Welcome back to part two with human optimization expert Gary Breka.

The thing that I will add is I think that there is, there's not enough consequence in people's lives.

Like when you are in a modern context, there's so many safety nets.

Things are, you can be in an air conditioned roomitioned room. You don't have to worry about

where your next meal is coming from, certainly for the vast majority of people in the West.

And anecdotally, from just my own experience to somebody who was diagnosed with hyperactivity

disorder when I was a kid, they would almost certainly call it ADHD now. The way that it feels is I'm doing this thing.

I hit a moment of discomfort and my brain goes, oh, cool, here's another thing to think about

that isn't as uncomfortable as that thing. And then when that one gets comfortable,

here's another thing to think about that. And so I'm constantly having to force myself to come back to the task. When, however, the stakes are high. And this is why I think a lot of people say I work best under pressure is you need the sense of like, holy shit, the world is going to end or something very bad is going to happen if I don't do this. And so you're just waiting for that moment where it clicks over. And now the stakes suddenly feel high enough and you have to address it. And so I call this, some people need to be chased by a lion. And when you're being chased by a line, that's real clarifying. That is the only thing you're going to be thinking about and dealing with at that moment. I agree with that too. But I mean, if your whole life depends on you being chased by a lion, I mean, the amount of stress that you put yourself under is, you know, in a lot of cases, it's highly unnecessary.

What if you actually, instead of giving equal priority to all of the tasks that come into your mind, which is what happens when you open thought at a faster rate than you degrade it.

You start to actually give equal priority to every thought that's coming into your mind.

So like you're closing on the dream home of a lifetime, right?

And you got 40 minutes to get the paperwork back to the broker,

or you could potentially lose this house for good.

And you're working on the paperwork and you get a

ding on your phone and you're like, oh, it's an Instagram message. And it's your neighbor's cousin's kid fishing in a lake. And you're like, well, I wonder if he catches the fish. And so you start, this is going to have zero impact on your life. And you're just curious. You start looking at that. And then all of a sudden you feel that, well, I don't have 40 minutes left. I got 30 minutes. And I don't have 30 minutes, I got 25 minutes. And now that external pressure forces you to drop the phone, hyper focus on what you're doing. And at 459, you get the paperwork back to the broker, and you're like, I work well under pressure. You're essentially, from a physiological

standpoint, you're saying I lack the ability to set priorities internally, so I use external

priorities to set my, I use external pressure to set my priorities. And this is how most people

go through life because they haven't, they don't have that proper balance of neurotransmitters

either in the supplier than demand and so now equal weight gets given to every single thought

and they're labeled ADD or ADHD or their mind is very clouded right and the more disorganized

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