Transcript

There's a certain friction, I actually call this limbic friction, where, let's say, you don't want to get out of bed in the morning. You just don't. Maybe you're tired, but maybe you're just not motivated, and you force yourself to get up. What you're doing is you're using top down control to say, Oh, the fatigue I feel. I'm going to override that fatigue. And much of what's online is, how do you override that fatigue, that lack of motivation? And some people say, Well, you gotta do it out of love, and then other people say, you do it out of anger. And it doesn't matter, these top down mechanisms are very subjective if you are going to do it, because you really care about the person that you're going to pick up at the airport, and you got to get to the airport, and you kind of get up early. Well, that's one mechanism if you're going to do it, because you're a person of your word, and you said you're going to be there, and you do it, you know the JUST DO IT mantra is top down control. Okay?

Now just the top down control is also involved in controlling reflexes, the desire to consume something that isn't good for you. You can resist that desire through top down control. The more rested you are, generally, the easier it is to engage top down control. So when I look at people like I don't know Ronda Rousey, I don't know too much of her story, but I do know David that he's been to my lab and I endorsed this book, and I'm obviously super impressive David's guidance. He needs no introduction. Super impressive. And I think one of the many important things that David stands for is the ability to override limbic friction, to talk to, to convince himself to do it anyway. And there are others that do this. I've talked about this as well.