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Performance stabilization under pressure (S5) S21:E6 · Inspirations for Your Life

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This is Inspirations for Your Life.
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If you didn't know that, it is.
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So our master topic for the week of
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Inspirations for Your Life is a very, very
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We have lots of good topics as you
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hit home for, I'm going to say a
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lot of people, all right?
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And it's a good one.
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And that point is how focus shapes daily
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performance.
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Focus does shape work performance.
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And this is Inspirations for Your Life, and
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I am John Seymour, serial entrepreneur, engineer, marketing
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Yes, welcome everyone.
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So how focus shapes our daily performance is
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what we've been talking about all week.
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And this episode explores how attention behaves under
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real conditions where pressure is present, interruptions, timing
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demands, and mental load constantly shifts.
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Instead of ideal focus states, we're examining real
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world performance moments where attention is, well, often
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tested, broken, recovered, and redirected in real time.
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What matters is not perfect focus.
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Everybody says, well, I got to be perfect.
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Forget being perfect.
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But how quickly our attention stabilizes after disruption,
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right?
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It could be something as simple as a
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phone ringing, maybe a door slamming, maybe somebody
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else talking at the other end of the
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room, maybe somebody even ringing your doorbell or
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anything else.
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How quickly do you return from the abyss,
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that hole, of being distracted and back to
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normal life?
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So today, I'm not talking about perfect productivity
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systems or ideal environments.
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They don't exist.
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I'm talking about real life performance under movement,
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pressure, interruption, and unpredictability, which is our world.
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Because, ladies and gentlemen, force is not a
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static skill.
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Nope, guys.
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We keep learning every single day of our
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life.
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It is a recovery skill, and it is
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essential that we master this.
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So let's break it down together.
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You ready?
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Have a sip of your drink, have something
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to eat, and let's get going.
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All right, guys.
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So attention behavior that we need to be
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paying attention to.
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Attention collapse happens faster than awareness can track
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it.
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Let me say that again, because that was
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a mouthful.
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Attention collapse happens faster than awareness can track
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it.
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So we can basically fall down and basically,
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and I don't mean fall literally, I mean
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physically.
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Physically, in the sense of our mind, be
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detached.
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Most people only notice after performance drops.
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And guys, that is way too late to
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start making a change.
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That is being reactive instead of proactive.
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Number two, guys, micro interruptions.
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They happen every day.
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They change our decision direction without our permission,
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and they rob us of our freedom.
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Small inputs quietly redirect thinking.
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You might say, John, what is that one
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little thing going to do?
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Plenty, because it compounds over time.
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Number three, cognitive momentum is more fragile than
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effort.
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Yeah, guys, that's key.
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Once it's broken, restarting takes more energy than
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continuing.
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Let's talk about this for a second.
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When maybe you were younger, maybe you remember
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they had these lights in the gym.
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I still remember this at my school, them
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in prep.
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And they had these lights in the gym.
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These are these mercury vapors.
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And they're very bright, and they were great
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lights.
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But here's the problem.
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When you turn them off, and they're off
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for more than, let's say, a minute or
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two, turn it back on, they don't come
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back up to speed right away.
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They don't come up to their full brightness.
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They take 10 to 15 minutes, which is
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why the gym instructors always said don't touch
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the lights.
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If you turn them off, they're not coming
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back on for 10 or 15 minutes.
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And then the class is, you know, 15
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minutes already into it, and then we only
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have 45 minutes left.
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So, ladies and gentlemen, attention rarely resets cleanly.
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I'm sorry to tell you that.
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I want to be truthful with you.
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It carries residue from the last interruption into
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the next task.
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Kind of like if you're trying to take,
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I don't know, a sticker off a desk.
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You can't really peel it off.
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You might need some glue be gone or
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something else like that, right?
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Just not going to do it.
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And that residue is going to stick with
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us, not physically, but emotionally, right?
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Even if I asked you right now, go
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ahead and take that sticker off your car.
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Have you ever been in a parking lot
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and maybe, I just happened to have a
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friend of mine, they had this big sticker
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plastered to their window, okay?
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And you basically need a hairdryer to take
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the darn thing off.
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And that alone, I think, is enough, not
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just the fact that maybe you're going to
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get a ticket or toad, but that emotional
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toil of you having to go through the
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time, get a hairdryer, and literally try to
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remove it by, well, de-emulsifying the glue.
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Creating a reverse chemical reaction.
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Number five, decision quality is often delayed.
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Relay of the reaction.
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Now, not real-time thinking, guys.
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The mind lags behind the moment.
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The mind lags behind the moment.
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And that's important.
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Number six, task identity shifts mid-execution.
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Without awareness, people think they are doing one
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thing while another is brewing.
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Number seven, mental switching leaves incomplete thinking loops.
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We talk this every day.
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It's not the fact that people aren't smart.
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It's not the fact that people don't have
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what they need to get it done.
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It's the fact that they keep trying to
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switch.
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They keep trying to multitask, right?
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Mental switching leaves incomplete thinking loops.
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And ideas remain partially processed, not finished.
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Number eight, pressure compresses attention into narrow focus
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windows.
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Thinking becomes shorter but more intense.
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And I think when something becomes shorter, we
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think, oh, great, joy, right?
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But when it's more intense, it burns us
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out quicker.
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And then we can't recover quickly.
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That's a problem, right?
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Like if you do this run and you're
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not in shape, you're not going to recover
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very quickly to your normal breathing pattern.
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Number nine, external urgency overrides internal sequencing.
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What the heck is that, John?
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So when we have an external problem, an
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emergency, this overrides, this puts priority ahead of
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what our internal world is.
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The mind follows timing, pressure instead of logic
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order.
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So when we are given an ultimatum, this
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is what happens, okay?
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This is what happens.
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You're kind of like trying to put your
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header and everything, but you can't.
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Number 10, attention does not vanish.
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It fragments into parallel thoughts.
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Multiple weak tracks replace one strong track.
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And I think that's an important thing for
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us to realize.
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Most performance loss happens during transitions, not execution.
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The gap between tasks is the weakest point.
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And it's something a lot of people don't
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think about because they think that if there's
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a gap, it's okay.
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But how quickly does it take you to
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get from point A to point B when
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there's a gap?
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Number 12, information overlap creates false competence.
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More inputs feel like clarity, but it reduces
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accuracy, guys.
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We can have more data points, right?
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But then do we have more accuracy?
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We have more confusion because if they're all
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not close, we have to take an average.
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And we have less of what we need.
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People say more is better.
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When we're doing a study, yes, but we
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have to quantify that in not just numbers.
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We have to realize accuracy in a large
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number gets hard.
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And if we rely on people to be
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accurate, well, we're going to be disillusioned with
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the results.
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Number 13, the brain prioritizes speed over correctness
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under stress, right?
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It wants to get done fast, fast, fast,
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fast, fast, fast, right?
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But the brain doesn't always care that it's
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getting it right.
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Fast decisions often bypass evaluation layers.
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For the moment, but we pay for them
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later in many ways.
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Number 14, cognitive recovery time determines output consistency.
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Not the skill level, but reset speed defines
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performance.
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You're hiking, when you're running, and then suddenly
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you need that break.
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How quickly you're able to take that break
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versus how quickly you can return to your
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daily normal operation.
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Have you ever thought about that?
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Maybe you're in a rush because it's an
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emergency situation.
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And you've got to act in a hyper
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way to preserve your life for others.
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But you can't keep operating at that state.
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That momentum is not going to sustain you.
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It's going to burn you out.
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Number 15, attention drift is rarely linear.
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It jumps unpredictably across unrelated thoughts.
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Work identity changes based on interruption type, number
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16.
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So our identity, who we associate to at
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our workplace is important.
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Different distractions produce different thinking modes.
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And a lot of times when we shift
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to a different thinking mode, it's like, oh,
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I get this.
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I understand this.
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Number 17, mental load stacks invisibly across unrelated
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tasks, more than one.
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And we don't feel this at once up
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front.
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We're like, oh my gosh, what am I
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supposed to do now?
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And all we keep thinking is, how do
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I do this?
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How?
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Right, how?
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How now, brown cow, right?
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No pun intended.
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So burden increases without awareness of accumulation.
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And I do an experiment, I should say
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an exercise in my workshops that I give.
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And we explain how being overwhelmed is something
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that eludes people.
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So I create something that overloads the mind,
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but with physical props and interactions.
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And people are like, oh, I get it.
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Now I know what I'm doing to myself,
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right?
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Now I know why I'm tired.
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Now I know why I'm not getting where
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I need to be.
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Now I know why everything is so foggy.
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Now I know why I can't put one
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and one together.
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Number 18, execution errors often originate before the
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action begins.
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Let's think about cooking.
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I remember many years ago when my great
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grandma Morley, rest her soul, she was teaching
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me how to cook.
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And I remember when I was starting, I
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was making mistakes with my measuring.
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We now call it mise en place from
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the French.
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And this is where I've learned that you
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have to make sure you get your measuring
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done right first.
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If your measuring is done wrong, you're already
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going to fail as a baker.
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So you've got to make sure that you
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get it done right first.
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They are formed during mental setup.
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And not the movement.
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Most people think this happens during the movement.
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It doesn't.
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It happens during the setup, during the mise
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en place of the cooking, during the preparation
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of your artwork, during the, let's say, the
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layout of your tools for the job.
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Maybe you brought the wrong tools, right?
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I mean, that could happen.
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I mean, that could happen all the time,
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right?
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You brought the wrong tool, and now it's
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like, oh my gosh, what am I supposed
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to do now?
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Number 19, short, focused bursts dominate modern performance
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behavior.
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So when we get these short bursts, these
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outbursts from people, maybe they're not meaning to
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be rude, but they are.
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And this can happen anywhere, a social setting,
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a work setting.
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It can even happen on the highway.
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Now, we don't call it a burst.
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We call it really a burst of rudeness
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and of aggressive driving, but it's still a
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burst.
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And sustained attention is less common than it's
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assumed.
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And I think what a lot of people
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hear this, they're like, oh my gosh, like,
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how do I just reset?
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How do I start over?
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But what we said before, you can't just
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start over easily.
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You can't, because you have something behind you
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that's causing a problem.
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Number 20, guys, attention memory competes with current
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input.
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Old thoughts interfere with present execution.
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That's important.
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When something you're trying to do interferes with
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present operation, that can be very daunting.
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It can be scary.
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It can be tiring.
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Number 21, guys, decision hesitation is often delayed
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processing, delayed processing.
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Not uncertainty.
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The mind is still trying to catch up
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with, hey, what the heck are you guys
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doing?
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What are you doing?
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Why are you doing this?
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But it's kind of like, you know, the
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guy who was at the end of the
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race.
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He's like, hey, wait for me, wait for
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me, wait for me, wait for me, wait
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for me.
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He's grabbing his shirt, trying to hold something
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else.
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He just kind of like goes, wait for
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me, wait for me.
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He tried to get his water bottle, right?
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Wait for me, wait for me, wait for
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me.
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He doesn't wait.
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He keeps moving ahead.
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But sooner or later, if you don't slow
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down, you're going to find that you're wasting
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your resources.
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That could be money.
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That could be people.
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That could be things, places, time.
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Number 22, task switching creates partial completion patterns.
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And people that are in the step of
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partial completion are going to keep doing it.
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So I have my list here.
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You may or may not be able to
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see it, depending on whether you're watching or
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whether you're listening.
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I have a list, and this is one
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of my systems that I use.
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And so every time I do something, I
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basically go down here, and I literally will
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go through, and I will post.
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Okay?
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I will do what I'm doing, and I'll
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cross things off.
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So right now today, I'm doing the show.
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After the show, there was something before the
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show that was what we called an IFWELP.
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It was a pre.
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I do the preplan of the show.
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Then I do a post of the show.
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And so that's how it works, guys.
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This is exactly how it works.
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When we switch so much, we hardly realize
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what the primary thing is.
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Right?
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Where was the starting point?
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Like, where was I?
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Our work feels done, but it remains structurally
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incomplete.
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And although we have a false sense of
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being completed, we look back like, hey, wait
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a minute.
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That's horrible.
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I don't know what the heck I'm doing.
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Exactly.
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Number 23.
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Mental framing changes mid-task without any signal,
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without any warning.
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Mental framing changes it.
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Perception of the task evolves during the execution,
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not during the planning.
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During the execution.
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How do I feel about this?
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How am I singing?
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How is my running going?
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How does my body feel?
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You know, being a runner and being more
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of a hiker, I can tell you I
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become very aware of different parts of my
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body.
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How do my legs feel?
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How do my arms feel?
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And I don't judge them.
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Like, okay, I feel that I acknowledge it.
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I respect it.
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If they're feeling very tired, okay, I know
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I'm going to do a little more, and
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I know this is where my body is,
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and I'm going to end.
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Right?
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Because that's the normal thing.
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I don't try to do more.
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But I think sometimes when we're not aware
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of these little things, and although they seem
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very small, they can affect us majorly.
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They can shut us down.
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They can, well, incapacitate us.
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They can cause injury.
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Right?
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They can frustrate us physically, mentally, and even
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spiritually.
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Number 24, guys.
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Attention rarely returns to the exact original state
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after the interruption.
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Let me see if I can help you.
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So maybe you were watching a program.
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Right?
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And maybe you left the program to do
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something else.
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And you come back.
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Not at the same point.
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Or maybe you were at a movie.
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Or you're at home.
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And your friends come over.
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And suddenly, bam, they knock the popcorn out
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of your hand.
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And you come back to where you were,
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but you're never at the exact same point.
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Now you're like on guard, like holding your
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popcorn.
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Like, hey, you're crazy.
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You're nuts.
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You're people.
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You're nuts.
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You're crazy.
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You're insane.
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Number 25.
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Real productivity is measured in recovery speed.
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Huh?
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What the heck are you talking about, John?
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Not continuous focus.
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How quickly you can switch back to the
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original plane.
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Now I know there are times when we
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need to switch.
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Maybe you're putting a cake in the oven.
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And maybe you're also working on another batch
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to put in.
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That's time switching.
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But you can't be doing nothing while something's
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in the oven.
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Right?
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So you have the batch ready.
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So when those trays come out, you take
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them off.
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And then you can put whatever cookies or
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whatever you're making.
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So productivity is measured in recovery speed, not
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continuous focus.
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Measured in recovery speed, not continuous focus.
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And stability is rebuilt.
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It is not maintained.
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It is rebuilt.
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And the people trying to hang on to
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it don't understand that stability keeps morphing and
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changing.
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Some people get worse.
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Some people hopefully get better at their stability.
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Number 26.
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Environmental cues silently steer cognitive priority.
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Environmental cues.
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The brain reacts before conscious awareness responds.
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Let me give an example.
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You all probably remember the stove when you
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were younger, right?
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And you have your hand close to the
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stove.
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Maybe you didn't really pay attention to hot
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and cold.
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And you touched something that was very hot.
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You quick pulled your hand back right away.
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Or it got burned.
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Or maybe your hand was under a faucet.
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And it got really hot.
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You're like, oh, I pulled my hand away.
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They actually have a faucet now for disabled
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people that are able to tell when the
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water is going to be too hot that
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they could get burned.
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You see, they may not respond quickly to
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the temperature.
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But if we give them another stimulus, like
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a light, like a red or a blue,
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the mind can constantly be watching, oh, wait
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a minute, it's getting red.
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I better not touch that.
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So our cognitive brain is very smart.
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OK?
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But the brain reacts before the conscious is
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aware.
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Before conscious awareness responds.
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It's like, oh, just pull it right back.
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Because of a previous interaction.
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Now, if it happened the first time, bam,
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right?
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Pulls it right back.
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But if I do it again, I come
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close.
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Oh, I'm not even going near that.
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I know that's hot.
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I almost burnt my hand last time, right?
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We remember that situation.
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And even though that might be negative, it's
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going to help us so we don't burn
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our hand.
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It could happen with somebody else.
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I know people who have, they've cut their
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fingers or something, right?
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And now, it sounds like something pretty easy
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to avoid.
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But hey, they weren't paying attention.
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So now they're going to be very conscious
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of what position the blade is in and
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being very careful how they check things.
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This happens to people slicing onions or fruit.
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They don't realize it.
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They don't have an auto cutter like I
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do.
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But even when I'm doing things manually in
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the kitchen and I'm chopping things, I'm cognizant
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of where my fingers are all the time.
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And that awareness creates a trust in our
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body and awareness of our surroundings, awareness of
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texture, of temperature, of what we hear, of
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what we see, of what we smell.
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This is game-changing, guys.
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But I will tell you, 9 out of
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10 people I talk to do not pay
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attention to awareness.
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So when a situation comes up like the
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blade or like the temperature, we pull out
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right away.
22:31
It even happens with the pool.
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Maybe the pool is ice cold.
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You're like, oh, that is so freezing.
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Now, every time you go near that pool,
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this time of year or that time of
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day, you're like, oh, wait a minute.
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I got to be careful before.
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That pool was so cold.
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It almost froze to death.
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I mean, not really.
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But people exaggerate.
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They over-exaggerate things.
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So the brain reacts before the conscious awareness
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response.
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So our brain is designed to keep us
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safe.
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It's not designed to make us succeed.
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That we have to push at.
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We have to retrain our brain to say,
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hey, I can do that.
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That's OK, number 27.
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Execution quality depends on the interruption history.
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Remember the movie I Love Lucy, right?
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And she was with Ethel and they were
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doing the chocolates on the line.
23:18
The execution depends on the interruption history.
23:21
Well, finally, she just was taking the chocolate
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and putting it down her shirt like it
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was becoming a mess.
23:26
But you probably could think of a task
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that you've been involved in and know that
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the quality depends on how many times or
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whether you're interrupted or not.
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That could be something as simple as baking.
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It could be something as easy as anything
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you do.
23:39
But interruption of any point will preclude the
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quality of the execution.
23:47
So bottom line is, don't get distracted, OK?
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Because when you get distracted, you have to
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recenter yourself.
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You have to reorient yourself, right?
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What happens when you use a scale?
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We have counting scales.
24:04
And if this counting scale is not calibrated
24:05
and you put stuff on it, well, guess
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what happens?
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It doesn't work properly.
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It doesn't work properly because it hasn't recalibrated.
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Number 28, guys, attention is reactive by default.
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It's not controlled by default.
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It is reactive.
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Control is learned, not automatic.
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We choose to control our hand to pull
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it away.
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I know that that's hot.
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I know that's warm.
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I see that flame.
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I'm choosing to pull my hand away.
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Reaction is I'm getting closer.
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It's warm.
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Well, I'm pulling my hand away.
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It's getting too hot, right?
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Or I'm near a moving object.
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That's a sharp object.
24:45
I know that's dangerous.
24:47
I'm pulling my hand away, as opposed to
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I got very close.
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Whoa, and I almost cut my hand.
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So you see the difference?
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Reactive, sometimes it's necessary, especially in emergencies, to
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protect and safeguard our life and others.
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But we want to learn from reactiveness so
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that we can be proactive in the future,
25:04
which, by the way, uses less energy and
25:06
causes a lot less stress.
25:09
Number 29, mental fatigue has often accumulated transition
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costs.
25:15
Not workload volume.
25:17
And switching is the hidden drain.
25:18
People say, you know what?
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I got to switch.
25:20
I got to do this.
25:20
I got to do that.
25:21
I got to do this.
25:21
And you're back and forth all these times.
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You know what happens?
25:26
You're like right back at the beginning.
25:28
It's like you didn't start.
25:31
How many of you ever played with dominoes
25:33
before?
25:33
I love dominoes.
25:34
And so you set the dominoes up on
25:36
the floor.
25:37
I even had one of these domino kits
25:38
where it literally had so many dominoes and
25:41
had the ones where they would be like
25:42
the rails that you just stand them up.
25:43
I remember playing with this.
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And I remember getting it all together.
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And just before it was all done, somebody
25:51
came by with a distraction and knocked all
25:53
the dominoes down.
25:54
And I was like, oh.
25:57
I took a deep breath and realized that
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this was probably my problem.
26:02
I picked a bad location to set up
26:05
a domino takedown.
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Number 30, guys, high performance is not no
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interruption.
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Let's not confuse this.
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It is fast stabilization.
26:18
Everyone's going to get interrupted.
26:19
Everyone's got to learn a pattern.
26:20
Everyone's got to figure out, hey, this isn't
26:22
the right way.
26:22
This isn't the right spot.
26:24
You have to know how quickly you can
26:28
recover.
26:30
Recovery defines the control.
26:31
When we learn how to master recovery, we
26:34
learn how to become successful.
26:37
So don't think because you're having these moments
26:41
that you're never going to be successful.
26:42
Absolutely not.
26:44
The people that have these moments and the
26:46
people that become aware of these situations are
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the ones that prosper in their lives.
26:51
And they help others to prosper, too.
26:54
Number 30, closing it out here, the real
26:59
takeaway for today is this.
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Performance is not about perfection attention.
27:05
It's not about perfect attention.
27:06
It's not.
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It is about how quickly the attention returns
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after it breaks.
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I don't care whether that's a two-minute
27:13
break, a 30-minute break.
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How quickly do you return?
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That, ladies and gentlemen, is the real skill.
27:19
That takes practice to develop.
27:21
Most people will never measure it.
27:24
They feel that if they get distracted, oh,
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I'm never going to go anywhere.
27:27
How quickly can you hone back to the
27:32
natural level?
27:33
If you're running, how quickly can you bring
27:35
yourself back to the normal breathing level?
27:39
How quickly can you bring yourself back?
27:40
Maybe you're in a situation that's stressful.
27:42
People are yelling at you.
27:43
Maybe you're even excited about it.
27:45
How quickly can you bring your heart back,
27:47
if you're excited, back to a lower state?
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Ladies and gentlemen, I am John Seymour, laser
27:54
real entrepreneur.
27:55
This has been Inspirations for Your Life.
27:58
Thank you so much for choosing to join
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me.
28:00
It means so much.
28:01
And now please check out BelieveMeAchieved.com.
28:04
And remember, when you drift, be aware of
28:07
it, note it, and learn from it.
28:10
So you can actually recover faster.
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Have yourself a great one, everyone.
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Be well.