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The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

A Healthy Brain is a Successful Life | #TBT

The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Tom Ferry

Self-improvement, Business, Education

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Is your brain as healthy as your business? In today’s episode of #ThrowbackThursday, I bring back another enlightening interview of the Tom Ferry Podcast Experience that covers brain health. I spoke with my good friend, Dr. Daniel Amen, who shares many ways to have a healthy brain, the core principles in learning and how to care for this precious asset in your head.  Don’t miss this episode to learn more of the benefits of having a healthy brain. Text me at 949-216-5466 and let me know what you do to keep your brain’s performance show up in your life and business!  For show notes and more information, click here.

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0:00.0

Go back to fluorescent lights, a good friend of mine, Mark Davidson from Thousand Watt, who's just this

0:05.5

creative branding genius, comes to my office a month and a half ago, he walks in and he puts on these

0:11.6

yellow, it looks like hunting kind of glasses, right?

0:15.3

That whatever, yellow, yeah.

0:16.8

And he said, I just, I can't do the lights.

0:19.0

It just, it just impacts me in so many bad ways.

0:21.8

And we didn't go into it.

0:23.2

I just said, it's just another cool thing that Mark does,

0:25.2

whatever.

0:25.6

So what is that, fluorescent lights?

0:27.9

What should we be doing?

0:29.9

We should replace them when we can with grow lights that have full spectrum lights because

0:36.4

the fluorescent lights not for everybody but for some people agitates them and irritates

0:41.7

them and gives them headaches. There's an interesting

0:45.2

syndrome I talk about in my new book called the Erland Syndrome I R L-E-N and

0:50.3

these are people that light really disrupts their brain.

0:55.8

They have depth perception problems,

0:57.4

so they have trouble catching balls.

0:59.9

They have, you see them at the mall. These are people who have a terrible time getting on escalators.

1:06.9

So most of us just walk on.

1:09.2

But these people stand at the bottom, and they watch and then with a lot of anxiety they get on because their depth perception is not right because light is interfering with some of the pathways in their brain.

1:24.0

Depth perception, headaches, especially when they read.

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