Dave Wood

And then we take that through the rest of our lives.

And so I guess what I'm trying to say is we all go through stress and pressure and stuff like that, but...

It's being able to navigate it, come out the other side and learn from it and be resilient and not hold on to those safety patterns, be able to change them.

I don't know if that makes sense to you.

So we...

Exactly.

It's almost like because of your practical experiences, you end up having a stressors debilitating mindset.

We talked about that before and it's like...

if you can recognize that those setbacks and obstacles are a part of life and you can, again, like you can learn from it, you can pivot, you can adapt, you, you know, those, um, then I think over time your, your ability to handle stress.

So your stress tolerance vastly improves.

Right.

And so when you hit other obstacles in life, you're more equipped to deal with them.

Um, yeah, man, it's like,

Of all of this, I think that like the thing that we're, you know, because there's a lot of stuff happening at the moment that's outside of our control, but

I think the biggest stress that we experience is just psychological stress pertaining to our thoughts, thinking, and emotions.

And we're in a time now where like that stuff can get really out of whack, really out of whack if we don't, you know, we don't filter it.

Is that the story we're telling ourselves or the story we're telling ourselves?

Oh, the economy's fucked or this is, you know, well, it's interesting because like

Repeated thoughts and beliefs get filtered through a part of your brain called the RAS, the reticular activating system.

And its job is to basically, so whenever you have a repeated thought, you tie a lot of emotion to it.