1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:04,680 Speaker 1: O get a bloody champions. Happy Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday, 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:07,440 Speaker 1: whatever day, whatever day it is, I hope it's happy. 3 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: It's happy for you. I hope it's good for you. 4 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 1: And if it's not good, well that's okay too, because 5 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:16,279 Speaker 1: shit days are part of the human experience. So we're 6 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: not chasing twenty seven thousand happy, amazing, beautiful days in 7 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:23,279 Speaker 1: a row. We're just trying to survive all the days 8 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 1: that we do have. Nonetheless, wherever you are, whoever you are, 9 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 1: I hope you're going okay. Be it a good day, 10 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 1: a bad day at peak, or a trough, I hope 11 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: you're doing all right. So after that bloody meandering introduction 12 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:42,240 Speaker 1: or hello, I was doing a I was going to 13 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:45,480 Speaker 1: do like a little series, like a little group. What's 14 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 1: the collective now for podcasts? A herd, a swathe, a flock. 15 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: I was going to do a flock of podcasts which 16 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:01,319 Speaker 1: will based on questions from you, the list listeners. And 17 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 1: so I chucked up a little thing or two on 18 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:06,959 Speaker 1: I put one in the Facebook group and one of 19 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: my main Facebook page, and I've got somewhere around sixty 20 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 1: or seventy questions answered, a few of them I did 21 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 1: my first episode and then, like four year old in 22 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: a lolly shop, I got distracted. Nonetheless, I'm back. So, 23 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:27,560 Speaker 1: like I said, there's lots of questions, and what I've 24 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:30,279 Speaker 1: done is or what I'm going to do. I'm working 25 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:34,319 Speaker 1: through them one at a time, obviously, and I'm trying 26 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: to talk about topics or questions or ideas that are 27 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 1: broadly relevant. Some of them are in a little bit 28 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 1: specific to a very small percentage of the population, and 29 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: as a listening experience for the entire population or a 30 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 1: big audience, a big cross section of humanity. I've, for 31 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: better or worse, I've made the decision to try and 32 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: make this as broadly elevant and engaging and helpful to 33 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 1: as many people as possible. I may or may not 34 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:11,080 Speaker 1: execute that. We'll see anyway. So question one today is 35 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 1: from Aaron Scully. Eron says. Eron says she didn't even 36 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 1: say get a harps. Come on. Aeron. Eron says, maybe 37 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 1: talk about the subconscious mind and the importance of retraining it. 38 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 1: That's such a good idea. You can read. This is 39 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: from Aaron. You can read every self help book and 40 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: fail because the beliefs in your subconscious mind are running 41 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: the show. That is largely true. Our subconscious mind is 42 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: operating obviously below and behind the old subconscious kind of 43 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: realm that we tend to inhabit a lot. Eron says, 44 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: true lasting change requires reprogramming deeply ingrained beliefs and patterns 45 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 1: that reside in the subconscious. The question is how to 46 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 1: do that? That is a good question. Remember, everything I'm 47 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:04,639 Speaker 1: sharing today is just me thinking out loud. None of 48 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 1: this is a personal personal prescription or recommendation or program 49 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:13,360 Speaker 1: per se. It's just me thinking out loud. And so 50 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:17,360 Speaker 1: then the idea with these I think is I share 51 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 1: my thoughts and ideas, and I guess feelings or research 52 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:26,679 Speaker 1: on whatever the topic is, and then you figure out 53 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 1: what you may or may not do with that. You 54 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:30,640 Speaker 1: may do nothing, you may do something. You might go 55 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 1: you know what, I'll roll the dice, I'll try that. 56 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 1: I'll see what happens. I'll do that for a week 57 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 1: or two, or you might go fuck it. Fuck, I'm 58 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: going to jump in AI and I'm going to do 59 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: a little bit more investigation and research into that idea 60 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: or that construct or that strategy, and then I might 61 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 1: operationalize it in my own life, But that is all 62 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 1: up to you. I'm not here to tell you what 63 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: to do. I'm just a conduit to ideas and thoughts 64 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:58,200 Speaker 1: and information. But managing your life and making the decisions 65 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: is obviously up to you. Does that sound like a 66 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 1: big disclaimer? As it was coming out of my mouth, 67 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 1: I was thinking, my lawyers would be so happy if 68 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 1: I have lawyers. Grown ups have lawyers. I don't. All right, 69 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 1: So let's talk about I'm really fascinated with the subconscious mind. 70 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: That I'm fascinated with the way that our subconscious mind 71 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:23,599 Speaker 1: shapes and forms, and the role that it plays, the 72 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 1: influence known or unknown that it has in our choices, 73 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:32,280 Speaker 1: our actions, our behaviors, our reactions, our relationships, our words, 74 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 1: our conversations, our career, the way that we manage good 75 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:39,840 Speaker 1: things and bad things, the way that we navigate or 76 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:45,599 Speaker 1: perhaps create stress and anxiety, all of those things. But 77 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 1: I guess, I guess what we know about the subconscious 78 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 1: is that it basically is shaped. And I guess what's 79 00:04:55,839 --> 00:05:00,359 Speaker 1: the word it learns? It gets programmed through rep Titian 80 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: not logic. So if you expose your subconscious to the 81 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:09,280 Speaker 1: same stimulus or the same message or the same behavior 82 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:12,600 Speaker 1: often enough, then that thing will start to embedras you 83 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:18,039 Speaker 1: in your subconscious as truth, absolute truth, even if it 84 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 1: may not be the absolute truth, but if you hear 85 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 1: it enough and think it enough. So an example that 86 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:26,919 Speaker 1: I've spoken about many times on this show is the 87 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: you know, growing up in a particular environment of a 88 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: thought a thought cult, where we all, you know, believe 89 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 1: the same things. We all Mum and dad believe X, 90 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 1: and why so we believe X? And why Mum and 91 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 1: dad eat this way? So we eat this way, And 92 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:46,919 Speaker 1: Mum and Dad believe in this God or that god 93 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,920 Speaker 1: or this ideology or philosophy or theology, and so that's 94 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:53,719 Speaker 1: what we do. And then so I grew up in 95 00:05:53,800 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 1: a religious environment, and through repetition and through familiarization and programming, 96 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 1: I eventually had my subconscious mind program to believe certain things, 97 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 1: despite the fact that I never really I never really 98 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 1: chose those things. That hardwiring, those ingrained beliefs, those ingrained 99 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 1: patterns and habits and ways of thinking, that embedded ideology, 100 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:38,360 Speaker 1: that embedded version of the truth, that happened, that happened 101 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 1: as a byproduct of just being exposed to certain people 102 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: and certain ideas and certain thinking over a long period 103 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:50,280 Speaker 1: of time. Now you think about that, So what is 104 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 1: maybe the antidote to that, Well, the antidote to that, 105 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:58,799 Speaker 1: or part of the antidote to that, is to think about, Okay, 106 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:02,599 Speaker 1: is it possible that that thing that I believe, or 107 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 1: that idea or that belief or that value or that 108 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 1: whatever it is, that story that I grew up in 109 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 1: the middle of that is hardwired into my subconscious and 110 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 1: this is happening in the conscious, this is happening in 111 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: the prefrontal cortex. Is it possible that this is not 112 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 1: true or that part of it is not true? And 113 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 1: so maybe what we do is if we want to 114 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 1: open a new door in regarding say unwiring or reprogramming 115 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 1: some of that repetition and that programming, we start to 116 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 1: expose ourselves ourselves to new ideas, to a different information, 117 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 1: to a different theology or a different training methodology, or 118 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: a different political angle or whatever the thing is. But 119 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 1: it can't generally, or it doesn't generally happen quickly that 120 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 1: we reprogram our subconscious and for me personally, coming out 121 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 1: of an echo chamber of theology, an echo chamber of belief, 122 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 1: growing up in something that I didn't even realize or 123 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 1: recognize it took me a long time to reprogram my 124 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 1: subconscious or to it the very least be able to 125 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 1: challenge those hardwide subconscious beliefs and ideas. And so I 126 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 1: think part of part of it is recognizing that these 127 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 1: things didn't become embedded in my subconscious because I wanted 128 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 1: them to be there, or I chose them, or I 129 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 1: thought critically about them, and then over time they became 130 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 1: my normal cognitive, emotional, psychological, theological operating system. No, that 131 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:52,599 Speaker 1: didn't happen. What happened was that shit just got programmed 132 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 1: into me without me even trying, without me even knowing. 133 00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 1: So part of the antidote to that is being willing to. 134 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 1: By the way, if we can't even admit or consider 135 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 1: the fact that a thing that we've believed or thought 136 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 1: or been intertwined with as part of our identity for 137 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 1: a very long time, if we can't even consider that 138 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:18,200 Speaker 1: that could be completely wrong or a little bit wrong 139 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:25,199 Speaker 1: or somewhat flawed, then it's very difficult to unprogrammed that 140 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:28,200 Speaker 1: subconscious programming, if you know what I mean. The other 141 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:35,960 Speaker 1: way that this kind of subconscious programming happens is I 142 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 1: guess environment. You know, all of the and this kind 143 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: of reflects what I was talking about a minute ago. 144 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:44,760 Speaker 1: But there I was really just talking about the stuff 145 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:47,320 Speaker 1: that's just programmed into me, the thoughts and ideas, but 146 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 1: the environment that I'm in and the other stimuli that 147 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 1: I'm exposed to, different people, different cultures, stories, media, social media, work, environment, 148 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:07,719 Speaker 1: social environment, relationships. All of these things shape, influence, and 149 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:13,960 Speaker 1: form in part our subconscious operating system as well, which 150 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 1: is why sometimes we'll see kids who are raised in 151 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 1: chaotic homes develop subconscious patterns of anxiety, mistrust, and overfunctioning, 152 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:30,880 Speaker 1: even if their conscious mind knows better later on. If 153 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 1: you work in an environment where you feel or you 154 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:38,600 Speaker 1: live in an environment where you feel threatened or intimidated 155 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 1: or perhaps at risk, even down the track, when you're 156 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 1: in an environment, situation, circumstance, house, job, whatever, where you 157 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: are not at and you intellectually know that you're not 158 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 1: at risk, undoing that subconscious programming just takes It just 159 00:10:56,240 --> 00:11:00,080 Speaker 1: takes time. It takes time, and while there there there 160 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 1: are no quick fixes to this stuff for me, And 161 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 1: again these are just my thoughts. I believe that reprogramming 162 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 1: our subconscious is about consistently, methodically intentionally exposing ourselves to 163 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 1: new ideas, new people, perhaps new even new cultures, different 164 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:27,320 Speaker 1: operating systems, different information, trying different things, doing different things, 165 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 1: being in different places, and once we recognize, once we 166 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:36,560 Speaker 1: recognize what it is that we need to change. Like, 167 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 1: for example, my relationship with food was very unhealthy for 168 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 1: a very long time. I've spoken about it, and I 169 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 1: had a subconscious and sometimes conscious obsession with making myself 170 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:53,840 Speaker 1: feel good through food. I didn't smoke, I didn't drink, 171 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:56,520 Speaker 1: I didn't do drugs. I didn't do a lot of 172 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 1: things that people do to get that dopamine hit, that 173 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:02,240 Speaker 1: quick fix that ends to gratification. And so I was 174 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:06,199 Speaker 1: always pushing the food button as my gateway to dopamine. 175 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:12,320 Speaker 1: And there was just a lot of subconscious habits, thinking 176 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:19,120 Speaker 1: rituals that I never chose around food, but nonetheless they 177 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:22,520 Speaker 1: ended up becoming part of my day to day reality. 178 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:26,560 Speaker 1: And so I think that for many people, for me, anyway, 179 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:32,520 Speaker 1: trying to unprogram something, initially it takes one. We've got 180 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 1: to recognize that that is an unconscious program that's not 181 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:44,560 Speaker 1: doing us any good, that that's an unconscious mindset or 182 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 1: kind of operating system that happens automatically, unthinkingly, that is 183 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 1: on some level a form of self sabotage or self destruction. 184 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 1: And so then it's recognizing, well, what is better? What 185 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:00,960 Speaker 1: is a better operating system? What is a better way 186 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 1: to do this? And then how do I over time 187 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:07,720 Speaker 1: embed that so that and this is the key, so 188 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: that becomes my new normal, my new normal. How do 189 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: how do I embed that in my subconscious And so 190 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:18,079 Speaker 1: you know, it's like when people say to me, how 191 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:22,640 Speaker 1: do you stay so disciplined, so focused, so committed? You know, 192 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:25,959 Speaker 1: how do you have so much willpower and fucking strength 193 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 1: and all of these things to train every day? And 194 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 1: the truth is I don't have all that stuff. I don't, 195 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 1: but what I sometimes I do. But that's not why 196 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:37,079 Speaker 1: I train every day. Why I train every day, why 197 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 1: I work out every day, why I walk my kind 198 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:41,960 Speaker 1: of ten kilometers a day, give or take, and go 199 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 1: to the gym and lift shit, is because I've created 200 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:49,719 Speaker 1: a new normal. I've created a normal operating system that 201 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 1: reflects who I want to be and how I want 202 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 1: to be. I've created a normal operating system that aligns 203 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 1: with my goals and my values and my standards around 204 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 1: health and wellness and human behavior and human optimization. And 205 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 1: because I've created that operating system which took discipline and 206 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:13,720 Speaker 1: structure and organization and accountability in the beginning, but done 207 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:18,760 Speaker 1: long enough, right, done long enough, it eventually becomes our 208 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:23,960 Speaker 1: new normal. In other words, it becomes our new subconscious programming. 209 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 1: And now we don't need to, in inverted commas, try hard. 210 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:32,360 Speaker 1: We don't need to white knuckle it. We don't need 211 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:34,840 Speaker 1: to find the will power and the strength and the 212 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 1: courage because over time I've created a new normal. And 213 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 1: I guess the question is, you know how long does 214 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 1: that take? And my experience, there's no number, there's no 215 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 1: set number. It's different. It depends on what's the thing 216 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 1: I'm trying to change. How much control does it have 217 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 1: of my mind and my actions and choices and behaviors 218 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 1: and outcomes. Is it a fucking nine out of ten 219 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:03,120 Speaker 1: debilitating all controlling thing or is it a one or 220 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 1: two out of ten? And I do it, but it's 221 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:07,680 Speaker 1: not destroying my life. But I recognize that I need 222 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 1: to change it. So I think some things we can 223 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 1: reprogram and rewife one a better term quite quickly. Other 224 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: things are going to take a while. But on a 225 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:20,840 Speaker 1: really practical level, and I'm taken fuck and way too 226 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:25,880 Speaker 1: long to answer this. One question on a practical level 227 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 1: is recognize the thing that you want to change, the 228 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 1: thing that you want to make your new normal. So, 229 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 1: what's the current normal or the current subconscious programming or 230 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 1: unconscious programming that's not working? What do you want to 231 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:45,240 Speaker 1: replace it with? Right? What is a better version? What 232 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:48,280 Speaker 1: is a better mindset? What is a better protocol? What 233 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 1: is a better habit? Right? And then create Once we recognize, 234 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 1: for example, I want to I want to create a 235 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 1: habit of exercise, or I want to create a habit 236 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 1: of for me more specifically stretching, or I want to 237 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,840 Speaker 1: create a habit of one hour of study a day. 238 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 1: I want to create a habit of Oh what do 239 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 1: I want to create a habit of working in the 240 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 1: garden thirty minutes, three times a week, whatever it is. 241 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it doesn't matter, It only matters 242 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 1: to you. But recognize the thing that you want to 243 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 1: be hardwired. Want to be hardwired into your normal operating system, 244 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:30,160 Speaker 1: to be just part of who you are and how 245 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 1: you are, not what you're doing when you're in the zone, 246 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 1: or focused or pumped. And this is the thing about 247 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 1: recognizing what our subconscious programming is and how it derails 248 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:45,360 Speaker 1: us and limits us, and then rewiring and reprogramming over time, 249 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 1: because what we really want to do in this space. 250 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:51,040 Speaker 1: I don't know if this is helpful or not anyway, 251 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:55,960 Speaker 1: you know when you second guess yourself. Anyway, what you 252 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 1: want to do, is, I think, or what we want 253 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 1: to do is we want to own a time, create, 254 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:05,920 Speaker 1: like I said, a default setting, a new normal operating system, 255 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:13,640 Speaker 1: a new programming in that subconscious that is a healthy 256 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:19,640 Speaker 1: version of normal. So this is me on autopilot. This 257 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:23,359 Speaker 1: is my subconscious programming which happens to be aligned with 258 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:26,440 Speaker 1: my values and goals and who and how I want 259 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 1: to be. And it's not destructive. It's not ruining my life, 260 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 1: it's not giving me anxiety, it's not making me feel guilty. 261 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:37,439 Speaker 1: It's actually producing good results. And initially the way that 262 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:39,800 Speaker 1: we do that is we get clear about that. Then 263 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:44,959 Speaker 1: we create some rules about that structure process accountability, and 264 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 1: we just dig in and we do it. We roll 265 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:48,879 Speaker 1: up our sleeves, and we do it when we don't 266 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:52,120 Speaker 1: want in inverted commas. We do it when it's not comfortable, 267 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 1: it's not fun, it's not quick, it's not easy, it's 268 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:57,440 Speaker 1: not all those things I always talk about. But if 269 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 1: we can initially, and yes, initially there you are going 270 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:04,560 Speaker 1: to need discipline, self control, focus, commitment, all of that initially. 271 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:07,119 Speaker 1: But when we do it for long enough, when we 272 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 1: can get through the resistance, when we can get through 273 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 1: the emotional and psychological and physiological resistance of wanting to 274 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:19,280 Speaker 1: give up because it's hard, when we can come out 275 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 1: the other side of that, we can build some habits 276 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:27,600 Speaker 1: that are fucking life changing in a great way. That 277 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:32,480 Speaker 1: was way too long. I apologize. Next question is from Tanya. 278 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 1: Go o U d I E. I'm going to go 279 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:38,960 Speaker 1: is it? I don't know, I don't you know. You 280 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 1: know when you know, you're going to fuck it up? 281 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:42,640 Speaker 1: So and then people are going to roll their eyes 282 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:44,880 Speaker 1: and go is if it's pronounced like that. So I'm 283 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:49,040 Speaker 1: just going to go. Tanya, You're welcome. Kenya says, why 284 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:54,679 Speaker 1: do I always overthink everything? Emoji hand up to the face, 285 00:18:55,119 --> 00:19:01,159 Speaker 1: blonde lady emoji. I'm guessing tenure. So this will be 286 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:05,159 Speaker 1: much quicker than the last one. Thank god. There's a 287 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 1: range of reasons we overthink things. But generally in my experiences, 288 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:14,879 Speaker 1: it comes down to fear that we know that we 289 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 1: need to do something, or we think that we probably 290 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 1: need to do something, but we don't do it, or 291 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 1: we don't want it. We kind of want to do it, 292 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:24,480 Speaker 1: but in the moment we don't want to do it 293 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:27,400 Speaker 1: because we think we could get embarrassed, or it could 294 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:33,720 Speaker 1: be hard, or there's some kind of perceived emotional, psychological, physiological, 295 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 1: or physical risk. We don't want people to judge us, 296 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 1: we don't want to be kicked out of the group, 297 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:46,639 Speaker 1: and so on and so on. So overthinking in my 298 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:51,360 Speaker 1: experience personally with me, I overthink things people, I overthink 299 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 1: things or I have overthought things in the past because 300 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:57,679 Speaker 1: I was worried about what people would think or do 301 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 1: or say. So there's that insect security thing that's part 302 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 1: of it. And I guess also the self protection thing 303 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:12,639 Speaker 1: where we we want to protect ourselves, look after ourselves. 304 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:15,800 Speaker 1: So that you know why we while we love the 305 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:20,639 Speaker 1: idea of vulnerability, being vulnerable being the real you, and 306 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:24,080 Speaker 1: we love the idea of building resilience, but the thing is, 307 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:27,159 Speaker 1: we can only be vulnerable and we can only build 308 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 1: resilience at the coal face of all of this emotional 309 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 1: and psychological stuff which fucking terrifies us. And so overthinking 310 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:40,879 Speaker 1: doesn't make you weak or bad or flawed tenure. Overthinking 311 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 1: makes you very human. A way to perhaps overcome that, 312 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,440 Speaker 1: or at least begin to overcome that is by breaking 313 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 1: it down and going and trying to figure out the 314 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 1: source of the fear or the source of that apprehension 315 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:56,880 Speaker 1: or the source of the avoidance. Why am I avoiding this? 316 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:00,399 Speaker 1: Why do I need to do this? Why am I 317 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 1: not doing it? What is that about? Is it a fear? 318 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 1: It might not be, it might be something else. For 319 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:06,960 Speaker 1: me and for many people I've worked with, it's a 320 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:10,560 Speaker 1: fear of something. Identify the fear. I spoke about this 321 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:13,480 Speaker 1: the other day. A thing that I've asked myself lots 322 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:17,520 Speaker 1: of times over the years with this stuff is what's 323 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 1: the worst that can happen? And this is a common 324 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 1: kind of strategy used in different forms of psychotherapy, is 325 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:28,639 Speaker 1: to ask yourself, what's the worst that can happen? And 326 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:33,399 Speaker 1: if I can deal with the worst, then I'm going 327 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:35,520 Speaker 1: to jump in. I'm going to jump in if I 328 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:39,000 Speaker 1: want to do it that much, if it's important enough 329 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:45,399 Speaker 1: to me all right, next one, Kevin Murphy. Good keV. 330 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 1: I'm going to say your whole name, because I'm pretty 331 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:52,840 Speaker 1: sure I'm not fucking up Kevin or Murphy. Kevin Murphy said, 332 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 1: you mentioned you don't like dumbell bench press. Why do 333 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:01,399 Speaker 1: you use pin mites in your workouts at all? Or 334 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 1: only free weights? I did not say that, kid. What 335 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 1: I said was and if I did, I may have. 336 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:10,919 Speaker 1: But if I did, then I fucked up because what 337 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:15,159 Speaker 1: I don't what I don't love is barbell bench press. 338 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:18,879 Speaker 1: So let me just clarify that. And I may have 339 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,160 Speaker 1: misspoken or you may have misheard me. It doesn't matter 340 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:24,440 Speaker 1: either way. Let me tell you exactly where I'm at 341 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:30,159 Speaker 1: with that. So I can't bench press anymore properly. I 342 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,440 Speaker 1: have to bench press very light, if at all, because 343 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 1: I've got fuck shoulders. So personally I don't love it. 344 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,520 Speaker 1: I love, you know, the idea of like my training 345 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:41,639 Speaker 1: partner Marquis Son Lucky, who's like fucking twenty five and 346 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:45,560 Speaker 1: bulletproof benching nearly four hundred pounds. I love watching that, 347 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 1: and I love, you know, seeing young, big, strong fucking 348 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:52,919 Speaker 1: blokes lifting things and young strong women lifting things. I 349 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:55,000 Speaker 1: love all of that shit. But at the same time, 350 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 1: because I'm old and I've seen a lot of injuries. 351 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 1: I mean a lot of injuries. I've had a lot 352 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,320 Speaker 1: of injuries. I've torn both rotato cuffs, I've ruptured my 353 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:09,480 Speaker 1: right peck, I've torn all the muscles, and you know, 354 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:14,400 Speaker 1: disk issues and being you know, injected with bloody cortizon 355 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 1: a million times, and all of those things. So I'm 356 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 1: older and more wary, and also I have a better 357 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 1: understanding of injuries and recovery, and you know, I essentially 358 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:29,040 Speaker 1: do a cost benefit analysis some things. I go, what's 359 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,439 Speaker 1: the potential benefit, what's the potential cost risk and reward, 360 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:37,439 Speaker 1: all of that kind of shit. I actually like. I 361 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 1: like dumb bells better because you get a better range 362 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:44,200 Speaker 1: of movement than with a barbell. So I'm not anti barbell. 363 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:46,600 Speaker 1: The only thing I don't like. The reason I don't 364 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:51,560 Speaker 1: love barbell bench press purely just from a as a movement, 365 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:55,720 Speaker 1: I love it, But as a potential health risk for shoulders, 366 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 1: I don't love it because what happens when you do that, 367 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:02,879 Speaker 1: when you do that bench press movement, if you're sitting up, 368 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,280 Speaker 1: even in a chair now, and you put your hands 369 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 1: out in front of you, straight out in front of you. Everyone, 370 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:09,919 Speaker 1: If you're going to do that with me, join along, 371 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 1: Join in. And then you bring your hands down to 372 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 1: your chest and your elbows go back past your ribs 373 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 1: in a bench press movement. When you do that, your 374 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:25,119 Speaker 1: shoulder blades or scapuli they come together, they retract towards 375 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 1: the spines, so they don't just sit there. They move 376 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:31,000 Speaker 1: in towards the spine, and then when you push the weight, 377 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:36,320 Speaker 1: they go back out away from the spine, so they 378 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 1: move in on the downward or the eccentric phase of 379 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:41,520 Speaker 1: the bench press, and then they move away from the 380 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:45,879 Speaker 1: spine back into their normal position on the concentric or 381 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:49,560 Speaker 1: the pushing part of the bench press. Right. That's all cool, 382 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,880 Speaker 1: But here's the problem. Here's the problem. We are lying 383 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:57,159 Speaker 1: on a bench which doesn't allow your shoulder blades to 384 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: track that way properly because the bench is somewhere between 385 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:06,639 Speaker 1: quite hard and pretty hard. And what happens is, even 386 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,200 Speaker 1: though you bring your elbows down and your hands down 387 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:12,240 Speaker 1: towards your chest and that heavy weight down towards your chest, 388 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:16,360 Speaker 1: your shoulder blades quite often get jammed, so they can't 389 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:21,120 Speaker 1: move along that plane. Towards the spine smoothly and then 390 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 1: back away from the spine smoothly because they get jammed 391 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,920 Speaker 1: up in the bench. Now, this is people don't talk 392 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 1: about this much, but it's actually not great for your 393 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:34,800 Speaker 1: shoulders at all. It's kind of shit. What is much better, 394 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,960 Speaker 1: what is much better from a shoulder health point of view, 395 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:42,639 Speaker 1: is using a fitball or whatever you want to call them, 396 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 1: exercise ball, because you are lying on something which is 397 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 1: much softer, so it allows for more shoulder mobility and movement. 398 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,640 Speaker 1: And also because of the shape of the ball being convex, 399 00:25:56,080 --> 00:26:00,720 Speaker 1: that is, it's round, and if you are lying in 400 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:05,360 Speaker 1: the right kind of position, it actually almost fully allows 401 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 1: or allows that shoulder movement to be fully functional and operational. 402 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:11,960 Speaker 1: There might be a little bit of inhibition, but not 403 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 1: too much. So those are my thoughts. By the way, 404 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,119 Speaker 1: I use free weights, cav I use dumbells, bar bells, 405 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:24,320 Speaker 1: I use pinloaded equipment, I use cable crossovers, I use 406 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:27,320 Speaker 1: kettle bells, I use all of that shit. Anything heavy. 407 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 1: But it's just working around injuries. And even you know, 408 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:34,119 Speaker 1: young dudes that are in the bench, in the bench 409 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:38,879 Speaker 1: in the gym lifting heavy heavyweights, there is zero chance 410 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,119 Speaker 1: that a twenty year old today who's training hard and 411 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,640 Speaker 1: heavy and keeps training hard and heavy, there's zero chance 412 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:49,440 Speaker 1: that he or she will not have injuries. So whether 413 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:51,840 Speaker 1: or not we will ever get injured training is not 414 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,199 Speaker 1: a question. The question is how often, how much, how bad? 415 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 1: And even people who train perfectly no such thing. But 416 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:04,960 Speaker 1: even people who train really fucking well, they're going to 417 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:09,200 Speaker 1: get engined. They're going to get engined. You know, there 418 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:12,160 Speaker 1: are anyway, for a range of reasons, but I hope 419 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:20,959 Speaker 1: that at least addresses that question. Low gainer, Is it 420 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 1: a joke? No, it's not a joke. I thought it 421 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,800 Speaker 1: meant like gainer, you know how a person in a 422 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 1: gym is a hard gainer or an easy But it's 423 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 1: not that it's g A Y N O R. Low 424 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 1: So apologies low cool name. Though Lowe's question is crea 425 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:42,000 Speaker 1: team yes or no? For women? Fifty seven year old 426 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 1: menopausal woman. Thanks, This is timely so again this is 427 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:58,760 Speaker 1: just me sharing what's come across my desk, so to speak. 428 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:02,639 Speaker 1: Metaphorically speaking. So, I've read more about creatine in the 429 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:04,639 Speaker 1: last few months, in the last three months than I 430 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:09,399 Speaker 1: have in the last three decades. I reckon. So the 431 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 1: research seems to say that creatine is great for recovery, 432 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:29,640 Speaker 1: for building some muscle, for some tissue repair. But more recently, 433 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 1: and most of you know what I'm going to say, 434 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,360 Speaker 1: but for those of you who don't, more recently the 435 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:38,880 Speaker 1: research is telling us that apart from the physiological benefits 436 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,680 Speaker 1: of helping you train better and recover better and maybe 437 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 1: build a bit of muscle, that creatine is an amazing 438 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:51,200 Speaker 1: cognitive enhancer, that it has some real what the biohackers 439 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:56,560 Speaker 1: called nootropic no trop I see nootropic or kind of 440 00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 1: cognitive performance benefit. So the recommended dose, and again I'm 441 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 1: not recommending anything, I'm just saying what the recommendations are 442 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 1: somewhere between three and five grams. That's like a teaspoon 443 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 1: ish per day for guys and girls, I think typically 444 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:24,720 Speaker 1: around five. The problem I have with that is, you know, 445 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:29,080 Speaker 1: different people respond differently to the same stimulus. So if 446 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:32,040 Speaker 1: ten people have five grams of CREA ten a day, 447 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 1: you know one person weighs forty seven kilos, one person 448 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 1: wis one hundred and twenty. Well, I don't know that 449 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:41,720 Speaker 1: that's going to have I don't know how that's going 450 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 1: to impact the person with nearly two and a half 451 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,080 Speaker 1: times the body weight of the other one, or two 452 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,160 Speaker 1: and a half times less or whatever it is, right, 453 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:54,880 Speaker 1: So I think that these are variables and factors that 454 00:29:54,920 --> 00:30:04,480 Speaker 1: are somewhat unknown, but definitely so anecdotally experientially. For me, 455 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,880 Speaker 1: I take about I'm going to say, I take about 456 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:14,080 Speaker 1: fifteen grams a day of creatam and I do not 457 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,880 Speaker 1: take many things at all. I take two or three subponments. 458 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:21,720 Speaker 1: That's it. And as you know, I've spoken many times 459 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,760 Speaker 1: about how important it is to keep your brain working, 460 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 1: to keep your mind working, and to do the work 461 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,200 Speaker 1: to train your brain to learn, to research, to study, 462 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 1: to solve problems, to consciously and intentionally do things. Where 463 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:39,600 Speaker 1: you are stressing in a good way, you are putting 464 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:43,280 Speaker 1: some pressure and stress on your brain to work, to train, 465 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,440 Speaker 1: to solve problems, to figure shit out, to be creative, 466 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:51,800 Speaker 1: because just like the rest of your body, your brain 467 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:55,440 Speaker 1: needs to be trained for it to stay somewhere close 468 00:30:55,520 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 1: to operationally optimal. So the answer low is yeah. In 469 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:10,080 Speaker 1: my opinion, that's all. It is not personal advice. I 470 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:14,280 Speaker 1: think creatine for many people can be men and women. 471 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:17,440 Speaker 1: And I did read something yesterday or the other day, 472 00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,120 Speaker 1: not yesterday, the other day in the last week. That said, 473 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 1: it's actually has more benefits for women than men, So 474 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:30,120 Speaker 1: that's a good thing. So noel Ce Blundell or Blundell 475 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:34,480 Speaker 1: will go with Blundell right, impost syndrome? What drives it? 476 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:38,680 Speaker 1: How to control it? Impost syndrome is I think anyone 477 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:42,719 Speaker 1: who's ambitious or in people not so ambitious, but anyone 478 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 1: who wants to achieve something, change something, be something, do something. 479 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,840 Speaker 1: I think most of us have a degree of imposter syndrome, 480 00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:58,400 Speaker 1: you know, self doubt, not good enough itis. And I 481 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:02,760 Speaker 1: think what drives it, like a lot of things, is fear. 482 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:07,160 Speaker 1: And while I like the how how do I control it? Question, 483 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 1: I think a better question, at the risk of being 484 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:15,400 Speaker 1: Jeeki Nole, A better question is how do I not 485 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,800 Speaker 1: let it control me? Not how do I control it? 486 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,400 Speaker 1: How do I not let it hijack my brain? How 487 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,720 Speaker 1: do I not let imposter syndrome hijack my nervous system, 488 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:31,200 Speaker 1: hijack my mind, hijack my choices and my behaviors. How 489 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:36,480 Speaker 1: do I not let impost syndrome hijack my potential, my power, 490 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:40,720 Speaker 1: and my possibilities And I think the only way well 491 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:44,320 Speaker 1: for me anyway. So this is speaking personally because imposter 492 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:49,960 Speaker 1: syndrome and me analogous peas in a pod. I admit 493 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,760 Speaker 1: it is me at times, at least so for me 494 00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:57,040 Speaker 1: coexisting with it, Like the moment that I went, oh, 495 00:32:57,120 --> 00:33:00,400 Speaker 1: I don't feel good enough. Oh, I feel like fraud. 496 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:05,360 Speaker 1: I feel like an impostor. But nonetheless, and generally that's emotional, 497 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:09,040 Speaker 1: like I feel this, but it's not often we go 498 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,320 Speaker 1: I am a fraud. We say I feel like, Oh, fuck, 499 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,160 Speaker 1: I feel like a fraud. I feel like an impostor. Notice, 500 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:18,360 Speaker 1: we always have that emotional kind of attachment. I feel, 501 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:20,920 Speaker 1: I feel, I feel, and I think that doesn't go 502 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,920 Speaker 1: away for many people, most people perhaps, and I don't 503 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:29,600 Speaker 1: know that you know, we're ever gonna live a life 504 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:31,520 Speaker 1: free of that for most of us. But I think 505 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,320 Speaker 1: I think being able to over time recognize it for 506 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:40,720 Speaker 1: what it is, so I can simultaneously think I'm a 507 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:43,360 Speaker 1: fraud while knowing that I'm not. I know, it depends 508 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,640 Speaker 1: what we're talking about. If I was talking to telling 509 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:47,880 Speaker 1: people that I've just won or I won three Olympic 510 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,920 Speaker 1: gold metals, well fuck, I'm a fraud and I know it. 511 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,800 Speaker 1: But if I feel like when you know, I'll give 512 00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,400 Speaker 1: you an example. This is real life, real world. I 513 00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:58,320 Speaker 1: can't give you all the details, but I can give 514 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:00,840 Speaker 1: you eighty percent of it. So I'm recalling this Sunday. 515 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:05,160 Speaker 1: Last week, I had three or four conversations with companies 516 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:11,040 Speaker 1: and potential employees I guess of me. In other words, 517 00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:14,319 Speaker 1: people who wanted to employ me or use my skills 518 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:19,040 Speaker 1: to talk at their conference. And in nearly every conversation 519 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,239 Speaker 1: where we've got to talk about Okay, so what's that 520 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,239 Speaker 1: going to cost? Craig, Even though I've been doing this 521 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:27,520 Speaker 1: for a long time, and even though I have a 522 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:30,920 Speaker 1: track record that says, Craig, You're not terrible at this. 523 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:32,799 Speaker 1: So I have the knowledge. Now this is not an 524 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:36,120 Speaker 1: idea or an opinion or an emotion, but I actually 525 00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:39,880 Speaker 1: have evidence and data and knowledge. I have historical evidence 526 00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:43,560 Speaker 1: that says, Craig, you've spoken I don't know how many, 527 00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,959 Speaker 1: but more than a thousand times, maybe two or three 528 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,360 Speaker 1: thousand times to different organizations, companies, teams, in lots of 529 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:52,799 Speaker 1: different environments, in different countries around the world. You've been 530 00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,920 Speaker 1: paid somewhere between a bit and a lot, and you've 531 00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,360 Speaker 1: been doing it for a long time, So you're not shit. 532 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:02,680 Speaker 1: So that's my evidence you're not shit, because here's all 533 00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:08,160 Speaker 1: the data. At the same time, I can feel shit, 534 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:12,080 Speaker 1: like I can know that I'm good enough while simultaneously 535 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:17,200 Speaker 1: not feeling good enough. And so when I see it, 536 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:22,200 Speaker 1: when I recognize the feeling or the emotion or that 537 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:27,200 Speaker 1: the that the idea I guess that I'm not good enough, 538 00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:29,600 Speaker 1: I recognize it for what it is, which is just 539 00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:33,759 Speaker 1: a fear based kind of thing that's you know, temporarily 540 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:38,040 Speaker 1: invading my awareness or my space or my psychology or physiology. 541 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:41,359 Speaker 1: I see it for what it is. I don't try 542 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:45,239 Speaker 1: to control it. I just almost say like, I see you, 543 00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:49,799 Speaker 1: thanks for dropping in, thanks for keeping me grounded, and 544 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:55,400 Speaker 1: I these days I almost have a like a friendship 545 00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:59,000 Speaker 1: with it. It's like I for me anyway, a bit 546 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,400 Speaker 1: of self doubt, a bit of an pasta syndrome keeps 547 00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:06,760 Speaker 1: me from having a fat head. And so over time, 548 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,920 Speaker 1: I think Noel. For a lot of people, the volume 549 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:15,040 Speaker 1: goes down. The impact reduces that capacity that at once 550 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:21,560 Speaker 1: had to almost emotionally, mentally and physiologically cripple me or 551 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:26,319 Speaker 1: stop me from doing something that's long gone in the 552 00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:29,480 Speaker 1: context of my day to day work. Anyway, Having said that, 553 00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:34,359 Speaker 1: there are other scenarios, there are other scenarios and environments 554 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:41,400 Speaker 1: where my imposter syndrome is alive. And well, you know, 555 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:46,160 Speaker 1: when I started my PhD, and even up until today, 556 00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:50,400 Speaker 1: and I'm probably three or four months from finishing. But 557 00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:53,560 Speaker 1: when I'm in that space, when I'm at university, when 558 00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:55,840 Speaker 1: I'm talking with a bunch of academics, when I'm standing 559 00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,960 Speaker 1: in front of three or four professors doing one of 560 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,399 Speaker 1: my milestone so an academic review of which I had 561 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,879 Speaker 1: to do for over the course of my PhD, When 562 00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:08,400 Speaker 1: I'm in that space, I feel overwhelmingly like an impostor, 563 00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:12,040 Speaker 1: like a fraud. But even then I know that I'm not. 564 00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,960 Speaker 1: I just recognize that in this environment, they're better than me, 565 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,440 Speaker 1: they're smarter than me, they know more than me. That 566 00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:20,680 Speaker 1: doesn't mean I'm bad, that doesn't mean I'm a fraud, 567 00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:24,320 Speaker 1: that doesn't mean I'm an impostor. It means I'm human. 568 00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:28,640 Speaker 1: But even in that environment, I'm okay with it because 569 00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:36,200 Speaker 1: even though it can almost hijack my emotional system, it's 570 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:38,680 Speaker 1: still not going to control what I do and what 571 00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:45,160 Speaker 1: I don't do. Alrighty so that'll do for the moment. Sorry. 572 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:49,040 Speaker 1: Some of those were brief, some are very long. You know, 573 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,560 Speaker 1: I'll do my best. Hopefully got some value from that. 574 00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:53,960 Speaker 1: I'll do another one in the next day or two. 575 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,879 Speaker 1: That is my current plan. Anyway, Take care kids, enjoy 576 00:37:57,880 --> 00:37:58,200 Speaker 1: your day.