Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanodia

I have this thing that has been sitting on my desk for six months.

And this is something that my daughter 3D printed for me in 3D printing class.

It's been sitting here.

I didn't want to throw it away.

I think it's a cat, maybe.

Can't tell.

Yeah, maybe it's a cat, some kind of animal.

And it's just been sitting here.

I also have a sanitizing wipe from United on my desk.

And I have a pencil.

These three objects have been sitting on my desk for like a year.

So what am I going to do today when I'm done with stream?

I'm going to take care of these three objects.

Now it's important to understand why I'm doing this.

I'm not doing it because I should do it.

I'm not doing it because it needs to be clean.

I'm doing this because I want to train myself to decouple action from environmental stimulus.

I want to start acting when I don't need to.

And this is where, like Dr. Michaela said, a big mistake that we make is that we try to start with things that are emotionally active for us.

We start with things that are important.