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Emily McDonald

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Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

Like it is it like if you look out at nature, like nature is abundant.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

And this specific temple was a Krishna temple.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

And so they talked about Krishna and how Krishna was abundant, you know, in the Bhagavad Gita.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

And

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

After that, I was like, no, that's really true that it is just in nature to be abundant.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

You have a lemon bush out there, and when that bush blossoms with fruit, there's so many lemons on there.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

It's not just one lemon.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

It's abundant with lemons.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

And we actually used to have a lemon tree in our backyard as well, and they'd be all on the ground, and our dog would be running and getting them and eating them.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

But yeah, and so after that, I started to realize, no, actually it is in our true nature to be abundant.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

And so that's kind of...

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

where your phrase that you just brought up, like, it's the root of all evil, it kind of shifted for me, and I now look at it as it really is a tool, right?

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

It really is a tool, and what you do with that tool very much is up to the person, and it's sort of like testosterone.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

Just thinking like from scientific standpoint, where they've actually shown that more testosterone, at least in animals, it doesn't necessarily make animals more aggressive.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

It just amplifies their nature.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

And so it didn't make them more aggressive.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

Right.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

It's just like some of them became more loving.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

And so money kind of works that way, too, where you give someone more money.

Know Thyself
E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself

It doesn't necessarily make them evil.