Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K)

I want the scientific approach.

These were the people who came to me wanting to learn yoga and meditation and evidence based like clinical psychiatry to optimize their performance so that they could make effective trades and make like a billion dollars over the course of three months instead of half a billion dollars.

Yeah.

And that may sound kind of weird because like how would dream interpretation help these people?

But this is one of the key important things we need to understand.

So our brain has a ton of information, okay?

And the more that we become hyper-logical, hyper-data driven, the more the emotional and intuitive parts of our brain literally get suppressed because they're not useful.

And the more that they get suppressed, the more that we lose access to really important information.

So that may sound weird because these people are hyper logical and hyper pragmatic, but it turns out that the more data driven you become, the more your brain suppresses certain sources of information like emotions and intuition.

And for these people that I was working with, what I sort of found is that if you're a programmer working at a job, like sure, there's a lot of like pragmatic code that you need to write, but that there's an emotional component, an intuitive component of like,

oh, even though your boss says that like, oh yeah, it's totally fine.

Like we'll give you an extension if you need it.

There's an intuitive part of your brain that is kind of like warning you like, hey, this is not really like a great environment.

Like there's something is wrong here.

And what I sort of found is that connecting these people with their emotions and their intuition allowed them to achieve flow states more and make better decisions.

So the first thing that we've got to understand is that our brain has a ton of information that we do not have access to.

So the best example that I can kind of think of is the other day I got out of my car and I brought groceries in and then I was like, oh, where are my keys?

And I looked around for my keys.

I looked everywhere.

I couldn't find my keys.