TRAIN YOUR MIND to Overwrite Your DNA | Dr. Michael Gervais

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0:43Dr. Michael Gervais:The idea is that we need to be more and let the doing flow from there. Be yourself, be your authentic self, be here now, be grateful, be present, and let the doing flow from those. That orientation is a completely different model. I'm spending my life efforts, I think, working to share that and to help some of the best doers and thinkers in the world to reorientate what got them good, but is slowing them down from being their absolute personal best. What's slowing them down? Fear and fatigue still? The psychological framework that I need to do more to be more. And that's born out of anxiety. And the trick, though, there is that that'll get people good.

1:23Dr. Michael Gervais:I need to do more. It's like just enough anxiety will get you good. But it will slow you down for being your absolute best at some point. Why do we fear so much about what could go wrong? What other people think about us? Who are going to let down? That we're not worthy enough, good enough. Why do we fear that? So there's some biological things we can take a look at. And then there's also psychological, right? And then so it's the interaction of those two. Biologically, our brain, as best as we think, and it's three pounds of silly putty that sits in our skull. that's more complicated than, you know, like the brightest minds in neuroscience are still amazed by how our brain works.

2:00Dr. Michael Gervais:But we think that our brain is designed to scan the world and find what's dangerous, right? And so our ancestors passed that gift onto us, your lineage passed that gift onto you, that they were able to survive. And so how survive way back in ancient times that they could scan the world and find what was dangerous or what was threatening so that they wouldn't be eaten then not only was nature dangerous and all the elements in nature but other humans became dangerous to each other so now what we've created is the ability the heightened ability to read micro expressions and micro expressions are the small squinting of the eyes the frontalis muscles between the eyes and when those squint or don't move it's a sense of threat right because we don't know what's happening to that from that person and so if you got this ancient brain that's programmed beautifully to find what's dangerous and we scanned in an undisciplined way our environment around us we're going to find dangerous things yeah and in modern times we're not chased by saber-tooth anymore the new modern saber-tooth are other people's opinions and so we're well conditioned from an early age and this next generation is going to be even more well conditioned you know with insta highlight reels for everything my life is better than yours I'm going to show you.

3:17So we've got this real challenge that to pursue a path of our personal

3:21Dr. Michael Gervais:best, we have to override our DNA. That's hard to do. That's really hard to do. It requires deep commitment to training. The optimal opportunities that psychology offers us is just that, how to train our minds to override our DNA and to use the smaller parts of our brain to scan the world and find opportunity. How can we train our minds every single day, throughout the day to do that? Yeah. Overcome this fear. What are the things that we could be doing? I will rattle off as many as you want to hear, like tactics. And then I also want to put a small little asterisk next to this is that the tactic alone is not enough, right?

3:58Dr. Michael Gervais:It's the stitching of the tactics. It's the stitching of the mental skills training to each other and to one's personal philosophy. So without a personal philosophy, we end up just trying all these different things to get better. but what are we getting better at? What other people want us to be? So there's a fundamental piece of work first. The greatest and the most influential people across the globe are very clear about their philosophy. The greatest movers and shakers and change makers are spiritual leaders and political leaders for the most part. And now we're starting to see business leaders to do that.

4:33Dr. Michael Gervais:What was Confucius philosophy? What was Buddha's philosophy? What was Jesus' philosophy. They're really clear. Jesus was, and I want to oversimplify a beautiful set of traditions, but Jesus was more about love and service. Buddha was more about that all people are suffering. And then, so let's work through compassion to live with love and kindness. What was Martin Luther King Jr.'s? Dr. King Jr.'s was about equality, you know, Malcolm X, equality, totally different tone, totally different approach. I'll share mine. And it's every day is an opportunity to create a living masterpiece. There's optimism embedded in there.

5:09Dr. Michael Gervais:There's creative juices embedded in there. And then there's, you know, this idea of a living masterpiece.

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