WEBVTT 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Applauses) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, I asked to turn up the light so that I can see you as well. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We are talking about relationships after all. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And the most important thing in a relationship, man 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 is to see your wife. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You can see who is married in a restaurant, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 or who is dating. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If a man is dating a woman he's looking right at her. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He's got one goal. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laugher) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And once he's climbed that mountain you can relax. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You see the married man looking around. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Quite often somebody else got his attention. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Haven't seen her before. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It doesn't mean he doesn't love her 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 his wife. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It just mean he's never saw that before. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We all do this as we are going to vacations 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to lovely spots, new places 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 getting off the plain here in Bend it was blown away 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 by the beautifull mountain. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's exiting. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Because someone new and different 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it stimulates our brain chemical called dopamine. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And dopamine gives us motivation, it gives us pleasure 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it gives us focus. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And it gives us, happiness in a relationship, passion. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 When we fall in love with somebody 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 is literally like we are high on drugs. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Maybe you don't remember 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 if you've been married for 28 years like I have, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but, I remided living with my youngest daughter 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 who is in that first "falling in love stage" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 with her "live in". 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughter) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They're planning! They're planning! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But she is a modern woman, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 she wants to be completely financial self-sufficient 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 before she gets married. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 As the new woman! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 She wants to be sufficient. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Yes! Yes! We all wanna be self sufficient. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We all wanna be independent, and then from place of wholeness 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 come together. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's a new world. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And I'm gonna talk about that new world today. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The most important thing to understand is 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 this brain chemical thing dopamine. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 'Cause when you haven't met someone, before you are getting to know them 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 all the ingredients are there to stimulate dopamine. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Newness. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And there's no history. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Where are we going with this? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 What's gonna happen? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And that stimulates this brain chemical 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and in man, dopamine stimulates a hormone calls testosterone. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, men testosterone levels are searching. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The average man in 50 have half testoterone levels he had 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 as a young man. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It starts to drop. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Lot of things contribute to that, but one of the things is: marriage. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughter) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You know, I'm 62 but I went to the 50's with my friends 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and several of my friends got divorce 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and the came alive! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm not recomending divorce to come alive. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughter) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But I am recomending learning new relationships skills 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to come alive in your marriage. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But it's like, when you were somebody new 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 just going to somewhere new, being with somebody new 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it stimulates dopamine, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and for men dopamine stimulates testosterone. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And for men, testosterone lowers stress. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I don't mean stress in your life, life is always stressful. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Problems are everywhere. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But how do we react to life is depending 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 on our hormone respondes to life. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And for men, testosterone is the hormone 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that helps men keeps their stress levels down. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Most people don't know this but, I learned this... 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 30 years ago I was reading... 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 20 years ago, maybe 30 something in there 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I was about to see the movie "The Grumpty Old Man" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and I was also reading the differences 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 between young man and old man 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 was that men testosterone level go down. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And then, I made the link. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Gumpty Old Man. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Think about men when they haven't been laid for a while. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They get grumpty. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And we always thought that testosterone caused 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 all that irrability. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But actually for men, it's estrogen. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughter) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's all those grumpty old man 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 have super high estrogen levels 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and low testosterone. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Who knew?! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 One of the biggest risk factors for heart disease, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 prostate cancer for men is low testosterone. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 All men, with depression have low testosterone. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And that's why depression is very different 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 from man than from woman. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Depression for a man is that feeling 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "nobody wants me", "I am not needed anymore", 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "basically, I'm out of work", 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "nobody there to respond for me" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "nobody there for me to fix, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 help, serve, support". 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, been out of work is the major depression for man 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 or being in a marriage where you feel you can't 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 do anything to make your partner happy. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I get to see it as a marriage counselor for over 30 years 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 people often on their last exit. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 'Cause I am famous people say: 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "Oh, you gotta see him" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so I get the tough cases. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughter) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But it's a challenge. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And what I hear again and again for man. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I take the man outside, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "What is the problem here?, what's going on here?, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If we can fix one problem, what would that be?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "John, the only problem here is my wife is not happy". 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That's it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Now, I do these seminars, workshops for like 4 days 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and we started out men in one room, women in the other. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Without my influence, the men write down complaints about 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 their wifes, relationships, women in one room. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Women do it in another room. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And then we spend the whole 4 days working on that. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And men have one sheet, and women have 5. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughter) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And men's list is one or two words. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "Critical, complaints, nags, punishes, not interested in sex" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that's the longest one they come out with. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughter) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There's a list over there. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And women got all this lists, get a big long list 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 everything is a long sentences, and if this thing and all that stuff. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughter) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And men go "See?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughter) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I got a few claps which I'm not asking for 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but that's what excites man. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I made a difference. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So men love their dogs so much. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughter) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 When I come home, my dog is happy and I'm alive! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughter) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It touches something so deep inside of every man 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That the whole evolution of men where like out there 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 in the dangerous world. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If you came home alive, they celebrate it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughter) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Now it's like "Oh, he's back". 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughter) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "You know, you left the lights on the living room last night 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 before you left" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughter) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That's what I get! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If she was just happy... 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 What a man thinks 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "If she was just the way she was when I married her". 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 See, when man get married they stay the same, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 as If you can. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And realize women would never be the same. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They are like the weather. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughter) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's always changing! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Sunshine, blue clouds, puffy clouds 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 blue sky, puffy clouds. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Rain storms, lightning strikes, hurracains. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Tornadoes! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Now If you are from Mars 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you have this instincts that you are the worst thing 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 when you were with the Venusian. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 See, in Mars when there's tornadoes, what do we do? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We find a ditch and lay low. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's not what women expect you to do. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 When that tornadoe comes in you are supposed to stand in there. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughter) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "Is something the matter?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughter) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And If you read it in my books 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 when every cell in your body says 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "I can't take it anymore" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "I gotta find a ditch and lay low" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "Let me get my car and drive somewhere" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Instead, you stand there, just keep looking. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And when there's a break you say: 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "Huh. Tell me more". 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughs) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 She is like "I am married to Superman!" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If you can do that 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and I teach people how to do that 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you have to, at least, know what you are trying to do here. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 'Cause many have been married that say: 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "No matter what I say or do it makes it worst". 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And I say "that's because what you say 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and do is wrong". 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughs) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It just doesn't work! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You've just told me it doesn't work, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it doesn't work! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But, what does work? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Nothing. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughs) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Nothing! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You can not make a woman happy! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughs) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You can not change the weather. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It changes by itself. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Women are grown ups 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 they can feel better. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They can get happier 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 they know how to do it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Just they way of doing it 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 is different from ours. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 All I have to do when I am stress is sit down. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughs) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Man have a switch right here. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 As soon as you sit down (laughs) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 blood flows stops to your brain. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (laughs) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They did some experiments on that. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They put women at the end of the day sit down 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and men on the way sitting down. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And they measure the brain activity. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Women sit down, their brain speed up. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 More blood flow. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And you say: "What are you thinking?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and she says, which any woman in this room can predict 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "Well, sitting on this couch I'm thinking of all the things 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I should be doing, that I am not doing while I am doing this silly experiment". 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And then, they do the man 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and the man sitting there 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you look at the scans nothing is happening! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughs) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Is it broken? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughs) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 What is this?! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And she is like "What?!" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So you ask him: "What are you thinking?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And you now all know that answer to that question 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 if you've been married! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He says: "Nothing!" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughs) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And now he has evidence. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "See, honey?, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm not whithholding from you!" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughs) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "I don't have big secrets, I'm not hiding my problems from you 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm trying to forget them! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Why do we have to talk about them?!" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 'Cause one of the primary ways man cope with stress 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and remember, what the hormone that lower stress for men? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Testosterone. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So what's the hormone that lowers stress for men 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 is testosterone. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If, I got all this problems in my life and I am solving them 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I am releasing testosterone. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And it is keeping my stress levels down. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 At the end of the day, I still have all this 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 unmet problems, right? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 All this problems I haven't solved 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so know that I'm not solving problems my stress levels goes up! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I can't do anything about it 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm home, I can't do anything about it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So stress goes up. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So how have men adapted to deal with problems 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you can't do anything about once you are sitting. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Forget it! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughs) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We can turn our brains off! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We have an off switch. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Women don't. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They can not forget anything! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughs) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Here is a simple test in "Gender intelligence" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Who has a bigger, better memory? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Women or men? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Women! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is proven! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The hippocampus in a woman's brain 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 is twice as big as in a man's brain. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The second store is like a library 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 recording everything on the first floor. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 On the second floor she records every mistake 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you've ever made. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughs) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And something she can't do much about it 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 is when she is stress, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 when she is stress 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 blood flow goes to that second floor. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Elevator, she goes up 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 she forgets every good thing you've ever done 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and remembers every mistake you've made! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And how does she gets off that floor? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 She's gotta lower her stress. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 She can not forget it! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So what does she do? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 What's the woman reaction? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Just measure the brain! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There's wonderful brain studies now! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Under moderate stress 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 women's brains have 8 times more blood flow 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to the emotional part of the brain 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 which then goes to the hippocampus. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 She's bombardment with memories! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 For men, he forgets everything. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, I'm not saying that women are more emotional 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 than man. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm saying that, under moderate stress 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 woman have a stronger emotional reaction. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Under big stress, men have a stronger emotional reaction. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And what's big stress for man? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 A problem you can't solve and can't forget. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And that's big stress for man. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 A problem you can't solve 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and you can't forget. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 No matter how much football games you are watching 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 not matter how much news you are watching, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 not much how many pressing weights in the gym you are doing 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you can't forget that problems. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So now your stress levels are shooting up. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, for man. That's a big problem! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, historically, evolutionary wise 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 lions, tigers, bears 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 lions, tigers, bears, men have a big reaction! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And by the way biologically what's happening? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 When soon as the man feels powerless 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 his testosterone converts the estrogen and floods 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 his brain with fear and anger. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's when go to the female hormones 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 they loose control of their masculine hormones 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 their testosterone levels drop. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Literally, testosterone converts intro estrogen through 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 an enzyme called aromatase. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, If I... I'm a man! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Testosterone driven. Every man has to have 30 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 times more testosterone than your average woman 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to get up on stage to do anything! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Without that he's that guy: 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "Ugh, I don't wanna work anymore 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I just wanna go play, watch TV and do nothing". 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Every loser I have ever counseled I say: 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "Why did you do that?" "I felt like it" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "Why don't you do this?" "I don't feel like it" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 What we do want feelings 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it's a wonderful evolutionary lift. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Man have to always reason first and then 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 checked it out with your feelings. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Why do I say that? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 'Cause I counsel losers a lot! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And they follow their feelings instead of things, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "But does that makes sense"? "I don't care" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You gotta start caring if you are a man about 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 what makes sense and then check it out 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 with your feelings. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And for woman, you gotta check out 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 what is my feeling first which will access into your intuition 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and then what makes sense. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We are complements to each other. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And we see the wiring in the brain is the same. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The intuitive center over here, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the emotional center over here 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 called the right interior parietal lobe in a woman 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 which has to do with personal relationships. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Has to do with: "What are you eating today?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "What should we have for food today?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "What should I wear?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "Look what she is wearing" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "What do our children need?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "What do the people need?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "What does the earth need?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "What does our family need?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "How can I improve this relationship?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That's all relational activities. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I discovered that on vacation with my 3 daughters and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 my wife in Hawaii. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 As we're sitting round with nothing to do 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I listened to their conversations 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughs) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "What we are gonna eat?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "Where we are gonna eat?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "What we gotta wear?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "What do you wear, can I wear that?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Not there when they are limited to that at all, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but when they are relaxing. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 See? That's what I am talking about! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is how women relax. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They go to the right part of the brain, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that stimulates estrogen 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it also stimulates a magic hormone 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that most people are not aware of 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 called: oxytocin. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Oxytocin is the hormone that lower stress in women. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This was an amazing discovery! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 What that... 12 years ago they start finding this out. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Just to brag a moment because I am from Mars. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Talking about 30 years ago. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I discovered it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 When I read an article about oxytocin women produce 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 when they see babys. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You now, back in the day 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 when you are learning how to being their bonding with 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 your children at birth. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Huge amounts of oxytocin comes up, and you bond. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Well, then I went in this mall just watching women, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 watchin men, I used to sit there and just watch. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There was a chair. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And in those days, when women had a lot more oxytocin 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 than they have now. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And those days a woman carrying a baby along 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 like this, women would gather, "Oh!" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The same response my wife would make 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 when I bought her a rose. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And when I put my arm around her 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and we saw something sweet in a movie 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and I realize "Ah, this is what makes women smile". 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Now we have the science behind it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Oxytocin lowers stress for women. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Then we found out oxytocin allows women 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to have climax in the bedroom. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That perks up man's ears. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughs) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There is a pill, oxytocin pill 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 synthetic oxytocin. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You give it to her, she'll be really turned on 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and it's been proven, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 next stage she shoots you. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughs) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 'Cause drugs takes you up and then bring you down. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughs) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, by understanding this two dynamics 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 we are living in a world today where there's lot of stress. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And what we wanna do is 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 have equality, mutual respect mutual appresiation 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but we are facing a new challenge 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 as women are more in the workplace 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 feeling more independent testosterone gets produce 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 there's nothing wrong with testosterone 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 in a woman's body. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Some women are just born with more, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so they are over here saying: "John, what are you talking about? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I don't care what I wear". 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But most women have, 90% of women have this 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 low testosterone high estrogen 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and oxytocin is the hormone in all women 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that lowers cortisol for them. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Cortisol, the stress hormone. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Well, If you give a man an inyection oxytocin 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 he goes to sleep. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Because after climax, he's wel... 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Laughs) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 After he has climax has released oxytocin 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 what does he do? He goes right to sleep. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So the bottom line is anything that oxytocin producing 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 after you've done it 3 or 4 times, kinda puts 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 a man to sleep. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Which puts a real damper on relationships 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 unless men figures out that 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If I do oxytocin things, for my wife 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm not just doing oxytocin producing things for her 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I am solving a problem. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And when I solve a problem testosterone levels go up. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So my wife is talking, I am in the storm 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I say, "Tell me more" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 my testosterone stage is up 'cause I know how 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to make it work. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And I know what I am doing is 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 helping her create more oxytocin. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Planning dates, bringing flowers giving cards 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 all the "samples" of valentines days 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you do regularly on a little score. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Just a little bit. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 She's always looking ahead. So, special time. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That causes her oxytocin levels to rise up 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to lowe her stress. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So that, her stress levels don't shoot up. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 'Cause right now woman stress levels by study 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 is on average as twice as high as men's 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and for time higher at home.