Dave Wood

It's like...

That whole analogy of the water spilling over the top is we only have so much energy, right?

And so if we are constantly in the red all the time, stressed, overworked, overstimulated, our energy gets taxed.

Well, stress is addictive and it's addictive because when you're in your busy day and you are getting things done, that feels like control, right?

You know, when you're ticking stuff off, it feels like control and the opposite of that is stopping.

and shifting into a calm state.

That doesn't feel like productivity.

It feels like you're taking a step back.

And when we think about the stress hormones, adrenaline and cortisol, they are released when you're in an upregulated state, when you're meeting threat, challenge and demand.

Nowadays, again, it's just the busyness of our day, right?

We can't be going through it just floating through the day.

We need to be focused.

We've got things to get done.

We need to be in the red.

We need to be pushing.

And so that's adrenaline and cortisol.

And when you are getting stuff done, you're ticking things off, you get a release of dopamine.

And so that combination of adrenaline, cortisol, and dopamine is addictive.

And so we start, the brain just recognizes patterns.

So if you're just in the red all the time and you are, you know, constant stimulus,