Dr. Shadé Zahrai

So you can think of something else, some other animal, a gazelle, a Labrador, whatever it is.

But we need to be asking, how do we embody more of that bison mindset?

How do we just acknowledge, you know, life is hard.

Life is really hard and you get to choose

How are you going to show up to that hard?

Are you going to try and avoid it?

Because what we also know, part of this pillar is recognizing that the more you expose yourself to hard things.

So this goes back to your story, Jay, about how you just embraced the discomfort and now you love it.

The more you can expose yourself to discomfort.

So when we're experiencing discomfort, it's the brain's way of telling us, hey, this is uncertain.

I don't like it.

Go back and play it safe because then I don't have to use as much energy, right?

But if you can acknowledge that that discomfort is often what triggers neurotrophins in the brain, which are these proteins that help us learn things and develop new pathways in the brain.

And it's through discomfort that we get that way.

And that's why learning something new is uncomfortable because it's triggering parts in the brain.

But the more you do that, the easier it gets.

And then that initial discomfort is so much less the next time and then less the next time.

You almost reinterpret what you feel.

Hey, I feel this way because I care.

I feel this way because it's excitement, not fear.