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224 | Dr. Srini Pillay: “If You Take the Same Activation into the Next Situation, You’re Going to Get the Same Outcome.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Business, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Education

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2017

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Srini Pillay goes deep into the brain today to teach us about why we sometimes do things we know we shouldn’t do, and how we can train our brain for hope and fulfillment rather than disappointment, and make it easier to change and go after what we really want.

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If you take the same activation into the next situation, you're going to get the same outcome.

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And that is the quote of the day.

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Welcome back to the quote of the day show.

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I'm your host Sean Crox and the Sean Crox and dot com today's episode is brought to you by the

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Today we've got my main man, Dr. Serini Palay on the show.

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He's author of my favorite books of all time, life on locked and he's talking about the

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brain.

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He's talking about a mectola activation and just to give you some context, the mectola

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is the part of your brain that's responsible.

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It's like your emotional center and it prioritizes fear.

1:11.8

And so when the mectola is lit up with fear, it tends to stop us from doing the things

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that we really want to do.

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He also talks about why the brain is not interested in our fulfillment and it's really darn fascinating.

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Here's the dot.

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And there's a concept of living with fear and I'll quickly sort of mention what this

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is.

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You know, one of the things we ask is why is it that we often still do negative things

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even though we don't want to?

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Well, after a negative experience, after you've lost a lot of money or after you've been

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in a bad relationship, the mectola is still activating and rather than taking a time

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