Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Today, we're going to be talking about the state of the world and the state of other people nowadays. Because have you noticed that it's getting harder and harder to feel like yourself lately? Like your brain is tired even when your body isn't. You feel like you're constantly on. Maybe you're overthinking. Maybe you're constantly consuming.
And somehow, you might feel more disconnected from yourself than you ever have before. And the scariest part is that everybody in society seems to feel that way as well. But what if I told you that the reason that you feel different lately is because your nervous system is actually rejecting the way that we live nowadays? Well, that's what I want to dive into today.
And I want to teach you how to fix it. And I'm going to be honest with you. It's going to sound a little bit scary and doom and gloomy, but I promise you, I'm going to wrap this up in a pretty little bow and give you tips on how to have a better, more joyful, more loving, more peaceful, more successful life than 99% of people in this world. So let's dive in.
There's this weird feeling that I think a lot of people have right now that they can't fully explain. Whenever I get into conversation with people, I feel like it was just everybody's kind of feeling this way. Like you, you walk into a coffee shop and you notice everybody is looking at a screen and nobody's talking to anybody else.
Or like you sit down and you try to have a conversation with someone and it feels like you're talking to like half of a human, like they're not fully there and present with you. And it seems like people are like exhausted all of the time. And so many people are reactive all the time and people are distracted all the time.
And everybody's kind of like overstimulated and anxious and people don't really seem like they have a attention span anymore. And if you're like really paying attention to this the way that I am, like you will notice it.
You can feel it and you can feel that something about modern living is kind of pulling people away from themselves and like pulling people away from like actually truly being present and living their lives. And I don't, mean this in like a conspiracy theory type of way. I don't mean it in like the world is doomed type of way.
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Chapter 2: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
And this is really, really important. I do want you to hear this. I truly believe that the people who are going to thrive the most over the next decade are not the people who adapt more deeply to this culture. I believe it's going to be the people who consciously choose to separate themselves from everybody else. And I don't mean you like disappearing and becoming a hermit. I mean...
Chapter 3: Why are people feeling more disconnected from themselves lately?
I mean you actually going, this is what everybody else is doing, so I'm going to do the opposite. And I do want that to be you. I want that to be us. I want us to truly thrive in our lives. I want us to feel way more peace and more love and more joy and more connection and more presence. I want us to fully live and experience the depth of this life that we have.
And I don't feel like following the crowd and doing what everybody else is doing and following them into the future is gonna get us there at all. And so, The uncomfortable truth I think that's really kind of lingering is I think modern culture is extremely dysregulated.
Like if you think about it, the average person now feels like they wake up, they check their phone before their feet hit the floor, they consume more information before 9 a.m. than our entire ancestors did in the weeks or months probably. They scroll while they're eating. They watch TV while they're scrolling on Instagram. They listen to podcast episodes while driving.
They work and they're distracted the entire time. They can't sit in silence. They feel uncomfortable without some form of stimulation. And then they wonder like, why do I feel anxious all the time? Because your nervous system is drowning. It's just too much for us. And I don't think there's some weird evil overlord that's doing this to us.
I think it's just what exponential media and technology growth looks like today. And you have heard me say this many times in podcasts, but our brain was not evolved for this world. It didn't evolve as fast as technology did.
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Chapter 4: How does modern living affect our nervous system?
Your nervous system is ancient. Your brain is almost identical to the brain of a human that lived 200,000 years ago. Do you realize that? Some anthropologists estimate that the structure of modern human brains is roughly 95 to 99% the same as early homo sapiens 200,000 years ago. That's crazy if you think about it.
So it's like taking somebody that was here 200,000 years ago and placing them into today and trying to get them to react and understand the world that we live in. And instead of like worrying about tigers, now your brain is reacting to like notifications and headlines and doom scrolling and emails and texts and dating apps and video games and all of this stuff.
And so now your nervous system doesn't know the difference between like a lion is chasing me and I just got a passive aggressive email or Slack message from Nancy in accounting. And stress is just stress in the body. And I think millions and millions and millions of people are unknowingly living in low-grade survival mode 24-7.
Like their nervous system is responding as if it's in fight or flight almost all day long. And so I don't think any of that is normal at all. And so what I think is you and I, we need to become comfortable from this moment forward being the weird-ass people. People don't even have to see our quote-unquote weirdness. We just need to know that we really don't want to fit in with everybody else.
This is the part I really want you to understand. For you, I want you to learn to enjoy silence. I want you to learn to enjoy reading a book instead of scrolling on Instagram. I want you to learn how to journal and discover yourself. I want you to enjoy to meditate and sit there. I want you to not constantly need attention and not to have to post your entire life on Instagram or TikTok.
I want you to... be able to think deeply. I want you to be able to spend time alone. I want you to be able to protect your peace. I want you to be able to sit down with your child and have 100% of your presence with them instead of thinking about work or emails or whatever it might be. And we will be right back. And now back to the show.
Like if we do that, if we love those things, if we start becoming those people, we will feel abnormal in modern culture, right? And that doesn't mean that there's something wrong with us, right? Which I think leads to the most important question of today. Like what if fitting into modern culture is actually the problem? Think about that.
Like, what if us fitting into modern culture is the problem? I don't think the goal, our goal, at least it's not my goal going into the future, is not to fit in. It's not to be normal. It's not to do what everybody else is doing. It's definitely not to think like everybody else is thinking. Because honestly, if you look around, do you want the average person's attention span?
Do you want the average person's emotional regulation? Do you want the average person's relationship quality? Do you want the average person's stress levels? Do you want the average person's self-worth? Do you want the average person's nervous system? Do you want the average person's mental clarity? I sure as hell do not. And I think one of the healthiest things that you and I can do right now
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