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This 10 Second Action Will Make You Feel Happy. #happinessscience #dopamineboost #psychologytok #mindsetupgrade #mentalwellness Most people spend their entire lives searching for happiness in the wrong places. A better job. A better relationship. A bigger achievement. But what if happiness was never out there waiting for you. What if...

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It's time to lock in, my friend. If you feel sad, sick, stressed, stuck, or tired of constantly settling, today is the day to take action and make it better. Your brain is on your side! When you decide to take one action that seems unpleasant or difficult or even impossible, your brain gets the message that is not the boss of you, and it begins to wire in a more robust response that will help you take action across the board in your life. That's the miracle of how your brain is designed to be under the control of your mind and to get structurally better when you change your thought life and your perspective. That's what we call #selfbrainsurgery. Things do not have to stay the way they have been. But nothing changes until you change something. Don't wake up tomorrow and feel the same as you did today. It's hard and holy work to change, but it is worth it. Love tomorrow more than you hate how you feel right now, and take a step towards transforming your life. That's the sixth commandment of self-brain surgery. Share this with a friend who needs to lock in, and save it for later when you need a reminder to get after it. And follow me for daily connections between neuroscience and faith that will help you in your quest for healing, hope, and higher performance in your life. Click the link in my bio to learn more about my New York Times best selling book, The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery. Romans 12:2 #neuroscience #mentalhealth #hope
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It's time to lock in, my friend. If you feel sad, sick, stressed, stuck, or tired of constantly settling, today is the day to take action and make it better. Your brain is on your side! When you decide to take one action that seems unpleasant or difficult or even impossible, your brain gets the message that is not the boss of you, and it begins to wire in a more robust response that will help you take action across the board in your life. That's the miracle of how your brain is designed to be under the control of your mind and to get structurally better when you change your thought life and your perspective. That's what we call #selfbrainsurgery. Things do not have to stay the way they have been. But nothing changes until you change something. Don't wake up tomorrow and feel the same as you did today. It's hard and holy work to change, but it is worth it. Love tomorrow more than you hate how you feel right now, and take a step towards transforming your life. That's the sixth commandment of self-brain surgery. Share this with a friend who needs to lock in, and save it for later when you need a reminder to get after it. And follow me for daily connections between neuroscience and faith that will help you in your quest for healing, hope, and higher performance in your life. Click the link in my bio to learn more about my New York Times best selling book, The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery. Romans 12:2 #neuroscience #mentalhealth #hope

Dr. Lee Warren

12,878 次观看 • 1 个月前

Happiness does not come closer to you when you chase it, because chasing assumes it is missing. Most people try to fix their moods. Instead, fix how you perceive your pain. When your mind keeps asking, "Did I get enough?" peace and joy cannot stay. Happiness is not excitement. It is stability. You enjoy what comes, but you do not depend on it. Pleasure visits. Pain visits. You welcome both. This does not make life dull. It makes it lighter and more balanced. Nothing owns you, so nothing can shake you. 24/7 happiness is not a smile. It is the absence of inner noise when approval stops feeding you and fear stops driving you. You do not feel high. You feel free. That freedom is happiness that does not expire. ***** This winter, I brought to life something that has lived in my imagination for years—the first annual print edition of The Gurdeep Magazine. It features writing from other contributors alongside my own work. If you feel called to hold this warmth of printed words in your hands, visit
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Happiness does not come closer to you when you chase it, because chasing assumes it is missing. Most people try to fix their moods. Instead, fix how you perceive your pain. When your mind keeps asking, "Did I get enough?" peace and joy cannot stay. Happiness is not excitement. It is stability. You enjoy what comes, but you do not depend on it. Pleasure visits. Pain visits. You welcome both. This does not make life dull. It makes it lighter and more balanced. Nothing owns you, so nothing can shake you. 24/7 happiness is not a smile. It is the absence of inner noise when approval stops feeding you and fear stops driving you. You do not feel high. You feel free. That freedom is happiness that does not expire. ***** This winter, I brought to life something that has lived in my imagination for years—the first annual print edition of The Gurdeep Magazine. It features writing from other contributors alongside my own work. If you feel called to hold this warmth of printed words in your hands, visit

Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon

18,379 次观看 • 8 个月前

Nothing Changes If you feel stuck and unable to make progress, here's the truth I have discovered after decades of studying brain science, and surviving multiple traumas in my own life, including the loss of my son: Nothing changes until you change something. I lost a lot of time waiting to feel better, thinking I could only change after my emotions did. But what I discovered was that you never feel better enough to change your actions, but as soon as you change your actions, you start to feel better. Change doesn't require perfection, it requires interruption. And that type of change, that type of initiative, doesn't calm until you begin to change things that you think about and the ways that you think about the situation you've been in. That's why Romans 12:2 tells us not to be conformed to the pattern of the world, which is a constant focus on our circumstances and feelings, but to be transformed by of our minds. Once you understand that your mind is in charge of your brain and know what you think about can change how your brain works, you can be truly set free the partner with God in going after the life he's calling you to. And if you feel like you can't hold it all together, I have good news: you were never supposed to. Colossians -20 says that in him everything is held together. Nothing changes until you change something. As soon as you're ready to change your mind, you can change your life. Your creator is ready to help you, your brain is designed to heal, grow, and change, and we're counting on you. Save this for the next time you feel stock, and share it with a friend who needs to know that nothing changes until we change something. Click the link in my bio to learn more about my New York Times best seller, The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery, and to find my weekly newsletter, podcast, and more. #neuroscience #anxiety #mentalhealth #selfbrainsurgery
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Nothing Changes If you feel stuck and unable to make progress, here's the truth I have discovered after decades of studying brain science, and surviving multiple traumas in my own life, including the loss of my son: Nothing changes until you change something. I lost a lot of time waiting to feel better, thinking I could only change after my emotions did. But what I discovered was that you never feel better enough to change your actions, but as soon as you change your actions, you start to feel better. Change doesn't require perfection, it requires interruption. And that type of change, that type of initiative, doesn't calm until you begin to change things that you think about and the ways that you think about the situation you've been in. That's why Romans 12:2 tells us not to be conformed to the pattern of the world, which is a constant focus on our circumstances and feelings, but to be transformed by of our minds. Once you understand that your mind is in charge of your brain and know what you think about can change how your brain works, you can be truly set free the partner with God in going after the life he's calling you to. And if you feel like you can't hold it all together, I have good news: you were never supposed to. Colossians -20 says that in him everything is held together. Nothing changes until you change something. As soon as you're ready to change your mind, you can change your life. Your creator is ready to help you, your brain is designed to heal, grow, and change, and we're counting on you. Save this for the next time you feel stock, and share it with a friend who needs to know that nothing changes until we change something. Click the link in my bio to learn more about my New York Times best seller, The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery, and to find my weekly newsletter, podcast, and more. #neuroscience #anxiety #mentalhealth #selfbrainsurgery

Dr. Lee Warren

16,707 次观看 • 1 个月前

Naval says he used to be unhappy because he didn’t value happiness. Of course these days, things are different. Takeaways: - If you want to be happy, you need to value it -Desire will cloud your happiness. Most of us have many desires - You shouldn’t give up on your desires, but you want to be very careful which ones you have - If it seems dark and gloomy, it’s because you have too many desires running at once - Remember that happiness is not a sustainable state - Peace can be converted to happiness - Peace is happiness at rest, and happiness is peace in motion - If you are living a very peaceful and calm life and engage in activity, you will naturally find that that activity is happy, but if you set out to be happy, you won’t get there - The most important thing in the pursuit of happiness is that you value happiness - The two biggest clouds that cover happiness are survival (money) and replication (finding a mate) - We are meant to be happy. You can see that little kids running around are naturally happy. If a child is not happy, you say “what’s wrong?”
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Naval says he used to be unhappy because he didn’t value happiness. Of course these days, things are different. Takeaways: - If you want to be happy, you need to value it -Desire will cloud your happiness. Most of us have many desires - You shouldn’t give up on your desires, but you want to be very careful which ones you have - If it seems dark and gloomy, it’s because you have too many desires running at once - Remember that happiness is not a sustainable state - Peace can be converted to happiness - Peace is happiness at rest, and happiness is peace in motion - If you are living a very peaceful and calm life and engage in activity, you will naturally find that that activity is happy, but if you set out to be happy, you won’t get there - The most important thing in the pursuit of happiness is that you value happiness - The two biggest clouds that cover happiness are survival (money) and replication (finding a mate) - We are meant to be happy. You can see that little kids running around are naturally happy. If a child is not happy, you say “what’s wrong?”

Nicole Behnam

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Most people just react to what they feel. But every feeling is a chemical event in your brain. If you never learn to interpret those events properly, you’ll spend a lot of your life saying “I’m sorry." The second commandment of Self-Brain Surgery is this: "Feelings are not facts. They’re chemical events in my brain." Our culture tells you to “live your truth,” “follow your heart,” and “believe whatever your body tells you.” Neuroscience and thousands of years of scripture agree: not everything you feel turns out to be real. Your brain can’t always tell the difference between what’s actually happening and what you’re imagining. So here’s the shift: Stop being the subject of your feelings. Start studying them like a surgeon. Sit with them. Think about them. Biopsy them. Operate on them. We call that Self-Brain Surgery. Learn to operate your brain so it stops operating you. You’ll make fewer mistakes, say “I’m sorry” a lot less, and live with more peace. Save this for the next time the feelings are bossy, and shade it with someone who needs it. Hit follow if you want to build a brain that knows feelings aren’t facts.
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Most people just react to what they feel. But every feeling is a chemical event in your brain. If you never learn to interpret those events properly, you’ll spend a lot of your life saying “I’m sorry." The second commandment of Self-Brain Surgery is this: "Feelings are not facts. They’re chemical events in my brain." Our culture tells you to “live your truth,” “follow your heart,” and “believe whatever your body tells you.” Neuroscience and thousands of years of scripture agree: not everything you feel turns out to be real. Your brain can’t always tell the difference between what’s actually happening and what you’re imagining. So here’s the shift: Stop being the subject of your feelings. Start studying them like a surgeon. Sit with them. Think about them. Biopsy them. Operate on them. We call that Self-Brain Surgery. Learn to operate your brain so it stops operating you. You’ll make fewer mistakes, say “I’m sorry” a lot less, and live with more peace. Save this for the next time the feelings are bossy, and shade it with someone who needs it. Hit follow if you want to build a brain that knows feelings aren’t facts.

Dr. Lee Warren

12,524 次观看 • 16 天前

“You don’t have to be rich or poor to be clean. I will add, today, to be happy as well. You can be happy when you are poor, you can be happy when you are rich. It depends on your heart, what you want to do, and if you are giving it a shot and trying you best, and feeling that life in you is contributing something to your happiness, and probably more importantly to the happiness of others.” President Kagame | Giants of Africa Special Umuganda.
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“You don’t have to be rich or poor to be clean. I will add, today, to be happy as well. You can be happy when you are poor, you can be happy when you are rich. It depends on your heart, what you want to do, and if you are giving it a shot and trying you best, and feeling that life in you is contributing something to your happiness, and probably more importantly to the happiness of others.” President Kagame | Giants of Africa Special Umuganda.

Presidency | Rwanda

92,933 次观看 • 3 年前

Knock off the negative self talk! Changing the words you say to yourself literally rebuild your brain in ways that help you or hurt you. Here's the science of one of the words you say to yourself matter: When you use criticizing language in your internal voice, your brain picks up on that and turns on the parts that are related to defending you from physical danger. Your brain hears your mind saying something harmful, and assumes that you're under attack. This affects your physiology, keeps you in a fight or flight response, and elevates your blood pressure and cortisol levels. In other words, when you attack yourself internally, your body gets the message and you literally feel like you're at war. On the other hand, research shows that when you use compassionate language to yourself, you don't magically make all your problems go away. What happens is that your brain area is related to problem-solving, calmness, and feeling hopeful, come alive. This set the filters in your reticular activating system to begin to look for possibility and not danger. The first commandment of self brain surgery is that I must relentlessly refuse to participate in my own demise. Using harmful words to yourself is literally committing malpractice against your own brain and your own life. So, and I say this with love, knock it off. Be kind to yourself. In a world full of difficulties, you deserve at least one ally. And your brain needs to hear encouraging language so I can do a better job of showing you a path forward instead of keeping you stuck. Jeremiah 29:11 says that God has a plan to give you hope and the future. Don't hinder his ability to do that by blocking your brain from being able to see what might already be there. Send this to a friend who needs an ally. Save this for the next time you find yourself feeling afraid. And follow me for connections between neuroscience and scripture every day that will help you flourish in your life. Click the link in my bio to learn more about my New York Times. Best seller, The Life-Changing Art of Self- Brain Surgery. #selfbrainsurgery #mentalhealth #anxiety
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Knock off the negative self talk! Changing the words you say to yourself literally rebuild your brain in ways that help you or hurt you. Here's the science of one of the words you say to yourself matter: When you use criticizing language in your internal voice, your brain picks up on that and turns on the parts that are related to defending you from physical danger. Your brain hears your mind saying something harmful, and assumes that you're under attack. This affects your physiology, keeps you in a fight or flight response, and elevates your blood pressure and cortisol levels. In other words, when you attack yourself internally, your body gets the message and you literally feel like you're at war. On the other hand, research shows that when you use compassionate language to yourself, you don't magically make all your problems go away. What happens is that your brain area is related to problem-solving, calmness, and feeling hopeful, come alive. This set the filters in your reticular activating system to begin to look for possibility and not danger. The first commandment of self brain surgery is that I must relentlessly refuse to participate in my own demise. Using harmful words to yourself is literally committing malpractice against your own brain and your own life. So, and I say this with love, knock it off. Be kind to yourself. In a world full of difficulties, you deserve at least one ally. And your brain needs to hear encouraging language so I can do a better job of showing you a path forward instead of keeping you stuck. Jeremiah 29:11 says that God has a plan to give you hope and the future. Don't hinder his ability to do that by blocking your brain from being able to see what might already be there. Send this to a friend who needs an ally. Save this for the next time you find yourself feeling afraid. And follow me for connections between neuroscience and scripture every day that will help you flourish in your life. Click the link in my bio to learn more about my New York Times. Best seller, The Life-Changing Art of Self- Brain Surgery. #selfbrainsurgery #mentalhealth #anxiety

Dr. Lee Warren

34,842 次观看 • 2 个月前

The neuroscience of how change in your life is possible is fascinating, but it's also very simple: your mind and your brain are not the same thing. If you learn how to change what you think about, you will engage neuroplasticity and make real time structural changes in your brain. You really can change how you are and who you are by changing what you think about. The Bible talks about this in lots of places, but start with Second Corinthians 10:5 and Romans 12:2. Save this for the next time you think changes impossible for you. Share it with someone who feel stuck. And follow me and together, we will change our brains every day by connecting neuroscience and faith. If you want to know more about self brain-surgery, click the link in my bio. ##neuroscience##anxiety##depression##hope
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The neuroscience of how change in your life is possible is fascinating, but it's also very simple: your mind and your brain are not the same thing. If you learn how to change what you think about, you will engage neuroplasticity and make real time structural changes in your brain. You really can change how you are and who you are by changing what you think about. The Bible talks about this in lots of places, but start with Second Corinthians 10:5 and Romans 12:2. Save this for the next time you think changes impossible for you. Share it with someone who feel stuck. And follow me and together, we will change our brains every day by connecting neuroscience and faith. If you want to know more about self brain-surgery, click the link in my bio. ##neuroscience##anxiety##depression##hope

Dr. Lee Warren | Neurosurgeon

108,900 次观看 • 6 天前

Feelings are strong, they're loud, and they make you think that you have to react to them. The problem is, neuroscience is clear: most of the things you feel don't actually point anything that's really happening. Happy people learn to check whether they're feeling against reality before they react to it. The second commandment of self-brain surgery is that I must believe that feelings are not facts, they are chemical events in my brain. Psalm 139:23 shows that asking God to help us discern between feelings and reality is the path to peace: "...test me and know my anxious thoughts." If you learn to take a five second pause between something you feel and how you react to it that will give your frontal lobes time to catch up to your amygdala, critically think about what's going on, and decide on an appropriate response. This simple move will make a huge difference in your quality of life. Save this for the next time feelings feel overwhelming, and share it with a friend who needs to know that not everything they feel turns out to be true. And follow me for daily connections between neuroscience and faith to help you achieve healing, hope, and higher performance. Click the link in my bio to learn more about my New York Times best selling book, the Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery. Note: I am not a therapist, I'm a brain surgeon. But I'm also a trauma survivor, a war veteran, and the father of a lost son. I've spent 25 years studying how neuroscience and faith connect to help us flourish to find my own way back to hope again, and these things will help you. But they are not substitutes for the advice of your own mental health professional. #mentalhealth #anxiety #selfbrainsurgery
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Feelings are strong, they're loud, and they make you think that you have to react to them. The problem is, neuroscience is clear: most of the things you feel don't actually point anything that's really happening. Happy people learn to check whether they're feeling against reality before they react to it. The second commandment of self-brain surgery is that I must believe that feelings are not facts, they are chemical events in my brain. Psalm 139:23 shows that asking God to help us discern between feelings and reality is the path to peace: "...test me and know my anxious thoughts." If you learn to take a five second pause between something you feel and how you react to it that will give your frontal lobes time to catch up to your amygdala, critically think about what's going on, and decide on an appropriate response. This simple move will make a huge difference in your quality of life. Save this for the next time feelings feel overwhelming, and share it with a friend who needs to know that not everything they feel turns out to be true. And follow me for daily connections between neuroscience and faith to help you achieve healing, hope, and higher performance. Click the link in my bio to learn more about my New York Times best selling book, the Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery. Note: I am not a therapist, I'm a brain surgeon. But I'm also a trauma survivor, a war veteran, and the father of a lost son. I've spent 25 years studying how neuroscience and faith connect to help us flourish to find my own way back to hope again, and these things will help you. But they are not substitutes for the advice of your own mental health professional. #mentalhealth #anxiety #selfbrainsurgery

Dr. Lee Warren

43,570 次观看 • 1 个月前

“Imagine being told your entire life that you can just follow your dream and you can just pursue something that you love.” “So you then go to college for something that you love and you know is the right thing for you. You graduate and then you find out that you can't make any money in that field.” “I just think about everybody in college right now that is really doing what they love and they will just never make it. I feel so bad.”
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“Imagine being told your entire life that you can just follow your dream and you can just pursue something that you love.” “So you then go to college for something that you love and you know is the right thing for you. You graduate and then you find out that you can't make any money in that field.” “I just think about everybody in college right now that is really doing what they love and they will just never make it. I feel so bad.”

Wall Street Mav

193,597 次观看 • 8 个月前

Jordan Peterson: "If you can't fix your room, you can't fix your life" "Why should you even bother improving yourself? The answer is something like: so you don't suffer anymore stupidly than you have to. And maybe so others don't have to either. It's not some casual self-help doctrine. If you don't organize yourself properly, you'll pay for it. In a big way. And so will the people around you." Peterson continues: "You can say, 'Well, I don't care about that.' But that's actually not true, you do care about it. Because if you're in pain, you will care about it. It's very rare that you can find someone in excruciating pain who would say, 'Well, it would be no better if I was out of this.' Pain brings the idea that it would be better if it didn't exist along with it. It's incontrovertible." On how to start: "Look around for something that bothers you and see if you can fix it. You can do this in a room. Sit in your bedroom and think: 'If I wanted to spend ten minutes making this room better, what would I have to do?' You have to ask yourself that, it's a genuine question. And things will pop out. There's a stack of papers bugging you. Some rubbish behind your computer monitor you haven't attended to for six months. Cables tangled up." He explains why this matters: "If you were coming to see me for psychotherapy, the easiest thing would be to get you to organize your room. You think, is that psychotherapy? It depends on how you conceive the limits of your being. Start where you can start. If something announces itself as in need of repair that you could repair, fix it. Fix a hundred things like that, your life will be a lot different." On fixing what you repeat every day: "People tend to think of their daily routines as trivial. You get up, brush your teeth, have breakfast. Those probably constitute 50% of your life. People think, they're mundane, I don't need to pay attention to them. No, that's exactly wrong. The things you do every day are the most important things you do. Hands down. Just do the arithmetic." On staying within your competence: "Sometimes you don't know how to fix something. Imagine you're walking down the street and there's a guy who's alcoholic and schizophrenic and has been homeless for ten years. That's a problem. It would be good if you could fix it, but you haven't got a clue. You walk around that and go find something you could fix. Just because something announces itself as in need of repair doesn't mean it's you, right then and there, who should repair it. You have to have some humility. You don't walk up to a helicopter that isn't working and just start tinkering away." Peterson shares the key insight: "As soon as you give your mind a genuine aim, it'll reconfigure the world in keeping with that aim. That's actually how you see to begin with. You've all seen the video where you watch basketballs being tossed back and forth, and while you're doing that, a gorilla walks into the middle of the video and you don't see it. If you thought about that experiment for five years, that would be about the right amount of time to spend thinking about it." He explains what it reveals: "What it shows you is that you see what you aim at. If you can get one thing through your head, that would be a good one. You see what you aim at. One inference you might draw from that is: be careful what you aim at. What you aim at determines the way the world manifests itself to you. So if the world is manifesting itself in a very negative way, one thing to ask is: are you aiming at the right thing?"
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Jordan Peterson: "If you can't fix your room, you can't fix your life" "Why should you even bother improving yourself? The answer is something like: so you don't suffer anymore stupidly than you have to. And maybe so others don't have to either. It's not some casual self-help doctrine. If you don't organize yourself properly, you'll pay for it. In a big way. And so will the people around you." Peterson continues: "You can say, 'Well, I don't care about that.' But that's actually not true, you do care about it. Because if you're in pain, you will care about it. It's very rare that you can find someone in excruciating pain who would say, 'Well, it would be no better if I was out of this.' Pain brings the idea that it would be better if it didn't exist along with it. It's incontrovertible." On how to start: "Look around for something that bothers you and see if you can fix it. You can do this in a room. Sit in your bedroom and think: 'If I wanted to spend ten minutes making this room better, what would I have to do?' You have to ask yourself that, it's a genuine question. And things will pop out. There's a stack of papers bugging you. Some rubbish behind your computer monitor you haven't attended to for six months. Cables tangled up." He explains why this matters: "If you were coming to see me for psychotherapy, the easiest thing would be to get you to organize your room. You think, is that psychotherapy? It depends on how you conceive the limits of your being. Start where you can start. If something announces itself as in need of repair that you could repair, fix it. Fix a hundred things like that, your life will be a lot different." On fixing what you repeat every day: "People tend to think of their daily routines as trivial. You get up, brush your teeth, have breakfast. Those probably constitute 50% of your life. People think, they're mundane, I don't need to pay attention to them. No, that's exactly wrong. The things you do every day are the most important things you do. Hands down. Just do the arithmetic." On staying within your competence: "Sometimes you don't know how to fix something. Imagine you're walking down the street and there's a guy who's alcoholic and schizophrenic and has been homeless for ten years. That's a problem. It would be good if you could fix it, but you haven't got a clue. You walk around that and go find something you could fix. Just because something announces itself as in need of repair doesn't mean it's you, right then and there, who should repair it. You have to have some humility. You don't walk up to a helicopter that isn't working and just start tinkering away." Peterson shares the key insight: "As soon as you give your mind a genuine aim, it'll reconfigure the world in keeping with that aim. That's actually how you see to begin with. You've all seen the video where you watch basketballs being tossed back and forth, and while you're doing that, a gorilla walks into the middle of the video and you don't see it. If you thought about that experiment for five years, that would be about the right amount of time to spend thinking about it." He explains what it reveals: "What it shows you is that you see what you aim at. If you can get one thing through your head, that would be a good one. You see what you aim at. One inference you might draw from that is: be careful what you aim at. What you aim at determines the way the world manifests itself to you. So if the world is manifesting itself in a very negative way, one thing to ask is: are you aiming at the right thing?"

Jaynit

68,915 次观看 • 7 个月前

Your brain is not your boss Here's something true from modern brain science: You're not stuck the way you are. Your brain constantly changes in response to your thoughts, so you're either getting better at staying the same/getting worse, or you're getting better at getting better. Self-brain surgeons get better at getting better. The ninth Commandment of self-brain surgery is this: I must believe that I'm getting better at what I'm doing. II Timothy 1:7 says God did not give you a spirit of fear, but of power, of love, and of a sound mind. II Peter 1:3 sad that his divine power has given you everything you need for your life. So what's going to have the final say for you? Your automatic thoughts that research suggests are almost always wrong? Or scripture, which never changes and reflects the timeless truth of God's plan for you and is being validated every day by 21st-century neuroscience findings. Let's get better at getting better together. Save this for later when you need to remind your brain, who's boss, and share it with a friend who needs to believe that they really can get better. Follow me for connections every day between neuroscience and faith that will help you flourish in your life. And click the link in my bio to learn more about my New York Times best seller, The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery. #neuroscience #selfbrainsurgery #anxiety #MentalHealth
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Your brain is not your boss Here's something true from modern brain science: You're not stuck the way you are. Your brain constantly changes in response to your thoughts, so you're either getting better at staying the same/getting worse, or you're getting better at getting better. Self-brain surgeons get better at getting better. The ninth Commandment of self-brain surgery is this: I must believe that I'm getting better at what I'm doing. II Timothy 1:7 says God did not give you a spirit of fear, but of power, of love, and of a sound mind. II Peter 1:3 sad that his divine power has given you everything you need for your life. So what's going to have the final say for you? Your automatic thoughts that research suggests are almost always wrong? Or scripture, which never changes and reflects the timeless truth of God's plan for you and is being validated every day by 21st-century neuroscience findings. Let's get better at getting better together. Save this for later when you need to remind your brain, who's boss, and share it with a friend who needs to believe that they really can get better. Follow me for connections every day between neuroscience and faith that will help you flourish in your life. And click the link in my bio to learn more about my New York Times best seller, The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery. #neuroscience #selfbrainsurgery #anxiety #MentalHealth

Dr. Lee Warren

18,959 次观看 • 1 个月前

A wild eagle got into his car. That's not the strange part. The strange part is that it didn't want to leave. Read that again, because it breaks everything you think you know about wild animals. An eagle is not a pigeon. It is not a stray dog. It is not a cat that wandered into your garage. It is a predator built over millions of years to avoid exactly one thing: being close to you. And yet. I watched this video more times than I'd admit. Not because it's cute. Not because it's scary. Because somewhere around the second minute, I realized I was holding my breath, and couldn't tell you why. So let me tell you what this post is about, and what it is NOT about. It is not about a bird in a car. It is about what happens in the quiet space between a wild animal and a human being when the animal has run out of options and chooses to stop running. Let's go. --- 1/ THE RULE EVERYONE BREAKS There is one rule in wildlife work. People who spend their lives around raptors repeat it like a prayer: A healthy wild bird of prey does not come to you. Not for food. Not for warmth. Not for shelter. Not ever. An eagle that lets you walk up to it is not brave. It is not tame. It is not "friendly." It is a bird that has decided the danger in front of it is smaller than the danger it was already in. Think about what that means. Think about how bad things have to get for the apex predator of the sky to look at a human being and quietly decide: "Okay. You. Maybe you." Most people never see that moment. They hear about it later, in a sentence that starts with "apparently, this bird just..." This time somebody was rolling. --- 2/ WHY YOU CAN'T LOOK AWAY (AND IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT) Your brain has a built-in alarm for two things at the same time: power and vulnerability. Show it a lion, it goes quiet and sharp. Show it a baby bird, it softens. Show it both in the same body and something short-circuits. That's what an injured eagle is. A creature that looks like a weapon and behaves like a plea. The talons are enormous. The beak is a hooked blade. The eyes have a stare most humans can't hold for more than a few seconds. Everything about the animal says: stay away. And everything about its behavior says: please don't. That contradiction is the entire video. You will feel it in your chest before you can name it. Most of us don't have a word for this feeling because we almost never get to have it. --- 3/ THE SIZE PROBLEM Quick exercise. Before you watch, try to hold a number in your head. How big do you think an eagle is? Most people say "like a big chicken." Maybe a large cat. Then you see one inside a normal car, on a normal seat, next to normal car things like seat belts and a steering wheel, and your brain refuses the scale. The car suddenly looks small. The man suddenly looks small. And there is a moment in this video where you will do a thing nearly everyone does: you will pause, lean back from your screen, and say "no way that's real." It's real. --- 4/ WHAT THE MAN DID NEXT (WILL SURPRISE YOU) I'm not going to tell you. I'll tell you what I expected, though. I expected panic. I expected screaming, a door flung open, a phone dropped, a very short video that ends with a blur and a swear word. That's the internet's favorite genre. You know it. A person encounters an animal, loses their mind, the clip is 8 seconds long, everyone laughs. This is not that clip. This clip runs a little over two minutes. And it holds you the whole way. Because what happens inside that car is less like a funny video and more like watching somebody defuse something. Slow. Careful. Almost polite. You'll catch yourself whispering at your screen. You'll catch yourself telling a stranger what to do. --- 5/ THE SOUND Turn the volume on. I'm serious. Not "recommended." Required. Half of what makes this video land is not what you see. It's what you hear: a man who is clearly, absolutely, completely out of his depth, talking his way through it anyway, one half-joke and one swear word at a time. Humor is what people do when the situation is bigger than they are. Somewhere in there is a lesson that has nothing to do with eagles. --- 6/ THE PART NOBODY TALKS ABOUT Everybody who comments on this video says the same three things: "Wow, the eagle is huge." "Wow, that guy is calm." "Wow, I would've screamed." Almost nobody says the fourth thing, which is the only one that matters: It's a rescue. Not a rescue of the bird. Well, yes, of the bird. But more precisely, it's a rescue that only works because two completely different kinds of creature agree, for a few minutes, to not do what their instincts are screaming at them to do. One of them is built to strike. The other is built to flee. Neither does. If you've ever wondered what trust looks like when neither side has words, this is the closest thing I've ever seen on a screen. --- 7/ THE THING ABOUT STILLNESS We live in a world that rewards motion. Post more. Reply faster. Move. Pivot. Hustle. Scale. And then there's a video where the most powerful thing in the entire frame is a creature sitting completely still, and the second most powerful is a man doing his best to match it. Nobody is performing. Nobody is trying to go viral. (Which is exactly why it will.) No sponsored segment. No "wait for it." Just stillness, and tension, and a decision being made in real time by two living things that can't explain themselves to each other. I've been on this platform for over a decade. I've seen what spreads. And it's almost never the loud stuff. It's the stuff that makes your whole feed go quiet for a second. This does that. --- 8/ SEVEN THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT EAGLES AFTER THIS VIDEO BROKE MY BRAIN I went down a rabbit hole. Here's what I came back with. → An eagle's eyesight is estimated to be several times sharper than a human's. It can pick out a rabbit from a distance at which you couldn't tell a person from a post. It sees in a way you simply do not. When it looks at you from close range, it is not "looking." It is reading. → Their grip is brutal. The talons are built to lock, and the locking mechanism works with the bird's own weight. In other words, the harder it settles, the harder it holds. A bird like that does not need to try to be dangerous. Dangerous is the default setting. → Raptors hide pain. This is the one that got me. In the wild, a bird that shows weakness gets challenged, robbed or eaten. So they do the opposite of what we do: the worse they feel, the quieter and stiller they become. A calm eagle is not always a healthy eagle. → Many birds of prey are surprisingly light for their size. Huge wingspan, hollow-boned frame, almost nothing underneath all those feathers. The "giant" you see is mostly an illusion built from wings. Which makes the next part even stranger. → They are not social with humans. At all. Raptors are solitary hunters. There is no instinct in there that says "find the nearest person and sit next to them." If an eagle is near you and not leaving, something has gone wrong, or something has gone very, very right. → Eagles live long lives, and they hold territory with an almost military seriousness. To end up far from where it belongs, inside a machine it doesn't understand, surrounded by smells it has never encountered, is as far outside its world as a bird can be pushed. → And the last one: they don't do "sorry" and they don't do "thank you." There is no grateful look. If you're waiting for the moment where the bird bows its head, you'll be waiting forever. That's why the ending of this video hits the way it does. I won't say more. --- 9/ THE FIRST TEN SECONDS If you only give this video ten seconds, you'll understand it. If you give it a full minute, you'll have a hard time leaving. Ten seconds is enough because the whole story is in the frame at once: the scale, the closeness, the stillness, the human who has just realized that his day has changed. You don't need context. You don't need a caption. You don't need me. And that is the highest compliment I know how to give a video on this platform. Most content needs an explanation. This content needs a witness. Be the witness. --- 10/ WHY THE COMMENTS ARE GOING TO BE WILD I can already tell you what's coming, because I've seen this exact pattern on a thousand posts: First wave: "FAKE." Second wave: "It's trained." Third wave: "Why didn't he just open the door?" Fourth wave: someone who actually works with birds, calmly explaining what's going on in a way that makes everyone else feel slightly embarrassed. Fifth wave: a quiet reply that just says "I'm not crying, you're crying." If you're going to join the conversation, at least watch to the end first. The end is the answer to about 80% of the arguments. --- 11/ THE QUESTION THAT WON'T LEAVE ME ALONE I keep thinking about one thing. Why a car? Out of all the places in a whole landscape, why that one? Maybe it was open. Maybe it was dark. Maybe it was warm. Maybe it was the only enclosed space for miles. Maybe the bird was hurt and needed to be somewhere with walls. Maybe it was a coincidence. Here's what I think. And I'm saying "think," not "know." I think when a creature is hurt badly enough, it stops choosing the best place and starts choosing the nearest one. Not the safest. Not the smartest. The nearest. And the nearest thing happened to be a man, a seat, a roof, and a few feet of air that felt, to a frightened animal, like the closest thing to a cave. If that's true, it's a very uncomfortable idea. Because it means the bird didn't pick him. It means he was just the one who was there. And the whole story, everything after, depends on what he decided to do with that. --- 12/ THE MOMENT YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHAT'S COMING There's a beat in the video where you will be absolutely certain you know where this is going. You'll feel your brain build the ending. It will feel obvious. It will be wrong. I won't say how. But I'll say this: watch the person, not the bird. The bird is the headline. The person is the story. The more I watched, the more I noticed that the camera was never really on the eagle. It was on the human who had to decide what kind of person he was going to be in the next five minutes. That's a good test for anything you watch online: Is this video about the thing in the frame? Or is it about the choice someone is making just outside it? The best ones are always the second kind. --- 13/ A NOTE FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK THIS IS "JUST A CUTE ANIMAL VIDEO" It isn't. Cute animal videos are interchangeable. Puppy falls over. Cat stares at a wall. Hamster eats a tiny burrito. You scroll past, you smile, you forget. This is the other end of the spectrum. This video is not cute. This video is tense. It's patient. It's got weight. It sits in your chest for a while after it ends. If you want to know whether a clip is actually good, ask yourself one question an hour after you watch it: Can I still see it? I can still see this one. --- 14/ THE THING ABOUT BEING THE ONLY WITNESS Imagine this happening and nobody filming. A man. A car. An eagle. A decision. Nobody would believe it. He'd tell the story at a dinner and people would nod politely and think: sure. The camera changes everything. Not because it makes the story true, but because it makes the story shareable. And shareable is how good things survive. So here's what I ask. If you watch this and it gets to you, don't just like it and move on. Send it to one person who needs a reason to believe that the world still does unexpected, gentle things. You know who that person is. --- 15/ THE CONTRAST THAT MAKES IT WORK Great stories run on contrast. Always. Predator and prey. Strength and fragility. Speed and stillness. Fear and calm. A wild creature and a very ordinary place. This video stacks all of it. An animal that belongs to the open sky, pressed into the smallest space it has probably ever occupied. A human being whose biggest worry that morning was probably something like traffic or a phone battery. A moment that should be a disaster and keeps refusing to become one. When those contrasts sit that close together, they stop being opposites. They start being a conversation. It's the same reason a candle looks brighter in a dark room. --- 16/ WHAT YOUR BRAIN IS DOING WHILE YOU WATCH For the nerds. I love the nerds. Three things are happening in your head while this plays. One: threat detection. You are looking at a large predator in a confined space, and a very old part of your brain is running a calculation about how many seconds it would take to get out. It's doing this whether you want it to or not. Two: empathy. A second system, the one that makes you wince when you see someone stub a toe, is reading the posture of an animal that is clearly not at its best. It's asking whether the creature is okay. Three: prediction. A third system is trying to guess what happens next, over and over, every second, and the video keeps making that guess slightly wrong. Three engines, running together, pulling in different directions. That's why you can't scroll. Your brain is busy. --- 17/ "BUT WHAT DID IT FEEL LIKE TO BE THERE?" I'll be honest. I don't know. I've never had a wild raptor sitting behind me while I tried to work out what to do with my hands. But I've thought about it a lot, and I think it feels like the opposite of a movie. In a movie, the music tells you what to feel. You get the swell, the cut, the close-up. In real life, there's nothing. Just air. And a thing that's alive in a way you can't negotiate with, in the same space as you, and a clock you can't see. Nobody tells you what to do. You just have to do something. That's the part the video gets right without even trying. You are not watching a performance. You are watching someone make it up as they go. --- 18/ THE ENDING (I'M NOT GOING TO SPOIL IT, BUT I'M GOING TO TELL YOU HOW IT FEELS) You know the feeling at the end of a long flight, when the wheels touch the ground and the whole cabin exhales? It's that. You don't know you've been tense until it stops. And then, a second later, something quieter shows up. Not happiness exactly. More like relief with a little bit of awe mixed in, the feeling you get when you realize you just watched something that was not supposed to go this well. I've been on the internet a long time. That feeling is rarer than it should be. If you've been scrolling through outrage for the last hour, give yourself two minutes of this. Your nervous system will thank you. --- 19/ WHY THIS IS THE ANTIDOTE Open any feed right now and count how many posts are trying to make you angry. Ten? Twenty? Now count how many are trying to make you feel something steady and good about the world, without pretending that the world is simple. This video is one of those. And the reason it works is that it doesn't ask you to ignore anything. It doesn't tell you everything is fine. It shows you a situation where things could have gone wrong in at least five different ways, and then it shows you what happens when the people involved choose patience. That is not a naive message. That is the hardest message there is. --- 20/ THE PEOPLE YOU DON'T SEE Here's a thing that bothers me about viral videos. We always celebrate the person who stands in front of the camera. We almost never celebrate the people behind them: the ones who show up when called, who do the slow and unglamorous work, who carry what needs carrying, who stay with something frightened until it isn't. Wildlife rescue is almost entirely made of those people. Volunteers. Rangers. Rehabilitators. People who pick up the phone at strange hours and say "okay, I'm on my way," and then drive somewhere with a carrier and a towel and no guarantee of a good outcome. If this video makes you feel something, let it make you feel something about them too. They're the reason a lot of stories like this have an ending at all. --- 21/ THE LINE I KEEP REPEATING "A wild animal that stops running is asking you a question." I wrote that down after my third viewing, and I've been turning it over ever since. Because most of us, when we meet something frightening, ask ourselves: how do I get away? Almost none of us ask: what is it trying to say? The man in this video asks the second question. Whether he knows it or not. That's the difference between a clip that makes you gasp and a clip that makes you think. --- 22/ A SMALL RULE FOR YOUR OWN LIFE If you ever find yourself near an injured wild animal, here's the unglamorous, boring, correct advice that every rehabilitator will give you: Don't be a hero. Keep your distance. Keep your voice low. Keep your hands to yourself. Don't pick it up, don't feed it, don't try to fix it on your own, and call the people whose entire job is to know what to do. Wild animals can be hurt by well-meaning help, and they can hurt you, too. I say this because I know exactly what a video like this makes people want to do. It makes people want to rush in. Don't. Call someone who knows. That's the real heroism, and it's less photogenic, and it saves more lives. --- 23/ THE SENTENCE THAT CAME UP IN MY HEAD AT THE END "Some things only happen if you stay calm for long enough." I don't know if that's true. I know it's what I thought. I think it's true of eagles. I think it's true of people. I think it's true of most of the hard things we're afraid of: the conversation, the diagnosis, the email, the leap. The version of you that panics is not stupid. It's just early. If you can hold still just a little longer than your instincts want you to, the situation will usually show you something it was hiding. That's it. That's the thesis of the entire post. You didn't need an eagle for it. But an eagle makes it a lot harder to forget. --- 24/ FIVE THINGS TO WATCH FOR (ZERO SPOILERS) Pay attention to these, and the video becomes a different video. → The distance. Not between the man and the bird. Between the bird and everything else it could have done. → The hands. Not what they do, but what they don't do for as long as they possibly can. → The words. Every line is human, unpolished, and a little scared. That's the point. → The silence between the words. It's longer than you expect and it tells you more than the dialogue. → The change of scenery. The story doesn't end where you think it will. Stay for the second half. The second half is the reason this post exists. If you do that, you won't just watch it. You'll remember it. --- 25/ THE SCREENSHOT TEST Here's a trick I use to decide whether a video is worth sharing. Pause it at a random moment. Any moment. If the frozen image still tells a story, you have something special. If it's just a blur or a talking head, you have content. Pause this one anywhere. Anywhere at all. It's a painting. A creature that belongs to the sky, a very ordinary human world, and a tension between them so thick you could rest your hand on it. It works as a still. It works as a clip. It works at half speed. It works with the sound off, although you shouldn't do that to yourself. That's rare. Videos built on real moments have it. Videos built on engineering never do. --- 26/ A PROMISE I'm not selling anything. No course. No link in bio. No thread of "10 lessons from an eagle for your startup." (Okay, one of those earlier sections came dangerously close. I'm aware.) I just watched something that made me stop, and in a feed full of things that make me scroll faster, that felt like a small miracle. So the promise is simple. If you give it your two minutes, you won't feel like you wasted them. If you do, say so. I can take it. --- 27/ WHAT A WILD ANIMAL TEACHES YOU ABOUT TIMING There's a rhythm to moments like this, and it isn't the rhythm of the internet. The internet is fast. Cut, cut, cut. Hook, payoff, next. This video moves at the speed of something that's afraid and something that's trying not to add to it. Slowly. Carefully. With long pauses where nothing seems to happen and everything is actually happening. That's why it's so hard to describe and so easy to feel. A fast video asks for your eyes. A slow video asks for your pulse. This one gets it. --- 28/ IF YOU ONLY REMEMBER ONE THING Don't remember the size of the bird. Don't remember the car. Remember that for a few minutes, a frightened wild animal and a startled human being shared a very small space, and neither one made it worse. In a year when it feels like everybody is making everything worse, that's worth two minutes of your life. Watch it. Then watch the people around you a little differently for the rest of the day. --- 29/ ONE MORE THING BEFORE YOU PRESS PLAY Put the phone down in a quiet room if you can. Not in a queue. Not in a lift. Not between two meetings. Give it the space the animal asked for. --- 30/ WHO THIS VIDEO IS FOR If you've ever felt like the world is getting louder and colder, this is for you. If you've ever been afraid of something and done the right thing anyway, this is for you. If you've ever helped something that couldn't thank you, this is for you. If you grew up looking at the sky and wondering what it would be like to be that free, and that strong, and that far from everything, this one is definitely for you. And if you're the kind of person who says "I don't have time for a two-minute video," I get it. I really do. But I'd bet money that you'll watch it twice. --- 31/ THE REAL REASON I'M POSTING THIS I could have written a 280-character caption. A joke. A "wait for it." A little emoji. I wrote this instead because some videos deserve a slower introduction. Not because they need explaining. Because they need you to arrive in the right mood. You can't watch this while half-distracted. You can't watch it while composing a reply. You can't watch it while thinking about what you'll post next. It asks for your attention the way the animal asks for space: quietly, and without any guarantee. Give it two minutes. If you don't feel anything, you can come back and tell me I was wrong. I'll take the hit. But I don't think I'm wrong. --- 32/ A PREDICTION By the end of the week, this video will be in your group chat. Someone will send it with no caption, just three exclamation marks. Someone else will reply "WHAT." A third person will say "wait, is that real?" and someone who has already watched it will say "watch the whole thing." That's how the good ones travel. Not through algorithms. Through people saying to each other: you have to see this. So. I'm saying it. You have to see this. --- 33/ IF YOU'RE STILL READING You made it this far, which tells me one of two things. Either you're already curious, or you're the kind of person who reads long posts to the end. Both of those people will love this video. Here's what I'd suggest. Scroll up. Press play. Turn the sound on. Put the phone in both hands, like you're holding something that might wake up. And when it's over, come back here and tell me one thing. Not "wow." Not "amazing." Tell me the exact second you stopped breathing. Everybody has one. I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours. --- 34/ WHY I'LL WATCH IT AGAIN TOMORROW Most videos, I watch once and forget by dinner. A few, I watch and keep. This is one I keep. Not for the shock. The shock fades. I keep it because it reminds me that the world still has moments you can't script, can't fake and can't predict: moments where something wild and something gentle end up in the same place at the same time, and the outcome depends entirely on a few quiet decisions. I keep it because it makes me want to be the kind of person who stays calm when it counts. And I keep it because every time I rewatch it, I notice one small thing I missed. You will too. --- 35/ THE LAST THING Somewhere out there right now, there is a wild animal in a place it shouldn't be, running out of options, deciding whether the nearest human is a threat or a chance. Most of the time, nobody is there. Sometimes somebody is. And sometimes, once in a long while, that somebody does the quiet, careful, unglamorous thing that turns a frightening moment into a story worth telling. That's what you're about to watch. Not a bird in a car. A very large, very wild thing that made a very small, very human choice possible. Press play. Then send it to someone. Then tell me what you saw. P.S. If this post made you curious, you're exactly who the video was made for. If it didn't, watch it anyway. Ten seconds in, you'll understand why I wrote 25,000 characters about a moment that most people would have tried to explain in one. Repost it for the person who needs to see it today.
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A wild eagle got into his car. That's not the strange part. The strange part is that it didn't want to leave. Read that again, because it breaks everything you think you know about wild animals. An eagle is not a pigeon. It is not a stray dog. It is not a cat that wandered into your garage. It is a predator built over millions of years to avoid exactly one thing: being close to you. And yet. I watched this video more times than I'd admit. Not because it's cute. Not because it's scary. Because somewhere around the second minute, I realized I was holding my breath, and couldn't tell you why. So let me tell you what this post is about, and what it is NOT about. It is not about a bird in a car. It is about what happens in the quiet space between a wild animal and a human being when the animal has run out of options and chooses to stop running. Let's go. --- 1/ THE RULE EVERYONE BREAKS There is one rule in wildlife work. People who spend their lives around raptors repeat it like a prayer: A healthy wild bird of prey does not come to you. Not for food. Not for warmth. Not for shelter. Not ever. An eagle that lets you walk up to it is not brave. It is not tame. It is not "friendly." It is a bird that has decided the danger in front of it is smaller than the danger it was already in. Think about what that means. Think about how bad things have to get for the apex predator of the sky to look at a human being and quietly decide: "Okay. You. Maybe you." Most people never see that moment. They hear about it later, in a sentence that starts with "apparently, this bird just..." This time somebody was rolling. --- 2/ WHY YOU CAN'T LOOK AWAY (AND IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT) Your brain has a built-in alarm for two things at the same time: power and vulnerability. Show it a lion, it goes quiet and sharp. Show it a baby bird, it softens. Show it both in the same body and something short-circuits. That's what an injured eagle is. A creature that looks like a weapon and behaves like a plea. The talons are enormous. The beak is a hooked blade. The eyes have a stare most humans can't hold for more than a few seconds. Everything about the animal says: stay away. And everything about its behavior says: please don't. That contradiction is the entire video. You will feel it in your chest before you can name it. Most of us don't have a word for this feeling because we almost never get to have it. --- 3/ THE SIZE PROBLEM Quick exercise. Before you watch, try to hold a number in your head. How big do you think an eagle is? Most people say "like a big chicken." Maybe a large cat. Then you see one inside a normal car, on a normal seat, next to normal car things like seat belts and a steering wheel, and your brain refuses the scale. The car suddenly looks small. The man suddenly looks small. And there is a moment in this video where you will do a thing nearly everyone does: you will pause, lean back from your screen, and say "no way that's real." It's real. --- 4/ WHAT THE MAN DID NEXT (WILL SURPRISE YOU) I'm not going to tell you. I'll tell you what I expected, though. I expected panic. I expected screaming, a door flung open, a phone dropped, a very short video that ends with a blur and a swear word. That's the internet's favorite genre. You know it. A person encounters an animal, loses their mind, the clip is 8 seconds long, everyone laughs. This is not that clip. This clip runs a little over two minutes. And it holds you the whole way. Because what happens inside that car is less like a funny video and more like watching somebody defuse something. Slow. Careful. Almost polite. You'll catch yourself whispering at your screen. You'll catch yourself telling a stranger what to do. --- 5/ THE SOUND Turn the volume on. I'm serious. Not "recommended." Required. Half of what makes this video land is not what you see. It's what you hear: a man who is clearly, absolutely, completely out of his depth, talking his way through it anyway, one half-joke and one swear word at a time. Humor is what people do when the situation is bigger than they are. Somewhere in there is a lesson that has nothing to do with eagles. --- 6/ THE PART NOBODY TALKS ABOUT Everybody who comments on this video says the same three things: "Wow, the eagle is huge." "Wow, that guy is calm." "Wow, I would've screamed." Almost nobody says the fourth thing, which is the only one that matters: It's a rescue. Not a rescue of the bird. Well, yes, of the bird. But more precisely, it's a rescue that only works because two completely different kinds of creature agree, for a few minutes, to not do what their instincts are screaming at them to do. One of them is built to strike. The other is built to flee. Neither does. If you've ever wondered what trust looks like when neither side has words, this is the closest thing I've ever seen on a screen. --- 7/ THE THING ABOUT STILLNESS We live in a world that rewards motion. Post more. Reply faster. Move. Pivot. Hustle. Scale. And then there's a video where the most powerful thing in the entire frame is a creature sitting completely still, and the second most powerful is a man doing his best to match it. Nobody is performing. Nobody is trying to go viral. (Which is exactly why it will.) No sponsored segment. No "wait for it." Just stillness, and tension, and a decision being made in real time by two living things that can't explain themselves to each other. I've been on this platform for over a decade. I've seen what spreads. And it's almost never the loud stuff. It's the stuff that makes your whole feed go quiet for a second. This does that. --- 8/ SEVEN THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT EAGLES AFTER THIS VIDEO BROKE MY BRAIN I went down a rabbit hole. Here's what I came back with. → An eagle's eyesight is estimated to be several times sharper than a human's. It can pick out a rabbit from a distance at which you couldn't tell a person from a post. It sees in a way you simply do not. When it looks at you from close range, it is not "looking." It is reading. → Their grip is brutal. The talons are built to lock, and the locking mechanism works with the bird's own weight. In other words, the harder it settles, the harder it holds. A bird like that does not need to try to be dangerous. Dangerous is the default setting. → Raptors hide pain. This is the one that got me. In the wild, a bird that shows weakness gets challenged, robbed or eaten. So they do the opposite of what we do: the worse they feel, the quieter and stiller they become. A calm eagle is not always a healthy eagle. → Many birds of prey are surprisingly light for their size. Huge wingspan, hollow-boned frame, almost nothing underneath all those feathers. The "giant" you see is mostly an illusion built from wings. Which makes the next part even stranger. → They are not social with humans. At all. Raptors are solitary hunters. There is no instinct in there that says "find the nearest person and sit next to them." If an eagle is near you and not leaving, something has gone wrong, or something has gone very, very right. → Eagles live long lives, and they hold territory with an almost military seriousness. To end up far from where it belongs, inside a machine it doesn't understand, surrounded by smells it has never encountered, is as far outside its world as a bird can be pushed. → And the last one: they don't do "sorry" and they don't do "thank you." There is no grateful look. If you're waiting for the moment where the bird bows its head, you'll be waiting forever. That's why the ending of this video hits the way it does. I won't say more. --- 9/ THE FIRST TEN SECONDS If you only give this video ten seconds, you'll understand it. If you give it a full minute, you'll have a hard time leaving. Ten seconds is enough because the whole story is in the frame at once: the scale, the closeness, the stillness, the human who has just realized that his day has changed. You don't need context. You don't need a caption. You don't need me. And that is the highest compliment I know how to give a video on this platform. Most content needs an explanation. This content needs a witness. Be the witness. --- 10/ WHY THE COMMENTS ARE GOING TO BE WILD I can already tell you what's coming, because I've seen this exact pattern on a thousand posts: First wave: "FAKE." Second wave: "It's trained." Third wave: "Why didn't he just open the door?" Fourth wave: someone who actually works with birds, calmly explaining what's going on in a way that makes everyone else feel slightly embarrassed. Fifth wave: a quiet reply that just says "I'm not crying, you're crying." If you're going to join the conversation, at least watch to the end first. The end is the answer to about 80% of the arguments. --- 11/ THE QUESTION THAT WON'T LEAVE ME ALONE I keep thinking about one thing. Why a car? Out of all the places in a whole landscape, why that one? Maybe it was open. Maybe it was dark. Maybe it was warm. Maybe it was the only enclosed space for miles. Maybe the bird was hurt and needed to be somewhere with walls. Maybe it was a coincidence. Here's what I think. And I'm saying "think," not "know." I think when a creature is hurt badly enough, it stops choosing the best place and starts choosing the nearest one. Not the safest. Not the smartest. The nearest. And the nearest thing happened to be a man, a seat, a roof, and a few feet of air that felt, to a frightened animal, like the closest thing to a cave. If that's true, it's a very uncomfortable idea. Because it means the bird didn't pick him. It means he was just the one who was there. And the whole story, everything after, depends on what he decided to do with that. --- 12/ THE MOMENT YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHAT'S COMING There's a beat in the video where you will be absolutely certain you know where this is going. You'll feel your brain build the ending. It will feel obvious. It will be wrong. I won't say how. But I'll say this: watch the person, not the bird. The bird is the headline. The person is the story. The more I watched, the more I noticed that the camera was never really on the eagle. It was on the human who had to decide what kind of person he was going to be in the next five minutes. That's a good test for anything you watch online: Is this video about the thing in the frame? Or is it about the choice someone is making just outside it? The best ones are always the second kind. --- 13/ A NOTE FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK THIS IS "JUST A CUTE ANIMAL VIDEO" It isn't. Cute animal videos are interchangeable. Puppy falls over. Cat stares at a wall. Hamster eats a tiny burrito. You scroll past, you smile, you forget. This is the other end of the spectrum. This video is not cute. This video is tense. It's patient. It's got weight. It sits in your chest for a while after it ends. If you want to know whether a clip is actually good, ask yourself one question an hour after you watch it: Can I still see it? I can still see this one. --- 14/ THE THING ABOUT BEING THE ONLY WITNESS Imagine this happening and nobody filming. A man. A car. An eagle. A decision. Nobody would believe it. He'd tell the story at a dinner and people would nod politely and think: sure. The camera changes everything. Not because it makes the story true, but because it makes the story shareable. And shareable is how good things survive. So here's what I ask. If you watch this and it gets to you, don't just like it and move on. Send it to one person who needs a reason to believe that the world still does unexpected, gentle things. You know who that person is. --- 15/ THE CONTRAST THAT MAKES IT WORK Great stories run on contrast. Always. Predator and prey. Strength and fragility. Speed and stillness. Fear and calm. A wild creature and a very ordinary place. This video stacks all of it. An animal that belongs to the open sky, pressed into the smallest space it has probably ever occupied. A human being whose biggest worry that morning was probably something like traffic or a phone battery. A moment that should be a disaster and keeps refusing to become one. When those contrasts sit that close together, they stop being opposites. They start being a conversation. It's the same reason a candle looks brighter in a dark room. --- 16/ WHAT YOUR BRAIN IS DOING WHILE YOU WATCH For the nerds. I love the nerds. Three things are happening in your head while this plays. One: threat detection. You are looking at a large predator in a confined space, and a very old part of your brain is running a calculation about how many seconds it would take to get out. It's doing this whether you want it to or not. Two: empathy. A second system, the one that makes you wince when you see someone stub a toe, is reading the posture of an animal that is clearly not at its best. It's asking whether the creature is okay. Three: prediction. A third system is trying to guess what happens next, over and over, every second, and the video keeps making that guess slightly wrong. Three engines, running together, pulling in different directions. That's why you can't scroll. Your brain is busy. --- 17/ "BUT WHAT DID IT FEEL LIKE TO BE THERE?" I'll be honest. I don't know. I've never had a wild raptor sitting behind me while I tried to work out what to do with my hands. But I've thought about it a lot, and I think it feels like the opposite of a movie. In a movie, the music tells you what to feel. You get the swell, the cut, the close-up. In real life, there's nothing. Just air. And a thing that's alive in a way you can't negotiate with, in the same space as you, and a clock you can't see. Nobody tells you what to do. You just have to do something. That's the part the video gets right without even trying. You are not watching a performance. You are watching someone make it up as they go. --- 18/ THE ENDING (I'M NOT GOING TO SPOIL IT, BUT I'M GOING TO TELL YOU HOW IT FEELS) You know the feeling at the end of a long flight, when the wheels touch the ground and the whole cabin exhales? It's that. You don't know you've been tense until it stops. And then, a second later, something quieter shows up. Not happiness exactly. More like relief with a little bit of awe mixed in, the feeling you get when you realize you just watched something that was not supposed to go this well. I've been on the internet a long time. That feeling is rarer than it should be. If you've been scrolling through outrage for the last hour, give yourself two minutes of this. Your nervous system will thank you. --- 19/ WHY THIS IS THE ANTIDOTE Open any feed right now and count how many posts are trying to make you angry. Ten? Twenty? Now count how many are trying to make you feel something steady and good about the world, without pretending that the world is simple. This video is one of those. And the reason it works is that it doesn't ask you to ignore anything. It doesn't tell you everything is fine. It shows you a situation where things could have gone wrong in at least five different ways, and then it shows you what happens when the people involved choose patience. That is not a naive message. That is the hardest message there is. --- 20/ THE PEOPLE YOU DON'T SEE Here's a thing that bothers me about viral videos. We always celebrate the person who stands in front of the camera. We almost never celebrate the people behind them: the ones who show up when called, who do the slow and unglamorous work, who carry what needs carrying, who stay with something frightened until it isn't. Wildlife rescue is almost entirely made of those people. Volunteers. Rangers. Rehabilitators. People who pick up the phone at strange hours and say "okay, I'm on my way," and then drive somewhere with a carrier and a towel and no guarantee of a good outcome. If this video makes you feel something, let it make you feel something about them too. They're the reason a lot of stories like this have an ending at all. --- 21/ THE LINE I KEEP REPEATING "A wild animal that stops running is asking you a question." I wrote that down after my third viewing, and I've been turning it over ever since. Because most of us, when we meet something frightening, ask ourselves: how do I get away? Almost none of us ask: what is it trying to say? The man in this video asks the second question. Whether he knows it or not. That's the difference between a clip that makes you gasp and a clip that makes you think. --- 22/ A SMALL RULE FOR YOUR OWN LIFE If you ever find yourself near an injured wild animal, here's the unglamorous, boring, correct advice that every rehabilitator will give you: Don't be a hero. Keep your distance. Keep your voice low. Keep your hands to yourself. Don't pick it up, don't feed it, don't try to fix it on your own, and call the people whose entire job is to know what to do. Wild animals can be hurt by well-meaning help, and they can hurt you, too. I say this because I know exactly what a video like this makes people want to do. It makes people want to rush in. Don't. Call someone who knows. That's the real heroism, and it's less photogenic, and it saves more lives. --- 23/ THE SENTENCE THAT CAME UP IN MY HEAD AT THE END "Some things only happen if you stay calm for long enough." I don't know if that's true. I know it's what I thought. I think it's true of eagles. I think it's true of people. I think it's true of most of the hard things we're afraid of: the conversation, the diagnosis, the email, the leap. The version of you that panics is not stupid. It's just early. If you can hold still just a little longer than your instincts want you to, the situation will usually show you something it was hiding. That's it. That's the thesis of the entire post. You didn't need an eagle for it. But an eagle makes it a lot harder to forget. --- 24/ FIVE THINGS TO WATCH FOR (ZERO SPOILERS) Pay attention to these, and the video becomes a different video. → The distance. Not between the man and the bird. Between the bird and everything else it could have done. → The hands. Not what they do, but what they don't do for as long as they possibly can. → The words. Every line is human, unpolished, and a little scared. That's the point. → The silence between the words. It's longer than you expect and it tells you more than the dialogue. → The change of scenery. The story doesn't end where you think it will. Stay for the second half. The second half is the reason this post exists. If you do that, you won't just watch it. You'll remember it. --- 25/ THE SCREENSHOT TEST Here's a trick I use to decide whether a video is worth sharing. Pause it at a random moment. Any moment. If the frozen image still tells a story, you have something special. If it's just a blur or a talking head, you have content. Pause this one anywhere. Anywhere at all. It's a painting. A creature that belongs to the sky, a very ordinary human world, and a tension between them so thick you could rest your hand on it. It works as a still. It works as a clip. It works at half speed. It works with the sound off, although you shouldn't do that to yourself. That's rare. Videos built on real moments have it. Videos built on engineering never do. --- 26/ A PROMISE I'm not selling anything. No course. No link in bio. No thread of "10 lessons from an eagle for your startup." (Okay, one of those earlier sections came dangerously close. I'm aware.) I just watched something that made me stop, and in a feed full of things that make me scroll faster, that felt like a small miracle. So the promise is simple. If you give it your two minutes, you won't feel like you wasted them. If you do, say so. I can take it. --- 27/ WHAT A WILD ANIMAL TEACHES YOU ABOUT TIMING There's a rhythm to moments like this, and it isn't the rhythm of the internet. The internet is fast. Cut, cut, cut. Hook, payoff, next. This video moves at the speed of something that's afraid and something that's trying not to add to it. Slowly. Carefully. With long pauses where nothing seems to happen and everything is actually happening. That's why it's so hard to describe and so easy to feel. A fast video asks for your eyes. A slow video asks for your pulse. This one gets it. --- 28/ IF YOU ONLY REMEMBER ONE THING Don't remember the size of the bird. Don't remember the car. Remember that for a few minutes, a frightened wild animal and a startled human being shared a very small space, and neither one made it worse. In a year when it feels like everybody is making everything worse, that's worth two minutes of your life. Watch it. Then watch the people around you a little differently for the rest of the day. --- 29/ ONE MORE THING BEFORE YOU PRESS PLAY Put the phone down in a quiet room if you can. Not in a queue. Not in a lift. Not between two meetings. Give it the space the animal asked for. --- 30/ WHO THIS VIDEO IS FOR If you've ever felt like the world is getting louder and colder, this is for you. If you've ever been afraid of something and done the right thing anyway, this is for you. If you've ever helped something that couldn't thank you, this is for you. If you grew up looking at the sky and wondering what it would be like to be that free, and that strong, and that far from everything, this one is definitely for you. And if you're the kind of person who says "I don't have time for a two-minute video," I get it. I really do. But I'd bet money that you'll watch it twice. --- 31/ THE REAL REASON I'M POSTING THIS I could have written a 280-character caption. A joke. A "wait for it." A little emoji. I wrote this instead because some videos deserve a slower introduction. Not because they need explaining. Because they need you to arrive in the right mood. You can't watch this while half-distracted. You can't watch it while composing a reply. You can't watch it while thinking about what you'll post next. It asks for your attention the way the animal asks for space: quietly, and without any guarantee. Give it two minutes. If you don't feel anything, you can come back and tell me I was wrong. I'll take the hit. But I don't think I'm wrong. --- 32/ A PREDICTION By the end of the week, this video will be in your group chat. Someone will send it with no caption, just three exclamation marks. Someone else will reply "WHAT." A third person will say "wait, is that real?" and someone who has already watched it will say "watch the whole thing." That's how the good ones travel. Not through algorithms. Through people saying to each other: you have to see this. So. I'm saying it. You have to see this. --- 33/ IF YOU'RE STILL READING You made it this far, which tells me one of two things. Either you're already curious, or you're the kind of person who reads long posts to the end. Both of those people will love this video. Here's what I'd suggest. Scroll up. Press play. Turn the sound on. Put the phone in both hands, like you're holding something that might wake up. And when it's over, come back here and tell me one thing. Not "wow." Not "amazing." Tell me the exact second you stopped breathing. Everybody has one. I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours. --- 34/ WHY I'LL WATCH IT AGAIN TOMORROW Most videos, I watch once and forget by dinner. A few, I watch and keep. This is one I keep. Not for the shock. The shock fades. I keep it because it reminds me that the world still has moments you can't script, can't fake and can't predict: moments where something wild and something gentle end up in the same place at the same time, and the outcome depends entirely on a few quiet decisions. I keep it because it makes me want to be the kind of person who stays calm when it counts. And I keep it because every time I rewatch it, I notice one small thing I missed. You will too. --- 35/ THE LAST THING Somewhere out there right now, there is a wild animal in a place it shouldn't be, running out of options, deciding whether the nearest human is a threat or a chance. Most of the time, nobody is there. Sometimes somebody is. And sometimes, once in a long while, that somebody does the quiet, careful, unglamorous thing that turns a frightening moment into a story worth telling. That's what you're about to watch. Not a bird in a car. A very large, very wild thing that made a very small, very human choice possible. Press play. Then send it to someone. Then tell me what you saw. P.S. If this post made you curious, you're exactly who the video was made for. If it didn't, watch it anyway. Ten seconds in, you'll understand why I wrote 25,000 characters about a moment that most people would have tried to explain in one. Repost it for the person who needs to see it today.

Earth Unveiled

152,403 次观看 • 29 天前

Your brain doesn’t know what time it is. Every time you replay that conversation from last year, that mistake from last month, that moment you wish you could take back from yesterday, your brain treats it like it’s happening right now. Same stress chemicals. Same alarm bells. You’re not remembering it. You’re reliving it, on a loop you built yourself. That's because of two things: your brain doesn't know the difference between what's really happening and what you're just imagining, and neuroplasticity means that your brain automates things that you think about and turns them into programs that it runs without you having to think about them next time. So, the more you rehearse something from the past or something you're just imagining, the more your brain builds out a reality as if that thing is still here right now. The ninth Commandment of self brain surgery is, "I must believe that what I'm doing I'm getting better at." That means if you're doing things with your mind that are making your brain better at living in the past or worrying about imaginary outcomes, you're getting better at feeling worse. So knock it off. Here’s the shift: you can’t edit the past, but you can stop rehearsing it. Every replay is a rehearsal, and your brain gets better at whatever you rehearse. Let's make neuroplasticity work for us and not against us. We call that self-brain surgery. It's not easy at first, it's hard and holy work. But remember, you get better at whatever you repeatedly do Philippians 3:13 says it like this: forget what lies behind and strain towards what lies ahead. Not denying it happened, but refusing to keep performing it. There's better stuff in the future, but not if you keep building a brain that lives in the past. Follow me to connect neuroscience and scripture every day. Save this for the next time your mind hits replay. Share it with someone stuck on a loop. Click the link in my bio to learn more about Self-Brain Surgery. #SelfBrainSurgery #Neurosurgery #FaithAndScience #BrainHealth
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Your brain doesn’t know what time it is. Every time you replay that conversation from last year, that mistake from last month, that moment you wish you could take back from yesterday, your brain treats it like it’s happening right now. Same stress chemicals. Same alarm bells. You’re not remembering it. You’re reliving it, on a loop you built yourself. That's because of two things: your brain doesn't know the difference between what's really happening and what you're just imagining, and neuroplasticity means that your brain automates things that you think about and turns them into programs that it runs without you having to think about them next time. So, the more you rehearse something from the past or something you're just imagining, the more your brain builds out a reality as if that thing is still here right now. The ninth Commandment of self brain surgery is, "I must believe that what I'm doing I'm getting better at." That means if you're doing things with your mind that are making your brain better at living in the past or worrying about imaginary outcomes, you're getting better at feeling worse. So knock it off. Here’s the shift: you can’t edit the past, but you can stop rehearsing it. Every replay is a rehearsal, and your brain gets better at whatever you rehearse. Let's make neuroplasticity work for us and not against us. We call that self-brain surgery. It's not easy at first, it's hard and holy work. But remember, you get better at whatever you repeatedly do Philippians 3:13 says it like this: forget what lies behind and strain towards what lies ahead. Not denying it happened, but refusing to keep performing it. There's better stuff in the future, but not if you keep building a brain that lives in the past. Follow me to connect neuroscience and scripture every day. Save this for the next time your mind hits replay. Share it with someone stuck on a loop. Click the link in my bio to learn more about Self-Brain Surgery. #SelfBrainSurgery #Neurosurgery #FaithAndScience #BrainHealth

Dr. Lee Warren

307,913 次观看 • 1 个月前

Tony Robbins explains why two people can live the same moment but experience completely different lives “We don’t experience life, we experience the part of life we focus on. The minute you focus on something, your brain has to decide what it means, and meaning is what creates emotion. And emotion is where your life is. That’s why the quality of your life is the quality of your emotions. If you got $1 billion and every day you’re pissed off and angry, your life’s quality is that” “Then there’s a third decision, which is what you’re going to do. Because if something happens and you say this person is dissing you, you’ll feel angry and make one decision. But if you think they’re coaching you or loving you, you’ll feel different and act differently. Those three decisions, what you focus on, what it means, and what you do, control your life”
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Tony Robbins explains why two people can live the same moment but experience completely different lives “We don’t experience life, we experience the part of life we focus on. The minute you focus on something, your brain has to decide what it means, and meaning is what creates emotion. And emotion is where your life is. That’s why the quality of your life is the quality of your emotions. If you got $1 billion and every day you’re pissed off and angry, your life’s quality is that” “Then there’s a third decision, which is what you’re going to do. Because if something happens and you say this person is dissing you, you’ll feel angry and make one decision. But if you think they’re coaching you or loving you, you’ll feel different and act differently. Those three decisions, what you focus on, what it means, and what you do, control your life”

Mikli

51,741 次观看 • 7 个月前

Rich Roll on why waiting to "feel like it" is a trap: "You can't think your way into the mood that you seek or the state of mind that you aspire to inhabit. Action is the only thing that can trigger that change." Rich uses running as the perfect illustration of this principle. Imagine you wake up in the morning and you're supposed to do a run because you're training for a race. You don't feel like it. So what do most of us do? "We all resort to that state where we think, 'Well, I don't want to do it right now. I'll just wait until I feel like doing it and then I'll do it then.'" But here's the problem with that logic: "If you're waiting until you feel like doing something, chances are you're probably never going to get to it." The mood you're hoping will arrive on its own? It's not coming. Not without action first. "To take the action despite how you feel about it is the thing that catalyzes the state change." You don't run because you feel motivated. You feel motivated because you ran. He points to what every runner knows from experience: "When they finish the run, they're always glad that they did it. They don't generally regret it. And then they feel better." Notice the sequence. The good feeling comes after the action, not before it. The state change is the reward for showing up, not the prerequisite. And this isn't just about running. As Rich puts it: "That example is applicable to all areas of life." The workout you're avoiding. The conversation you're delaying. The project you're putting off until you're "in the right headspace." You're waiting for a feeling that only exists on the other side of doing the thing.
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Rich Roll on why waiting to "feel like it" is a trap: "You can't think your way into the mood that you seek or the state of mind that you aspire to inhabit. Action is the only thing that can trigger that change." Rich uses running as the perfect illustration of this principle. Imagine you wake up in the morning and you're supposed to do a run because you're training for a race. You don't feel like it. So what do most of us do? "We all resort to that state where we think, 'Well, I don't want to do it right now. I'll just wait until I feel like doing it and then I'll do it then.'" But here's the problem with that logic: "If you're waiting until you feel like doing something, chances are you're probably never going to get to it." The mood you're hoping will arrive on its own? It's not coming. Not without action first. "To take the action despite how you feel about it is the thing that catalyzes the state change." You don't run because you feel motivated. You feel motivated because you ran. He points to what every runner knows from experience: "When they finish the run, they're always glad that they did it. They don't generally regret it. And then they feel better." Notice the sequence. The good feeling comes after the action, not before it. The state change is the reward for showing up, not the prerequisite. And this isn't just about running. As Rich puts it: "That example is applicable to all areas of life." The workout you're avoiding. The conversation you're delaying. The project you're putting off until you're "in the right headspace." You're waiting for a feeling that only exists on the other side of doing the thing.

Kevin Tanaka

10,256 次观看 • 6 个月前

YOU BETTER STOP DOING EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW Y’all….. This is just worth your time and you better watch it twice!! Two for Tuesday!! This cat sees something in the sky that just looks all wrong… He begins to record and he tells you everything that is happening like a sports announcer… Watch this!!! This is what he captured…..
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YOU BETTER STOP DOING EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW Y’all….. This is just worth your time and you better watch it twice!! Two for Tuesday!! This cat sees something in the sky that just looks all wrong… He begins to record and he tells you everything that is happening like a sports announcer… Watch this!!! This is what he captured…..

Eddie Abbott

212,786 次观看 • 5 个月前

One of my most controversial takes: No one else has the power totrigger you. When someone does something that triggers you, your amygdala fires first. You can slow the response with a breath and choose the extinguisher over gasoline. So, you actually always have the power to not be trigger-able.  It's hard and holy work, but it's worth it to regain that sense of control that you used to believe someone else could take from you by triggering you. Save this for the next time you start to feel triggered, and share it with a friend who needs to know how much power they actually have over their own emotional state. Follow for more brain science tips to stay in control. And click the link in my bio to learn more about self-brain surgery. #neuroscience #anxiety #anger #emotions 
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One of my most controversial takes: No one else has the power totrigger you. When someone does something that triggers you, your amygdala fires first. You can slow the response with a breath and choose the extinguisher over gasoline. So, you actually always have the power to not be trigger-able.  It's hard and holy work, but it's worth it to regain that sense of control that you used to believe someone else could take from you by triggering you. Save this for the next time you start to feel triggered, and share it with a friend who needs to know how much power they actually have over their own emotional state. Follow for more brain science tips to stay in control. And click the link in my bio to learn more about self-brain surgery. #neuroscience #anxiety #anger #emotions 

Dr. Lee Warren

12,511 次观看 • 24 天前

Steve Jobs on why everything around you was made by people no smarter than you: "When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much, have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. But that's a very limited life." Steve believed most people live with a fundamental misconception. As he puts it: "Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact. And that is—everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you." He continues: "And you can change it. You can influence it. You can build your own things that other people can use. And the minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will pop out the other side—that you can change it, you can mold it." On what matters most: "Maybe the most important thing is to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just going to live in it versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. I think that's very important." His perspective on why you should change things: "However you learn that, once you learn it, you'll want to change life and make it better because it's kind of messed up in a lot of ways." The shift: "Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again."
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Steve Jobs on why everything around you was made by people no smarter than you: "When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much, have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. But that's a very limited life." Steve believed most people live with a fundamental misconception. As he puts it: "Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact. And that is—everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you." He continues: "And you can change it. You can influence it. You can build your own things that other people can use. And the minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will pop out the other side—that you can change it, you can mold it." On what matters most: "Maybe the most important thing is to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just going to live in it versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. I think that's very important." His perspective on why you should change things: "However you learn that, once you learn it, you'll want to change life and make it better because it's kind of messed up in a lot of ways." The shift: "Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again."

Jaynit

48,518 次观看 • 10 个月前

A radical truth I discovered that will massively transform your life: I am not stuck because of someone or something outside of me. Look, friend, I feel you on this. Maybe you've been through something hard that left you reeling, wondering what's next and unable to breathe. What you went through may have been devastating, and it probably was. I have a friend who lost two sons in thirteen months. One died by suicide. The other had leukemia, and my friend donated his own bone marrow to save him. His son had a reaction to it and died. I lost one son, and griefs can't be ranked, but I can hardly take that one in. A loss like that can't be navigated without a compass that points your mind somewhere besides what you've been through. And it IS true that people have walked through unspeakable things and still moved forward. So how does one person get stuck while someone else finds a way forward? Here's what I realized: it's all about grabbing onto things you CAN control when life feels OUT of control. For me, I have to look at the responses, the decisions, and the mindsets I've built around what happened. Those are mine, and I can change them. The good news is, God built you to be able to find your feet again, and your brain will support you. "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." (2 Timothy 1:7, NKJV) You have been given a sound mind. You don't have to live in fear and anxiety and overwhelm. You don't have to let your ADHD, or your neurodivergence, or anything else you've been through keep you where you are. The fourth commandment of self-brain surgery is: I must believe that my mind is in charge of my brain. Your brain listens to your mind, and God designed it that way. I'm not whitewashing any of this. I went through the Iraq war, post-traumatic stress disorder, and a divorce, and then I lost my son. So I feel you. But I love you enough, and I'm a good enough doctor to shoot straight: you need to grab onto what you can change, and re-orient towards a more hopeful future. That's the only choice that holds any hope. This is hard and holy work. If you're stuck after something like that, what's required is a change in how you're looking at it, and a decision that tomorrow can be different than yesterday was. You won't be doing it alone. Go back to the operating room. I say "knife," and the scalpel is in my hand. That's how the Holy Spirit works with you. He won't make the incision for you, and he won't operate for you. But he did design your nervous system so that it can change. That's neuroplasticity: the wiring you use is the wiring that gets stronger. The tenth commandment of self-brain surgery is: I must understand that thoughts become things. "...for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure." (Philippians 2:13, ESV) So it's not self-reliance, but it is self-help. He hands you what you need, and he expects you to pick it up. Let's get after the business of healing. Share this with a friend who needs to get unstuck, and save it for later when you need a friendly reminder to move again. And follow me for daily connections between neuroscience and faith that will help you in your quest for healing, hope, and higher performance in your life. Click the link in my bio to learn more about my New York Times best selling book, The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery. #neuroscience #mentalhealth #hope #anxiety #selfbrainsurgery
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A radical truth I discovered that will massively transform your life: I am not stuck because of someone or something outside of me. Look, friend, I feel you on this. Maybe you've been through something hard that left you reeling, wondering what's next and unable to breathe. What you went through may have been devastating, and it probably was. I have a friend who lost two sons in thirteen months. One died by suicide. The other had leukemia, and my friend donated his own bone marrow to save him. His son had a reaction to it and died. I lost one son, and griefs can't be ranked, but I can hardly take that one in. A loss like that can't be navigated without a compass that points your mind somewhere besides what you've been through. And it IS true that people have walked through unspeakable things and still moved forward. So how does one person get stuck while someone else finds a way forward? Here's what I realized: it's all about grabbing onto things you CAN control when life feels OUT of control. For me, I have to look at the responses, the decisions, and the mindsets I've built around what happened. Those are mine, and I can change them. The good news is, God built you to be able to find your feet again, and your brain will support you. "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." (2 Timothy 1:7, NKJV) You have been given a sound mind. You don't have to live in fear and anxiety and overwhelm. You don't have to let your ADHD, or your neurodivergence, or anything else you've been through keep you where you are. The fourth commandment of self-brain surgery is: I must believe that my mind is in charge of my brain. Your brain listens to your mind, and God designed it that way. I'm not whitewashing any of this. I went through the Iraq war, post-traumatic stress disorder, and a divorce, and then I lost my son. So I feel you. But I love you enough, and I'm a good enough doctor to shoot straight: you need to grab onto what you can change, and re-orient towards a more hopeful future. That's the only choice that holds any hope. This is hard and holy work. If you're stuck after something like that, what's required is a change in how you're looking at it, and a decision that tomorrow can be different than yesterday was. You won't be doing it alone. Go back to the operating room. I say "knife," and the scalpel is in my hand. That's how the Holy Spirit works with you. He won't make the incision for you, and he won't operate for you. But he did design your nervous system so that it can change. That's neuroplasticity: the wiring you use is the wiring that gets stronger. The tenth commandment of self-brain surgery is: I must understand that thoughts become things. "...for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure." (Philippians 2:13, ESV) So it's not self-reliance, but it is self-help. He hands you what you need, and he expects you to pick it up. Let's get after the business of healing. Share this with a friend who needs to get unstuck, and save it for later when you need a friendly reminder to move again. And follow me for daily connections between neuroscience and faith that will help you in your quest for healing, hope, and higher performance in your life. Click the link in my bio to learn more about my New York Times best selling book, The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery. #neuroscience #mentalhealth #hope #anxiety #selfbrainsurgery

Dr. Lee Warren

16,757 次观看 • 1 个月前