Arthur Brooks
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Yeah, I know.
So Brahma Mahurta is the idea of the creator's time in Sanskrit.
And it's an hour and 36 minutes before dawn.
An hour and 36 minutes before sunrise.
It's two Mahurtas, which is 48 minutes each, which has particular significance in ancient Vedic wisdom.
And the neuroscience of this doesn't specify.
The neuroscience clearly says, however, getting up before dawn.
If the sun is already up and warm by the time you get up each day, you've kind of lost the first battle.
Yeah.
And getting up has โ before dawn has special properties for creativity, for the depth of understanding, for focus, and for mood, for mood management.
It's just really good for you to get up before dawn.
I recommend when โ I get 15 emails a day from people who are like โ
Professor, what do I do?
You know, I graduated from college.
I feel so lost.
And the first thing that I'll recommend to everybody who really feels lost is, you know, it's not going to taking more creatine monohydrate good, but that's not going to do it.
I took 20 grams of it before this conversation.
You're doing 20?
Just today.
I haven't been doing it every day this week.