Our conversation today is with Dr. Mehtu Storoni. She's a

neuroscience researcher and author and her new book is entitled hyper-efficient and we're going to talk about optimizing our brains. This is about as practical as you can

imagine from somebody who understands how our brain works and how it can change the way we work, which changes our life.

This is going to be so good. Here we go.

Okay, Me Too. I'm excited to ask you about the gears of the brain. When I was reviewing and reading the book, I laughed out loud when I first saw it because I was

that this is, this makes sense to me because I am a

diagnosed high-performing ADHD person so I'm able to function. Just have a lot of irritating habits for my

poor wife and can't ever remember where my keys are and things of that nature.

But I've learned how to channel it and so you talk a good bit about that in the book as well.

But when I saw the gears of the brain, I thought this is really fascinating and I think simplifying for a lot of people who want to win at work and that's our whole goal here.

So I want you to lay out these three gears for us and just unpack those for a moment then we'll dive into you know some of the

specifics but lay those out for us. So it's a gear messifers if you imagine your

brain working like an engine and the engine is working at three speeds, so three speeds of power, so slow, medium and fast.

When it's slow, you feel so if you want to know what it feels like when it's slow, I call that

gear one. And that's how you would feel when you are bored, slightly daydreamy, you can't really concentrate every time you try to focus,

your mind is drifting away onto just other thoughts, not being distracted as such, but you just can't focus.

It's just not attractive enough for you to focus.

It's just whatever you're looking at is just not,

does not have that holding power.

That's being in gear one. In gear two, you are able to focus. You've found

something that really grabs at your attention or on the flip side you've produced that brain state where you're able to pay attention to whatever you're doing.

And gear three is when your brain's engine is moving at an even higher power, it's processing information more powerfully, faster.

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