Welcome back, everyone, to the School of Greatness. Very excited about our guests. We have the

inspiring professor Mark Berman in the house. So good to see you. And you are the world's leading

environmental neuroscientist and psychologist and your professor as well. And you're teaching people

about the power of nature and how it truly impacts our brains in an empowering way.

And I'm glad you're here. You've got a book called Nature and The Mind, the Science of How Nature Improves Cognitive, Physical, and Social Well-Being.

And in a world where there's just seems like, at least in the Western culture there's so much anxiety depression stress overwhelmed

disease mental disorders it seems like we're missing our roots literally and spiritually and

nature is something you've been studying as a neuroscientist and a psychologist of understanding

the power of nature. So my first question for you is what kind of effect does nature have on our

brains? And if we're not using nature the way it's meant to be used, how will it hurt our brains?

So I think the thing that we should kind of that we focus on about why nature is so beneficial to us actually has to do with attention.

And we think that nature has the ability to restore our attention.

And we think attention is almost critical to so many different human behaviors like if we

want to achieve our goals if we want to have self-control if we want to be cooperative if we want to

leave life with a lot of meaning you have to have attention you have to be able to direct and pay attention.

And we do think that in modern times now,

there are a lot of things that are robbing our attention.

Social media, streaming services,

all the advertising that we see.

We're just bombarded with information,

and it's really taxing us.

And, you know, I and other people like Jonathan Haidt has his book, The Anxious Generation,

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