Dr. Daniel Amen

Because they're really good at starting businesses. They're not good at growing businesses. So just know, oh, is that me? Then make sure you don't hire someone like you with your type to grow your business because they won't. Right. they'll get you in trouble with the IRS. Exactly. So once we know the, and what's your brain type? So I'm balanced. Balanced, yes.

But I have features of cautious and sensitive because I crave relationships. So when Tan and I get along, and thank goodness we get along almost all the time, I'm so happy. My first marriage, didn't get along at all, and I was miserable for two decades. Wow. And I'm, I guess maybe I'm the persistent type too. You want to try to make it work and try to do everything you can.

But I have features of cautious and sensitive because I crave relationships. So when Tan and I get along, and thank goodness we get along almost all the time, I'm so happy. My first marriage, didn't get along at all, and I was miserable for two decades. Wow. And I'm, I guess maybe I'm the persistent type too. You want to try to make it work and try to do everything you can.

I'd been a psychiatrist nearly a decade. I was the top neuroscience student in medical school, and I didn't care about my own brain. So what did that mean?

I'd been a psychiatrist nearly a decade. I was the top neuroscience student in medical school, and I didn't care about my own brain. So what did that mean?

You were sleeping whenever? I only slept four hours a night. And I thought I was special because I could do that. Then I realized I wasn't special.

You were sleeping whenever? I only slept four hours a night. And I thought I was special because I could do that. Then I realized I wasn't special.

I was eating fast food. I was overweight, chronically stressed. And the week before I scanned myself, I scanned my mother. And she was 60 and at 60 she had a stunningly beautiful brain. And then the next week I scanned myself and it wasn't good. My brain looked older than her 60 year brain. But it reflected her life, her brain. She could manage my difficult dad. She has seven children.

I was eating fast food. I was overweight, chronically stressed. And the week before I scanned myself, I scanned my mother. And she was 60 and at 60 she had a stunningly beautiful brain. And then the next week I scanned myself and it wasn't good. My brain looked older than her 60 year brain. But it reflected her life, her brain. She could manage my difficult dad. She has seven children.

She now has 54 grandchildren, great grandchildren. She's the most consistently loving person She knows everybody's birthday. She knows what's going on in everybody's life. She's just always interested. My brain wasn't healthy. I played football in high school. I had meningitis twice when I was a young soldier, and that's a bad thing for your brain. And I didn't care. I never drank or smoked.

She now has 54 grandchildren, great grandchildren. She's the most consistently loving person She knows everybody's birthday. She knows what's going on in everybody's life. She's just always interested. My brain wasn't healthy. I played football in high school. I had meningitis twice when I was a young soldier, and that's a bad thing for your brain. And I didn't care. I never drank or smoked.

I just didn't want to do that. I fell in love. with my brain. And every day, I'm like, is this good for my brain or bad for it?

I just didn't want to do that. I fell in love. with my brain. And every day, I'm like, is this good for my brain or bad for it?

Hi, I'm Daniel. I'm a particle physicist, and I think our universe is absolutely extraordinary.

Hi, I'm Daniel. I'm a particle physicist, and I think our universe is absolutely extraordinary.

All right. Well, basically, we're both nerds. We love learning about this extraordinary universe, and we love sharing what we've learned. So that's what we're going to do.

All right. Well, basically, we're both nerds. We love learning about this extraordinary universe, and we love sharing what we've learned. So that's what we're going to do.

From the tiniest particles to the biggest blue whales.

From the tiniest particles to the biggest blue whales.

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