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TJ Power

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1182 total appearances

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On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Brain Expert: 6 Habits to Boost Focus & Concentration By 48 Percent (Hack Your Dopamine!) with TJ Power

And this is where, and we really push this within Dose, but periods of time on your own in nature are very, very, very important and very underestimated. People know, oh yeah, nature's good. Oh yeah, nature would make me feel good. You see in COVID, like apparently walks are good for your mental health. But we're really missing the trick on how important this actually is.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Brain Expert: 6 Habits to Boost Focus & Concentration By 48 Percent (Hack Your Dopamine!) with TJ Power

And this is where, and we really push this within Dose, but periods of time on your own in nature are very, very, very important and very underestimated. People know, oh yeah, nature's good. Oh yeah, nature would make me feel good. You see in COVID, like apparently walks are good for your mental health. But we're really missing the trick on how important this actually is.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Brain Expert: 6 Habits to Boost Focus & Concentration By 48 Percent (Hack Your Dopamine!) with TJ Power

If you're in a real state of, I'm worrying a lot. I'm constantly thinking about what I can't control. I'm in fear. I'm not taking action on what the goal is. The best thing you could do would be throw the phone away from you because I imagine it might be in your hand during that moment. At least that's what we see. Throw the phone away from you. Count yourself down from five seconds.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Brain Expert: 6 Habits to Boost Focus & Concentration By 48 Percent (Hack Your Dopamine!) with TJ Power

If you're in a real state of, I'm worrying a lot. I'm constantly thinking about what I can't control. I'm in fear. I'm not taking action on what the goal is. The best thing you could do would be throw the phone away from you because I imagine it might be in your hand during that moment. At least that's what we see. Throw the phone away from you. Count yourself down from five seconds.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Brain Expert: 6 Habits to Boost Focus & Concentration By 48 Percent (Hack Your Dopamine!) with TJ Power

Once you've counted yourself down, you go and put your trainers on and you leave the house without your phone in your hand. If you have to bring the phone from a safety perspective, in the bag, airplane mode so that you've got physical separation.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Brain Expert: 6 Habits to Boost Focus & Concentration By 48 Percent (Hack Your Dopamine!) with TJ Power

Once you've counted yourself down, you go and put your trainers on and you leave the house without your phone in your hand. If you have to bring the phone from a safety perspective, in the bag, airplane mode so that you've got physical separation.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Brain Expert: 6 Habits to Boost Focus & Concentration By 48 Percent (Hack Your Dopamine!) with TJ Power

And for a period of time out there in the quiet, ultimately if possible in nature, but maybe it's walking around your local town if it's a little bit further to get to, you just have a really honest conversation with yourself and... When you say people are having all these negative thoughts, like judging themselves and stuff, some of these thoughts are messages we do need to hear.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Brain Expert: 6 Habits to Boost Focus & Concentration By 48 Percent (Hack Your Dopamine!) with TJ Power

And for a period of time out there in the quiet, ultimately if possible in nature, but maybe it's walking around your local town if it's a little bit further to get to, you just have a really honest conversation with yourself and... When you say people are having all these negative thoughts, like judging themselves and stuff, some of these thoughts are messages we do need to hear.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Brain Expert: 6 Habits to Boost Focus & Concentration By 48 Percent (Hack Your Dopamine!) with TJ Power

Like if your mind is saying, oh, stop scrolling your phone so much, stop getting so drunk on the weekend, stop eating sugar. That is really clever that it's doing that. Like there's a component of maybe I need to be gratitude. Maybe I need to be more grateful for the way my brain is so sophisticated and operating in a way of guidance.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Brain Expert: 6 Habits to Boost Focus & Concentration By 48 Percent (Hack Your Dopamine!) with TJ Power

Like if your mind is saying, oh, stop scrolling your phone so much, stop getting so drunk on the weekend, stop eating sugar. That is really clever that it's doing that. Like there's a component of maybe I need to be gratitude. Maybe I need to be more grateful for the way my brain is so sophisticated and operating in a way of guidance.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Brain Expert: 6 Habits to Boost Focus & Concentration By 48 Percent (Hack Your Dopamine!) with TJ Power

If it's focusing on other things, it's just like this state of let's listen to these thoughts. Let's not constantly distract myself from the thoughts. Let's hear the message I'm trying to be sent. And then once I've heard it, let's try and calculate some kind of smart response to this rather than this constant distraction.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Brain Expert: 6 Habits to Boost Focus & Concentration By 48 Percent (Hack Your Dopamine!) with TJ Power

If it's focusing on other things, it's just like this state of let's listen to these thoughts. Let's not constantly distract myself from the thoughts. Let's hear the message I'm trying to be sent. And then once I've heard it, let's try and calculate some kind of smart response to this rather than this constant distraction.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Brain Expert: 6 Habits to Boost Focus & Concentration By 48 Percent (Hack Your Dopamine!) with TJ Power

This is where I come to that idea of we've become a dopamine driven society rather than an oxytocin driven society. Oxytocin being this love hormone, love is the most beautiful experience a human can have. Nothing is as pleasurable and as enjoyable as the experience of love with your partner, your parents, having a child, whatever it may be.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Brain Expert: 6 Habits to Boost Focus & Concentration By 48 Percent (Hack Your Dopamine!) with TJ Power

This is where I come to that idea of we've become a dopamine driven society rather than an oxytocin driven society. Oxytocin being this love hormone, love is the most beautiful experience a human can have. Nothing is as pleasurable and as enjoyable as the experience of love with your partner, your parents, having a child, whatever it may be.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Brain Expert: 6 Habits to Boost Focus & Concentration By 48 Percent (Hack Your Dopamine!) with TJ Power

That's ultimately what humanity is here to connect with, the experience of bonding with humans.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Brain Expert: 6 Habits to Boost Focus & Concentration By 48 Percent (Hack Your Dopamine!) with TJ Power

That's ultimately what humanity is here to connect with, the experience of bonding with humans.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Brain Expert: 6 Habits to Boost Focus & Concentration By 48 Percent (Hack Your Dopamine!) with TJ Power

When you're in that world of burnout, it's very likely that you've become slightly overly focused on dopamine, whether that's in the pursuit of pleasure through burning out, through partying and having fun, or if it's from a work perspective, you've probably got a little bit too focused on your financial win and your career progression and so on.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Brain Expert: 6 Habits to Boost Focus & Concentration By 48 Percent (Hack Your Dopamine!) with TJ Power

When you're in that world of burnout, it's very likely that you've become slightly overly focused on dopamine, whether that's in the pursuit of pleasure through burning out, through partying and having fun, or if it's from a work perspective, you've probably got a little bit too focused on your financial win and your career progression and so on.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Brain Expert: 6 Habits to Boost Focus & Concentration By 48 Percent (Hack Your Dopamine!) with TJ Power

That's then leading you towards dopamine burnout effectively, which many of us experience. With that in mind, and I experienced this myself, like Like you, like I have a striving desire within my career to make progress and help and so on. I really, in your mind, would be asking yourself, how much oxytocin am I getting and is it balancing out the dopamine?

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Brain Expert: 6 Habits to Boost Focus & Concentration By 48 Percent (Hack Your Dopamine!) with TJ Power

That's then leading you towards dopamine burnout effectively, which many of us experience. With that in mind, and I experienced this myself, like Like you, like I have a striving desire within my career to make progress and help and so on. I really, in your mind, would be asking yourself, how much oxytocin am I getting and is it balancing out the dopamine?