I love looking at this through the lens of neuroscience and just some really, really interesting things happen to our brains, you know, when we're out in nature and surfing I think is just kind of an extreme example of it.

But we are absolutely pulled into the present moment.

I mean, I'm not a surfer, but I am a skier.

I do some other kind of extreme sports.

You have to pay attention. You know, you have to pay attention.

You have to be fully fully in it, right?

And so much of our daily lives, we don't live in that space.

We live in a very different space where our frontal cortex, you know, is kind of ruling the day

where we are constantly

Responding to things like emails're making decisions that are very cognitive.

We're checking off our to-do lists.

We're sort of using our critical neocortex,

which is really like the last evolved parts of our brain.

But when we go outside and we're on a wave or we're walking through a forest, our older

limbic and sensory brains really activate, you know, and they kick in and they

start to sort of override our cognitive brain. So it actually gives our cognitive

brains a rest so that I bet when you go to work after surfing you feel sharper and fresher am I right?

Yeah without it out.

Yeah.

So I mean you know our thinking brains are like a muscle and they need a break.

You know, our prefrontal cortex is just working so hard all day long, all day long, all day long

in modern life.

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