Why do we have fears? Why do we have trauma? Why do we have shame?

Here's the stinger. It was all set up for you in your youth.

I don't want to focus on the bad. But most of this stuff when you're young,

you're just a passive learning machine. It's all coming in.

Little kids are learning three languages with no accents flexibly.

They're not even thinking about the learning instruments.

You know, someone asked a great question the other day, the workshop,

wait, now I know I want all that stuff. How come it's so much tougher?

And there's a lot of biology that'd be happy to tell you about.

That explains why that all shuts down after these so-called critical periods

during development. So what happens when you're an adult and you want to change your brain?

So now I'm going to get into the stuff that's that hopefully is useful to you.

But this power of emotion, the ability to couple really strong emotions with things,

is so useful if you want to change your brain for the better.

And the way you do that is clear in the physical space. We all know this story.

There are many news cases like this.

Woman's child stuck under car. Superhuman strength.

We heard a lot of amazing stories about desperation.

JJ's story was one of desperation. He was like, no, I'm not going to accept

failure because failure in the case she was describing was potentially the death of her child.

So desperation is a strong one and it's motivated by fear.

But what if you're not in a desperate state and you really want to do something?

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