Dr. Martin Picard

You need to give the body a certain amount of resistance, and that's true physically, but also true mentally.

Too much resistance crushes you, right?

And then it's like too difficult and it's demoralizing and de-energizing.

But not enough resistance is not inspiring.

And then being bored, like being in prison, that might be why being in prison is so –

It's a thing we do to people who've done really bad things because it really crushes a human spirit when you have nothing to do.

Having something to do is kind of exerting resistance to the human mind.

So bumping your mind against something, and that's something academics, I think, really typically enjoy having a problem, like being curious about something.

Yeah, me too.

And it takes time and it takes energy.

Like the reason change is difficult transitions.

Any kind of, you know, moving house is one of the most stressful things, you know, that –

Like, you know, getting divorced or changing relationships, any kind of transition.

By definition, a transition requires change, which requires energy.

And I suspect the reason why life transitions are difficult is because they cost energy.

And we have a finite amount of it.

So resistance...

The energy resistance principle is something that we've developed recently with Neurotia that encapsulates this.

It says life is resistance.

You cannot have life if there's no resistance.