WEBVTT 00:00:02.980 --> 00:00:08.010 The average person opens up Instagram a hundred and fifty times a day 00:00:08.019 --> 00:00:11.729 But that's by design. Like you said companies probably know from product design 00:00:11.730 --> 00:00:17.490 They're paying or putting fortunes and to understand why we do what we do and a variable reward 00:00:17.490 --> 00:00:19.490 don't have a me absolve all that's 00:00:19.570 --> 00:00:24.449 Exactly. And so if you're picking up the phone the first thing in the morning, the challenge is number reasons 00:00:24.449 --> 00:00:28.829 This is a challenge. First of all, there there are these four primary brainwave states 00:00:29.109 --> 00:00:31.709 Um beta is what you and I are in right now 00:00:31.710 --> 00:00:37.620 We're awake Delta is when you're fast asleep in between those two states theta and alpha are 00:00:38.260 --> 00:00:40.469 extremely important brainwave states for learning 00:00:40.480 --> 00:00:44.489 So theta is the state right in and out of sleep data is the state 00:00:44.770 --> 00:00:47.939 That we call creativity when you are your most creative 00:00:48.100 --> 00:00:48.910 or you're 00:00:48.910 --> 00:00:54.209 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 00:00:54.210 --> 00:01:00.449 You're so deep your mind goes and you come up with ideas. You know, what put you in a data state our showers 00:01:01.030 --> 00:01:06.210 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 00:01:06.210 --> 00:01:08.220 It does because you're in that brainwave state 00:01:08.220 --> 00:01:12.150 So a big part of my work is taking the invisible making it visible 00:01:12.610 --> 00:01:14.760 Like I always when I do these demonstrations 00:01:15.220 --> 00:01:20.489 I always tell people that I I do it because I want you to see that there's a method behind the magic 00:01:20.619 --> 00:01:24.569 and when somebody does something that's extraordinary in athletics in 00:01:25.360 --> 00:01:27.509 education and technology with the human body 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:34.769 There's always a trail, you know, his genius leaves Clues above theta though is the state called alpha 00:01:35.020 --> 00:01:38.640 Right right below beta where you're most aware and awake 00:01:39.850 --> 00:01:41.850 Alpha is the state of a learning 00:01:42.100 --> 00:01:44.820 Accelerated learning is the state of relaxed awareness 00:01:45.250 --> 00:01:52.319 This is the state we go into when we meditate because your critical mind is set aside and you just absorb information 00:01:53.229 --> 00:01:56.339 Unconsciously, you know what puts you into an alpha state television 00:01:56.860 --> 00:02:02.369 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 00:02:02.369 --> 00:02:04.320 And they literally are entranced 00:02:04.320 --> 00:02:10.709 They don't hear you because the television programming which might be an interesting word, you know programming and putting people into a trance 00:02:10.869 --> 00:02:14.809 But that's the Alpha state. That's where formation is. Just going inside your mind 00:02:14.810 --> 00:02:20.660 so we train people how to learn languages faster and learn facts better by putting them into an alpha state a 00:02:20.790 --> 00:02:25.730 Relaxed state of awareness and we can do that by by designed and people don't realize this and this is the whole thing 00:02:25.730 --> 00:02:30.470 I really think this should have been taught back in school because school was a great place to learn 00:02:30.810 --> 00:02:35.720 what to learn math history science Spanish important subjects on what to learn 00:02:35.730 --> 00:02:39.709 But how many classes were on how to learn does that even exist is dead? 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:42.889 Know that that's why I'm saying like how many classes were on how to think critically? 00:02:43.200 --> 00:02:47.000 how to make the decisions how to solve problem how to focus and concentrate 00:02:47.550 --> 00:02:55.279 how to read how to read faster how to remember more right even if they teach you 3 R's in school reading 00:02:55.560 --> 00:02:56.910 writing arithmetic 00:02:56.910 --> 00:02:59.749 But what about remembering? What about recall? 00:02:59.750 --> 00:03:05.600 what about retention right Socrates says there is no learning without remembering and that's really the 00:03:06.239 --> 00:03:08.239 Basis of it all but I would say that 00:03:08.700 --> 00:03:13.580 Knowing you're in this alpha theta state first thing in the morning. You're very suggestible, right? 00:03:13.580 --> 00:03:19.339 And if the first thing you're picking up is your phone then that really is what rewiring our brain for two things 00:03:19.470 --> 00:03:25.429 The dangers that's gonna really decrease your level of productivity and performance number one 00:03:25.430 --> 00:03:28.640 Its training you to be distracted and we talked about that every like share comment 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:33.410 Everything is just making you just pay attention everything else and rewiring your brain 00:03:33.410 --> 00:03:38.839 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 00:03:38.940 --> 00:03:40.579 Mindfulness is so important, you know 00:03:40.579 --> 00:03:42.589 Whether it's meditation or something else 00:03:42.870 --> 00:03:49.070 Because it's not that I don't meditate every single day just to be at peace and and be in the Zen 00:03:49.200 --> 00:03:54.560 State I do it because it's a mental exercise. It improves my cognitive capabilities 00:03:54.560 --> 00:04:00.199 Meaning that when my mind goes somewhere else. That's the opportunity. So I pull it back with my breath or visualization 00:04:00.299 --> 00:04:08.059 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 00:04:08.459 --> 00:04:09.709 So what do I mean by that? 00:04:09.709 --> 00:04:12.499 It's it's like so many people they wake up and say oh 00:04:12.500 --> 00:04:13.170 I 00:04:13.170 --> 00:04:17.119 Hope I have energy today or I have motivation saying things that they have right? 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:20.450 I have creativity so I could write today or make videos or I have 00:04:20.970 --> 00:04:23.300 Memory or I focus or concentration 00:04:23.610 --> 00:04:30.050 Those aren't things you have those are things you do and so you don't have love you do loving things 00:04:30.060 --> 00:04:37.100 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 00:04:37.230 --> 00:04:44.420 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 00:04:44.550 --> 00:04:49.550 There's not creativity is not something you have. There's actually a process for creativity 00:04:49.620 --> 00:04:56.179 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 00:04:56.180 --> 00:04:59.900 How you work when I was talking about self awareness and understanding ourselves, you know 00:04:59.900 --> 00:05:05.089 I think if somebody wants to improve their their esteem the self same overnight just study it study your brain 00:05:05.370 --> 00:05:11.179 like you'll get a boost of confidence and pride like instantly because it is the most incredible I 00:05:11.760 --> 00:05:16.429 Don't even know what to call it a device a supercomputer what in the whole universe, you know? 00:05:16.430 --> 00:05:19.460 It's not just about going out to to Mars and all these other places 00:05:19.460 --> 00:05:21.979 I'm gonna I want to go in here because this controls what 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:28.880 Everything our careers our income our health our relationships, you know, whether or not you get, you know complete, you know 00:05:28.880 --> 00:05:32.089 We were talking about this before our conversation here would have you know? 00:05:32.090 --> 00:05:39.290 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 00:05:39.540 --> 00:05:45.080 But do they do what they know because common sense is not common practice and it's a myth that knowledge is power 00:05:45.440 --> 00:05:48.380 Not knowledge is it has a potential to be power? 00:05:48.450 --> 00:05:51.319 It only becomes power when we use it when we apply it 00:05:51.480 --> 00:05:57.049 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 00:05:57.050 --> 00:06:00.710 Not self-help, right or somebody will go and learn something 00:06:00.710 --> 00:06:04.429 I listen to a podcast like this or show or they'll go to a conference 00:06:04.550 --> 00:06:05.490 They'll pay all this money 00:06:05.490 --> 00:06:10.490 But they don't do anything with what they learn and part of it also is because they forget it, you know 00:06:10.490 --> 00:06:13.340 Everyone knows there's a learning curve, but there's also forgetting curve 00:06:13.620 --> 00:06:18.140 Did you know like the forgetting curve says that if you learn something once within 48 hours? 00:06:19.260 --> 00:06:21.210 80% of it is gone 00:06:21.210 --> 00:06:24.199 80% so you listen to a show you watch something you 00:06:24.690 --> 00:06:26.390 On YouTube you go to a conference 00:06:26.390 --> 00:06:27.240 You read a book 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:34.040 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 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:37.550 And so this first thing don't touch your phone cuz it's training you to be distracted 00:06:37.550 --> 00:06:42.139 The second thing is it's training you rewiring your brain to be reactive 00:06:42.840 --> 00:06:47.720 Reactive meaning that you're in this relaxed state of awareness when you first wake up you pick up your phone 00:06:47.820 --> 00:06:49.290 You get one text 00:06:49.290 --> 00:06:54.290 That with bad news or one voicemail one email and you know this we've all still happen to us 00:06:54.290 --> 00:06:56.190 You're in a bad mood for the rest of your day 00:06:56.190 --> 00:07:02.059 Because you're so impressionable you're in that hypnotic state and it affects you and you can never have a quality life 00:07:02.190 --> 00:07:03.320 You know with that 00:07:03.320 --> 00:07:09.110 You know and be the best version of ourselves be I elite mental performer or high performer when you're responding and reacting 00:07:09.330 --> 00:07:10.200 everybody else 00:07:10.200 --> 00:07:10.730 You know 00:07:10.730 --> 00:07:17.839 my friend Brendon Burchard says an inbox is nothing but a convenient organizational system for other people's agenda for your life and 00:07:18.330 --> 00:07:21.649 How can you have vision for your life like for me the night before? 00:07:21.780 --> 00:07:25.820 Like I have I did a whole episode on my morning routine like ten things 00:07:25.820 --> 00:07:31.939 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 00:07:31.940 --> 00:07:37.219 Is so very important to be able to do but one of the processes I do besides, you know 00:07:37.220 --> 00:07:40.609 blackout curtains and cold and temperatures and breath and stuff 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:47.989 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, 00:07:47.990 --> 00:07:50.210 The screen on your laptop your phone everything else 00:07:50.430 --> 00:07:56.120 Emits, this blue light which inhibits melatonin production which helps you to relax and go to sleep sand those screens 00:07:56.820 --> 00:07:58.999 But the other thing I do is I write down the three things 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:02.899 I want to complexed day personally and the other three are professionally 00:08:02.910 --> 00:08:03.980 so now when I wake up 00:08:03.980 --> 00:08:05.580 I have a vision for my life 00:08:05.580 --> 00:08:07.460 Like I'll this is a win today 00:08:07.460 --> 00:08:12.260 If I just get these three things done personally and three things professionally and when it comes to my phone 00:08:12.260 --> 00:08:17.539 I don't touch my phone until I get at least one thing done and that's my that's my test 00:08:17.640 --> 00:08:23.089 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 00:08:23.610 --> 00:08:28.190 Progress alright and there's never gonna be a perfect and I think people need to find what works for them 00:08:28.260 --> 00:08:30.409 But I would say again to step out is not 00:08:31.290 --> 00:08:33.289 Don't trust yourself as the expert 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:36.708 Instead of somebody else and test it, you know 00:08:36.710 --> 00:08:38.370 Maybe for one week 00:08:38.370 --> 00:08:43.729 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 00:08:43.729 --> 00:08:45.729 Day being a thermostat 00:08:45.769 --> 00:08:52.578 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 00:08:52.579 --> 00:08:55.938 Not that we don't we do react in by we react to the weather, right? 00:08:55.939 --> 00:09:01.009 we react to how clients treat us we react but to the degree we're happy is that we have the locus that 00:09:01.139 --> 00:09:03.919 Have the the location of control inside, right? 00:09:03.920 --> 00:09:09.799 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 00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:14.989 Put it to somebody else a person or a place or something going the economy or politics or anything, right? 00:09:14.989 --> 00:09:19.699 So a thermometer reacts the environment but a thermostat is different. What is that function? 00:09:20.029 --> 00:09:25.279 It sets the environment it sets a goal is set the temperature and then the environment raises to it 00:09:25.279 --> 00:09:29.479 And so I feel like anyone who's attracted to your work or to mine 00:09:30.119 --> 00:09:34.909 Their thermostats because they have a growth mindset because if they thought things were fixed 00:09:34.970 --> 00:09:40.790 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 00:09:55.020 --> 00:09:57.020 You