Emily McDonald

and you see a dog at point A and then a person at point B. If you're walking down the street and nothing happens, and then I ask you, how far apart in time did you see those things?

You might tell me, maybe about five minutes.

But if you walk down the street and I put a whole bunch of different landmarks in between point A and point B, you're now going to tell me that maybe it was an hour in between and nothing changed.

The actual amount of time between point A and B doesn't change.

It's the different contexts and environments between that changed.

That's why if you're traveling all day, the day feels longer because you changed environments so many different times.

So anyway, what I kind of took from that was like, all right, when I change environments, my brain shifts modes.

So what I would do when I would walk through the door to class is I'd be like, okay, my brain is shifting into focus mode.

Like I'm actually going to be able to focus and learn and remember what I am walking into this class to do.

And that would actually make a difference.

And so that's kind of where I unlocked sort of priming or intention setting the first time.

So I just wanted to kind of say that because, yeah, you can set intentions in the morning, but it's something that I also like to do kind of throughout the day before I go into something.

So I think systems and that's a good place to wrap it all up.

Yeah, chemo signals.

So there are many reasons for what you're saying, because you walk into a room like, again, associative learning is a huge way that we learn things.

We make, the brain is not only a prediction machine, it's also an association machine.

So it loves to make connections between things.

We're able to learn something that we can connect to something we already know way better than something that we've never heard before or have no context.

So, you know, your brain has a ton of prior associations with, for example, your meditation room.

I have a playlist, and this isn't just rooms, right?