33:35.750 --> 01:33:36.390
And

01:33:37.030 --> 01:33:39.830
that little tribe is what we're supposed to handle. And

01:33:40.230 --> 01:33:44.470
we're tricking ourselves because our brains have not evolved in two hundred thousand years.

01:33:44.950 --> 01:33:48.390
And how can people have, like, a nuanced relationship,

01:33:48.390 --> 01:33:51.110
or is that possible? Like, meaning, like, I heard you say that

01:33:51.455 --> 01:34:08.990
social media creates this false sense of connection, and yet I think people wanna still figure out how can I stay informed, how can I stay connected to people online that I may or may not be friends with? And then the same thing with the news, where they're like, hey, like, probably shouldn't be watching the news every night before I go to bed, and I also want to stay informed

01:34:09.150 --> 01:34:15.230
with what's going on. Like, is there a way to have a healthy balance with these things so that it doesn't wreck people's lives?

01:34:15.995 --> 01:34:25.995
I I don't think I'm the expert. I'm I'm the guy that studies how it damages us and how and and I'm not even studying it for health reasons. I'm studying it because I teach interrogation.

01:34:26.235 --> 01:34:33.250
I teach people how to make people do things that are not in their best interest. And this is getting someone to confess to a crime. This is,

01:34:33.570 --> 01:34:39.010
uh, or if they think it's not in their best interest. So if somebody has a severe,

01:34:39.170 --> 01:34:41.890
uh, depression and they go see a psychologist,

01:34:42.130 --> 01:34:46.584
they think getting rid of that, which is a part of themselves, is not in their best interest. So

01:34:47.225 --> 01:34:52.185
this is this is what I really studied. But I think the balance comes down to awareness,

01:34:52.505 --> 01:34:54.825
a deep, deep awareness because

01:34:55.465 --> 01:35:00.345
papa Carl, as as we call him in all of my trainings online, Carl Jung

01:35:01.380 --> 01:35:02.580
famously said,

01:35:03.300 --> 01:35:08.420
until you make the unconscious conscious, it will control your life, and you will call it fate.

01:35:08.980 --> 01:35:17.645
And most of what we think is our fate is just a bunch of running in in the background, a bunch of unconscious stuff going on that we're not aware of.

01:35:18.125 --> 01:35:23.484
So getting hyperaware of your screen time, getting hyperaware of where I feel this need to pretend,

01:35:23.485 --> 01:35:25.245
and why do we still need to pretend?

01:35:25.485 --> 01:35:29.165
Social media has hijacked this thing, so we fear social injury.

01:35:29.730 --> 01:35:36.770
So getting hyperaware is step one. There's not like you need to wake up at five and take a cold shower and take zinc and

01:35:37.010 --> 01:35:39.730
magnesium and all this, like, perfect morning routine.

01:35:40.690 --> 01:35:45.730
Just make the in your life that's unconscious, bring it as much as you can to the surface,

01:35:46.425 --> 01:35:55.305
and do it on a regular basis. And keep in mind that the mammalian brain that makes all of our decisions and that governs our whole life doesn't speak English.

01:35:55.705 --> 01:36:03.900
You will never affirmation your way out of this stuff. Like, that's using language is not the right way to do it. Using awareness is.

01:36:04.300 --> 01:36:06.940
So we have this part of our brain called the the

01:36:07.180 --> 01:36:09.580
reticular formation. People online

01:36:09.820 --> 01:36:12.300
commonly refer to it as a reticular activating system.

01:36:13.355 --> 01:36:17.835
So in in your brain, if if Doug is searching for white

01:36:18.475 --> 01:36:19.435
2025

01:36:19.435 --> 01:36:32.210
white Toyota four Runner TRD Pro, then you've got all these specifics and stuff. And then you finally go and buy one. The day you start driving it, you're gonna see it everywhere. You're gonna be like, woah. Everybody's got the same car as me.

01:36:33.250 --> 01:36:37.490
And that's not because you told your brain using language to do that.

01:36:39.135 --> 01:36:44.335
The biggest changes in our life when we fall in love, we watch our kid get born. Um,

01:36:44.735 --> 01:36:51.455
all of these big things that happen in our life and these big shifts in our unconscious are never rooted in the use of language.

01:36:53.140 --> 01:37:08.595
So how can I get the awareness up there so much that I'm telling that reticular formation of the brain that this is very important so that the mammalian side of our brain starts searching for it? What do think is a good first step for someone who is in this simulation and on autopilot,

01:37:08.595 --> 01:37:19.235
and they're just used to doing the same stuff over and over again? They're scrolling social media. They're not taking care of their health. Like, what's the first thing they can do to develop start to develop this hyper self awareness?

01:37:19.795 --> 01:37:21.795
So the number one thing is disruption.

01:37:23.370 --> 01:37:25.930
Anytime you wanna start deprogramming

01:37:25.930 --> 01:37:32.010
someone or even brainwashing someone, either way, back or or backwards or forwards,

01:37:32.970 --> 01:37:34.410
you want to start with

01:37:36.105 --> 01:37:37.225
destabilization

01:37:37.225 --> 01:37:39.865
and some kind of agitation with lifestyle.

01:37:39.865 --> 01:37:43.545
So if I expect something, I need to disrupt the expectation.

01:37:44.025 --> 01:37:55.800
I'm gonna wake up. I'm gonna brush my teeth maybe with my left hand. I'm gonna repaint my bedroom. I'm gonna move my furniture around. I'm gonna routinely do things that disrupt the scripts that I'm following through my life.

01:37:56.360 --> 01:37:58.760
So if the script if one of my scripts is

01:37:59.640 --> 01:38:08.185
scrolling on Instagram for an hour, maybe a couple hours a day, I'm gonna set a time limit. There's like, if you look at the new iPhone,

01:38:08.745 --> 01:38:12.425
you can set app time limits and stuff on your on yourself.

01:38:13.225 --> 01:38:16.265
And I don't mean that I can't reopen the app,

01:38:16.970 --> 01:38:26.249
but I'm just gonna disrupt the script when that time limit thing pops up. I'm gonna do everything I can to start disrupting those routine scripts in my everyday life.

01:38:26.650 --> 01:38:29.130
One of the things I've had my clients do is

01:38:29.290 --> 01:38:30.410
this is

01:38:31.335 --> 01:38:33.175
stuff that physiotherapists

01:38:33.175 --> 01:38:45.255
use called KT tape. Have you ever heard of that stuff? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's like stretchy stuff. It's got two sticky ends on it, and it's kinda like to pull the fascia away from muscles. I'm probably making that up. I'm not an expert.

01:38:46.300 --> 01:38:53.180
But just putting that on your body, uh, no matter where you put it, is going to refocus

01:38:53.180 --> 01:38:58.860
your energy throughout the entire day. So just having like, pulling your chest apart or having it to where, like, if you slouch,

01:38:59.325 --> 01:39:01.165
it it's gonna, like, tighten up.

01:39:02.845 --> 01:39:11.485
That's gonna tell your brain over and over without English, without any words. It's gonna tell your brain over and over something is different, something is new. You need to pay attention.

01:39:12.040 --> 01:39:17.400
So the the fastest way to break out of the scripts is to start disrupting them on a regular basis.

01:39:17.800 --> 01:39:19.640
And I think that sometimes people,

01:39:19.880 --> 01:39:25.240
when they hear what we're talking about or they have this gut feeling that the world is, quote, unquote,

01:39:26.135 --> 01:39:29.575
against them or they've they're wired to fail or whatever,

01:39:29.815 --> 01:39:32.055
they fall into, like, the victim mindset.

01:39:32.295 --> 01:39:38.935
Like, how would you how do you how would you, like, interrogate yourself? Or what questions would you ask to be able to snap yourself out of a rut like that

01:39:39.380 --> 01:39:41.700
and escape the victim mindset?

01:39:41.940 --> 01:39:44.100
That is so, so tough,

01:39:44.260 --> 01:39:46.340
especially when it's a behavioral pattern.

01:39:46.900 --> 01:39:49.940
I would say the fastest way to do it is

01:39:50.180 --> 01:39:55.155
listen to the expert on a regular basis, and I would say that's like Jocko Willink.

01:39:55.715 --> 01:39:58.675
It can snap you up faster than Chase Hughes ever could.

01:39:59.075 --> 01:40:08.270
But if you wanna snap out of any kind of rut like that and you see yourself kind of going into this victim mindset, that is amazing, and you should celebrate that because 99%

01:40:08.270 --> 01:40:15.150
of people aren't even aware that they're in it. So if you've got to that point where you realize that I might be,

01:40:15.630 --> 01:40:16.270
you know,

01:40:16.670 --> 01:40:18.110
victimizing myself,

01:40:19.145 --> 01:40:24.665
You need to get out of that mindset, but the fastest way is I need to start disrupting scripts.

01:40:24.745 --> 01:40:29.225
Because even if you watch Jocko all day, every day, you read all of Jocko's books,

01:40:29.625 --> 01:40:31.065
you're running on scripts.

01:40:31.600 --> 01:40:39.360
So we're running on autopilot 10 times more than we think we are. Throughout our entire day, we're running these autopilot script from our behavioral patterns.

01:40:39.600 --> 01:40:42.320
So no matter what we read, remember, that's language,

01:40:42.640 --> 01:40:54.335
we have to disrupt patterns so that the brain pays attention. So we have to do things differently where the brain has no more ability to predict the future. I think when sometimes people are trying to get momentum,

01:40:54.975 --> 01:40:56.015
like journaling

01:40:56.015 --> 01:41:00.160
or even, like, putting their thoughts out there, setting goals can help.

01:41:00.800 --> 01:41:03.680
You know, what what do you think are some of the most important,

01:41:04.320 --> 01:41:07.680
like, questions someone should ask themselves or,

01:41:08.080 --> 01:41:17.195
uh, important maybe, like, journaling prompts. Like, if you were trying to, you know, get someone to snap out of that behavior change and be consistent with how they're moving forward in life.

01:41:17.835 --> 01:41:20.795
Some of the most important questions to raise are,

01:41:21.035 --> 01:41:23.115
what are the things I do automatically

01:41:24.155 --> 01:41:27.195
every day? Like, what are the things I'm doing automatically,

01:41:27.195 --> 01:41:29.499
and how can I start breaking out of that?

01:41:30.060 --> 01:41:31.420
But second is,

01:41:31.660 --> 01:41:33.980
what are the things that make me emotional?

01:41:33.980 --> 01:41:47.165
What are the things that I get upset about? And that's where we're gonna find those little identity fragments. And Carl Jung talks about this so much that I have my office is just, like, full of of Carl Jung's books.

01:41:48.525 --> 01:41:54.125
What I really wanna do is on a repetitive basis, what am I doing not just on autopilot,

01:41:54.125 --> 01:41:56.045
but how am I judging other people?

01:41:57.310 --> 01:42:05.070
And that number one is gonna help you start identifying those unconscious patterns of, like, I have I'm carrying some kind of secret concealed

01:42:05.070 --> 01:42:07.550
shame that I don't want anybody to know about.

01:42:07.870 --> 01:42:08.590
Um,

01:42:08.990 --> 01:42:11.470
and when people are concealing shame and guilt,

01:42:12.235 --> 01:42:15.195
the the biggest thing is they think that they're the only one.

01:42:16.075 --> 01:42:24.475
Uh, but I can tell you, it it this is a 100% of people are doing this. And whether or not you feel bad about it is is the measure.

01:42:24.875 --> 01:42:26.955
So where am I judging other people,

01:42:27.890 --> 01:42:30.770
and where am I carrying some kind of hidden shame?

01:42:31.250 --> 01:42:37.890
And the the hard part about the the hidden shame part is that some people will carry this hidden shame,

01:42:38.290 --> 01:42:45.464
and they will feel like me feeling bad about this one thing that happened in middle school or this thing that happened a couple of years ago.

01:42:45.785 --> 01:42:48.825
If I feel bad about it, that makes me a good person.

01:42:49.785 --> 01:42:59.180
That's the biggest load of that that you could ever hold inside of your brain. Feeling bad about something does does not make you a good person.

01:42:59.580 --> 01:43:04.460
Yeah. And it's tough, because I think that a lot of times, like, going back to this victim mindset,

01:43:04.620 --> 01:43:06.220
I think people will use

01:43:07.155 --> 01:43:08.435
their past

01:43:08.675 --> 01:43:10.995
as a way to justify

01:43:10.995 --> 01:43:12.995
current behavior. They'll say,

01:43:13.315 --> 01:43:15.315
well, I was picked on in school.

01:43:15.635 --> 01:43:24.180
My parents got divorced. I mean, I did all of this, I wound up in jail. And they people end up using these excuses as a way to justify

01:43:24.420 --> 01:43:28.260
how they act now, and it's tough because their brain has now convinced them

01:43:28.580 --> 01:43:31.700
that it's okay to behave that way because they're used to getting people

01:43:32.020 --> 01:43:36.745
patting them on the back and telling them it's okay. And then the sob story is there's commodity in that.

01:43:37.225 --> 01:43:42.025
There there really is. And I think if you look at it from a different angle,

01:43:42.425 --> 01:43:45.945
that's the first big thing that we all need to do is

01:43:46.800 --> 01:43:49.120
I need to take my little GoPro

01:43:49.120 --> 01:43:54.880
that's normally stuck way behind my head and put it out in front of my eyes and start changing my perspective.

01:43:56.560 --> 01:44:00.880
This is why, like, just a shift in perspective can solve depression,

01:44:00.960 --> 01:44:04.985
and it can it can help people with PTSD and all kinds of other things.

01:44:05.385 --> 01:44:12.185
This is why that we're starting to see that psychedelic therapy is, like, one of the most effective things ever tested.

01:44:13.400 --> 01:44:15.480
Well, and I think it's tough because people,

01:44:15.800 --> 01:44:16.760
for decades,

01:44:16.920 --> 01:44:22.200
like, they they are just used to seeing, like, one perspective, having one view of the world,

01:44:22.680 --> 01:44:27.080
and they've essentially kind of manipulated their own perception of of reality.

01:44:27.775 --> 01:44:38.975
And it just takes so much work to to snap out of it. And it and it's tough. Like, how how do you think people can be consistent with it when they have been inconsistent

01:44:38.975 --> 01:44:41.855
for years and they're just somebody that has had the same, like,

01:44:42.430 --> 01:44:49.070
type of worldview for a period of time, and they're trying to, like, make that shift to be consistent with behavior change.

01:44:49.470 --> 01:44:55.790
If they're trying to change themselves, the the number one thing that we can do is is form a a visual

01:44:55.870 --> 01:44:57.790
relationship with your future self.

01:44:58.785 --> 01:45:04.065
And this sounds maybe we talked about it on the last podcast. I'm I don't remember. But

01:45:04.385 --> 01:45:08.545
you you get you download an app that makes you look like a 95 year old,

01:45:09.025 --> 01:45:23.140
and you you do that thing. You take the selfie. You look looking at it, and it makes, like, AI warps your face or I don't know how it works. But you print that sucker out, and you put it on your fridge. You put it on everywhere you want it to. You wanna be reminded.

01:45:23.700 --> 01:45:24.340
And

01:45:24.740 --> 01:45:35.485
so most people don't prioritize our future selves because we have no ability to visualize them. They're hard to think about. But what we're doing is not using language. We're not using affirmations.

01:45:35.485 --> 01:45:38.524
We're showing the mammal part of our brain

01:45:38.765 --> 01:45:42.365
what we want to focus on and where we wanna place priority.

01:45:42.765 --> 01:45:44.999
So if I wanna be consistent,

01:45:45.240 --> 01:45:57.480
the only reason I fail to be consistent is because I'm prioritizing myself right now. What do I want? What does present tense me want right now? And we're saying f you to the the future tense version of us.

01:45:58.195 --> 01:46:02.675
So shift number one to make to to make so many changes in your life is,

01:46:02.995 --> 01:46:04.595
can I teach

01:46:05.075 --> 01:46:08.995
my mammalian brain to start forming a prioritized

01:46:08.995 --> 01:46:10.435
relationship with future me?

01:46:11.320 --> 01:46:14.280
How could you could you do that with, like, situations?

01:46:14.360 --> 01:46:16.840
Like, you know, I imagine if somebody is,

01:46:17.400 --> 01:46:20.120
like, in a relationship and they're acting

01:46:20.760 --> 01:46:21.640
disrespectfully

01:46:21.640 --> 01:46:28.375
to their partner, like, would there be a way to, like, look at, a future version of that relationship? Someone who's addicted to drugs and they're like,

01:46:28.855 --> 01:46:37.415
hey. What's my life gonna be like in ten years? Like, can that app do something similar, or would you, like, have to almost, like, draw a completely different picture? I think that our

01:46:37.735 --> 01:46:45.900
brain is is wired to go against things a lot more than it is towards something positive. It's it's made to go away from something negative.

01:46:46.380 --> 01:46:48.780
If you look at at our ancestors,

01:46:50.860 --> 01:46:56.860
they were way more likely to confuse a

01:46:54.945 --> 01:46:57.905
stick for a snake than a snake for a stick.

01:46:59.105 --> 01:47:02.225
So we're our brains default to negative to keep us safe.

01:47:02.945 --> 01:47:05.584
So if if you're trying to avoid something,

01:47:05.905 --> 01:47:13.700
maybe printing two versions of that picture out, one where you're missing some teeth, maybe somebody's on drugs or something, or one where you're

01:47:14.500 --> 01:47:15.860
morbidly obese

01:47:16.100 --> 01:47:17.380
and 85

01:47:17.380 --> 01:47:19.060
or 90 years old.

01:47:19.460 --> 01:47:28.155
Uh, a lot of those can help the mammalian brain say, I don't want that because our brain people are saying, like, you're programming your brain all the time.

01:47:28.635 --> 01:47:33.355
But if your brain doesn't like something, it's going to be repulsed by that.

01:47:33.915 --> 01:47:34.715
And I know that

01:47:35.480 --> 01:47:40.440
you're not if you're putting negative stuff into your brain on a very regular basis,

01:47:41.080 --> 01:47:43.160
it's very hard to

01:47:43.960 --> 01:47:48.040
just want that negative thing. You're not gonna drive toward it automatically.

01:47:48.040 --> 01:47:57.895
So keep in mind, our brains are wired to move away from negative stimuli. So we just create that negative stimuli to help us form that relationship with the future self.

01:47:58.215 --> 01:48:02.135
So from a on a day to day basis, like, we're kind of bringing this together.

01:48:02.295 --> 01:48:04.375
Like, we've got companies and

01:48:05.070 --> 01:48:08.510
things that that have created this simulation for people

01:48:08.830 --> 01:48:14.749
to feel like they're stuck or even more stuck than they actually are in their life. And then you have these people

01:48:15.150 --> 01:48:23.575
that are trying to change, they're watching your content. Maybe they're listening to this episode, they're like, hey. You know, I realized my relationship with social media is unhealthy.

01:48:23.895 --> 01:48:28.455
I probably should change my friends. I probably should put the substances down. I should probably work out, like, all the things.

01:48:29.190 --> 01:48:34.070
And yet they're up against this battle that exists that's way more powerful

01:48:34.230 --> 01:48:35.750
than they are. Right?

01:48:36.390 --> 01:48:38.710
How can people navigate

01:48:38.710 --> 01:48:43.350
that on, like, a day to day basis? Like, what would that framework look like so that

01:48:43.765 --> 01:48:44.565
they are

01:48:44.965 --> 01:48:46.885
working towards self improvement

01:48:46.885 --> 01:48:50.405
and yet but yet they're not letting this, you know, sigh up

01:48:50.805 --> 01:48:52.965
kind of affect them while they're on their way?

01:48:53.445 --> 01:48:55.765
I think that from a day to day basis,

01:48:56.500 --> 01:49:01.380
the the main thing that a person can do to start getting out of this rut is

01:49:01.540 --> 01:49:07.220
a, developing that future self relationship where our mammalian brain sees it. That is number one.

01:49:07.780 --> 01:49:09.540
But number two is

01:49:10.415 --> 01:49:11.135
just

01:49:11.535 --> 01:49:16.575
making the unconscious conscious. So let's go back to that for just a second with with this new question.

01:49:17.295 --> 01:49:21.055
If I am if I know that I need a new friend network,

01:49:21.455 --> 01:49:27.030
there's part of me that I'm not really aware of that I need to make more aware in my brain.

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So I need to, like, write all this stuff out. Maybe I need to build a spreadsheet. Maybe it's some visual thing that I need to do. I need to make these problems as crystal clear to my conscious brain as I possibly can. So if I'm on social media today, maybe I'll go to Michaels or Walmart, and I'm gonna get a big poster. I'll draw a little grid on there, and with a big Sharpie, I'm gonna go up there every day. I'm gonna I'm gonna write how many hours because your phone tracks it all. I'm gonna write my screen time on this big board. The stuff that we used to just unconsciously pursue

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is now getting forced closer and closer and closer to conscious awareness.

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That is the the fastest way you can do it. Because if I wanna manipulate you, if I'm running a psyop against a country

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of any size, the first thing I want you to do is pacify, distract, sedate

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those things so all of the negative behaviors, all the things that I want you to be doing are happening unconsciously.

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And the fastest way to do that is just to get someone to do something on a regular basis, and second, get you to believe that lots of people are doing it so I can normalize

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the behavior.