Emily McDonald

And so if you're wanting to level up your identity, regulate your nervous system, having systems in place is so important.

And especially in this day and age, right, with overstimulation and like lack of focus and the inability to focus, like we're losing our ability to focus on one thing for a prolonged period of time.

And this is actually something that I had heard you briefly mention on a podcast episode, and you didn't discuss it at all.

And you said something, and immediately in my head, I was like, oh, like there's neuroscience behind that, I know.

And you guys didn't talk about it, but you had said something like the feeling of having that single-pointed focus is inherently enjoyable.

And in my mind, I'm like, yeah, it is.

Like, it feels so good, right?

And it's sort of kind of flow as well.

When we get into flow and our sense of self kind of dissolves and we become one with the tasks we're doing, we truly reach that state of being fully immersed and focused on one thing, whether through meditation

an activity or work or in meditation, like that inherently feels good.

And I was like, okay, like from an evolutionary standpoint, like looking into the science, like we evolved for that to feel good because it benefits us to be able to focus on something for a prolonged period of time.

Like it benefits our survival.

It benefits our ability to grow and evolve as a species to be able to focus.

And so with social media and all of these things kind of training our brains for distraction is really what's happening.

We are losing the ability to have the single-pointed focus.

Not only are we losing our ability to, you know, focus and be productive and do what we want to do, but we're also losing something that is inherently...

pleasurable to us.

And now we're seeing this rise in people with anxiety and depression and, you know, mental, like poor mental health.

And I can't help but think that these two things would also be connected, that we're losing something that is inherently pleasurable to us.

And we're not tapping into that.