142: Insuring Your Brain
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I'm talking about the concept of insuring your brain and what you can do to make sure you're mentally stimulated on a daily basis. It's incredibly important to break out of habits and routines if we want to stay sharp, just like it's important to keep learning and to seek out discomfort. Our brains are perpetual problem-solving machines, and without any problems to solve, they can get rusty with disuse.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 142 |
| 0:06.4 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out |
| 0:13.2 | We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist temptation |
| 0:19.8 | No labels no judgment just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking |
| 0:27.6 | Now here's your host Rachel Hart |
| 0:34.8 | Well hello everyone |
| 0:37.3 | Talking with you guys about something really important today and a little strange |
| 0:43.3 | It's called ensuring your brain |
| 0:48.2 | I just started thinking about this idea and this concept and what it means to ensure the brain |
| 0:56.9 | Because I have been watching a |
| 0:59.6 | documentary on Netflix all about Bill Gates the founder of Microsoft |
| 1:03.5 | It's called inside Bill's brain and it's really fascinating. I highly recommend it |
| 1:08.7 | So you guys are already probably very familiar with Bill Gates. He |
| 1:14.0 | revolutionized computer software. He amassed a vast fortune and now he's actually giving the majority of his wealth away |
| 1:22.2 | through the Gates Foundation and that's what the documentary really looks at both the beginnings of Microsoft and what he is doing now to revolutionize |
| 1:33.0 | things like toilets and |
| 1:36.0 | Clean energy. It's really interesting but early on in the documentary |
| 1:41.1 | He was asked what is your biggest fear? |
| 1:45.0 | And he pauses for a moment and he says I don't want my brain to stop working |
| 1:51.7 | And it's so interesting to think about this man and everything that he has done and the value that he places on his brain |
| 1:59.1 | But I think that the value that he places on his brain is no different from the value that we all place on our own |
| 2:06.8 | brains |
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