[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.98,0:00:08.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The average person opens up Instagram a hundred and fifty times a day Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.02,0:00:11.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that's by design. Like you said companies probably know from product design Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.73,0:00:17.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're paying or putting fortunes and to understand why we do what we do and a variable reward Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.49,0:00:19.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't have a me absolve all that's Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.57,0:00:24.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Exactly. And so if you're picking up the phone the first thing in the morning, the challenge is number reasons Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.45,0:00:28.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a challenge. First of all, there there are these four primary brainwave states Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.11,0:00:31.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Um beta is what you and I are in right now Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.71,0:00:37.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're awake Delta is when you're fast asleep in between those two states theta and alpha are Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.26,0:00:40.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,extremely important brainwave states for learning Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.48,0:00:44.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So theta is the state right in and out of sleep data is the state Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.77,0:00:47.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That we call creativity when you are your most creative Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.10,0:00:48.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or you're Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.91,0:00:54.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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 Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.21,0:01:00.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're so deep your mind goes and you come up with ideas. You know, what put you in a data state our showers Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.03,0:01:06.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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 Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.21,0:01:08.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It does because you're in that brainwave state Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.22,0:01:12.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So a big part of my work is taking the invisible making it visible Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.61,0:01:14.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like I always when I do these demonstrations Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.22,0:01:20.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I always tell people that I I do it because I want you to see that there's a method behind the magic Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.62,0:01:24.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when somebody does something that's extraordinary in athletics in Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.36,0:01:27.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,education and technology with the human body Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.64,0:01:34.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's always a trail, you know, his genius leaves Clues above theta though is the state called alpha Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.02,0:01:38.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right right below beta where you're most aware and awake Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.85,0:01:41.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Alpha is the state of a learning Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.10,0:01:44.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Accelerated learning is the state of relaxed awareness Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.25,0:01:52.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the state we go into when we meditate because your critical mind is set aside and you just absorb information Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.23,0:01:56.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unconsciously, you know what puts you into an alpha state television Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.86,0:02:02.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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 Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.37,0:02:04.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they literally are entranced Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.32,0:02:10.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't hear you because the television programming which might be an interesting word, you know programming and putting people into a trance Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.87,0:02:14.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that's the Alpha state. That's where formation is. Just going inside your mind Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.81,0:02:20.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we train people how to learn languages faster and learn facts better by putting them into an alpha state a Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.79,0:02:25.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Relaxed state of awareness and we can do that by by designed and people don't realize this and this is the whole thing Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.73,0:02:30.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really think this should have been taught back in school because school was a great place to learn Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.81,0:02:35.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what to learn math history science Spanish important subjects on what to learn Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.73,0:02:39.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But how many classes were on how to learn does that even exist is dead? Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.80,0:02:42.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Know that that's why I'm saying like how many classes were on how to think critically? Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.20,0:02:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to make the decisions how to solve problem how to focus and concentrate Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.55,0:02:55.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to read how to read faster how to remember more right even if they teach you 3 R's in school reading Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.56,0:02:56.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,writing arithmetic Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.91,0:02:59.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what about remembering? What about recall? Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.75,0:03:05.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what about retention right Socrates says there is no learning without remembering and that's really the Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.24,0:03:08.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Basis of it all but I would say that Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.70,0:03:13.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Knowing you're in this alpha theta state first thing in the morning. You're very suggestible, right? Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.58,0:03:19.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if the first thing you're picking up is your phone then that really is what rewiring our brain for two things Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.47,0:03:25.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The dangers that's gonna really decrease your level of productivity and performance number one Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.43,0:03:28.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Its training you to be distracted and we talked about that every like share comment Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.68,0:03:33.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything is just making you just pay attention everything else and rewiring your brain Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.41,0:03:38.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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 Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.94,0:03:40.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mindfulness is so important, you know Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.58,0:03:42.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whether it's meditation or something else Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.87,0:03:49.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because it's not that I don't meditate every single day just to be at peace and and be in the Zen Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.20,0:03:54.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,State I do it because it's a mental exercise. It improves my cognitive capabilities Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.56,0:04:00.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meaning that when my mind goes somewhere else. That's the opportunity. So I pull it back with my breath or visualization Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.30,0:04:08.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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 Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.46,0:04:09.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what do I mean by that? Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.71,0:04:12.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's it's like so many people they wake up and say oh Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.50,0:04:13.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.17,0:04:17.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hope I have energy today or I have motivation saying things that they have right? Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.12,0:04:20.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have creativity so I could write today or make videos or I have Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.97,0:04:23.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Memory or I focus or concentration Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.61,0:04:30.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those aren't things you have those are things you do and so you don't have love you do loving things Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.06,0:04:37.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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 Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.23,0:04:44.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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 Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.55,0:04:49.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's not creativity is not something you have. There's actually a process for creativity Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.62,0:04:56.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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 Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.18,0:04:59.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How you work when I was talking about self awareness and understanding ourselves, you know Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.90,0:05:05.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think if somebody wants to improve their their esteem the self same overnight just study it study your brain Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.37,0:05:11.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like you'll get a boost of confidence and pride like instantly because it is the most incredible I Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.76,0:05:16.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't even know what to call it a device a supercomputer what in the whole universe, you know? Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.43,0:05:19.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not just about going out to to Mars and all these other places Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.46,0:05:21.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm gonna I want to go in here because this controls what Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.68,0:05:28.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything our careers our income our health our relationships, you know, whether or not you get, you know complete, you know Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.88,0:05:32.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were talking about this before our conversation here would have you know? Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.09,0:05:39.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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 Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.54,0:05:45.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But do they do what they know because common sense is not common practice and it's a myth that knowledge is power Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.44,0:05:48.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not knowledge is it has a potential to be power? Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.45,0:05:51.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It only becomes power when we use it when we apply it Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.48,0:05:57.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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 Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.05,0:06:00.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not self-help, right or somebody will go and learn something Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.71,0:06:04.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I listen to a podcast like this or show or they'll go to a conference Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.55,0:06:05.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They'll pay all this money Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.49,0:06:10.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they don't do anything with what they learn and part of it also is because they forget it, you know Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.49,0:06:13.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone knows there's a learning curve, but there's also forgetting curve Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.62,0:06:18.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did you know like the forgetting curve says that if you learn something once within 48 hours? Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.26,0:06:21.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,80% of it is gone Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.21,0:06:24.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,80% so you listen to a show you watch something you Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.69,0:06:26.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On YouTube you go to a conference Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.39,0:06:27.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You read a book Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.24,0:06:34.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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 Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.04,0:06:37.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so this first thing don't touch your phone cuz it's training you to be distracted Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.55,0:06:42.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second thing is it's training you rewiring your brain to be reactive Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.84,0:06:47.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Reactive meaning that you're in this relaxed state of awareness when you first wake up you pick up your phone Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.82,0:06:49.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You get one text Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.29,0:06:54.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That with bad news or one voicemail one email and you know this we've all still happen to us Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.29,0:06:56.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're in a bad mood for the rest of your day Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.19,0:07:02.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you're so impressionable you're in that hypnotic state and it affects you and you can never have a quality life Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.19,0:07:03.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know with that Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.32,0:07:09.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know and be the best version of ourselves be I elite mental performer or high performer when you're responding and reacting Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.33,0:07:10.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everybody else Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.20,0:07:10.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.73,0:07:17.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my friend Brendon Burchard says an inbox is nothing but a convenient organizational system for other people's agenda for your life and Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.33,0:07:21.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can you have vision for your life like for me the night before? Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.78,0:07:25.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like I have I did a whole episode on my morning routine like ten things Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.82,0:07:31.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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 Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.94,0:07:37.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is so very important to be able to do but one of the processes I do besides, you know Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.22,0:07:40.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,blackout curtains and cold and temperatures and breath and stuff Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.16,0:07:47.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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, Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.99,0:07:50.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The screen on your laptop your phone everything else Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.43,0:07:56.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Emits, this blue light which inhibits melatonin production which helps you to relax and go to sleep sand those screens Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.82,0:07:58.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the other thing I do is I write down the three things Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.00,0:08:02.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to complexed day personally and the other three are professionally Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.91,0:08:03.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so now when I wake up Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.98,0:08:05.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have a vision for my life Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.58,0:08:07.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like I'll this is a win today Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.46,0:08:12.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I just get these three things done personally and three things professionally and when it comes to my phone Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.26,0:08:17.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't touch my phone until I get at least one thing done and that's my that's my test Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.64,0:08:23.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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 Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.61,0:08:28.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Progress alright and there's never gonna be a perfect and I think people need to find what works for them Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.26,0:08:30.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I would say again to step out is not Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.29,0:08:33.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't trust yourself as the expert Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.84,0:08:36.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead of somebody else and test it, you know Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.71,0:08:38.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe for one week Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.37,0:08:43.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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 Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.73,0:08:45.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Day being a thermostat Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.77,0:08:52.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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 Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.58,0:08:55.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not that we don't we do react in by we react to the weather, right? Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.94,0:09:01.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we react to how clients treat us we react but to the degree we're happy is that we have the locus that Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.14,0:09:03.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have the the location of control inside, right? Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.92,0:09:09.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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 Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.80,0:09:14.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Put it to somebody else a person or a place or something going the economy or politics or anything, right? Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.99,0:09:19.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So a thermometer reacts the environment but a thermostat is different. What is that function? Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.03,0:09:25.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It sets the environment it sets a goal is set the temperature and then the environment raises to it Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.28,0:09:29.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I feel like anyone who's attracted to your work or to mine Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.12,0:09:34.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their thermostats because they have a growth mindset because if they thought things were fixed Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.97,0:09:40.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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 Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.02,0:09:57.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You