The average person opens up Instagram a hundred and fifty times a day But that's by design. Like you said companies probably know from product design They're paying or putting fortunes and to understand why we do what we do and a variable expert professional writing service reward don't have a me absolve all that's Exactly. And so if you're picking up the phone the first thing in the morning, the challenge is number reasons this is a challenge.
First of all, there are these four primary brainwave
states Um beta is what you and I are in right now We're awake Delta is when
you're fast asleep in between those two states theta and alpha are extremely
important brainwave states for learning So theta is the state right in and out
of sleep data is the state That we call creativity when you are your most
creative or you're 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 You're so
deep your mind goes and you come up with ideas. You know, what put you in a
data state our showers You ever noticed like when you're in the shower you come
up with some of your best ideas and your brain kind of drift It does because
you're in that brainwave state So a big part of my work is taking the invisible
making it visible Like I always when I do these demonstrations I always tell
people that I do it because I want you to see that there's a method behind the
magic and when somebody does something that's extraordinary in athletics in
education and technology with the human body.
There's always a trail, you know, his genius leaves
Clues above theta though is the state called alpha Right below beta where
you're most aware and awake Alpha is the state of a learning Accelerated
learning is the state of relaxed awareness This is the state we go into when we
meditate because your critical mind is set aside and you just absorb
information Unconsciously, you know what puts you into an alpha state
television 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 And they literally are entranced They don't hear you because the
television programming which might be an interesting word, you know programming
and putting people into a trance But that's the Alpha state.
That's where formation is. Just going inside your
mind so we train people how to learn languages faster and learn facts better by
putting them into an alpha state a Relaxed state of awareness and we can do
that by by designed and people don't realize this and this is the whole thing I
really think this should have been taught back in school because school was a
great place to learn what to learn math history science Spanish important
subjects on what to learn But how many classes were on how to learn does that
even exist is dead? Know that that's why I'm saying like how many classes were
on how to think critically? how to make the decisions how to solve problem how
to focus and concentrate how to read how to read faster how to remember more
right even if they teach you 3 R's in school reading writing arithmetic But
what about remembering? What about recall? what about retention right Socrates
says there is no learning without remembering and that's really the Basis of it
all but I would say that Knowing you're in this alpha theta state first thing
in the morning.
You're very suggestible, right? And if the first
thing you're picking up is your phone then that really is what rewiring our
brain for two things The dangers that's going to really decrease your level of
productivity and performance number one Its training you to be distracted and
we talked about that every like share comment Everything is just making you
just pay attention everything else and rewiring your brain 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 Mindfulness is so important, you know
Whether it's meditation or something else Because it's not that I don't
meditate every single day just to be at peace and be in the Zen State I do it
because it's a mental exercise.
It improves
my cognitive capabilities meaning that when my mind goes somewhere else. That's
the opportunity. So I pull it back with my breath or visualization I built that
muscle because here's really the basis of my work is really about taking nouns
and turning them into verbs So what do I mean by that? It's it's like so many
people they wake up and say oh I Hope I have energy today or I have motivation
saying things that they have right? I have creativity so I could write today or
make videos or I have Memory or I focus or concentration Those aren't things
you have those are things you do and so you don't have love you do loving
things 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 there’s a
process for doing focus. You don't have a memory. There are steps to improve
your memory or to remember things better There's not creativity is not
something you have. There's actually a process for creativity So you should
never suffer from writer's block or anything else like that because that's
where if you're if you don't understand How you work when I was talking about self-awareness
and understanding ourselves, you know I think if somebody wants to improve
their esteem the selfsame overnight just study it study your brain like you'll
get a boost of confidence and pride like instantly because it is the most
incredible I Don't even know what to call it a device a supercomputer what in
the whole universe, you know?
It's not just about going out to to Mars and all
these other places I'm gonna I want to go in here because this controls what
Everything our careers our income our health our relationships, you know,
whether or not you get, you know complete, you know We were talking about this
before our conversation here would have you know? 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 But do they do what they know because common
sense is not common practice and it's a myth that knowledge is power Not
knowledge is it has a potential to be power? It only becomes power when we use
it when we apply it 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 Not
self-help, right or somebody will go and learn something I listen to a podcast
like this or show or they'll go to a conference They'll pay all this money But
they don't do anything with what they learn and part of it also is because they
forget it, you know Everyone knows there's a learning curve, but there's also
forgetting curve Did you know like the forgetting curve says that if you learn
something once within 48 hours? 80% of it is gone 80% so you listen to a show
you watch something you.
On YouTube you go to a conference You read a book
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 And so this first thing don't
touch your phone cut it's training you to be distracted The second thing is
it's training you rewiring your brain to be reactive meaning that you're in
this relaxed state of awareness when you first wake up you pick up your phone
You get one text That with bad news or one voicemail one email and you know
this we've all still happen to us You're in a bad mood for the rest of your day
Because you're so impressionable you're in that hypnotic state and it affects
you and you can never have a quality life You know with that You know and be
the best version of ourselves be I elite mental performer or high performer
when you're responding and reacting everybody else You know my friend Brendon
Burchard says an inbox is nothing but a convenient organizational system for
other people's agenda for your life and How can you have vision for your life
like for me the night before?
Like I have I did a whole episode on my morning
routine like ten things 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
Is so very important to be able to do but one of the processes I do besides,
you know blackout curtains and cold and temperatures and breath and stuff
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, The screen on your laptop your
phone everything else Emits, this blue light which inhibits melatonin
production which helps you to relax and go to sleep sand those screens But the
other thing I do is I write down the three things I want to complexes day
personally and the other three are professionally so now when I wake up I have
a vision for my life Like I'll this is a win today If I just get these three
things done personally and three things professionally and when it comes to my
phone.
I don't touch my phone until I get at least one
thing done and that's my that's my test 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 Progress alright and there's never going to be a perfect and I
think people need to find what works for them But I would say again to step out
is not Don't trust yourself as the expert Instead of somebody else and test it,
you know Maybe for one week 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 Day
being a thermostat 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 Not that we don't we do react in by we react to the weather, right? we
react to how clients treat us we react but to the degree we're happy is that we
have the locus that Have the the location of control inside, right? 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 Put it to somebody else a person
or a place or something going the economy or politics or anything, right? So a
thermometer reacts the environment but a thermostat is different. What is that
function? It sets the environment it sets a goal is set the temperature and
then the environment raises to it And so I feel like anyone who's attracted to
your work or to mine.
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