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Tiny Leaps, Big Changes

282 - How to Take Action In Your Life

Tiny Leaps, Big Changes

Gregg Clunis

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.3920 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we talk about the pre-frontal cortex, the basal ganglia, and how they affect your ability to take action in your life. 

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Resources

https://www.neuropsychotherapist.com/prefrontal-cortex/

https://www.britannica.com/science/basal-ganglion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpNbUN2_ebo

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, so let's say that you have a goal.

0:03.2

You have a thing you want to accomplish.

0:05.0

This is important to you.

0:06.3

Maybe it's around fitness or finance or monies or relationships

0:10.3

or emotional help, whatever it is. You have a goal and you kind of know what it is you need to do.

0:17.0

You know the steps that you should be taking or at least you have some idea. You could get started, but you don't. You don't follow through on it.

0:27.0

In this episode, we talk about the difference between the basal ganglia and the prefrontal cortex and what all of that

0:36.8

has to do with you. That's right, we are getting all scienceiency on this episode.

0:43.3

So buckle up because this is tiny leaves.

0:48.7

Big change. changing. Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps. Big changes where I share simple strategies

1:10.6

you can use to get more out of your life. My name is Greg Clooney and in this

1:16.1

episode we are diving deep into the prefrontal cortex and the basal ganglia. Now don't worry I'm going to explain what those two are just in

1:25.8

case you're not aware or at least my pseudo-science version of them but I found that they're incredibly important in better understanding our

1:36.4

behavior on a day-to-day basis and why we don't always act on the things we know

1:41.5

we should act on. So naturally was like, hey, people need to

1:45.2

know this stuff. And it's funny, I actually started thinking about this and learning more

1:49.7

about it because of a video I watch that I'm going to link to in the description for this

1:54.5

episode so definitely check that out it is Terry Cruz video actually so

1:59.6

Terry Cruz the former NFL player, current actor and furniture maker and all around Renaissance

2:07.8

badass.

2:09.4

He made a video back in 2016 talking about this talking about the basal ganglia the

2:14.8

prefrontal cortex and how it affects your ability to create routines and

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