Valuetainment - March 12, 2021


Psychiatrist Uncovers Trends From 175,000 Brain Scans


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Length

56 minutes

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159.03506

Word Count

8,911

Sentence Count

263

Misogynist Sentences

8

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9


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 People go, how can you listen to problems all day long?
00:00:02.760 That's quite frankly not what I do.
00:00:04.320 I get people better.
00:00:05.940 I get their brains better, their minds better,
00:00:08.560 their relationships better.
00:00:10.360 What are your thoughts about Tom Cruise's assessment
00:00:12.520 on medicine not being the solution
00:00:14.800 to helping people's psychological issues?
00:00:17.520 I think how psychiatry is currently practiced
00:00:20.080 is just a scandal and it's a mess.
00:00:22.880 85% of psychiatric drugs are prescribed
00:00:25.800 by non-psychiatric physicians
00:00:27.860 in 10-minute office visits.
00:00:30.000 Is it true that the brain's a muscle
00:00:31.980 that the more you work it, the stronger it gets
00:00:34.220 or that's just a myth?
00:00:35.760 Ultimately, it's responsible for your success.
00:00:40.420 Relationships, work, money, joy, happiness.
00:00:44.500 The epidemic of teenage suicide
00:00:46.680 is being driven by social media.
00:00:48.980 As girls constantly compare themselves
00:00:52.020 in a negative way,
00:00:53.480 then you struggle more with anxiety,
00:00:55.640 depression, trauma, or grief.
00:01:00.000 My guest today is an expert in an area
00:01:04.000 many of us need help with,
00:01:05.500 specifically your interviewer,
00:01:07.300 myself, yours truly.
00:01:08.420 He's a 13-time New York Times bestseller.
00:01:11.400 He has scanned 175,000 brains
00:01:15.820 that he has access to.
00:01:16.940 His facility that he runs
00:01:18.000 from 155 different countries.
00:01:19.620 He's a double board certified
00:01:21.840 child and adult psychiatrist
00:01:24.640 and many other things I can say
00:01:26.660 about this man on the great work he's done.
00:01:29.040 He's got tens of millions of views
00:01:30.380 on YouTube in the area of expertise,
00:01:32.760 brains.
00:01:33.260 With that being said,
00:01:33.940 my guest today,
00:01:35.160 Dr. Daniel Amen.
00:01:36.460 Doc, thank you so much
00:01:37.320 for being a guest on Valuetainment.
00:01:39.020 Wow.
00:01:39.420 Thank you so much for having me
00:01:41.540 and helping me spread the word
00:01:43.300 about brain health.
00:01:45.040 One of the things I like the fact
00:01:46.420 is our interview
00:01:47.280 that we started on time
00:01:48.580 and we had no technical difficulties.
00:01:50.440 So I love the fact that,
00:01:51.540 you know,
00:01:52.260 it allows us to have more time together.
00:01:53.880 So I appreciate your patience
00:01:55.180 while we were going through
00:01:55.960 the madness with Zoom earlier,
00:01:57.220 but good to have you on.
00:01:59.520 You know,
00:02:00.160 you hear stories
00:02:01.860 and you'll say,
00:02:02.700 you know,
00:02:02.880 you watch a kid and you say,
00:02:04.020 why did you end up becoming a cop?
00:02:05.820 My dad was a cop.
00:02:06.740 Why did you end up going
00:02:07.500 in the military
00:02:08.080 and serving 20 years
00:02:08.960 and becoming an officer?
00:02:09.800 Like when I talked
00:02:11.060 to General McChrystal,
00:02:12.040 well,
00:02:12.220 because my dad was a general.
00:02:13.460 My grandpa was in,
00:02:14.820 you know,
00:02:15.160 in Colonel Wendiswell.
00:02:16.520 Okay,
00:02:16.680 got it.
00:02:17.060 That makes sense.
00:02:17.580 There's a lineage.
00:02:18.200 You want to go out there
00:02:18.660 and follow the footsteps.
00:02:19.560 Yes.
00:02:20.480 Why did you want to be a brain surgeon
00:02:23.380 with your background?
00:02:24.740 How did it lead to you
00:02:25.560 doing what you're doing today?
00:02:27.240 Well,
00:02:27.620 actually,
00:02:27.940 I was the first one
00:02:29.400 in my family
00:02:30.940 to graduate from college.
00:02:33.140 So I am the son.
00:02:37.200 My grandparents immigrated
00:02:38.580 from the Middle East
00:02:39.800 and my dad,
00:02:42.240 clearly smart enough
00:02:43.120 to go to college,
00:02:43.840 but just worked like crazy
00:02:46.120 from the time he was 12.
00:02:48.280 And when I was 18,
00:02:51.260 Vietnam was still going on
00:02:53.280 and I became an infantry medic.
00:02:55.860 That's where my love
00:02:56.840 of medicine was born.
00:02:59.280 But about a year into it,
00:03:00.580 I realized I didn't really
00:03:01.660 like being shot at.
00:03:03.180 It wasn't my thing.
00:03:04.980 Some people like it.
00:03:06.820 For me,
00:03:07.680 I'm like,
00:03:08.220 no,
00:03:08.480 people could get hurt out here.
00:03:09.740 And I became
00:03:11.120 an x-ray technician
00:03:12.880 and developed a passion
00:03:14.520 for medical imaging.
00:03:16.380 As our professors used to say,
00:03:18.380 how do you know
00:03:19.200 unless you look?
00:03:20.780 And then I got out of the army
00:03:21.920 and went to medical school.
00:03:23.320 And when I was a second-year
00:03:25.820 medical student,
00:03:27.120 someone I loved
00:03:28.800 tried to kill herself.
00:03:30.640 And I took her
00:03:31.640 to see a wonderful psychiatrist.
00:03:33.520 And I came to realize
00:03:34.760 if he helped her,
00:03:35.920 it wouldn't just help her.
00:03:37.280 That ultimately,
00:03:38.100 it would help her children
00:03:39.480 and even her grandchildren
00:03:42.320 as they would be shaped
00:03:43.820 by someone who was happier
00:03:45.600 and more stable.
00:03:46.720 So in 1979,
00:03:48.240 I fell in love
00:03:50.060 with psychiatry
00:03:51.040 because I realized
00:03:52.940 it could change
00:03:54.040 generations of people.
00:03:56.840 But I fell in love
00:03:57.680 with the only medical specialty
00:03:59.140 that virtually never looks
00:04:01.360 at the organ it treats.
00:04:03.900 And I knew it was wrong
00:04:05.440 and I knew it would change.
00:04:07.460 I just had no idea
00:04:08.780 I'd be part of the change.
00:04:11.980 And in the late 1980s,
00:04:14.180 I was an army psychiatrist.
00:04:16.160 I trained at the
00:04:17.500 Walter Reed Army Medical Center,
00:04:19.700 Washington, D.C.
00:04:21.060 In the late 1980s,
00:04:22.260 I started looking at the brain
00:04:23.960 and it just changed
00:04:25.820 everything I do.
00:04:28.700 You know, I don't really think
00:04:29.620 of myself as a psychiatrist.
00:04:31.260 I think of myself
00:04:32.280 as a brain health specialist,
00:04:34.840 a clinical neuroscientist,
00:04:36.840 where my whole job
00:04:38.720 is to get your brain right.
00:04:40.960 And I want to make
00:04:42.080 brain health cool
00:04:44.020 because quite frankly,
00:04:45.680 nobody really wants
00:04:46.900 to see a psychiatrist.
00:04:48.380 When I told my dad
00:04:49.620 I wanted to be a psychiatrist,
00:04:50.960 he asked me why
00:04:51.920 I didn't want to be
00:04:52.740 a real doctor,
00:04:54.160 why I wanted to be
00:04:55.200 a nut doctor
00:04:56.280 and hang out with nuts
00:04:57.760 all day long.
00:04:59.100 So my dad never got
00:05:00.580 father of the year award,
00:05:03.160 even though he was a good guy,
00:05:05.380 but he just didn't,
00:05:06.460 you know.
00:05:07.220 Did he have a sense of humor?
00:05:08.420 Like, was he being sarcastic
00:05:09.640 or he was being really
00:05:10.640 like serious with you?
00:05:11.700 Like, why are you being...
00:05:12.300 He was dead serious.
00:05:13.920 He was mad at me.
00:05:16.220 You know, what am I going
00:05:17.000 to tell my friend?
00:05:18.120 Yeah.
00:05:18.560 Son's a shrink.
00:05:19.720 And, you know,
00:05:20.480 he hangs out with nuts
00:05:21.680 all day long.
00:05:22.480 And even though
00:05:24.380 that hurt my feelings,
00:05:26.080 I totally get
00:05:27.340 where he was coming from
00:05:28.760 because most psychiatrists
00:05:30.440 don't act like real doctors.
00:05:32.520 They don't look
00:05:33.640 at the organ they treat.
00:05:35.980 And when I started looking,
00:05:37.820 it just changed
00:05:38.680 my whole life
00:05:39.620 in such a good way.
00:05:41.380 So did your patients
00:05:43.100 ever make you go nuts
00:05:44.940 or no?
00:05:45.580 Well, I've treated...
00:05:48.780 It came public last year
00:05:50.020 that Justin Bieber
00:05:51.000 has been one of my patients.
00:05:53.220 And that was close.
00:05:57.200 Yeah, no,
00:05:58.000 we've taken care of
00:05:58.880 some just wonderful
00:06:00.280 but complicated people.
00:06:03.600 And, you know,
00:06:05.660 people go,
00:06:06.240 how can you listen
00:06:06.940 to problems all day long?
00:06:08.780 And that's quite frankly
00:06:10.520 not what I do.
00:06:11.240 I get people better.
00:06:12.820 I get their brains better,
00:06:14.440 their minds better,
00:06:15.580 their relationships better,
00:06:17.400 their spiritual selves better,
00:06:20.360 which is sort of
00:06:20.960 an odd thing to say
00:06:21.800 for a psychiatrist.
00:06:23.100 But when you get...
00:06:25.120 When you help people get better,
00:06:26.620 it's thrilling.
00:06:27.720 It's exciting.
00:06:28.980 I have loved it
00:06:30.120 every day for 40 years.
00:06:32.280 You know,
00:06:32.520 the only reason
00:06:32.920 I ask that question
00:06:33.520 is because I have friends
00:06:34.640 who are detectives
00:06:35.700 or cops or,
00:06:36.560 you know,
00:06:37.540 divorce attorneys
00:06:38.440 or DEA agents.
00:06:40.060 And, you know,
00:06:41.040 I was former military,
00:06:42.320 so you got Delta
00:06:43.300 and all these guys
00:06:44.020 and you're taught
00:06:44.840 to be a little bit paranoid.
00:06:46.040 You know,
00:06:46.140 so when they come home,
00:06:47.500 it kind of bleeds
00:06:48.080 into their marital life.
00:06:49.200 You know,
00:06:49.340 what were you doing?
00:06:49.960 What's going on?
00:06:50.400 Who's this on?
00:06:50.880 They're very extra paranoid.
00:06:52.580 So when you're a psychiatrist
00:06:54.180 and you hear a lot
00:06:54.960 of people's issues,
00:06:55.780 it literally filters out of you.
00:06:58.680 Nothing sticks
00:06:59.560 where you kind of
00:07:00.260 catch yourself
00:07:00.880 when you come home at night.
00:07:01.840 You're irritated,
00:07:02.740 you're upset,
00:07:03.320 you're frustrated
00:07:03.920 or kind of reacting
00:07:05.560 to a patient's conversation
00:07:06.880 you had earlier?
00:07:08.180 Not really.
00:07:09.200 I mean, you know,
00:07:10.080 I help them manage their minds.
00:07:13.560 And in the process,
00:07:14.720 whenever you help someone
00:07:16.060 do something,
00:07:16.980 you tend to be better
00:07:18.700 at it yourself.
00:07:20.460 I agree.
00:07:21.120 And I work with my wife.
00:07:24.860 So we have done
00:07:26.240 over a thousand
00:07:27.120 Brain Warriors Way podcasts.
00:07:28.840 We just finished filming
00:07:31.280 our fourth
00:07:32.180 national public television special.
00:07:35.080 She's my best friend.
00:07:36.440 I mean, you know,
00:07:36.920 we had to figure out
00:07:37.740 how to work together,
00:07:38.880 but we had someone,
00:07:41.880 a consultant once said,
00:07:43.260 look at him
00:07:44.020 like you love him.
00:07:46.360 That just helps so much.
00:07:48.940 And so we're always
00:07:50.480 thinking about
00:07:51.800 how to have better minds
00:07:54.240 and better brains.
00:07:55.280 And it leaks
00:07:56.740 over to the kids.
00:07:59.200 How long have you guys
00:08:00.040 been together?
00:08:01.380 15 years.
00:08:02.520 15 years.
00:08:03.160 Very cool.
00:08:03.760 So, okay.
00:08:04.660 So let's put that part aside.
00:08:06.400 Let's go to the next part
00:08:07.340 of it here.
00:08:09.360 You know,
00:08:09.860 I like bodybuilding.
00:08:10.980 I follow a lot of athletes,
00:08:12.440 a lot of bodybuilders.
00:08:13.260 We've had a lot of bodybuilders.
00:08:14.260 We've interviewed here.
00:08:15.740 And, you know,
00:08:16.360 when somebody builds
00:08:17.200 their biceps,
00:08:18.040 you can see it.
00:08:18.800 When somebody builds
00:08:19.440 their chest,
00:08:20.040 you can see it.
00:08:20.640 When somebody works
00:08:21.320 on their abs,
00:08:21.860 you can see it.
00:08:22.420 There's a, you know,
00:08:23.760 visible,
00:08:24.400 you kind of look at it
00:08:25.100 and say, look,
00:08:25.400 you look good.
00:08:25.920 Your abs look good.
00:08:26.600 You know,
00:08:26.800 your traps look good.
00:08:27.640 You know,
00:08:28.940 you hear the saying,
00:08:30.340 a brain is a muscle.
00:08:32.820 You know,
00:08:33.120 your brain's like a muscle.
00:08:34.480 The more you feed it,
00:08:35.460 the more, you know,
00:08:36.180 it could get this.
00:08:37.040 You know,
00:08:37.220 the more you read,
00:08:37.820 the more you learn.
00:08:39.080 Is it true that
00:08:40.120 the brain's a muscle
00:08:41.120 that the more you work it,
00:08:42.360 the stronger it gets?
00:08:43.400 Or that's just a myth?
00:08:45.100 The more you use it,
00:08:46.520 the more you can use it.
00:08:49.760 So the brain is very much
00:08:52.420 a use it or lose it organ.
00:08:54.580 That when you learn
00:08:56.540 something new,
00:08:57.960 your brain makes
00:08:59.220 a new connection.
00:09:00.940 When you stop learning,
00:09:02.940 your brain actually starts
00:09:04.880 to disconnect itself
00:09:06.800 and makes it harder
00:09:08.940 for you to learn.
00:09:10.040 That's why adults,
00:09:11.000 when they go back
00:09:12.020 to college
00:09:13.100 the first semester or two,
00:09:15.160 they're really struggling
00:09:16.420 because they're not used to it.
00:09:18.900 But over time,
00:09:20.360 you have this great part
00:09:22.620 of your brain
00:09:23.240 called the hippocampus.
00:09:24.720 It's on the inside
00:09:25.900 of your temporal lobes.
00:09:27.480 And it's Greek for seahorse
00:09:29.660 because it's shaped
00:09:31.040 like a seahorse.
00:09:32.580 And every day
00:09:34.240 you make new stem cells
00:09:37.480 in the hippocampus.
00:09:38.900 So I just think of it
00:09:41.640 like every day
00:09:43.760 you're making 700 new
00:09:46.360 baby seahorses
00:09:48.200 and your habits
00:09:49.840 are either growing them
00:09:52.280 or murdering them.
00:09:55.300 I had a fun conversation
00:09:56.940 with Miley Cyrus
00:09:58.040 who came out last year
00:10:00.220 as one of my patients.
00:10:01.960 And she was smoking pot
00:10:04.840 and drinking
00:10:05.340 and not doing
00:10:06.080 the right things.
00:10:07.140 And I told her
00:10:07.800 about the baby seahorses
00:10:09.160 and she goes,
00:10:10.020 that's so unfair.
00:10:11.380 You know I'm an animal lover
00:10:13.080 and I never want to do it.
00:10:14.780 And she's just doing
00:10:18.540 such a better job
00:10:19.600 of taking care
00:10:20.400 of her seahorses.
00:10:23.040 And there are things
00:10:24.080 we do every day
00:10:25.220 that either grow our brains
00:10:27.380 or shrivel our brains.
00:10:30.940 And because most people
00:10:32.380 never look at the brain,
00:10:34.220 most people never care.
00:10:36.080 And that's what
00:10:38.400 we need to make cool.
00:10:40.640 Caring about your brain.
00:10:42.460 Because ultimately
00:10:44.140 it's responsible
00:10:46.280 for your success.
00:10:49.320 Relationships, work,
00:10:50.940 money, joy, happiness.
00:10:54.040 There's an organ
00:10:55.060 called the brain
00:10:56.740 that is responsible
00:10:57.940 for all of that.
00:11:00.220 Can you unpack that?
00:11:01.580 Well, when your brain
00:11:02.680 works right,
00:11:03.280 you work right.
00:11:04.300 Your brain is the organ
00:11:05.560 of decision making.
00:11:07.580 And I argue
00:11:08.660 your level of success
00:11:10.540 success in life
00:11:11.420 is basically
00:11:12.540 a sum of all
00:11:13.840 the decisions
00:11:14.740 that you've made.
00:11:16.380 And when your brain
00:11:17.660 is healthy,
00:11:19.240 you're more thoughtful.
00:11:21.480 You have better control
00:11:22.820 over your impulses.
00:11:24.760 You're more organized.
00:11:26.220 You are better
00:11:27.780 at planning
00:11:28.620 and then acting
00:11:30.140 in ways consistent
00:11:31.820 with your goals.
00:11:34.120 And most people
00:11:36.200 are never thinking,
00:11:37.640 you know,
00:11:38.340 that if I drink
00:11:39.620 too much alcohol
00:11:40.400 or smoke pot
00:11:41.660 or eat bad food,
00:11:43.800 that it's actually
00:11:45.020 going to negatively
00:11:46.360 impact the moment
00:11:48.380 by moment decisions
00:11:49.940 that I make.
00:11:52.120 This is really
00:11:53.520 important stuff
00:11:54.760 that when your brain
00:11:56.440 works right,
00:11:56.980 you work right.
00:11:57.760 And when it's troubled,
00:11:59.280 for whatever reason,
00:12:00.280 you played football
00:12:01.160 in high school
00:12:01.820 like I did,
00:12:02.620 or you hit soccer balls
00:12:04.460 with your head,
00:12:05.200 or you were in that
00:12:06.240 jeep accident
00:12:08.020 when you were
00:12:08.700 in the military,
00:12:09.960 damage the brain,
00:12:12.580 damage your decisions,
00:12:14.040 damage your life.
00:12:15.420 So does it mean
00:12:16.620 Elon Musk's brain
00:12:18.400 looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger
00:12:20.360 in his 20s?
00:12:22.700 That's a great analogy
00:12:24.700 that, you know,
00:12:27.520 he's so smart
00:12:28.720 and has learned
00:12:29.860 so many diverse things.
00:12:32.220 And that's what's
00:12:32.880 really good for the brain.
00:12:34.060 It's not doing
00:12:35.080 the same thing
00:12:35.960 over and over again.
00:12:37.280 It's just having
00:12:38.280 this level of diversity
00:12:40.080 that means his brain
00:12:42.780 is likely very unique
00:12:45.840 and working hard.
00:12:48.820 Who is,
00:12:49.260 have you,
00:12:49.580 like,
00:12:49.800 I'm curious right now,
00:12:51.200 when you scan a brain,
00:12:53.620 I mean,
00:12:53.880 you got 170,000 of them.
00:12:55.400 When you scan a brain,
00:12:57.120 can you tell apart
00:12:58.160 a brain of someone
00:12:59.640 who has got
00:13:01.020 a high IQ genius,
00:13:02.280 a great decision maker,
00:13:03.280 versus somebody
00:13:04.000 that hasn't put it
00:13:04.780 to use a lot
00:13:05.640 and doesn't read a lot
00:13:06.560 is just kind of,
00:13:07.660 you know,
00:13:08.080 living a regular life.
00:13:09.140 Can you see it through a scan
00:13:10.320 or that's not something
00:13:11.200 you can see through a scan?
00:13:12.620 Well,
00:13:12.720 we can clearly see
00:13:14.120 how healthy your brain is.
00:13:15.940 The healthier it is,
00:13:17.300 the brighter you are,
00:13:18.580 generally.
00:13:19.440 We can see tendencies
00:13:21.020 in the brain.
00:13:22.580 Are you spontaneous,
00:13:24.640 which means
00:13:25.420 you don't like waiting in line
00:13:27.260 and you're very creative,
00:13:29.080 but you can't focus
00:13:31.280 unless you're super interested.
00:13:33.300 Are you persistent?
00:13:35.220 It's sort of another way
00:13:36.600 of calling someone a jerk.
00:13:38.540 It's,
00:13:39.360 they're worried,
00:13:40.180 rigid,
00:13:40.940 inflexible,
00:13:41.920 if things don't go their way,
00:13:43.560 they get upset,
00:13:45.240 argumentative,
00:13:46.440 oppositional.
00:13:47.840 We can tell
00:13:48.940 if they're more sensitive,
00:13:50.760 more tendency
00:13:51.520 to be empathic
00:13:52.660 or more cautious
00:13:55.020 where they tend
00:13:56.360 to be more anxious.
00:13:58.460 So the scans
00:13:59.420 give us a lot
00:14:00.560 of information.
00:14:01.800 So basically,
00:14:02.700 is it healthy?
00:14:04.280 Is it sleepy?
00:14:05.720 Does it tend
00:14:06.420 to work too hard?
00:14:08.360 Has it been hurt?
00:14:10.480 Like traumatic brain injury,
00:14:12.580 David,
00:14:12.920 like a major cause
00:14:14.940 of psychiatric problems
00:14:16.180 and nobody knows about it
00:14:17.640 because most psychiatrists
00:14:18.620 never look at the brain.
00:14:21.040 We can tell
00:14:22.120 if you've had toxic exposure.
00:14:24.320 I have dozens now
00:14:26.220 of COVID-19 brains
00:14:28.140 and it's very interesting
00:14:30.860 when it impacts your brain.
00:14:32.840 It doesn't always,
00:14:33.960 but when it does,
00:14:34.880 it tends to fire up
00:14:36.300 your emotional brain.
00:14:38.140 So the dragons
00:14:39.020 that I write about
00:14:39.980 in my new book,
00:14:41.740 your brain is always listening.
00:14:44.220 It tends to fire them up.
00:14:46.180 And you struggle more
00:14:47.180 with anxiety,
00:14:49.120 depression,
00:14:50.320 trauma,
00:14:50.820 or grief.
00:14:52.540 So, okay.
00:14:53.340 So that's,
00:14:54.400 that's interesting
00:14:55.200 because I'm assuming
00:14:56.700 if you went through
00:14:57.720 the school
00:14:58.260 that you went through
00:14:59.120 to become a psychiatrist
00:15:00.340 and you've scanned
00:15:01.000 170,000,
00:15:02.240 did you,
00:15:03.740 when you were going
00:15:04.220 through school,
00:15:04.760 have a chance
00:15:05.320 to see the scan
00:15:07.240 of an Einstein?
00:15:08.440 Like,
00:15:08.620 did they have a scan
00:15:09.400 of some of the smartest
00:15:10.340 people in the world
00:15:11.080 for you to say,
00:15:11.620 look at Einstein's brain here.
00:15:12.680 Was there any kind of,
00:15:14.080 you know,
00:15:14.400 classes you took
00:15:15.220 where you were able
00:15:16.180 to see the scan
00:15:16.800 of some of the most
00:15:17.360 genius brains of all time?
00:15:19.220 Genius minds of all time?
00:15:20.860 Well,
00:15:21.180 I've certainly
00:15:21.820 been able to do that.
00:15:23.280 I mean,
00:15:23.540 we've scanned
00:15:24.480 incredible athletes,
00:15:27.180 Hall of Fame athletes,
00:15:28.620 and we've scanned
00:15:30.120 Pulitzer Prize winning
00:15:31.640 writers.
00:15:32.660 And the interesting
00:15:36.860 commonality
00:15:39.000 is their cerebellum
00:15:41.320 works really well.
00:15:44.120 Cerebellum's
00:15:44.720 in the back bottom
00:15:45.660 part of the brain.
00:15:46.940 It's Latin
00:15:47.620 for little brain.
00:15:49.620 And it's
00:15:50.140 what I think of
00:15:51.180 almost as the central
00:15:52.300 processing unit
00:15:53.660 in the brain.
00:15:55.660 Has half the brain's neurons,
00:15:57.660 even though it's only
00:15:58.400 10% of the brain's volume.
00:16:00.680 that when your cerebellum
00:16:02.860 is healthy,
00:16:03.860 you process faster,
00:16:05.560 which means
00:16:06.060 you generally
00:16:06.660 think faster.
00:16:08.560 So,
00:16:09.200 did you guys
00:16:10.000 get a chance
00:16:10.740 to look at the scans
00:16:12.160 of some of the
00:16:12.700 brightest brains?
00:16:13.500 Were you able
00:16:13.800 to kind of look at it
00:16:14.660 and see any similarities
00:16:15.540 or no?
00:16:16.680 I'm talking people
00:16:17.440 in the past,
00:16:18.200 you know,
00:16:18.360 Einstein's,
00:16:19.760 folks like that.
00:16:21.000 Einstein actually
00:16:21.780 had a little bit
00:16:22.520 smaller brain
00:16:23.460 than,
00:16:24.720 by weight,
00:16:25.880 but his parietal
00:16:27.920 lobes,
00:16:28.400 top back part
00:16:29.340 of the brain,
00:16:30.380 one of the
00:16:30.900 association areas
00:16:32.340 in the brain
00:16:33.140 had more cells
00:16:36.720 there.
00:16:37.820 It was pretty
00:16:38.360 interesting.
00:16:40.980 But as a rule,
00:16:42.640 that's not why
00:16:43.340 people come to see me.
00:16:45.460 Okay.
00:16:46.300 No,
00:16:46.800 I understand.
00:16:47.600 I'm just curious.
00:16:48.320 I'm trying to see a trend
00:16:49.540 with 175,000 scans
00:16:51.160 if you see anything there.
00:16:52.240 So,
00:16:52.900 we are living
00:16:54.080 in a
00:16:55.000 pretty vain era.
00:16:57.020 I lived in L.A.
00:16:57.720 for 24 years
00:16:58.600 and cosmetic surgery
00:16:59.580 was just something
00:17:00.380 that everybody was doing.
00:17:01.500 I went to Dallas
00:17:02.380 and Dallas'
00:17:04.040 Highland Park is,
00:17:05.380 listen,
00:17:05.540 if you want to do
00:17:06.040 anything cosmetic,
00:17:06.680 it's a great place to be.
00:17:08.200 I'm in Boca now
00:17:09.400 and, you know,
00:17:10.040 Boca,
00:17:10.460 you walk around,
00:17:11.420 you know,
00:17:11.660 everybody's got
00:17:12.400 some kind of
00:17:13.540 cosmetic surgery
00:17:14.320 they've done.
00:17:15.360 Is there any
00:17:16.140 kind of
00:17:16.700 surgeries
00:17:17.800 that can be done
00:17:19.880 to make somebody
00:17:20.980 sharper,
00:17:22.400 you know,
00:17:23.040 better processor,
00:17:25.340 better decision maker?
00:17:26.260 Is there anything
00:17:26.900 to be done
00:17:27.500 with that?
00:17:28.520 Well,
00:17:28.660 there's a lot
00:17:29.120 of things
00:17:29.520 to do,
00:17:30.000 not surgery.
00:17:32.040 You know,
00:17:33.300 and they did
00:17:33.660 prefrontal lobotomies
00:17:35.020 to try and treat
00:17:36.040 mental illness
00:17:36.680 that didn't turn
00:17:37.340 out really well.
00:17:39.220 They are doing
00:17:40.300 some specific,
00:17:42.280 highly targeted
00:17:43.780 psychosurgeries.
00:17:45.480 For example,
00:17:46.120 if you have OCD
00:17:47.080 or you have
00:17:48.280 Tourette's syndrome,
00:17:50.040 you want to be smarter,
00:17:51.700 you want a healthier,
00:17:52.640 prettier brain.
00:17:53.540 And I love your analogy.
00:17:54.800 You know,
00:17:55.440 I live in
00:17:55.880 Newport Beach
00:17:56.720 where there's
00:17:57.580 more plastic surgeons
00:17:59.140 per capita
00:17:59.780 than almost any
00:18:00.520 place in the world.
00:18:01.960 And I often say
00:18:03.740 we care more
00:18:04.660 about our faces,
00:18:06.420 our boobs,
00:18:07.380 our bellies,
00:18:08.040 and our butts
00:18:08.760 than we do
00:18:09.460 our brain,
00:18:10.760 which is sort of
00:18:11.580 insane.
00:18:12.840 And when I started
00:18:13.760 looking at the brain,
00:18:14.860 I'm like,
00:18:15.340 okay,
00:18:15.560 how do you make it better?
00:18:17.300 So diet,
00:18:19.040 exercise,
00:18:19.460 that helps.
00:18:21.060 Certain nutraceuticals,
00:18:22.720 like I'm a huge
00:18:23.580 fan of Ginkgo.
00:18:24.800 The prettiest brains
00:18:26.200 I've ever seen
00:18:27.440 take Ginkgo.
00:18:28.600 Ginkgo increases
00:18:29.800 blood flow
00:18:30.860 to the brain.
00:18:32.080 I'm a huge fan
00:18:33.280 of the Persian spice,
00:18:36.280 saffron.
00:18:37.380 Saffron has been shown
00:18:38.720 in 21 randomized
00:18:40.300 controlled trials
00:18:41.460 to be as effective
00:18:43.300 as antidepressant
00:18:44.560 medication.
00:18:45.720 Wow.
00:18:46.160 Saffron.
00:18:46.860 Wow.
00:18:47.000 I take saffron
00:18:48.440 every day.
00:18:50.200 And there's another
00:18:52.020 treatment I like a lot
00:18:53.480 called hyperbaric
00:18:54.460 oxygen therapy
00:18:55.940 where you go
00:18:57.140 into a hyperbaric
00:18:58.260 chamber.
00:18:59.200 It's been showed
00:18:59.860 to increase
00:19:01.120 stem cell production,
00:19:02.460 so those baby
00:19:03.200 seahorses,
00:19:04.360 and increase
00:19:06.000 blood flow
00:19:06.720 to the brain.
00:19:07.620 I did the big
00:19:08.280 NFL study
00:19:09.120 sort of when
00:19:09.740 the NFL
00:19:10.180 was not telling
00:19:11.040 the truth
00:19:11.680 about traumatic
00:19:12.680 brain injury
00:19:13.280 in football.
00:19:13.820 and, like,
00:19:16.880 let's stop
00:19:17.400 lying about this.
00:19:18.340 This is a brain
00:19:19.100 damaging sport.
00:19:21.060 But 80%
00:19:22.140 of my players
00:19:22.920 get better
00:19:23.640 when we put
00:19:24.840 them on a
00:19:25.420 rehabilitation
00:19:26.040 program,
00:19:28.100 multiple vitamin,
00:19:29.280 fish oil,
00:19:30.240 brain boost
00:19:31.020 I created,
00:19:32.200 and many of them
00:19:33.040 also hyperbaric
00:19:34.160 oxygen therapy.
00:19:36.280 When you do
00:19:37.640 that,
00:19:38.140 when you put
00:19:38.880 the brain
00:19:39.580 in a healing
00:19:40.240 environment,
00:19:40.980 it can be
00:19:42.200 prettier,
00:19:43.180 can be
00:19:43.600 healthier,
00:19:44.440 which means
00:19:45.620 you're happier
00:19:46.680 and you make
00:19:48.220 better decisions.
00:19:50.120 So,
00:19:50.460 cosmetic surgery
00:19:51.560 or surgery
00:19:52.440 period to make
00:19:53.620 somebody become
00:19:54.400 a better processor,
00:19:55.420 better decision maker,
00:19:56.440 we're not there yet.
00:19:57.840 But certain,
00:19:59.200 you know,
00:20:00.180 dietary supplements
00:20:01.560 or approach
00:20:02.580 can help you
00:20:03.540 become a better
00:20:04.200 processor and a
00:20:05.140 better decision maker.
00:20:06.580 Okay.
00:20:07.900 Outside of
00:20:08.780 dietary,
00:20:09.220 you know,
00:20:09.380 in bodybuilding,
00:20:10.000 they say it's
00:20:10.800 cardio,
00:20:11.540 they say it's
00:20:12.420 weightlifting,
00:20:13.220 proper weightlifting,
00:20:14.620 you got diet,
00:20:15.740 and then you got,
00:20:16.400 as you get older,
00:20:17.260 stretching to make
00:20:17.980 your muscle more,
00:20:19.420 you know,
00:20:20.240 full,
00:20:22.180 makes it look better
00:20:22.880 if you got some,
00:20:23.660 you see a lot of
00:20:24.220 bodybuilders going,
00:20:25.060 they've taken ballet
00:20:25.740 and gymnastics
00:20:26.460 because the body
00:20:27.140 comes out a lot nicer.
00:20:29.480 What is a good
00:20:30.960 combination,
00:20:31.720 you would say,
00:20:32.440 to make someone's
00:20:33.400 brain sharper?
00:20:35.720 So,
00:20:36.000 so many of those
00:20:37.040 things,
00:20:38.080 because the stronger
00:20:39.260 you are as you age,
00:20:40.800 the less likely
00:20:41.500 you are to get
00:20:42.240 Alzheimer's disease.
00:20:45.700 Cardio's important.
00:20:47.300 I tell people,
00:20:48.360 walk like you're late,
00:20:50.200 that it's easier
00:20:51.800 on your joints
00:20:52.920 and people who walk
00:20:54.200 like they're late,
00:20:55.160 45 minutes,
00:20:56.220 four to five times
00:20:57.780 a week,
00:20:58.660 have a lower incidence
00:21:00.040 of cognitive problems
00:21:01.600 and depression.
00:21:03.540 And so,
00:21:04.100 if you're 80 years old
00:21:05.160 and you can walk
00:21:05.920 three miles an hour,
00:21:07.420 you have a 90% chance
00:21:08.960 of living
00:21:09.380 until you're 90.
00:21:10.780 If you can only walk
00:21:11.860 a mile an hour,
00:21:13.280 you have a 90% chance
00:21:14.580 you are not going
00:21:15.520 to live
00:21:15.980 until you're 90.
00:21:18.360 So,
00:21:18.940 exercise.
00:21:19.800 Diet is so important.
00:21:21.960 Your brain
00:21:22.480 is only 2%
00:21:24.000 of your body's weight,
00:21:25.400 about three pounds.
00:21:27.000 It uses
00:21:27.620 20 to 30%
00:21:29.660 of the calories
00:21:31.360 you consume.
00:21:33.460 Think about that.
00:21:34.500 So,
00:21:35.500 it is
00:21:36.740 the Beverly Hills,
00:21:38.460 if you will.
00:21:39.180 It's the most expensive
00:21:40.640 real estate
00:21:41.780 in your body.
00:21:44.120 And if you have
00:21:44.900 a fast food diet,
00:21:46.280 you're going to have
00:21:46.740 a fast food mind.
00:21:48.820 You're more likely
00:21:49.780 to be depressed
00:21:50.800 and demented.
00:21:52.380 Interesting.
00:21:52.780 So,
00:21:53.300 diet is critical.
00:21:54.740 There is
00:21:55.360 a linear correlation
00:21:57.300 between the number
00:21:58.940 of fruits and vegetables
00:22:00.120 you eat a day
00:22:00.980 and your level
00:22:02.440 of happiness
00:22:03.540 up to eight.
00:22:05.400 So,
00:22:05.820 eight should be
00:22:06.400 the target
00:22:07.040 for everyone.
00:22:09.600 And then nutrients,
00:22:10.800 I think,
00:22:11.320 are really important.
00:22:12.620 I think everybody
00:22:13.440 should take
00:22:14.000 a multiple vitamin.
00:22:15.860 Everybody should take
00:22:17.060 an omega-3 fatty acid
00:22:19.080 fish oil supplement.
00:22:20.960 97%
00:22:22.100 of the population
00:22:23.040 is low
00:22:23.860 in omega-3 fatty acids.
00:22:26.200 Critical
00:22:26.800 for getting
00:22:27.700 your brain
00:22:28.440 to connect right
00:22:30.060 and to think right.
00:22:32.700 And then
00:22:33.120 new learning
00:22:34.340 needs to be part
00:22:35.880 of everything
00:22:36.880 you do
00:22:38.260 because
00:22:38.720 when you work
00:22:39.880 your brain,
00:22:40.520 it makes new
00:22:41.660 connections.
00:22:42.760 And don't be
00:22:43.500 overweight, right?
00:22:44.360 If I had to say
00:22:44.960 one thing,
00:22:46.100 if you say,
00:22:46.500 hey, Daniel,
00:22:47.100 what's the one thing?
00:22:50.500 In my books,
00:22:51.540 I talk about
00:22:52.280 bright minds,
00:22:53.200 which is the mnemonic
00:22:54.520 I created
00:22:55.280 to keep your brain
00:22:56.240 healthy.
00:22:56.900 You want to keep
00:22:57.520 your brain healthy
00:22:58.340 or rescue it
00:22:59.300 if it's headed
00:22:59.800 to the dark place.
00:23:01.020 You have to prevent
00:23:02.260 or treat
00:23:03.300 the 11 major
00:23:04.660 risk factors
00:23:05.380 that steal
00:23:06.120 your mind.
00:23:07.320 And the mnemonic
00:23:08.000 is bright minds.
00:23:09.100 So B is for blood flow,
00:23:10.540 R is retirement
00:23:11.400 and aging.
00:23:12.580 The D
00:23:13.120 is diabetes.
00:23:14.880 If you are
00:23:15.900 overweight
00:23:16.880 or have high blood sugar,
00:23:19.340 shrinks
00:23:19.760 your brain.
00:23:21.200 But being
00:23:21.700 overweight,
00:23:22.560 actually,
00:23:23.840 if you're overweight,
00:23:24.720 you have five
00:23:25.600 of the 11
00:23:26.400 risk factors
00:23:27.500 because the fat
00:23:28.820 on your belly,
00:23:29.780 so that's one
00:23:30.440 risk factor,
00:23:31.520 decreases blood flow.
00:23:33.520 I published a study
00:23:34.480 last year
00:23:35.040 on 35,000
00:23:37.280 scans
00:23:37.880 that showed
00:23:38.820 as your weight
00:23:40.120 went up,
00:23:42.060 the function
00:23:43.440 of your brain
00:23:44.500 went down.
00:23:45.840 What is the correlation
00:23:46.800 between the two?
00:23:47.500 Is it energy?
00:23:48.140 Like,
00:23:48.360 I'm just too tired
00:23:49.120 to want to process
00:23:49.820 and go extend
00:23:50.620 five more minutes
00:23:51.940 to make a better decision?
00:23:53.000 What is the link?
00:23:53.900 So,
00:23:55.740 lowers blood flow
00:23:57.440 to your brain.
00:23:58.420 It increases
00:23:59.960 inflammation
00:24:01.480 because the fat
00:24:03.680 cells produce
00:24:04.660 something called
00:24:05.460 inflammatory cytokines
00:24:07.180 that damage
00:24:08.100 your brain.
00:24:09.620 It takes
00:24:10.300 healthy
00:24:10.900 testosterone
00:24:11.840 and turns
00:24:13.300 it into
00:24:14.380 unhealthy
00:24:15.320 cancer-promoting
00:24:16.660 forms
00:24:17.220 of estrogen
00:24:18.140 and
00:24:20.500 it stores
00:24:21.660 toxins.
00:24:22.400 and so
00:24:23.480 it does
00:24:23.940 all of these
00:24:24.960 bad things
00:24:26.540 which means
00:24:27.800 you really
00:24:28.460 should have
00:24:29.160 an idea
00:24:29.680 of how many
00:24:30.240 calories
00:24:30.900 you eat a day.
00:24:32.140 I think of
00:24:32.700 calories like
00:24:33.720 money
00:24:34.320 and we want
00:24:35.580 to be
00:24:36.020 a value
00:24:37.040 spender
00:24:37.780 and then
00:24:39.980 the quality
00:24:41.000 of your calories
00:24:41.820 actually matters
00:24:43.280 more than
00:24:43.960 the number
00:24:44.400 itself.
00:24:46.180 But
00:24:46.700 there's this
00:24:47.680 fascinating
00:24:48.440 study from
00:24:49.520 the Mayo Clinic
00:24:50.360 where they
00:24:51.340 looked at
00:24:51.700 people who
00:24:52.200 had a
00:24:52.600 fat-based
00:24:53.340 diet
00:24:53.780 avocados
00:24:55.480 nuts and
00:24:56.100 seeds
00:24:56.400 healthy oils
00:24:57.280 healthy fish
00:24:58.180 42%
00:24:59.900 less risk
00:25:00.860 of getting
00:25:01.260 Alzheimer's
00:25:01.980 disease
00:25:02.400 and they
00:25:03.640 compared them
00:25:04.420 to people
00:25:04.840 at a
00:25:05.220 carbohydrate-based
00:25:06.260 diet
00:25:06.720 simple
00:25:07.160 carbohydrate-based
00:25:08.260 diet
00:25:08.700 bread
00:25:09.620 pasta
00:25:10.300 potatoes
00:25:11.040 rice
00:25:11.960 fruit juice
00:25:12.940 sugar
00:25:13.500 a 400%
00:25:16.860 increased
00:25:18.220 risk
00:25:18.800 of getting
00:25:19.720 Alzheimer's
00:25:20.500 disease
00:25:20.900 it's the
00:25:22.360 sugar
00:25:22.660 now I'm a
00:25:23.580 fan of
00:25:24.060 carbs
00:25:24.500 just not
00:25:25.280 the ones
00:25:25.700 that quickly
00:25:26.160 turn to
00:25:26.780 sugar
00:25:27.120 simple carbs
00:25:29.060 like bread
00:25:29.660 pasta
00:25:30.080 potatoes
00:25:30.640 rice
00:25:31.080 and sugar
00:25:31.860 so so
00:25:32.760 the follow
00:25:33.640 up on
00:25:33.960 this would
00:25:34.400 be how
00:25:35.360 much of
00:25:35.760 it has
00:25:36.160 to do
00:25:36.840 with what
00:25:38.320 I see
00:25:38.960 what I
00:25:39.620 hear
00:25:40.200 so what
00:25:41.780 I see
00:25:42.340 what I
00:25:43.120 hear
00:25:43.600 what I
00:25:44.220 speak
00:25:44.780 meaning
00:25:45.280 I listen
00:25:46.900 to music
00:25:47.580 is it is
00:25:48.420 certain kind
00:25:48.980 of music
00:25:49.440 strengthening
00:25:50.000 my brain
00:25:50.840 because I
00:25:51.400 have to
00:25:51.740 listen to
00:25:52.260 the words
00:25:52.840 and I
00:25:53.100 have to
00:25:53.380 process
00:25:53.720 what's
00:25:54.040 being
00:25:54.240 said
00:25:54.660 it
00:25:55.860 you know
00:25:56.860 gets my
00:25:57.940 creative
00:25:58.420 juice
00:25:58.820 flowing
00:25:59.180 is it
00:25:59.560 watching
00:26:00.040 if I
00:26:00.460 watch
00:26:00.860 a
00:26:01.220 exorcist
00:26:02.340 a movie
00:26:02.800 messes
00:26:03.260 with my
00:26:03.620 head
00:26:03.860 versus
00:26:04.140 watching
00:26:04.640 something
00:26:05.020 that's
00:26:05.340 getting
00:26:05.560 me
00:26:05.700 to
00:26:05.840 think
00:26:06.080 about
00:26:06.320 the
00:26:06.500 decision
00:26:06.820 making
00:26:07.120 is it
00:26:07.480 video
00:26:07.800 games
00:26:08.260 there are
00:26:08.840 a lot
00:26:08.980 of
00:26:09.080 people
00:26:09.220 right
00:26:09.460 now
00:26:09.620 that are
00:26:09.860 saying
00:26:10.080 certain
00:26:10.440 games
00:26:10.840 make
00:26:11.100 you
00:26:11.240 smarter
00:26:11.580 as a
00:26:11.860 teaching
00:26:12.220 if I
00:26:13.140 speak
00:26:13.480 to an
00:26:13.780 audience
00:26:14.060 and I'm
00:26:14.360 having
00:26:14.540 a debate
00:26:15.020 and a
00:26:15.300 dialogue
00:26:15.620 is that
00:26:15.920 making
00:26:16.220 me
00:26:16.420 a
00:26:16.520 better
00:26:16.680 processor
00:26:17.260 a
00:26:17.840 sharper
00:26:18.160 mind
00:26:18.460 what
00:26:18.700 would
00:26:18.900 you
00:26:19.020 say
00:26:19.280 those
00:26:26.860 of the
00:26:27.140 whole
00:26:27.320 book
00:26:27.680 your
00:26:28.140 brain
00:26:28.600 is
00:26:29.300 always
00:26:30.100 listening
00:26:31.080 to the
00:26:32.640 dragons
00:26:33.120 from the
00:26:33.520 past
00:26:33.920 those
00:26:34.180 are
00:26:34.320 the
00:26:34.440 big
00:26:34.620 emotional
00:26:35.160 issues
00:26:35.620 people
00:26:36.000 struggle
00:26:36.480 with
00:26:36.940 like
00:26:37.640 grief
00:26:38.240 and
00:26:38.460 loss
00:26:39.000 or
00:26:39.240 wounded
00:26:39.740 dragons
00:26:40.420 it's
00:26:41.960 the
00:26:42.120 they
00:26:42.420 them
00:26:42.740 and
00:26:42.900 other
00:26:43.120 dragons
00:26:43.580 you're
00:26:43.860 always
00:26:44.220 listening
00:26:44.720 to
00:26:45.260 the
00:26:45.420 other
00:26:45.620 people
00:26:46.060 alive
00:26:46.960 and
00:26:47.360 dead
00:26:47.900 like
00:26:48.560 I
00:26:48.740 always
00:26:49.200 have
00:26:49.420 my
00:26:49.660 dad's
00:26:50.140 voice
00:26:50.560 in
00:26:50.960 my
00:26:51.180 head
00:26:51.400 even
00:26:51.600 though
00:26:51.820 he
00:26:51.960 died
00:26:52.180 a
00:26:52.340 year
00:26:52.480 ago
00:26:52.800 it's
00:26:54.920 the
00:26:55.420 sibling
00:26:56.240 and
00:26:56.540 birth
00:26:56.820 order
00:26:57.100 dragons
00:26:57.620 I
00:26:57.800 don't
00:26:57.920 know
00:26:58.040 how
00:26:58.200 many
00:26:58.420 siblings
00:26:58.760 you
00:26:59.040 have
00:26:59.360 I
00:26:59.540 have
00:26:59.700 seven
00:27:00.120 they
00:27:00.600 come
00:27:00.820 from
00:27:01.020 a
00:27:01.140 good
00:27:01.320 Lebanese
00:27:01.860 Catholic
00:27:02.280 family
00:27:02.860 respect
00:27:03.480 and
00:27:04.560 I
00:27:04.940 have
00:27:05.100 five
00:27:05.400 sisters
00:27:05.860 so
00:27:06.300 your
00:27:06.600 birth
00:27:07.060 order
00:27:07.420 really
00:27:08.000 does
00:27:08.540 matter
00:27:08.940 you're
00:27:09.180 sort
00:27:09.380 of
00:27:09.500 always
00:27:09.920 listening
00:27:10.440 are
00:27:11.100 you
00:27:11.340 special
00:27:11.860 or
00:27:12.300 are
00:27:12.580 you
00:27:12.920 not
00:27:13.960 special
00:27:14.460 your
00:27:15.720 brain
00:27:15.980 is
00:27:16.160 always
00:27:16.520 listening
00:27:17.000 to
00:27:17.320 your
00:27:17.560 habits
00:27:18.200 there's
00:27:19.120 a whole
00:27:19.380 section
00:27:19.800 on
00:27:20.100 bad
00:27:20.400 habit
00:27:20.800 dragons
00:27:21.400 like
00:27:23.000 people
00:27:23.320 who
00:27:23.520 say
00:27:23.720 yes
00:27:24.020 yes
00:27:24.280 yes
00:27:24.760 when
00:27:25.800 they
00:27:26.000 should
00:27:26.240 say
00:27:26.480 I
00:27:26.640 have
00:27:26.860 to
00:27:27.020 think
00:27:27.300 about
00:27:27.660 it
00:27:27.920 or
00:27:28.320 you
00:27:28.520 know
00:27:28.840 the
00:27:29.080 other
00:27:29.300 people
00:27:29.720 like
00:27:30.140 my
00:27:30.340 dad
00:27:30.720 no
00:27:31.020 no
00:27:31.260 no
00:27:31.660 it's
00:27:32.100 like
00:27:32.240 the
00:27:32.400 first
00:27:32.660 response
00:27:33.380 is
00:27:33.620 no
00:27:33.860 they
00:27:34.040 don't
00:27:34.240 even
00:27:34.480 think
00:27:34.760 about
00:27:35.080 it
00:27:35.300 there's
00:27:36.860 the
00:27:37.020 addicted
00:27:37.540 dragons
00:27:38.280 so
00:27:38.760 whatever
00:27:39.160 you
00:27:39.580 allow
00:27:40.120 your
00:27:40.440 brain
00:27:40.780 to
00:27:41.040 do
00:27:41.400 if
00:27:42.400 it's
00:27:42.640 rewarding
00:27:43.220 it's
00:27:43.820 going
00:27:43.960 to
00:27:44.080 do
00:27:44.260 it
00:27:44.400 again
00:27:44.820 which
00:27:45.280 is
00:27:45.440 why
00:27:45.700 porn
00:27:46.060 can
00:27:46.320 be
00:27:46.620 a
00:27:47.100 problem
00:27:47.540 it's
00:27:48.080 why
00:27:48.600 caffeine
00:27:50.360 and
00:27:50.780 nicotine
00:27:51.300 and
00:27:51.620 alcohol
00:27:52.140 and
00:27:52.660 marijuana
00:27:53.100 can
00:27:53.400 be
00:27:53.720 habit
00:27:54.360 forming
00:27:54.760 because
00:27:55.260 your
00:27:55.640 brain
00:27:56.000 is
00:27:56.180 always
00:27:56.660 listening
00:27:57.120 it's
00:27:57.440 like
00:27:57.620 oh
00:27:57.820 I
00:27:57.980 got
00:27:58.120 rewarded
00:27:58.560 for
00:27:58.800 that
00:27:59.040 let
00:27:59.260 me
00:27:59.440 do
00:27:59.760 that
00:28:00.520 again
00:28:01.100 and
00:28:02.720 it's
00:28:02.980 listening
00:28:03.380 to
00:28:03.740 the
00:28:04.020 scheming
00:28:04.820 dragons
00:28:05.660 which
00:28:06.560 is
00:28:07.380 the
00:28:08.260 digital
00:28:08.660 dragons
00:28:09.300 you
00:28:09.660 know
00:28:09.960 the
00:28:10.420 Netflix
00:28:12.320 documentary
00:28:13.120 social
00:28:13.860 dilemma
00:28:14.240 was so
00:28:15.240 good
00:28:15.680 and so
00:28:16.780 disturbing
00:28:17.540 because
00:28:18.500 these
00:28:19.100 did you
00:28:19.420 agree
00:28:19.680 with it
00:28:20.100 were you
00:28:20.420 in
00:28:20.800 agreement
00:28:21.120 with it
00:28:21.520 absolutely
00:28:22.420 okay
00:28:22.860 I've
00:28:23.360 seen
00:28:23.660 it
00:28:23.880 that
00:28:24.340 they're
00:28:24.660 changing
00:28:25.320 our
00:28:26.020 brains
00:28:26.740 to
00:28:27.640 make
00:28:27.880 money
00:28:28.140 for
00:28:28.380 their
00:28:28.580 advertisers
00:28:29.300 that
00:28:29.960 they're
00:28:30.240 finding
00:28:30.740 what
00:28:31.560 hooks
00:28:32.040 us
00:28:32.420 and
00:28:33.540 feeding
00:28:34.060 to
00:28:34.660 us
00:28:34.980 over
00:28:35.440 and
00:28:35.720 over
00:28:35.940 again
00:28:36.260 I'm
00:28:36.500 very
00:28:37.020 worried
00:28:37.540 about
00:28:38.340 it
00:28:38.640 because
00:28:39.380 the
00:28:40.720 epidemic
00:28:41.380 of
00:28:41.800 teenage
00:28:42.220 suicide
00:28:42.780 I
00:28:43.580 believe
00:28:43.920 is being
00:28:44.500 driven
00:28:44.840 by social
00:28:45.620 media
00:28:46.040 as
00:28:46.620 girls
00:28:46.960 constantly
00:28:47.800 compare
00:28:48.560 themselves
00:28:49.280 in a
00:28:49.740 negative
00:28:50.040 way
00:28:50.640 to
00:28:51.340 the
00:28:51.700 social
00:28:52.160 influencers
00:28:53.060 that
00:28:54.340 are
00:28:55.140 struggling
00:28:55.580 just like
00:28:56.380 they are
00:28:56.960 I know
00:28:57.320 I've
00:28:57.700 treated
00:28:57.920 many
00:28:58.240 of
00:28:58.460 them
00:28:58.620 and
00:28:59.220 so
00:28:59.880 your
00:29:00.940 brain
00:29:01.200 is
00:29:01.400 always
00:29:01.800 listening
00:29:02.380 to
00:29:03.360 the
00:29:04.840 food
00:29:05.280 pushers
00:29:05.940 the
00:29:06.180 toxin
00:29:06.920 pushers
00:29:08.200 it's
00:29:08.660 always
00:29:09.000 listening
00:29:09.480 to
00:29:09.760 the
00:29:09.960 news
00:29:10.320 mongers
00:29:11.040 where
00:29:11.700 the
00:29:11.880 news
00:29:12.100 is
00:29:12.280 actually
00:29:12.640 not
00:29:13.000 the
00:29:13.220 news
00:29:13.600 anymore
00:29:14.080 they
00:29:15.040 pick
00:29:15.540 whatever
00:29:15.900 thing
00:29:16.580 is
00:29:16.740 going
00:29:16.880 to
00:29:16.960 get
00:29:17.160 you
00:29:17.320 upset
00:29:17.660 and
00:29:18.320 then
00:29:18.460 they
00:29:18.660 play
00:29:18.960 it
00:29:19.180 over
00:29:19.560 and
00:29:19.860 over
00:29:20.340 again
00:29:21.360 and
00:29:22.160 people
00:29:22.540 who
00:29:22.760 start
00:29:23.080 their
00:29:23.300 day
00:29:23.720 with
00:29:24.140 the
00:29:24.320 news
00:29:24.740 are
00:29:25.220 27%
00:29:26.640 less
00:29:27.520 happy
00:29:28.340 as
00:29:29.100 the
00:29:29.320 day
00:29:29.540 goes
00:29:29.920 on
00:29:30.220 I
00:29:30.540 actually
00:29:30.740 have
00:29:30.900 an app
00:29:31.260 called
00:29:31.580 the
00:29:31.740 Good
00:29:31.920 News
00:29:32.200 Network
00:29:32.580 and
00:29:33.180 that's
00:29:33.460 how I
00:29:33.780 start
00:29:34.080 my
00:29:34.320 day
00:29:34.660 it's
00:29:35.720 always
00:29:35.980 there's
00:29:36.240 something
00:29:36.500 fun
00:29:36.820 I
00:29:36.900 have
00:29:37.060 an
00:29:37.180 old
00:29:37.400 friend
00:29:37.820 that
00:29:38.060 wanted
00:29:38.320 to
00:29:38.520 start
00:29:38.740 a
00:29:38.880 company
00:29:39.140 called
00:29:39.460 GNN
00:29:40.120 so
00:29:40.400 you
00:29:40.600 did
00:29:40.800 it
00:29:40.940 Good
00:29:41.100 News
00:29:41.300 Network
00:29:41.820 I
00:29:43.420 like
00:29:43.700 it
00:29:43.980 I
00:29:45.460 log
00:29:45.880 on
00:29:46.180 every
00:29:46.440 morning
00:29:46.820 I
00:29:47.560 love
00:29:47.840 it
00:29:48.140 I
00:29:48.300 love
00:29:48.520 it
00:29:48.620 very
00:29:48.840 cool
00:29:49.080 so
00:29:49.360 books
00:29:50.700 books
00:29:51.500 are
00:29:51.920 there
00:29:52.120 books
00:29:52.500 that
00:29:52.700 don't
00:29:52.920 do
00:29:53.040 nothing
00:29:53.280 to
00:29:53.440 your
00:29:53.580 brain
00:29:53.820 where
00:29:54.020 it's
00:29:54.140 wasted
00:29:54.540 like
00:29:54.900 if
00:29:55.100 I
00:29:55.280 read
00:29:55.620 I
00:29:56.480 don't
00:29:56.660 know
00:29:56.880 if
00:29:57.060 I
00:29:57.240 read
00:29:57.640 Fifty Shades
00:29:59.680 of Grey
00:30:00.080 versus
00:30:00.340 Psycho
00:30:00.840 Cybernetics
00:30:01.580 okay
00:30:02.020 you know
00:30:02.940 and I'm
00:30:03.340 sure you
00:30:03.640 know
00:30:03.740 both
00:30:04.020 of them
00:30:04.240 with
00:30:04.400 Maxwell
00:30:04.760 Moll
00:30:05.080 you know
00:30:05.460 being in
00:30:05.800 your world
00:30:06.180 you probably
00:30:06.560 read
00:30:06.800 Psycho
00:30:07.180 Cybernetics
00:30:07.740 is there
00:30:08.760 is there
00:30:09.120 books that
00:30:09.660 I feed
00:30:10.080 my mind
00:30:10.760 that's
00:30:11.180 tapping
00:30:11.500 into
00:30:11.900 a certain
00:30:13.020 muscle
00:30:13.480 or
00:30:13.920 it's
00:30:14.240 just
00:30:14.500 period
00:30:14.980 you're
00:30:15.320 tapping
00:30:15.580 into
00:30:15.840 muscle
00:30:16.120 the more
00:30:16.420 you read
00:30:16.920 and the more
00:30:17.240 you feed
00:30:17.580 your
00:30:17.740 imagination
00:30:18.220 mind
00:30:18.760 I think
00:30:19.480 what you
00:30:19.840 read
00:30:20.180 really
00:30:20.820 matters
00:30:21.580 if
00:30:22.480 you're
00:30:22.760 reading
00:30:23.160 a lot
00:30:23.660 of
00:30:23.820 horror
00:30:24.240 stuff
00:30:25.260 just
00:30:25.540 to
00:30:25.700 keep
00:30:25.900 you
00:30:26.060 up
00:30:26.380 and
00:30:26.620 get
00:30:27.080 excited
00:30:27.740 that's
00:30:28.660 going
00:30:28.780 to
00:30:28.940 wear
00:30:29.180 out
00:30:29.480 the
00:30:29.720 pleasure
00:30:30.140 centers
00:30:30.660 in
00:30:31.240 your
00:30:31.420 brain
00:30:31.800 I mean
00:30:32.140 you
00:30:32.300 should
00:30:32.660 read
00:30:33.080 for
00:30:33.400 pleasure
00:30:33.760 like
00:30:35.660 Pillars
00:30:37.000 of the
00:30:37.320 Earth
00:30:37.580 by
00:30:37.860 Ken
00:30:38.080 Follett
00:30:38.420 one of
00:30:38.720 my
00:30:38.880 favorite
00:30:39.280 all-time
00:30:40.100 books
00:30:41.060 or the
00:30:41.460 Da Vinci
00:30:41.940 Code
00:30:42.380 because
00:30:42.760 it
00:30:42.960 entertains
00:30:43.640 you
00:30:43.940 and
00:30:44.720 educates
00:30:45.600 you
00:30:45.940 at
00:30:46.700 the
00:30:47.040 same
00:30:47.500 time
00:30:48.140 and
00:30:48.680 we
00:30:48.880 need
00:30:49.220 to
00:30:50.020 go
00:30:50.220 offline
00:30:50.780 so
00:30:51.920 that
00:30:52.120 you're
00:30:52.260 not
00:30:52.460 always
00:30:53.100 working
00:30:54.080 but
00:30:55.340 at
00:30:55.520 the
00:30:55.740 same
00:30:56.120 time
00:30:56.780 if
00:30:57.200 you're
00:30:57.440 feeding
00:30:57.800 it
00:30:58.060 garbage
00:30:58.520 it's
00:30:59.860 not
00:31:00.060 good
00:31:00.420 for
00:31:01.060 it
00:31:01.240 you
00:31:01.400 can
00:31:01.600 actually
00:31:02.000 wear
00:31:02.480 out
00:31:03.020 the
00:31:03.360 pleasure
00:31:03.880 centers
00:31:04.560 in
00:31:05.880 your
00:31:06.100 brain
00:31:06.520 by
00:31:07.240 what
00:31:07.640 you
00:31:07.800 allow
00:31:08.160 your
00:31:08.420 brain
00:31:08.800 to
00:31:09.040 do
00:31:09.200 what
00:31:09.400 does
00:31:09.720 that
00:31:09.880 mean
00:31:10.080 so
00:31:10.980 in
00:31:11.340 your
00:31:11.560 brain
00:31:11.940 you
00:31:12.420 have
00:31:12.620 this
00:31:12.880 area
00:31:13.400 called
00:31:13.800 the
00:31:14.020 nucleus
00:31:14.620 accumbens
00:31:15.720 and
00:31:16.260 it's
00:31:16.440 really
00:31:16.960 important
00:31:17.520 because
00:31:17.940 it responds
00:31:18.840 to the
00:31:19.640 neurotransmitter
00:31:20.500 dopamine
00:31:20.960 and
00:31:21.800 dopamine
00:31:22.240 helps
00:31:23.240 you
00:31:23.400 focus
00:31:23.880 makes
00:31:24.440 you
00:31:24.680 happy
00:31:25.160 drives
00:31:26.200 motivation
00:31:27.160 and
00:31:28.360 but if
00:31:29.240 you
00:31:29.660 dump
00:31:30.560 dopamine
00:31:31.100 you
00:31:31.660 engage
00:31:32.400 in
00:31:32.780 behaviors
00:31:33.520 that
00:31:34.360 cause
00:31:35.060 too much
00:31:35.840 of it
00:31:36.100 to be
00:31:36.440 released
00:31:36.980 think
00:31:37.480 cocaine
00:31:38.060 or
00:31:39.040 compulsive
00:31:39.900 gambling
00:31:40.460 or porn
00:31:41.320 or
00:31:41.920 incredibly
00:31:43.080 delicious
00:31:43.680 desserts
00:31:44.240 you know
00:31:44.760 high fat
00:31:45.400 high
00:31:45.760 sugar
00:31:46.040 desserts
00:31:47.040 it dumps
00:31:48.040 dopamine
00:31:48.520 over
00:31:49.460 time
00:31:50.140 if you
00:31:50.860 do it
00:31:51.160 too much
00:31:51.640 or too
00:31:52.040 often
00:31:52.480 it wears
00:31:53.720 out
00:31:54.280 the
00:31:55.660 nucleus
00:31:56.080 accumbens
00:31:56.760 and then
00:31:57.460 it takes
00:31:57.880 more
00:31:58.320 and more
00:31:58.960 to feel
00:32:00.420 anything
00:32:01.060 at all
00:32:01.600 which is
00:32:02.260 why
00:32:02.640 for my
00:32:03.160 young
00:32:03.500 superstars
00:32:04.380 my prayer
00:32:05.300 for them
00:32:05.780 is dear
00:32:06.200 god
00:32:06.500 please
00:32:06.880 don't
00:32:07.140 let me
00:32:07.460 be
00:32:07.700 famous
00:32:08.220 before
00:32:08.900 my brain
00:32:09.660 is
00:32:09.860 finished
00:32:10.340 developing
00:32:11.060 which is
00:32:12.000 not until
00:32:12.660 25
00:32:13.400 or
00:32:13.700 26
00:32:14.360 and so
00:32:15.520 you see
00:32:16.100 these young
00:32:16.880 superstars
00:32:17.780 like Miley
00:32:18.400 and
00:32:18.700 Justin
00:32:20.040 severe
00:32:21.320 drug
00:32:21.940 abuse
00:32:22.360 and it
00:32:23.000 wasn't
00:32:23.360 drug abuse
00:32:23.900 to feel
00:32:24.400 high
00:32:24.880 it was
00:32:25.440 drug abuse
00:32:26.200 to chase
00:32:27.460 feeling
00:32:27.980 normal
00:32:28.660 and
00:32:29.780 wait
00:32:30.200 drug abuse
00:32:30.920 not even
00:32:31.300 to escape
00:32:31.940 drug abuse
00:32:32.700 to chase
00:32:33.240 feeling
00:32:33.580 normal
00:32:34.140 right
00:32:34.760 because
00:32:35.260 their
00:32:35.500 pleasure
00:32:35.920 centers
00:32:36.400 had been
00:32:36.840 damaged
00:32:37.320 by the
00:32:38.700 thing
00:32:39.060 so
00:32:39.900 the more
00:32:40.440 famous
00:32:40.920 you are
00:32:42.040 initially
00:32:42.980 it's
00:32:43.560 awesome
00:32:44.120 it's
00:32:44.560 unbelievable
00:32:45.140 it's
00:32:45.780 great
00:32:46.160 when people
00:32:47.080 cheer for
00:32:47.660 you
00:32:48.040 but dopamine
00:32:48.900 is really
00:32:49.760 the molecule
00:32:50.560 of more
00:32:51.740 it's a trap
00:32:52.860 because
00:32:53.740 whenever you
00:32:54.700 get some
00:32:55.800 and it
00:32:56.120 makes you
00:32:56.520 happy
00:32:56.980 it's not
00:32:58.420 enough
00:32:58.880 and you're
00:32:59.760 going to
00:32:59.940 want more
00:33:00.720 and more
00:33:01.460 to get
00:33:02.040 the same
00:33:02.860 reaction
00:33:03.640 so I've
00:33:04.380 had 12
00:33:05.140 New York
00:33:05.880 Times
00:33:06.220 bestsellers
00:33:06.940 and one
00:33:07.260 of them
00:33:07.480 was a
00:33:07.780 bestseller
00:33:08.300 for 40
00:33:09.400 weeks
00:33:09.820 I mean
00:33:10.180 it was
00:33:10.560 pretty
00:33:10.840 cool
00:33:11.280 change
00:33:11.860 your
00:33:12.000 brain
00:33:12.240 change
00:33:12.620 your
00:33:12.800 life
00:33:13.180 but if
00:33:14.020 the next
00:33:14.340 one's only
00:33:14.720 a bestseller
00:33:15.280 for 12
00:33:16.040 weeks
00:33:16.620 which is
00:33:17.440 sort of
00:33:17.800 a historic
00:33:18.480 accomplishment
00:33:19.220 it's like
00:33:20.480 well it's
00:33:20.840 not good
00:33:21.200 enough
00:33:21.580 and so
00:33:22.420 you really
00:33:23.020 have to
00:33:23.560 do work
00:33:24.380 on your
00:33:25.060 mind
00:33:25.680 to not
00:33:26.700 let
00:33:27.180 success
00:33:29.020 steal
00:33:30.460 your
00:33:31.680 happiness
00:33:32.540 when they
00:33:33.200 ask people
00:33:33.900 who are
00:33:34.340 wealthy
00:33:34.860 what would
00:33:36.320 it take
00:33:37.080 so people
00:33:37.900 had
00:33:38.320 five
00:33:38.980 million
00:33:39.300 dollars
00:33:39.740 ten
00:33:40.060 million
00:33:40.400 dollars
00:33:40.800 a hundred
00:33:41.240 million
00:33:41.640 dollars
00:33:42.020 what would
00:33:42.820 it take
00:33:43.220 for you
00:33:43.520 to be
00:33:43.880 perfectly
00:33:44.640 happy
00:33:45.660 they all
00:33:47.080 said two
00:33:47.480 to three
00:33:47.840 times
00:33:48.460 more
00:33:49.240 which is
00:33:50.500 sort of
00:33:50.840 ridiculous
00:33:51.320 right
00:33:52.140 I mean
00:33:52.420 at some
00:33:52.860 point
00:33:53.180 there's
00:33:53.800 no
00:33:54.120 correlation
00:33:54.680 between
00:33:55.100 money
00:33:55.460 and
00:33:55.660 happiness
00:33:56.140 over
00:33:57.460 seventy
00:33:57.920 five
00:33:58.340 thousand
00:33:58.780 dollars
00:33:59.320 which I
00:34:00.380 think is
00:34:00.840 pretty
00:34:01.200 interesting
00:34:01.860 that we
00:34:03.900 need to
00:34:04.280 really work
00:34:04.960 on our
00:34:05.340 minds
00:34:05.820 as much
00:34:07.020 as we're
00:34:07.360 working on
00:34:07.800 our
00:34:07.960 businesses
00:34:08.420 how do
00:34:08.860 you deal
00:34:09.160 with that
00:34:09.600 how do
00:34:09.880 you deal
00:34:10.220 with I
00:34:10.840 mean you've
00:34:11.620 got fame
00:34:12.240 and you
00:34:12.680 you know
00:34:13.040 one hundred
00:34:13.480 and seventy
00:34:13.840 five thousand
00:34:14.500 scans
00:34:14.840 these are
00:34:15.220 data
00:34:15.500 these are
00:34:15.840 bragging rights
00:34:16.480 right
00:34:16.760 13 times
00:34:17.780 12 times
00:34:18.300 New York
00:34:18.640 Times
00:34:18.900 bestseller
00:34:19.480 40 weeks
00:34:20.700 on the
00:34:20.980 charts
00:34:21.380 how do
00:34:22.160 you deal
00:34:22.520 with it
00:34:22.880 yourself
00:34:23.460 to not
00:34:24.660 become
00:34:25.180 a fiend
00:34:25.900 for more
00:34:26.560 of it
00:34:26.920 or is
00:34:27.540 there anything
00:34:28.060 wrong with
00:34:28.660 that because
00:34:29.080 if you
00:34:30.300 I think
00:34:30.760 you said
00:34:31.180 somewhere you
00:34:31.660 like enjoying
00:34:32.180 watching
00:34:32.540 football
00:34:32.980 I think
00:34:33.440 you said
00:34:33.720 you like
00:34:34.020 enjoying
00:34:34.260 watching
00:34:34.600 football
00:34:35.000 so I
00:34:35.440 don't know
00:34:35.980 if you
00:34:36.700 are you
00:34:36.960 a sports
00:34:37.380 fan
00:34:37.620 yourself
00:34:38.080 are you
00:34:38.600 a guy
00:34:38.900 do
00:34:39.200 huge
00:34:40.040 I'm a
00:34:40.520 Los Angeles
00:34:41.100 Lakers
00:34:41.520 fan
00:34:42.060 okay
00:34:42.600 you and
00:34:43.080 I both
00:34:43.460 I'm a
00:34:43.760 diehard
00:34:44.140 Laker
00:34:44.400 fan as
00:34:44.880 well
00:34:45.100 I'm
00:34:45.340 interviewed
00:34:46.180 Kobe
00:34:46.640 we've
00:34:46.960 had
00:34:47.200 Kobe
00:34:47.500 at our
00:34:47.800 event
00:34:48.020 last year
00:34:48.400 with
00:34:48.520 President
00:34:48.840 Bush
00:34:49.220 the late
00:34:49.600 Kobe
00:34:49.840 Bryan
00:34:50.160 and
00:34:50.380 from the
00:34:51.260 day I
00:34:51.520 came to
00:34:51.820 I was
00:34:52.100 a Laker
00:34:52.400 fan
00:34:52.620 so
00:34:52.880 what do
00:34:55.140 we do
00:34:55.680 with the
00:34:56.400 people we
00:34:56.980 admire so
00:34:57.760 much
00:35:01.660 championships
00:35:02.060 Jordan
00:35:02.500 back to
00:35:03.100 back to
00:35:03.520 back
00:35:03.780 did it
00:35:04.120 twice
00:35:04.580 you know
00:35:05.340 Kobe
00:35:06.240 got five
00:35:06.980 of them
00:35:07.360 and after
00:35:07.880 Shaq got
00:35:08.520 his fourth
00:35:08.940 before Kobe
00:35:09.560 got his
00:35:09.960 fourth
00:35:10.280 and they
00:35:10.620 had a
00:35:10.900 song about
00:35:11.460 him so
00:35:11.720 Kobe got
00:35:12.240 pissed off
00:35:12.720 when he
00:35:12.960 got his
00:35:13.300 fifth
00:35:13.600 I said
00:35:13.980 in the
00:35:14.640 interview
00:35:14.900 he says
00:35:15.360 I think
00:35:15.700 five is
00:35:16.140 more than
00:35:16.460 four
00:35:16.720 please
00:35:17.020 let me
00:35:17.220 make sure
00:35:17.480 Shaq
00:35:17.820 knows
00:35:18.080 this
00:35:18.320 so
00:35:19.180 is that
00:35:19.840 a bad
00:35:20.380 thing
00:35:20.720 that there
00:35:21.180 is this
00:35:21.540 competitive
00:35:22.120 juice that
00:35:22.840 produces
00:35:23.280 into us
00:35:23.820 to say
00:35:24.180 damn
00:35:24.840 it I
00:35:25.220 want one
00:35:25.700 more than
00:35:26.100 this other
00:35:27.180 guy named
00:35:27.600 Shaq
00:35:27.960 I want
00:35:28.200 to get
00:35:28.420 five
00:35:28.720 you know
00:35:29.000 what
00:35:29.220 I'm Tom
00:35:29.700 Brady
00:35:30.000 everybody
00:35:30.760 says
00:35:31.160 that guy
00:35:31.520 is the
00:35:31.780 MJ of
00:35:32.480 doctors
00:35:32.940 that guy
00:35:33.320 is the
00:35:33.540 MJ of
00:35:34.180 psychiatrists
00:35:35.400 I want
00:35:35.800 people to
00:35:36.220 say that
00:35:36.560 guy is the
00:35:36.940 Brady of
00:35:37.480 psychiatrists
00:35:38.100 that guy
00:35:38.400 is the
00:35:38.620 Brady of
00:35:39.160 whatever
00:35:39.900 what's wrong
00:35:41.120 with wanting
00:35:41.660 to compete
00:35:42.280 and do
00:35:42.600 more
00:35:42.960 well because
00:35:43.640 it's a
00:35:44.060 trap
00:35:44.460 that it's
00:35:45.940 constantly
00:35:46.460 going to
00:35:46.980 make you
00:35:47.400 unhappy
00:35:48.020 now I
00:35:49.040 want to
00:35:49.460 be the
00:35:49.920 best I
00:35:50.920 can be
00:35:51.580 and I
00:35:52.280 want my
00:35:52.800 books to
00:35:53.600 be the
00:35:53.980 best they
00:35:54.960 can be
00:35:55.520 but whenever
00:35:56.920 I argue
00:35:57.960 against
00:35:58.520 reality
00:35:59.400 welcome
00:36:00.480 to hell
00:36:01.100 and it's
00:36:03.500 just so
00:36:04.080 important it's
00:36:04.760 really worth
00:36:05.340 writing down
00:36:06.380 is I
00:36:07.880 need to be
00:36:08.520 happy with
00:36:09.280 the best I
00:36:10.420 can do I
00:36:11.440 want to be
00:36:12.280 the best but
00:36:13.980 if it doesn't
00:36:14.700 work like I
00:36:15.700 hope that
00:36:16.780 season I
00:36:17.480 don't win
00:36:18.280 the championship
00:36:19.160 I'm not
00:36:20.280 shooting myself
00:36:21.440 I'm just
00:36:22.200 gonna go
00:36:22.760 what can I
00:36:24.340 do better
00:36:25.540 better and
00:36:26.380 live in
00:36:27.600 the moment
00:36:28.440 because it's
00:36:29.620 not the
00:36:30.100 destination that
00:36:31.140 makes anybody
00:36:31.900 happy because
00:36:32.980 the destination
00:36:33.880 is death
00:36:34.780 it's one of
00:36:36.000 the dragons
00:36:36.680 the death
00:36:37.620 dragon
00:36:38.100 it's what
00:36:39.320 I start
00:36:40.740 every day
00:36:41.540 with today
00:36:42.820 is going to
00:36:43.380 be a great
00:36:43.900 day and
00:36:45.300 I end
00:36:46.140 every day
00:36:47.240 with what
00:36:48.300 went well
00:36:48.920 today I
00:36:50.180 put myself
00:36:50.900 to bed
00:36:51.600 with that
00:36:52.720 exercise
00:36:53.460 and I
00:36:54.380 even look
00:36:55.000 for the
00:36:55.480 smallest
00:36:56.120 moments
00:36:56.800 the micro
00:36:57.600 moments
00:36:58.340 on you
00:36:59.460 know what's
00:36:59.820 the smallest
00:37:00.400 thing that
00:37:01.000 happened you
00:37:01.920 know I
00:37:02.080 live in
00:37:02.420 Newport
00:37:02.760 Beach and
00:37:03.200 I can see
00:37:03.780 the water
00:37:04.320 from my
00:37:04.840 house the
00:37:05.740 sunset last
00:37:06.580 night was
00:37:07.100 spectacular
00:37:08.040 and I see
00:37:09.660 those you
00:37:10.240 know maybe
00:37:10.580 150 nights
00:37:12.400 a year but
00:37:13.640 to just take
00:37:14.300 time to
00:37:15.560 appreciate it
00:37:16.920 or my
00:37:18.420 assistant made
00:37:19.140 me this
00:37:19.560 banana fresh
00:37:20.860 banana
00:37:21.360 strawberry tea
00:37:23.200 and it
00:37:23.920 just tastes
00:37:24.680 awesome so
00:37:25.860 it's really
00:37:26.560 noticing the
00:37:27.840 micro moments
00:37:29.260 and you know
00:37:30.060 I've done big
00:37:30.840 things in my
00:37:32.240 life but it's
00:37:33.560 really the
00:37:34.160 little things
00:37:34.880 that make me
00:37:35.680 happy and if
00:37:36.940 I can celebrate
00:37:38.380 being part of
00:37:40.740 someone else's
00:37:42.380 success then
00:37:44.200 it's not all
00:37:44.960 about me when
00:37:46.240 it's all about
00:37:46.980 me I'm not
00:37:47.740 happy when
00:37:49.240 it's about us
00:37:50.700 and that's
00:37:51.380 why you
00:37:52.180 know I
00:37:52.520 dearly wish
00:37:53.440 I could have
00:37:53.820 had Kobe
00:37:54.340 and Shaq
00:37:54.900 together because
00:37:55.640 they could have
00:37:56.080 won three or
00:37:56.800 four more
00:37:57.300 championships if
00:37:58.880 they didn't have
00:37:59.580 the psychological
00:38:00.500 nonsense between
00:38:02.440 them I'm
00:38:03.360 surprised Phil
00:38:04.040 wasn't able to
00:38:04.680 fix that because
00:38:05.420 he was a
00:38:06.100 psychological guy
00:38:07.160 he was in
00:38:08.260 another life he
00:38:08.900 could have been a
00:38:09.320 psychiatrist a
00:38:10.180 hippie psychiatrist
00:38:10.900 but the guy was
00:38:11.760 an expert in
00:38:13.080 personalities no the
00:38:14.220 only reason I say
00:38:14.980 this is because
00:38:15.580 when I was
00:38:16.960 coming up as a
00:38:17.660 young kid as a
00:38:18.560 young guy in
00:38:19.340 business I was
00:38:20.040 21 years old I
00:38:20.960 just got out of
00:38:21.560 the army and I
00:38:23.640 was conflicted I
00:38:24.860 was going in the
00:38:25.640 direction you know
00:38:26.560 just a rebel so I
00:38:27.960 stopped I met an
00:38:29.000 old friend of mine we
00:38:30.040 started going to
00:38:30.540 Bible study together
00:38:31.320 on Fridays and we
00:38:32.920 stay up till two
00:38:33.480 o'clock in the
00:38:33.980 morning I started
00:38:34.560 reading I know you
00:38:35.280 did some stuff with
00:38:35.960 Rick Warren and I
00:38:37.280 said you know I
00:38:38.600 don't know you know
00:38:40.440 I went to like 27
00:38:42.120 churches I went
00:38:43.020 everywhere I went to
00:38:43.940 Scientology I went to
00:38:45.160 LDS I went to
00:38:45.920 Jehovah I went to
00:38:46.620 Seventh-day I went
00:38:47.260 to if I could find a
00:38:48.740 religion I went to
00:38:49.560 it right and you'd
00:38:51.620 hear well you know
00:38:52.400 competition's not good
00:38:53.720 and you know you got
00:38:54.480 to be careful with
00:38:55.120 this and all this
00:38:55.640 other stuff I'm like
00:38:56.260 okay and then a lot
00:38:58.760 of these folks who
00:38:59.500 were saying it were
00:39:01.500 at the same time some
00:39:02.420 of the most successful
00:39:03.360 pastors in the world
00:39:05.460 I'm like wait a
00:39:06.720 minute you're running
00:39:08.280 a church massive you
00:39:09.800 you in sports would
00:39:11.140 have been one of the
00:39:11.620 most ridiculous
00:39:13.280 competitors I
00:39:13.920 look how much good
00:39:14.960 you've done in the
00:39:15.580 world I consider Rick
00:39:16.540 Warren very competitive
00:39:17.520 the guy's book sold
00:39:18.740 40 million copies 50
00:39:20.220 million copies and he
00:39:21.820 was able to make a big
00:39:22.820 impact so the only
00:39:24.100 reason I say that is
00:39:25.020 because sometimes
00:39:25.720 younger generation when
00:39:27.180 they hear that message
00:39:28.260 they devalue that
00:39:31.320 additional effort to
00:39:32.540 put in to find out
00:39:33.860 what their best version
00:39:34.820 looks like so that's
00:39:35.920 the only reason I
00:39:36.560 brought it up because
00:39:37.260 someone like you with
00:39:38.700 the amount of
00:39:39.140 accomplishments you had
00:39:40.060 what if you would
00:39:40.560 have stopped 20 years
00:39:41.360 ago I wouldn't
00:39:43.540 people wouldn't have
00:39:44.140 had you in your life
00:39:44.860 Miley wouldn't have
00:39:45.460 had you in their
00:39:45.940 lives I wouldn't have
00:39:47.400 been happy because I
00:39:49.440 love what I do and
00:39:51.880 I've had people try to
00:39:53.380 buy amen clinics and
00:39:55.840 you know I'd get a lot
00:39:57.360 of money and they I
00:39:58.540 would be working for
00:39:59.500 them I'm like no I
00:40:01.340 wouldn't be happy with
00:40:02.740 that it's not money
00:40:03.840 that for me at least
00:40:06.160 and and pastor Warren
00:40:07.460 says money is only
00:40:09.280 something you borrow
00:40:10.460 because as soon as
00:40:12.080 you're dead it's
00:40:13.160 somebody else's and
00:40:14.660 so when you think of
00:40:15.700 it like that it's the
00:40:18.580 lives change but but
00:40:22.180 the Bible at least for
00:40:24.040 me doesn't go against
00:40:25.580 success the verse the
00:40:27.560 parable I hold on to
00:40:29.400 is the parable of the
00:40:31.240 talents that the master
00:40:33.760 gave just talked about
00:40:35.300 it today you know three
00:40:37.660 different people three
00:40:38.680 different levels of
00:40:40.120 investment and the
00:40:42.140 master got mad when the
00:40:44.140 one person buried his
00:40:45.840 investment out of fear
00:40:47.620 and I feel like I've
00:40:50.000 been given certain
00:40:51.240 gifts and part of it
00:40:53.400 I've worked really hard
00:40:54.900 but but I have certain
00:40:56.460 gifts like how to make
00:40:57.600 complex information
00:40:59.560 accessible and easy to
00:41:01.100 understand and I'm
00:41:03.840 expected to do
00:41:05.520 something with what I
00:41:07.740 have been given and
00:41:09.860 it's not just about
00:41:12.120 me it's about we the
00:41:15.240 whole love your
00:41:16.140 neighbor as yourself
00:41:17.380 you're not going to be
00:41:18.560 a very good lover if
00:41:19.520 you don't like yourself
00:41:20.560 so yeah I feel
00:41:23.600 incredibly blessed
00:41:25.160 because I spend a lot
00:41:27.160 of time working in the
00:41:29.280 meaning and purpose
00:41:30.420 circle you know I
00:41:31.560 always think of people
00:41:32.360 in four big circles
00:41:33.360 what's the biology
00:41:35.060 what's the psychology
00:41:37.260 what's the social
00:41:38.860 circle and what's the
00:41:40.860 spiritual circle
00:41:42.140 which it sounds like
00:41:43.400 you've spent time
00:41:44.340 working there as well
00:41:45.480 it's so why do I
00:41:47.020 care why am I on the
00:41:48.700 planet what is my
00:41:50.300 sense of meaning and
00:41:51.560 purpose and I need
00:41:53.920 with my patience to
00:41:55.660 always work in those
00:41:57.160 four circles let's get
00:41:58.320 your brain right your
00:41:59.900 mind right don't believe
00:42:01.560 every stupid thing you
00:42:02.820 think tame the dragons
00:42:04.240 relationships right and
00:42:07.660 I'm blessed because I'm
00:42:09.000 married to my best
00:42:10.060 friend I was married
00:42:11.500 for 20 years to
00:42:12.800 someone who didn't
00:42:13.400 really like me very
00:42:14.360 much and it was just
00:42:15.760 chronic unhappiness and
00:42:17.680 conflict that was
00:42:18.800 chronically stressful for
00:42:20.880 me and now that I'm in
00:42:22.600 the right relationship it
00:42:25.300 brings so much joy and
00:42:27.820 so I often think am I in
00:42:29.520 a good relationship with
00:42:31.660 my wife am I in a good
00:42:33.140 relationship with food I
00:42:34.560 only want to love food
00:42:35.720 that loves me back am I
00:42:37.600 a good relationship with
00:42:39.360 work am I doing things
00:42:41.240 that have meaning and
00:42:42.640 purpose but yet still can
00:42:44.280 support my family I love
00:42:46.640 that and we're on the
00:42:47.220 same page you said July
00:42:48.180 17th right say July 17th
00:42:50.360 or July 19th July 19th got
00:42:52.800 it I love that you know
00:42:54.080 Rick Warren's book I think
00:42:55.700 came out in 0203 I mean when
00:42:58.000 I read it I didn't read it in
00:42:59.100 40 days I read it in two
00:43:00.360 days it changed my life when
00:43:01.540 I read Rick Warren's book I
00:43:02.540 needed to read a book like
00:43:03.600 that at that time and what
00:43:06.600 was Billy Graham had an
00:43:08.680 event November 17th it was
00:43:11.360 four days he came to talk at
00:43:13.040 in 2003 at the Rose Bowl and
00:43:16.620 I said if he's speaking I'm
00:43:17.640 speaking I went Wednesday I
00:43:19.180 went Thursday Friday Saturday
00:43:20.740 half a day and a Sunday all
00:43:22.340 day and Pastor Rick Warren was
00:43:25.240 one of the guys I gave a
00:43:26.120 message there I'm like you
00:43:27.100 you know it was seeing a
00:43:30.260 guy that baptized 210 million
00:43:33.840 people you have to be a big
00:43:35.320 thinker to be able to
00:43:36.220 baptize to go to Korea and
00:43:38.020 you speak one and a half
00:43:38.980 million people show up and
00:43:40.100 that's what he did I mean
00:43:41.500 that's just out of control
00:43:43.260 impact positive impact being
00:43:45.320 made in the world but let me
00:43:47.260 wrap up with this before we
00:43:48.680 finish up here I want to talk
00:43:50.340 to you about Tom Cruise's sit
00:43:53.860 down with Matt Lauer I'm sure
00:43:55.740 you know which one I'm
00:43:56.500 talking about when he and Matt
00:44:00.760 had a conversation together
00:44:02.140 let me pull this up I know I'm
00:44:03.480 getting the zoom thing a little
00:44:04.720 bit mixed up here okay we got
00:44:06.120 it back here have you seen
00:44:08.740 that interview between the two
00:44:10.100 of them I'm almost certain you
00:44:11.500 have about how he knows about
00:44:14.620 psychiatry and yeah he's a
00:44:18.800 Scientologist and the founder of
00:44:22.080 Scientology Ron L Hubbard was very
00:44:26.100 psychologically minded and the
00:44:29.060 psychiatric community rejected him
00:44:31.540 and and they've rejected me in
00:44:34.180 large part so I sort of get how
00:44:36.320 that feels and they've sort of been
00:44:40.920 at war with each other you know
00:44:42.640 Scientologists will rent huge semi
00:44:46.140 bands and on the side of them go
00:44:48.060 psychiatry kills children and I'm
00:44:51.180 like that sort of hurt my feelings
00:44:52.900 because I help children but you know
00:44:58.940 whenever you have a position on
00:45:00.500 anything somebody is going to hate
00:45:02.420 you and you just have to be clear
00:45:07.240 within yourself on what you know is
00:45:10.860 right and stay with it and I want to
00:45:15.280 read it to I want to read it to because
00:45:16.680 I want to see I think there's some
00:45:18.760 some alignment between the two of
00:45:20.460 you guys are but I'm just curious
00:45:21.680 to know I'll read you two parts of
00:45:23.340 it so the whole thing was about the
00:45:25.660 story with I think Brooke Shields
00:45:27.400 right and she says you know I've
00:45:31.320 never agreed with psychiatry ever
00:45:33.460 before I was a Scientologist I never
00:45:34.940 agreed with psychiatry okay so that's
00:45:36.260 that's kind of your space what he's
00:45:37.540 saying Matt Lahr comes back and says
00:45:38.860 but if there's a particular thing that
00:45:40.740 makes her feel better whether it was
00:45:43.380 antidepressants or going to a
00:45:44.800 counselor psychiatrist isn't that
00:45:46.340 enough he says Matt you have to
00:45:48.040 understand this here we are today
00:45:49.520 where I talk against drugs and
00:45:51.180 psychiatric abuses of electric
00:45:52.720 shocking people against their will of
00:45:56.840 drugging children with them not
00:45:58.560 knowing the effects of these drugs do
00:46:00.280 you know what Adderall is do you know
00:46:02.400 what Ritalin is do you know that
00:46:04.440 Ritalin is a street drug do you
00:46:05.940 understand that and then they go back
00:46:07.380 and forth and it gets pretty heated
00:46:08.900 etc etc and later on obviously I'd show
00:46:11.280 the video to you but we can't because
00:46:12.840 it's footage but what happens the
00:46:15.020 antidepressants all it does is mask the
00:46:16.940 problem there's ways of vitamins and
00:46:18.940 through exercise and various things I'm
00:46:21.120 not saying that this isn't real that's
00:46:22.740 not what I'm saying that it's an
00:46:24.340 alteration of what I am saying so he
00:46:25.960 goes on talking about I'm just against
00:46:27.500 drugs you know we're living in a time
00:46:30.160 today where I would be categorical
00:46:34.040 categorically if I was a 12 year old
00:46:37.020 kid man I my teacher Mr. Woods is
00:46:38.960 teaching math if I saw a butterfly there
00:46:40.800 I'm following the butterfly and I'm like
00:46:42.400 and then I see the swimming pool then I
00:46:44.620 see a tree that's yellow I would say why
00:46:46.140 is that yellow why are the other ones
00:46:47.260 green where's that cat going and I'm
00:46:48.740 lost I'm going to a different place
00:46:50.260 they would have put me on so much
00:46:52.020 medication if it was school today so
00:46:54.280 what are your thoughts about the
00:46:55.780 approach we're taking with kids where
00:46:59.080 they'll first say you know I want to
00:47:01.240 meet with the parents I got three kids
00:47:02.960 I want to meet with the parents and
00:47:04.180 then they meet with you and then they
00:47:05.300 say you know I'm not saying your kids
00:47:07.340 has this but I think it's good you go
00:47:09.000 see this doctor here and they may make
00:47:11.160 some recommendations because he's a
00:47:13.320 little bit different than others and
00:47:14.740 she's a little bit different and you
00:47:16.160 know who knows maybe medicine may be the
00:47:18.100 solution so what are your thoughts
00:47:19.940 about Tom Cruise's assessment on
00:47:21.940 medicine not being the solution to
00:47:24.620 helping people's psychological issues
00:47:26.660 I think how psychiatry is currently
00:47:29.860 practiced is just a scandal and it's a
00:47:33.060 mess 85 percent of psychiatric drugs are
00:47:37.260 prescribed by non-psychiatric physicians
00:47:39.800 in 10-minute office visits there are so
00:47:44.280 many other avenues to have a better
00:47:47.020 brain and a better life yet if those
00:47:50.860 things don't work for your depression
00:47:53.500 please give me an antidepressant
00:47:56.300 targeted to my brain I mean first look at
00:47:59.200 my brain so medicine is not the enemy
00:48:02.960 medicine is not of the devil I've seen
00:48:06.320 Ritalin take children from D's and F's
00:48:11.780 A's and B's one of my daughters who and I
00:48:15.140 missed it until she was in 10th grade and
00:48:17.580 I'm one of the world experts on ADD and
00:48:21.280 when I scanned her because she just kept
00:48:24.240 having problems she had a really sleepy
00:48:26.620 brain and the next day on Ritalin it
00:48:28.660 normalized it and she went from B's and
00:48:31.220 C's working her brains out to straight A's
00:48:34.160 for 10 years and got into the world's best
00:48:37.900 veterinarian school at the University of
00:48:40.780 Edinburgh in Scotland there's no way that
00:48:44.340 would have happened if I wouldn't have
00:48:46.020 balanced her brain now my first thought is
00:48:48.640 well let's get their diet right and then
00:48:50.360 let's see let's use nutrients natural
00:48:53.400 supplements and then let's see if it's a
00:48:56.620 family problem let's get everybody's brain
00:48:59.080 in the family better and then let's see
00:49:02.080 but let's not throw out medicine I mean
00:49:04.900 what other branch of medicine would go
00:49:06.880 okay can't use medicine if you use
00:49:08.640 medicine you're a bad person that's
00:49:11.120 ridiculous you know medicine is there as
00:49:14.460 a tool to help right for every diabetic
00:49:17.820 please get your diet right let's do that
00:49:21.420 first but if you don't I need to put you on
00:49:24.700 insulin or you're going to die if you
00:49:26.800 don't treat bipolar disorder if you don't
00:49:29.740 treat depression and sometimes patients do
00:49:32.760 what you want them to do like I saw
00:49:36.640 someone yesterday she's like I'm all in
00:49:38.460 I'm gonna do everything you say well odds
00:49:40.460 are she will not need medicine or will need
00:49:43.400 less medicine other people they don't have
00:49:46.560 the mental discipline to do it or the
00:49:49.220 motivation to do it and for me I think of
00:49:52.720 it as informed consent you know my job isn't
00:49:55.760 to tell you what to do my job is to give
00:49:58.080 you the options and you choose that's
00:50:01.720 what good doctors do they don't tell you
00:50:05.000 what to do they teach you what's going on
00:50:08.500 and then they give you options and then
00:50:11.240 you decide and then I get to supervise
00:50:13.940 whatever you decide as long as it's
00:50:16.540 reasonable interesting you know do you see
00:50:21.480 do you see a a I mean a lot of studies
00:50:24.500 comes out and you see the level of
00:50:25.920 addiction to some of these drugs how do
00:50:28.440 we manage that from happening if there was
00:50:31.760 a way to improve some of the addiction to
00:50:33.440 these drugs you're somebody that's been
00:50:34.860 in this for quite a long time what would
00:50:36.980 your suggestion be well I would want to
00:50:39.760 know why they're using the drug and the
00:50:43.260 hysteria around stimulants like Adderall
00:50:45.660 and Ritalin my biggest problem with
00:50:48.760 teenagers who I think need to take them is
00:50:51.180 they don't take them is they skip them
00:50:54.140 they miss them it's not that they take
00:50:56.720 more and more to get the same result that's
00:51:00.380 what addicts do it's when you dial it in
00:51:04.020 right they work the problem is is we think
00:51:07.600 of ADD is one thing oh you have ADD take
00:51:11.420 Ritalin I wrote a book about this called
00:51:13.960 Healing ADD where based on our brain
00:51:16.740 imaging work it's seven different things
00:51:18.760 please don't give everybody Ritalin
00:51:20.560 because some people like my daughter it
00:51:22.860 helped dramatically other people it makes
00:51:26.420 them suicidal and whenever you use one
00:51:30.740 treatment fits everybody right it sort of
00:51:34.080 be like you have chest pain let's give
00:51:35.540 everybody nitroglycerin well that would
00:51:37.880 be ridiculous because there's a hundred
00:51:39.340 different causes of chest pain and you
00:51:41.680 know you may have been distracted because
00:51:43.520 you were super smart and you had all these
00:51:45.280 other ideas come into your head well you
00:51:47.940 may be distracted because you were in a car
00:51:50.560 accident when you were four years old and
00:51:52.760 it hurts your frontal lobes we just need to
00:51:55.880 look at what we do before we do it
00:51:58.140 doc for the folks who are in business who
00:52:00.840 are under a lot of stress what what is a
00:52:02.760 headache on this side headache on this
00:52:04.340 side headache on this side headache on this
00:52:05.840 side when you say my head hurts is there a
00:52:08.020 difference or it's all a headache well no
00:52:10.520 it's just like with ADD there's 10 different
00:52:13.820 kinds of headaches there's stress headaches
00:52:16.060 or migraine headaches or cluster headaches
00:52:18.200 we need to know there's gluten headaches
00:52:21.300 and dairy headaches you know are you sensitive
00:52:24.000 to something you're consuming my body's very
00:52:29.460 sensitive to dairy if if I just completely
00:52:32.780 avoid it my GI tract is very happy
00:52:35.540 uh is there red meat headaches um no but
00:52:41.620 there are bacon headaches and they're nitrite
00:52:44.940 uh nitrate headaches
00:52:46.520 got it um so before we finalize if you uh
00:52:54.820 uh before we wrap up if you don't mind
00:52:56.580 taking a minute and telling us about your
00:52:58.100 new book that's coming out your brain is
00:52:59.540 always listening what could you tell us
00:53:01.260 about this book here and obviously the
00:53:03.680 pressure's on we got to make sure it's 41
00:53:05.260 weeks uh uh on new york times but tell us
00:53:08.620 about your latest book that just came out
00:53:10.220 today well i'm super excited your brain is
00:53:13.740 always listening it's about all the
00:53:15.760 influences that are going after your brain
00:53:18.720 moment by moment and how you can tame them
00:53:22.600 um the subtitle is tame the hidden dragons
00:53:26.160 that control your happiness your habits and
00:53:29.480 your hang-ups and i talk about the dragons from
00:53:32.980 the past that are always breathing fire on
00:53:35.380 your emotional brain and how to tame them
00:53:38.420 the they them and other dragons how we're
00:53:40.680 always listening to people alive and deads
00:53:44.060 that are still in our head to our habits to
00:53:47.140 the scheming dragons uh there's a whole
00:53:50.660 section on the dragon tamer which is
00:53:52.660 basically how to activate your frontal lobes
00:53:54.800 to calm down your emotional brain and there's a
00:53:58.760 brand new 12 step program uh the anonymous
00:54:02.760 programs like alcoholic anonymous those 12
00:54:06.460 steps were developed 85 years ago and there's no
00:54:09.820 neuroscience to them they're great and i've sent
00:54:12.680 people and some people have gotten a lot of
00:54:15.200 benefit and a lot of people have not gotten any
00:54:17.220 benefit they just couldn't sort of get into it and
00:54:20.500 i'm like we need to put neuroscience in here so
00:54:23.400 there's whole sections uh steps on how to get your brain
00:54:27.540 right how to get cravings under control how to make good
00:54:30.540 decisions um and how to repair a damaged brain
00:54:35.420 because addictions can damage your brain
00:54:37.740 so it's loaded it's fun uh i'm really excited
00:54:41.740 about the book well we're gonna put the link below for the
00:54:45.700 folks that want to get it go uh we're gonna put the link
00:54:48.200 below to either amazon or barnes and noble for you go pick
00:54:50.400 up the book uh i can i watched a bunch of your videos and
00:54:55.080 i said you know what a fascinating mind you have and you
00:54:59.160 got me thinking about that stuff that you know i didn't think
00:55:02.380 about before and i feel i got smarter in the last hour of
00:55:05.360 spending time with you so having said that thank you so
00:55:07.640 much for being a guest with us on value
00:55:10.340 tainment for the last hour or so minus the technical
00:55:13.520 difficulties what a joy to be with you thank you for helping
00:55:17.540 me spread this word and um if people go to your brain is
00:55:22.160 always listening.com they can get some special gifts if they
00:55:26.540 order the book wonderful we will make sure that link
00:55:29.860 is below brains right like if you were to visualize your brain
00:55:33.600 muscle getting bigger and getting cut up and shredded what would
00:55:36.680 it look like i thought it was a very unique
00:55:38.940 conversation some of the areas you know you may have agreed with some you may
00:55:41.880 have not agreed with but i'm curious to hear your thoughts comment below and if
00:55:45.860 you enjoyed this interview i did another interview that was more on the heart
00:55:50.060 side not the brain side the heart side who's another very well-known doctor
00:55:56.000 worldwide if you've not watched a click here to watch the interview with that
00:55:59.580 being said thank you so much for watching everybody take care bye