Stephen Collar
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first heard Jan 2025
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The Home Service Expert Podcast · Achieving 500% Productivity Through Flow States · 10 Jan 2025
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It could be a predator. It could also be an opportunity. Maybe this is something I can eat or have sex with, or it's something I got to run away from. So every time you're watching TV and you see that quick cut,
you're just chilling your brain freaks out you don't notice it but your brain goes is that a threat what just happened and it's blocking recovery so and i'm not saying tv bad i'm saying tv before bed TV before bed, bad.
Social media, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know what is great? Books. Books. So, nobody wants to tell you this. I always tell people, they're like, well, there are so many choices, de-stressing-wise. Like, what do I do? And I'm like, it's simple, depending on how much time you have. If you've got five minutes, if you have five minutes of time, and you want to... reset your nervous system, there's certain things you want to do.
If you have six minutes, read a book. No, seven to 11 minutes. If you want to reset your nervous system really, really quickly, breathwork can't really do it until you get to about seven to 11. Seven, 11 breathwork. Yeah. So if you've got like literally six minutes of reading fiction, Six minutes of fiction. Fiction will calm your nervous system down. What's the best fiction? It doesn't matter.
The thing you want to avoid here is like super fast-paced thriller fiction where it's making you a little more agitated. Like almost anything else will work. This is only reading or audible? I haven't seen data on audible and the nervous system. And what I really think is learning styles is kind of crap.
Like there was this idea that some people are visual learners and somebody who's auditory on somebody who's kinesthetic and we're all sort of blended, but there are handfuls of people who are just, they're audible learners, right? They need to learn that way. But as a general rule, if you can avoid audio books, if you've got a job where you're stopping traffic a lot or something like that,
Yeah, listen to podcasts, read audiobooks for sure. But if you can avoid them, and the reason is we know when you listen or read electronic books instead of actual physical books,
retain less and it's because the part of our brain that developed for memory is the hippocampus it originated from map making your brain is that you were hunter-gatherer where is the cave with the saber-tooth tiger so i could avoid it where's the ripe fruit tree come springtime where's the good watering hole right this is what the brain was designed to evolve so we use the thickness of a book
the geography of a book literally to help us with memory so your brain won't just remember the fact it remembers where like this if you tell me about your favorite books and you tell me about your favorite quotes i'll bet i can say where in the book is that quote you can sort of give me a general geographical reason and you a lot of people can tell you where on the page it is and that's why
No, you can't get back to it. So if you look at the studies on memory and reading, it's the highest. The real book. The highest when we read actual real physical books.
So the good news is I don't have to say much beyond what I've already said. One of it is like books are, are fixed. The words are not jumping around the page and flashing and blinking and whatever. So cell phones, as you pointed out, what technology did they base cell phones on? You know this. They designed them to function like slot machines. the most, right?
Addictive, distracting, lots of bells and whistles, lots of noises, lots of earphones. Your focus goes all over the place. In a sense, the brain doesn't multitask. Like it's a total lie, right? I was on the original panel on multitasking with Cliff Ness out of Stanford. Like I worked on it. We are not built to multitask.
We can serial process information, but we do that at a subconscious level, a conscious level, a conscious mind goes one thing at a time, right? It doesn't process two or three things at once. You have to switch tasks. And every time there's task switching, there's a cost to it. So- I want to dive into that a little bit. For sure. So like with phones, one is the anticipation, right? You're right.
Dopamine is a, I mean, and even calling dopamine a chemical of anticipation is a lie. Because what are multi-tools? Neural chemicals are multi-tools. dopamine, norepinephrine, anandamide, serotonin, all these things. They do tens of thousands of jobs in the brain. The brain is really concerted by design. So it finds something that works and it reuses it and reuse it and reuse it and reuse it.
No need to reinvent the wheel each time. Oh, this works. Can it work over here? Can it work over here? Can it work over here? That's sort of how neurochemicals function. Dopamine does a lot of different stuff. Most people don't realize, I'll give you a really simple example. Why does time pass so strangely in the flow? One reason is when there's more dopamine in your system, time speeds up.
And when there's less dopamine in your system, it slows down. You want to hear, this is weird. You want to talk about mind-body connection stuff. Like we used to think these were two separate things and they've been coming closer and closer and closer together. Here's the craziest mind-body connection story. There's a whole bunch of new research that says, and they did this, they wounded people.
put cuts on their arms, and some people, time passed really, they asked them how slow was time passing for you or how fast it was passing for you. The people who thought time was passing faster, their wounds healed faster. People who thought time was dragging on board, it took them longer to heal.
So the latest front of like the mind-body connection is literally how we perceive the passage of time impacts wound healing. The question that I ask myself all the time about that one is we're all weightlifters. Weightlifting is about tearing the muscle or wounding the muscles, right? And regrowing them.
So the question I've been asking myself, but I don't have an answer, I just think it's fascinating is, wait a minute, if I'm wounding my muscles all the time and then I'm in
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