John Assaraf

If you say to me, you know, meditate in the afternoon, easy, because I'm already like, OK, I'm more chill.

So when we understand a little bit about how our brain's circuits, reward circuit, willpower circuit, fear circuit, stress circuit, anxiety circuit, focus circuit turns on or off.

Then we can start to manage our mindset a little bit better, manage our emotions, which is really the energy in motion.

Is it a high energy emotional arc or a low energy emotional arc?

And then that's what drives behavior.

And so if I'm in a high emotional energetic arc, I actually want to move towards what it is that I want to achieve.

But if I'm in a low emotional arc, I want to move away from it because it requires energy and my brain doesn't want to expend energy.

So those are some of the neuromechanics of what we're dealing with.

And I don't want this to be a neuroscience course, but we all have way more control, you know, of what's going on between our ears.

For you, now there's other people who are going to listen or watch this and go, oh my God, mornings, I'm a basket case.

I can't even feed myself in the morning.

Finding the coffee pot is hard.

I used to be married to a wonderful woman who used to believe that if God wanted her to see the sun, he would have it rise at noon.

She would stay up till two o'clock in the morning and she would get more done from 9 p.m.

to two o'clock than she did before noon every day because she didn't want to get out of bed till 10, 11, 12 o'clock.

And her natural cycle for her

And we had a polar opposite schedules, you know, naturally.

And we had to see if it would work.

And it created some challenges in our former relationship.

And my wife now, who I've been married to and together with for 20 plus years, is an early riser like I am.