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Ep 541 – FocusCalm Technology with Max Newlon

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Power Athlete

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8614 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2021

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

This week we welcome Max Newlon of Focus Calm. Monitoring the electrical activity in your brain may seem like a sci-fi leap in performance, but believe it or not, it’s the next natural and effective step in sports psychology. However, focus and calm are not just athlete essentials. They are a necessity in every person’s life to better conquer the rigors of acute stress.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into Power Athlete Radio. This week we welcome Max Newland of Focus Calm.

0:10.4

Monitoring the electrical activity in your brain may seem like a sci-fi leap in performance,

0:15.1

but believe it or not, it's the next natural and effective step in sports psychology.

0:20.8

However, Focus and Calm are not just athlete essentials.

0:24.4

They are a necessity in every person's life to better conquer the rigors of acute stress.

0:29.9

Here it is, episode 541.

0:36.9

Meditation's back, baby. Did it never really? Got a pocketful to change for the toll I'm smoking.

0:40.1

Meditation's back, baby.

0:41.9

Did it never really leave?

0:43.1

I don't know.

0:44.2

I never got into it.

0:48.4

Well, what you needed is a fancy tech that blinks to get you into meditation.

0:49.9

No, it's accountability.

0:52.7

Or gamifying.

0:58.0

So now I, yeah, it tricks me into mental progress.

1:07.2

Is the unit that we're wearing on the heads, because we got these a couple, geez, more than a couple weeks ago.

1:13.5

But does the unit actually do something to enhance the meditation or is the unit just like a feedback for the meditation? It's more like a wearable in the sense that it's tracking your

1:20.0

progress. But there's this interesting mechanism or tool in the app where when you see your progress in real time, you can actually learn to control your brain state.

1:32.3

So if you guys were playing around maybe with the rocket ship game, the more you lean into that focused and calm state, the higher the rocket ship goes.

1:40.3

So you can actually play with it in real time in addition to kind of seeing your progress

1:45.7

over time. How much stronger are you getting at this mental state?

1:50.0

All right. Well, for the audience that can't see us, the people that are listening at home,

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