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Shade Zahrai

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The Genius Life
544: The #1 Science-Backed Confidence Hack Nobody Teaches | Shade Zahrai, PhD

It is, it's generally rare to encounter a high performer who doesn't have some method of managing their state.

The Genius Life
544: The #1 Science-Backed Confidence Hack Nobody Teaches | Shade Zahrai, PhD

And so for a lot of them, they will have an exercise routine and they will have a very regimented structure of, okay, I'm going to wake up at 5 a.m., get my workout done, get to my day, or I'm always going to make time for it at the end of the day.

The Genius Life
544: The #1 Science-Backed Confidence Hack Nobody Teaches | Shade Zahrai, PhD

And if you don't come across someone like that, it will be someone who does a different form, a more passive form of exercise, like a yoga or a meditation, which I guess is not really exercise for the body, but it's a grounding technique.

The Genius Life
544: The #1 Science-Backed Confidence Hack Nobody Teaches | Shade Zahrai, PhD

So they'll generally have something that they do that they don't even acknowledge is helping them with the overthinking.

The Genius Life
544: The #1 Science-Backed Confidence Hack Nobody Teaches | Shade Zahrai, PhD

But we know when we look at all the data and the patterns, there's this amazing link.

The Genius Life
544: The #1 Science-Backed Confidence Hack Nobody Teaches | Shade Zahrai, PhD

It is.

The Genius Life
544: The #1 Science-Backed Confidence Hack Nobody Teaches | Shade Zahrai, PhD

I remember I had this experience when I worked in corporate.

The Genius Life
544: The #1 Science-Backed Confidence Hack Nobody Teaches | Shade Zahrai, PhD

So by way of background, I spent four years.

The Genius Life
544: The #1 Science-Backed Confidence Hack Nobody Teaches | Shade Zahrai, PhD

So I'm a trained lawyer, commercial lawyer.

The Genius Life
544: The #1 Science-Backed Confidence Hack Nobody Teaches | Shade Zahrai, PhD

Really was not for me.

The Genius Life
544: The #1 Science-Backed Confidence Hack Nobody Teaches | Shade Zahrai, PhD

Whole other story.

The Genius Life
544: The #1 Science-Backed Confidence Hack Nobody Teaches | Shade Zahrai, PhD

I did four years there and then I went into banking and finance.

The Genius Life
544: The #1 Science-Backed Confidence Hack Nobody Teaches | Shade Zahrai, PhD

Why banking and finance?

The Genius Life
544: The #1 Science-Backed Confidence Hack Nobody Teaches | Shade Zahrai, PhD

No idea.

The Genius Life
544: The #1 Science-Backed Confidence Hack Nobody Teaches | Shade Zahrai, PhD

I just needed anything other than the law.

The Genius Life
544: The #1 Science-Backed Confidence Hack Nobody Teaches | Shade Zahrai, PhD

My academic background was law and psychology, but I like forgot that I loved the psychology part and I just went along with the flow.

The Genius Life
544: The #1 Science-Backed Confidence Hack Nobody Teaches | Shade Zahrai, PhD

When I was in banking, I knew that I had the competence...

The Genius Life
544: The #1 Science-Backed Confidence Hack Nobody Teaches | Shade Zahrai, PhD

like year three or four.

The Genius Life
544: The #1 Science-Backed Confidence Hack Nobody Teaches | Shade Zahrai, PhD

Initially I didn't, and I felt like a fraud, but by year three or four, I knew I could do the job.

The Genius Life
544: The #1 Science-Backed Confidence Hack Nobody Teaches | Shade Zahrai, PhD

I knew I could deliver because I had a track record and I was receiving so much recognition at work.