Stephen Collar

Well, that's, I mean, that was the example. I'm just trying to think why I started telling you about the brain as a prediction engine. And no, no, we were talking about, oh, gratitude, gratitude. Okay. So what we don't realize is that the brain takes in, we take in a limited amount of information, right? But on average, the brain will take in

Well, that's, I mean, that was the example. I'm just trying to think why I started telling you about the brain as a prediction engine. And no, no, we were talking about, oh, gratitude, gratitude. Okay. So what we don't realize is that the brain takes in, we take in a limited amount of information, right? But on average, the brain will take in

nine negatives for every one positive thing that comes through. So we get nine negative bits of information. This is dangerous. This is scary. This is don't do this, don't do this, don't do this, for every positive that gets through. Those positive things are the basis of creativity, opportunity, like for entrepreneurs, really, really, really critical.

nine negatives for every one positive thing that comes through. So we get nine negative bits of information. This is dangerous. This is scary. This is don't do this, don't do this, don't do this, for every positive that gets through. Those positive things are the basis of creativity, opportunity, like for entrepreneurs, really, really, really critical.

Because you're always looking for opportunity. You're always looking for novelty and new information, not the same old thing that scares you. So what a gratitude list is, it tips it. You stop taking about five negative for every positive. For that day? Yeah, for that period of time. So it calms you down, goes, oh, you're safer than you think. And it lets you start seeing more of the world.

Because you're always looking for opportunity. You're always looking for novelty and new information, not the same old thing that scares you. So what a gratitude list is, it tips it. You stop taking about five negative for every positive. For that day? Yeah, for that period of time. So it calms you down, goes, oh, you're safer than you think. And it lets you start seeing more of the world.

It opens up perception. So you're getting in novelty and opportunity. All these things are starting to come in and things are a lot less threatening. So that gratitude does that in five minutes. Reading is about six minutes. If you have seven to 11, 15 ish, you probably want to do breath work. If you've got 15 to like 25 minutes, I would do, I would take a page out of Tommy's book

It opens up perception. So you're getting in novelty and opportunity. All these things are starting to come in and things are a lot less threatening. So that gratitude does that in five minutes. Reading is about six minutes. If you have seven to 11, 15 ish, you probably want to do breath work. If you've got 15 to like 25 minutes, I would do, I would take a page out of Tommy's book

I'd go for a long walk in nature. That's the like 15 to 20 minutes, 25 minutes, go for a walk. If you've got 25 to like 45 minutes, go get a workout in, right? Exercise is the best cure for your nervous system, right? Best way to really calm it down. There's other things you can do. So, Eight minutes of petting a dog, petting an animal.

I'd go for a long walk in nature. That's the like 15 to 20 minutes, 25 minutes, go for a walk. If you've got 25 to like 45 minutes, go get a workout in, right? Exercise is the best cure for your nervous system, right? Best way to really calm it down. There's other things you can do. So, Eight minutes of petting a dog, petting an animal.

Social connection will do this too, but eight minutes of petting a dog starts producing oxytocin and a whole bunch of those neurochemicals for connection. So there are other like little hacks in there, but my point to get back to it, you asked, what do you do at the end of the day? I do an active recovery protocol, right? Usually I finish working. I either go, I've already worked out.

Social connection will do this too, but eight minutes of petting a dog starts producing oxytocin and a whole bunch of those neurochemicals for connection. So there are other like little hacks in there, but my point to get back to it, you asked, what do you do at the end of the day? I do an active recovery protocol, right? Usually I finish working. I either go, I've already worked out.

So I'll go right into a sauna and I like to do breath work and reading inside a sauna. So I write, I've got an infrared sauna. you tend to say them for a long time, like half an hour, 30, 40 minutes. I can do 20 minutes of breath work and 20 minutes of reading and a sauna. So saunas automatically lower cortisol. They do it automatically.

So I'll go right into a sauna and I like to do breath work and reading inside a sauna. So I write, I've got an infrared sauna. you tend to say them for a long time, like half an hour, 30, 40 minutes. I can do 20 minutes of breath work and 20 minutes of reading and a sauna. So saunas automatically lower cortisol. They do it automatically.

And then I massively amped up my recovery with some breath work and with some reading. By the way, what breath work do you- I rotate it. I rotate it. It depends on if my nervous system is really agitated, right? If I'm really sped up, i will do a wim hof style breath with breath holding because it's more effective at calming you down when you're already really sped up i'm slightly calmer

And then I massively amped up my recovery with some breath work and with some reading. By the way, what breath work do you- I rotate it. I rotate it. It depends on if my nervous system is really agitated, right? If I'm really sped up, i will do a wim hof style breath with breath holding because it's more effective at calming you down when you're already really sped up i'm slightly calmer

I'm going to do a focus meditation. I tend to do sound meditation a lot because I like it. It works really well for me. Sometimes I'll just count my breath or do things like that for a bunch of different reasons. If I really have the time, I will do loving kindness meditation.

I'm going to do a focus meditation. I tend to do sound meditation a lot because I like it. It works really well for me. Sometimes I'll just count my breath or do things like that for a bunch of different reasons. If I really have the time, I will do loving kindness meditation.

Of all the meditative systems, loving kindness meditation does some really interesting things that the other ones don't do. So one of them is loving kindness meditation actually has anti-aging properties. So they did a bunch of studies of focus meditation versus loving kindness meditation. And one of the things they were looking at was telomere lag. So telomeres are the caps on chromosomes, right?

Of all the meditative systems, loving kindness meditation does some really interesting things that the other ones don't do. So one of them is loving kindness meditation actually has anti-aging properties. So they did a bunch of studies of focus meditation versus loving kindness meditation. And one of the things they were looking at was telomere lag. So telomeres are the caps on chromosomes, right?