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The average person opens up Instagram a hundred and fifty times a day

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But that's by design. Like you said companies probably know from product design

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They're paying or putting fortunes and to understand why we do what we do and a variable reward

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don't have a me absolve all that's

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Exactly. And so if you're picking up the phone the first thing in the morning, the challenge is number reasons

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This is a challenge. First of all, there there are these four primary brainwave states

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Um beta is what you and I are in right now

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We're awake Delta is when you're fast asleep in between those two states theta and alpha are

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extremely important brainwave states for learning

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So theta is the state right in and out of sleep data is the state

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That we call creativity when you are your most creative

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or you're

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Usually it's coming because you're in this data state and you know this when you're in and out of sleep or you're close to like

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You're so deep your mind goes and you come up with ideas. You know, what put you in a data state our showers

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You ever noticed like when you're in the shower you come up with some of your your best ideas and your brain kind of drift

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It does because you're in that brainwave state

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So a big part of my work is taking the invisible making it visible

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Like I always when I do these demonstrations

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I always tell people that I I do it because I want you to see that there's a method behind the magic

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and when somebody does something that's extraordinary in athletics in

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education and technology with the human body

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There's always a trail, you know, his genius leaves Clues above theta though is the state called alpha

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Right right below beta where you're most aware and awake

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Alpha is the state of a learning

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Accelerated learning is the state of relaxed awareness

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This is the state we go into when we meditate because your critical mind is set aside and you just absorb information

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Unconsciously, you know what puts you into an alpha state television

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You ever noticed that if somebody's watching the game or somebody's watching their favorite TV show and you're trying to have a conversation with them

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And they literally are entranced

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They don't hear you because the television programming which might be an interesting word, you know programming and putting people into a trance

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But that's the Alpha state. That's where formation is. Just going inside your mind

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so we train people how to learn languages faster and learn facts better by putting them into an alpha state a

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Relaxed state of awareness and we can do that by by designed and people don't realize this and this is the whole thing

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I really think this should have been taught back in school because school was a great place to learn

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what to learn math history science Spanish important subjects on what to learn

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But how many classes were on how to learn does that even exist is dead?

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Know that that's why I'm saying like how many classes were on how to think critically?

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how to make the decisions how to solve problem how to focus and concentrate

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how to read how to read faster how to remember more right even if they teach you 3 R's in school reading

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writing arithmetic

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But what about remembering? What about recall?

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what about retention right Socrates says there is no learning without remembering and that's really the

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Basis of it all but I would say that

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Knowing you're in this alpha theta state first thing in the morning. You're very suggestible, right?

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And if the first thing you're picking up is your phone then that really is what rewiring our brain for two things

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The dangers that's gonna really decrease your level of productivity and performance number one

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Its training you to be distracted and we talked about that every like share comment

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Everything is just making you just pay attention everything else and rewiring your brain

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So when you're having a conversation with somebody you can't even focus because you've trained your brain to do otherwise and that's why

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Mindfulness is so important, you know

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Whether it's meditation or something else

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Because it's not that I don't meditate every single day just to be at peace and and be in the Zen

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State I do it because it's a mental exercise. It improves my cognitive capabilities

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Meaning that when my mind goes somewhere else. That's the opportunity. So I pull it back with my breath or visualization

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I built that muscle because here's here's really the the basis of my work is really about taking nouns and turning them into verbs

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So what do I mean by that?

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It's it's like so many people they wake up and say oh

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I

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Hope I have energy today or I have motivation saying things that they have right?

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I have creativity so I could write today or make videos or I have

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Memory or I focus or concentration

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Those aren't things you have those are things you do and so you don't have love you do loving things

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You don't have energy you do things that give you energy just like that's that applies same thing with learning. You don't have focus

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There's a process for doing focus. You don't have a memory. There's steps to improve your memory or to remember things better

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There's not creativity is not something you have. There's actually a process for creativity

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So you should never suffer from writer's block or anything else like that because because that's where if you're if you don't understand

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How you work when I was talking about self awareness and understanding ourselves, you know

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I think if somebody wants to improve their their esteem the self same overnight just study it study your brain

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like you'll get a boost of confidence and pride like instantly because it is the most incredible I

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Don't even know what to call it a device a supercomputer what in the whole universe, you know?

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It's not just about going out to to Mars and all these other places

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I'm gonna I want to go in here because this controls what

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Everything our careers our income our health our relationships, you know, whether or not you get, you know complete, you know

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We were talking about this before our conversation here would have you know?

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When you're training for Ironman and triathlons everything else is how much of it is mental like we know like everyone knows what to do

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But do they do what they know because common sense is not common practice and it's a myth that knowledge is power

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Not knowledge is it has a potential to be power?

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It only becomes power when we use it when we apply it

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Like people think they should get points for buying books and sitting on the shelf and it just sits there and becomes like shelf help

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Not self-help, right or somebody will go and learn something

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I listen to a podcast like this or show or they'll go to a conference

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They'll pay all this money

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But they don't do anything with what they learn and part of it also is because they forget it, you know

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Everyone knows there's a learning curve, but there's also forgetting curve

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Did you know like the forgetting curve says that if you learn something once within 48 hours?

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80% of it is gone

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80% so you listen to a show you watch something you

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On YouTube you go to a conference

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You read a book

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Within two days the majority of it's gone because nobody trains us how to have that's why the memory is so important, you know

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And so this first thing don't touch your phone cuz it's training you to be distracted

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The second thing is it's training you rewiring your brain to be reactive

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Reactive meaning that you're in this relaxed state of awareness when you first wake up you pick up your phone

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You get one text

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That with bad news or one voicemail one email and you know this we've all still happen to us

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You're in a bad mood for the rest of your day

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Because you're so impressionable you're in that hypnotic state and it affects you and you can never have a quality life

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You know with that

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You know and be the best version of ourselves be I elite mental performer or high performer when you're responding and reacting

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everybody else

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You know

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my friend Brendon Burchard says an inbox is nothing but a convenient organizational system for other people's agenda for your life and

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How can you have vision for your life like for me the night before?

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Like I have I did a whole episode on my morning routine like ten things

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I do every morning that jumpstart my brain and I also have an evening one-hour routine to get into sleep to maximize my sleep sleep

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Is so very important to be able to do but one of the processes I do besides, you know

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blackout curtains and cold and temperatures and breath and stuff

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meditation is I don't touch a screen right because it creates blue light and you and most people should know this every you know,

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The screen on your laptop your phone everything else

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Emits, this blue light which inhibits melatonin production which helps you to relax and go to sleep sand those screens

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But the other thing I do is I write down the three things

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I want to complexed day personally and the other three are professionally

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so now when I wake up

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I have a vision for my life

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Like I'll this is a win today

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If I just get these three things done personally and three things professionally and when it comes to my phone

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I don't touch my phone until I get at least one thing done and that's my that's my test

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you know if I could just do that and it's not always perfect, you know, but it's about progress right because practice makes

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Progress alright and there's never gonna be a perfect and I think people need to find what works for them

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But I would say again to step out is not

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Don't trust yourself as the expert

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Instead of somebody else and test it, you know

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Maybe for one week

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Keep your phone outside your bedroom for just one week and don't touch it for the first hour a day and spend the first hour

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Day being a thermostat

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Vomiter because a thermometer what it what's a function it reacts to the environment and that's a--that's a kind of crappy way to like live

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Not that we don't we do react in by we react to the weather, right?

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we react to how clients treat us we react but to the degree we're happy is that we have the locus that

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Have the the location of control inside, right?

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all the studies show that the happiest people are the ones that feel like they have the control over their or their happiness and now

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Put it to somebody else a person or a place or something going the economy or politics or anything, right?

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So a thermometer reacts the environment but a thermostat is different. What is that function?

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It sets the environment it sets a goal is set the temperature and then the environment raises to it

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And so I feel like anyone who's attracted to your work or to mine

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Their thermostats because they have a growth mindset because if they thought things were fixed

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They wouldn't watch something like this because what's the point? It's just all predestined and it's set and we can't grow

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You