This is 5 minutes to freedom.

I'm your host Ryan Naidel and today's episode is five seconds to launch.

So if you're a new listener, it's probably going to be a little bit of a secret to you,

but those that have followed my journey for quite some time realize that I'm an avid reader.

I enjoy tearing through a book that makes me expand my mindset once a week.

So literally I finish one book a week.

And in the book I'm reading now, which I'll eventually review in a further

episode, there's a section that starts talking about a five second rule. And I know the five second rule

is a young child and even into my adult years, as if something falls on the floor you have five seconds to pick it up

blow it off and then eat it because within five seconds there's no way that germs and

bad things could ever get onto that piece of you know food or things you want to put in your mouth. So five seconds is all you need

to make sure that you're safe. Well that's not exactly what this author's

talking about.

And what he ends up describing is something that makes a tremendous amount of sense to me

that has perfect application in other parts of my life.

So what he goes on to say in this book is the fact of anything, your mind you're what we call lizard mind or they call,

psychologists call lizard mind, lizard mind is the mind that potentially is part of your

body that has been derived through years of evolution that goes way back to early ancestors.

So it's the one that's not as evolved as the current contextual forefront of your mind that operates

now.

So this lizard brain of yours, the lizard mind, will talk you out of doing things

in order to protect you because all that part of your brain really knows is fight or flight.

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