It's about six hours a day that we Americans are in front of one screen or another.

So if you're taking six hours out of your day just to be my list on the internet,

what did you eliminate that was otherwise going to be good for you?

I will say that there's a lot of people who think that they have extremely high cortisol

because they're stressed all the time.

They've actually had cortisol burnout. Then you'll see that they're actually very low on cortisol or they're low all the time. They've actually had cortisol burnout.

Then you'll see that they're actually very low on cortisol

or they're low on cortisol in the morning and then high in the evening.

The control is the hard part because we're constantly fighting what we revert to as a default.

You've got to be fighting and constantly thinking, what do I want to achieve?

What are you putting energy to and moving emotionally?

Is this emotion I'm having really congruent with my dream, or is it a habit I'm in?

Then you have to look at the movement of your emotions, and if it's productive, or again,

is it destructive to you?

How you deal with those challenges is the expression of who you are at your soul.

How you show up in our circumstances is a reflection of the level of development you've come to in your life. I think in the society we live in, we're so disconnected from each other because we're so, as your book will eloquently say, brainwashed into this materialistic consumerism,

social media-driven society. And ultimately, people don't really have a choice. It's something

you really stated eloquently in your book. It's like, you're being manipulated. And I was

just talking about it on a recent podcast is like I'm pretty

disciplined I'm pretty mentally strong but I found myself falling into the loop very recently as well

where I was like man I'm mindlessly scrolling like I'm doing things when I shouldn't be like with my

kids I've got my phone on my hand and it's this idea of like your brain is just getting this

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