Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast.

I'm your host Sammy and today we are talking about five ways to be impressive.

Hey everyone, welcome to the podcast today. How is your summer break going? We actually

snuck away to the beach this last weekend and it was so nice. Sometimes a change of scenery

is really good for our brains and our bodies. It was just really good to get away. We just get caught up

in so many things in our lives and every so often it is just good to step away for it. I feel like

that sometimes with social media too where I'm just kind of taking a break from that also right now

and it just feels really, really nice. Okay, my brain's not so full of

so many things. But anyways, this week's episode came about because I spend a lot of time with

teenagers. There are a lot of things that you guys do that just really impress me. I know it's not

only me, but these are characteristics that other people notice.

And they're impressive because they require skill and ability beyond our normal programming

in our brains. Okay. So our brains have three main jobs, which are to save energy, keep us safe, and seek pleasure and fun.

Whenever someone uses their higher brain to override one of these jobs of our brain, it's impressive just because it's not normal, right?

Because normal is not impressive, right?

So when something or someone is impressive, it means that you admire it or you admire them.

Like when you watch videos on TikTok and you see really talented people, they kind of go like, wow, that is so cool.

Or hear someone seeing and you're like that is amazing okay so we admire

things that are impressive as human beings and anyone that is impressive they have to

overcome their normal thinking and these are very subtle characteristics that I'm

going to talk to you about today but people will notice them

and they will notice something different about you and it's that like wow factor that

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