Doctor Mike

Yeah.

So the most important management job is self-management.

I teach managers.

I teach future managers.

I teach MBA students who want to go run big companies.

They all want to be CEO.

They want to be founder and they want to,

And they have to be great managers and great leaders.

But good management and leadership starts with managing yourself.

I mean, that's the most important thing.

And what does it mean to manage yourself?

It means to, quite frankly, it means to manage your limbic system.

It means to, so it's not managing you.

I mean, there are lots of things that you should manage so they don't manage you.

You want to manage your pleasures so your pleasures don't manage you.

Pleasure doesn't lead to happiness.

Unbridled pleasure leads to rehab because it's managing you.

And in much the same way, when your anger, your fear, your disgust, your sadness are managing you, then you're gonna become a highly reactive person and you're not gonna have any enjoyment.

And that's a really, really big problem.

And that's why all of the techniques that I teach of metacognition, everything from journaling to, my students keep an anxiety journal, for example, and it's a hugely metacognitive way so that their prefrontal cortex, the C-suite of their head,