I am Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

You're listening to the Mind Valley Podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and

thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth of mind, body, spirit, and work.

So I'm going to tell you in the next 10 minutes or so about four critical facts about the brain that you should know if you care

about enhancing your life and I'm also going to tell you about some powerful

neurohacts for increasing brain power, presence, creativity and productivity.

First thing the brain is an organ I take a lot of these out power, presence, creativity, and productivity.

First thing, the brain is an organ.

I take a lot of these out of a lot of heads.

It's a piece of meat, okay?

It's not vapors.

You look in the skull, you see a brain.

And so that's very powerful when you start to think about the fact

that the brain has a job.

Your heart's job is to pump blood through your body.

The brain's job is to do mainly three things. The brain's job is to do mainly three things.

The brain's job is to control your behavior, your breathing, your heart rate,

move you around when you want to move, okay?

It's there to perceive the world,

whether or not you think fruit is good or bad.

In this case, I'm rarely convinced that I don't want to eat a lot of fruit,

and I learned a lot about that.

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