Latest / The You Project / #2144 The Wisdom Within - Dr. Cam McDonald
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- 0:00Speaker 1: O God, I term it's a bloody you project. It's Harps,
- 0:04Speaker 1: It's Monday and the thriving drops. It's the twentieth of
- 0:07Speaker 1: April twenty twenty six. One of my favorite people to
- 0:13Speaker 1: come on the show, and that is absolutely true. We
- 0:15Speaker 1: get him as often as we can as Dr cam
- 0:18Speaker 1: McDonald up in the sunshine, Sunshine State, just bloody hanging
- 0:23Speaker 1: out with the menana trees and the beaches and people
- 0:26Speaker 1: in bikinis. Is it How is it up there?
- 0:29Speaker 2: It's still bikini weather, that's for sure. I mean there's
- 0:33Speaker 2: a few people that are getting cold.
- 0:35Speaker 3: Oh they're just sun but I am still in my
- 0:38Speaker 3: board shorts walking stocking in the stock You just stop,
- 0:42Speaker 3: you just cut out, say start from There's a few people,
- 0:47Speaker 3: there's a few people that are still finding it a
- 0:48Speaker 3: bit cold, but I am still in my board shorts
- 0:52Speaker 3: walking the park in the morning with no temperature control
- 0:55Speaker 3: at all, so it's still lovely for me.
- 0:58Speaker 1: It's an uncharacteristic This sounds like two old guys talking.
- 1:02Speaker 1: Sorry anyone, but it is an uncharacteristically warm week down
- 1:05Speaker 1: here in Melbourne. It is mostly kind of low to
- 1:09Speaker 1: even higher twenties for the whole week. Which is bloody
- 1:12Speaker 1: obscene but also enjoyable.
- 1:16Speaker 2: I thought we want it's exactly it helps the old bones,
- 1:21Speaker 2: you know.
- 1:22Speaker 1: Now, my listeners may probably hear nothing, but can you
- 1:26Speaker 1: hear that concrete cutter in the background?
- 1:28Speaker 2: Mate?
- 1:29Speaker 1: No, oh, that's good. There's a man or two men
- 1:33Speaker 1: everyone who are wearing bloody high vs vests outside my
- 1:39Speaker 1: house right now cutting concrete and it's about an eight
- 1:43Speaker 1: out of ten volume in my room where I am
- 1:46Speaker 1: right now. So if these questions are stupid, just bear
- 1:51Speaker 1: with me. But well, firstly, let's catch up. Are you
- 1:55Speaker 1: all right? How's work? How's life? How are you? How's
- 1:57Speaker 1: your health?
- 2:00Speaker 3: A good?
- 2:00Speaker 2: Actually, I've you know what I had?
- 2:03Speaker 3: A Really, My CEO is probably the most gifted person
- 2:09Speaker 3: that I know on the planet when it comes to
- 2:10Speaker 3: understanding the human psyche and.
- 2:18Speaker 2: Matt Reeman Matt Reeman for you, is it just.
- 2:23Speaker 1: Is it just natural inherence? Intuitive? Or has he studied
- 2:28Speaker 1: the shipload or both?
- 2:30Speaker 2: It's both.
- 2:31Speaker 3: So he's got the most capacity that I've ever met
- 2:35Speaker 3: of anybody to interpret a person and what's going on
- 2:38Speaker 3: for them on all levels. And then he has got
- 2:42Speaker 3: classical health training as well, so he understands all of
- 2:45Speaker 3: the physiology and neurochemistry that goes on.
- 2:48Speaker 2: And then he's an.
- 2:50Speaker 3: Entrepreneur and does a whole lot of really really cool things.
- 2:52Speaker 3: But he's just got he's just he's just one of these.
- 2:56Speaker 2: Foods that.
- 2:59Speaker 3: You can follow really easily, that's for sure, because he's
- 3:03Speaker 3: he's just got all together.
- 3:05Speaker 2: It's it's pretty impressive.
- 3:07Speaker 1: Does he have? You know how a lot of people
- 3:09Speaker 1: have lots of knowledge but they're not or lots of understanding,
- 3:12Speaker 1: lots of intuitive awareness. They get stuff, but they perhaps
- 3:17Speaker 1: never learned that or read that anywhere, or they didn't
- 3:21Speaker 1: get told that. And then there's other people who are
- 3:25Speaker 1: academically brilliant. They know a lot, they remember a lot,
- 3:28Speaker 1: and they can use that in their work. And then
- 3:30Speaker 1: there's the kind of the the people who are socially, emotionally,
- 3:36Speaker 1: conversationally brilliant but perhaps not necessarily academics. And then you
- 3:42Speaker 1: get these fucking phenoms that can do all of that, right,
- 3:47Speaker 1: is he one of them?
- 3:49Speaker 2: He's that bloke? Yeah?
- 3:51Speaker 4: Yeah, Wow, he's that guy wow yeah, And he's he yeah,
- 3:55Speaker 4: So I think there's all There's a doco who being
- 3:57Speaker 4: filmed on him right now that will be coming out
- 4:00Speaker 4: sooner rather than later.
- 4:01Speaker 3: But yeah, just about all of his capacities and his
- 4:05Speaker 3: gifts and various things like that. And I've been firsthand
- 4:08Speaker 3: witnessed to it. And one of the things that he
- 4:10Speaker 3: played around with me, I was getting stuck in this
- 4:13Speaker 3: idea of lack and I've realized just talking to friends
- 4:17Speaker 3: that actually doesn't matter how much you've got, you can
- 4:20Speaker 3: still have a really powerful lack story going on.
- 4:22Speaker 2: I don't have enough.
- 4:24Speaker 3: I was stuck in that a little bit, and I
- 4:26Speaker 3: was letting it sort of spiral me down a touch.
- 4:30Speaker 3: And he's just very good at having these conversations of like, well,
- 4:34Speaker 3: there's a higher part of your consciousness that can really
- 4:39Speaker 3: see the beauty in all things, and then there's also
- 4:41Speaker 3: a lower part of it that is going to just
- 4:43Speaker 3: circle around on this very you know, I don't have
- 4:46Speaker 3: enough money, the physicality of things, and it all just
- 4:50Speaker 3: depends on where you want to see it from. And
- 4:52Speaker 3: so he took me through this process of you might
- 4:56Speaker 3: look at it like you don't have enough, and there's
- 4:59Speaker 3: a few there's actually a number of different ways of looking.
- 5:02Speaker 2: At that, and it's a heads or tails thing.
- 5:05Speaker 3: You know, you can swear black and blue that that
- 5:07Speaker 3: coin is a tail, and you're can have somebody else
- 5:09Speaker 3: looking at that exact.
- 5:10Speaker 2: Same coin saying that's one hundred percent heads mate.
- 5:13Speaker 3: And so he gave that analogy and what he did,
- 5:18Speaker 3: and both of us have we're pretty open. Well, he
- 5:22Speaker 3: teaches it essentially, but I have a good sense of
- 5:26Speaker 3: I believe that we're all sort of part of the
- 5:28Speaker 3: one consciousness. We're all having separate experiences. That's my belief system.
- 5:31Speaker 3: I don't push it on any people, but it works
- 5:33Speaker 3: for me. And at that level he goes, may just
- 5:37Speaker 3: go up to that level for a second and you'll
- 5:39Speaker 3: see that, well, all of this is just meant to
- 5:41Speaker 3: happen because we're all having an experience. This isn't good
- 5:43Speaker 3: or bad. This is just a thing that's happening right now.
- 5:47Speaker 3: And in the quantum realm, all of these moments are
- 5:49Speaker 3: happening all at once.
- 5:50Speaker 2: There's actually no time and space.
- 5:52Speaker 3: It's all just there. This is one of the moments
- 5:54Speaker 3: in time. Okay, great, So there's no charge to that
- 5:56Speaker 3: at all. And then the second layer down is where
- 6:00Speaker 3: in your life do you have abundance? Like if you
- 6:03Speaker 3: if you lost at all, what would you do? And
- 6:05Speaker 3: I'm in a really fortunate situation when my parents live
- 6:08Speaker 3: in NUSA and have got a house big enough that
- 6:10Speaker 3: I could go and live there if everything went to shit,
- 6:13Speaker 3: you know, said mate, So you're saying, the worst case
- 6:16Speaker 3: scenario is you'd be assuming each morning with your dad,
- 6:20Speaker 3: and you'd have a room, and you'd have a house
- 6:23Speaker 3: being cleaned and because all of that sort of stuff,
- 6:27Speaker 3: and then you've got you've got healthy kids, and you've
- 6:29Speaker 3: got work that you love, and like, you've got all
- 6:31Speaker 3: of these things that are incredible abundance. And then and
- 6:35Speaker 3: then the next step down is if you then were
- 6:39Speaker 3: to bring it down into a more three dimensional level,
- 6:41Speaker 3: but still higher than where you've been sitting right now,
- 6:44Speaker 3: it's a really good lesson for you to feel like
- 6:48Speaker 3: you have lack So why.
- 6:50Speaker 2: Do you need that experience right now?
- 6:53Speaker 3: And then you go through the process of well, it's
- 6:56Speaker 3: teaching me resilience, it's teaching me for reality, it's teaching
- 6:58Speaker 3: me appreciation, teaching me that I actually don't even have
- 7:02Speaker 3: a desire for money. I just desire purposeful work and
- 7:07Speaker 3: my kids being healthy and having a great life. And
- 7:10Speaker 3: if I don't, if I've got enough money for that,
- 7:12Speaker 3: which ultimately a lot of it's free, then I've got enough.
- 7:16Speaker 3: And so it was just rather than just saying, oh,
- 7:19Speaker 3: what's the lesson in this, or you know, what can
- 7:21Speaker 3: you do to get out of this, he just took
- 7:23Speaker 3: me up to the looking at things from a head's
- 7:25Speaker 3: space rather than.
- 7:26Speaker 2: A tail space.
- 7:27Speaker 3: Yes, and I had one of the most fascinating experiences.
- 7:32Speaker 3: He said, what you need to do is you need
- 7:34Speaker 3: to sit down and you need to write down all
- 7:36Speaker 3: of the stories in your brain that are from a
- 7:39Speaker 3: tales perspective, like where things aren't enough, when you're not
- 7:42Speaker 3: good enough, relationships, all of that sort of stuff, and
- 7:46Speaker 3: you just need to spend a couple of hours on
- 7:47Speaker 3: it and just like just watch what happens. So I
- 7:50Speaker 3: started writing some things down and literally I was doing
- 7:53Speaker 3: an exercise on lack, particularly around finances, and I was
- 7:57Speaker 3: just writing out, you know, this is a great experience
- 7:59Speaker 3: and it's teaching me this and I'm getting this out
- 8:01Speaker 3: of it. And what am I going to say when
- 8:03Speaker 3: people say, hey, Cam, like shouldn't you be earning more
- 8:06Speaker 3: money or whatever it might be, what are you going
- 8:07Speaker 3: to say to them to stay in the heads perspective? Literally,
- 8:12Speaker 3: as I am doing that and I've done that exercise
- 8:14Speaker 3: three or four times. Two out of the three times
- 8:16Speaker 3: that I've done it, I've had people contact me to
- 8:19Speaker 3: pay me money. And then and then I've had the
- 8:23Speaker 3: biggest or the biggest relatively bigger sales of my career
- 8:29Speaker 3: have dropped in.
- 8:30Speaker 2: Exactly those days that I've been doing that stuff. And
- 8:33Speaker 2: it was just the most powerful. However you want to
- 8:36Speaker 2: ascribe it, it doesn't matter. It was. It's been the
- 8:40Speaker 2: most spectacular shift. And I've always known.
- 8:43Speaker 3: Now I see things from a higher perspective, like it's
- 8:45Speaker 3: not new. But for whatever reason, this bit of advice,
- 8:48Speaker 3: and this is part of Matt's gift. He just gave
- 8:51Speaker 3: me the right advice at the right time. And just
- 8:54Speaker 3: as soon as I started connecting back up with that,
- 8:56Speaker 3: I just started laughing, like I had all of this
- 8:58Speaker 3: emotion car I was like, what almost spending so much
- 9:01Speaker 3: bloody time just focusing on I don't have enough?
- 9:05Speaker 2: And I know that for some people it gets seen
- 9:08Speaker 2: as spiritual bypassing.
- 9:10Speaker 3: You know, just say, oh, what's the benefit of this,
- 9:11Speaker 3: or you don't understand I've got to feed my kids
- 9:13Speaker 3: and blah blah ah, this bad stuff has happened.
- 9:16Speaker 2: It's just and what I'm trying to do.
- 9:18Speaker 3: Right now, is I'm trying to take every moment in
- 9:20Speaker 3: my life up to a head's perspective, just to see
- 9:22Speaker 3: what happens, just.
- 9:23Speaker 2: To run an experiment.
- 9:25Speaker 3: It has been absolutely fascinating so that that has just
- 9:30Speaker 3: dramatically improved. It's just honed my ability to understand what
- 9:34Speaker 3: state do I want to be in? How can I
- 9:36Speaker 3: get into that state? And it's interesting how just the
- 9:39Speaker 3: timing of my exercise when I do my little vision
- 9:42Speaker 3: set for the day, the work that I'm going about,
- 9:45Speaker 3: the way that I'm reflecting on the day.
- 9:47Speaker 2: I've just done some little additional practices that have.
- 9:49Speaker 3: Been in the line with that, and things are just flying,
- 9:52Speaker 3: Like it's just been so fascinating to get out of
- 9:55Speaker 3: that garbage and just you know, it's.
- 9:58Speaker 2: The same event.
- 10:00Speaker 3: I see it as a head, sat as a tails
- 10:02Speaker 3: and it's been absolutely phenomenal.
- 10:04Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that. So many things that fascinate me
- 10:06Speaker 1: about this and I talk about this and related to
- 10:10Speaker 1: this stuff all the time, and it's like that I
- 10:14Speaker 1: call sometimes I call it looking for a needle of
- 10:17Speaker 1: negativity and a haystack of hope. Like people have got
- 10:20Speaker 1: fucking ninety eight good things going on in their life,
- 10:23Speaker 1: and two that are maybe not awesome, and all their attention,
- 10:26Speaker 1: focus and energy goes on the two yes, And that's like,
- 10:30Speaker 1: I think, a couple of not solutions, but strategies for
- 10:34Speaker 1: around that. For me, it's a kind of a bigger
- 10:37Speaker 1: than me awareness, and it's knowing that this is not
- 10:40Speaker 1: the reality. This is my story about the objective reality.
- 10:44Speaker 1: This is my ongoing, ever present, subjective Craig experience in
- 10:50Speaker 1: the middle of just what is right and nothing means
- 10:54Speaker 1: anything on Planet Craig until I give it meaning. Now,
- 10:58Speaker 1: if I assign that a bad meaning, I have a
- 11:00Speaker 1: bad experience. If I assign it interesting, I'm interested. If
- 11:04Speaker 1: I think, oh, that's curious, I'm curious. If I think
- 11:08Speaker 1: it's hilarious, I fucking laugh. Right. If I think it's
- 11:11Speaker 1: tragic and sad, I'm crying. The person next to me
- 11:14Speaker 1: goes through the same situation or that has the same
- 11:18Speaker 1: stimulus but a totally different response, I'm legitimately sad. They're
- 11:23Speaker 1: legitimately not sad, confronted with the same objective reality. And
- 11:29Speaker 1: so I think this realizing that we are constantly just
- 11:35Speaker 1: looking through the Kraig lens or the cam lens full
- 11:38Speaker 1: of our own thinking and bias and prejudice and skills
- 11:42Speaker 1: and all our bullshit, the good bullshit, the bad bullshit,
- 11:47Speaker 1: and realizing that this is in reality, this is my reality,
- 11:50Speaker 1: and I'm creating it and where does that come from?
- 11:53Speaker 1: And trying to have a level of self awareness. I
- 11:57Speaker 1: think the beginning of consciousness, like real deep consciousness and
- 12:02Speaker 1: awareness is firstly recognizing your lack of consciousness, like I
- 12:07Speaker 1: am moving through the world and conversations and situations and
- 12:11Speaker 1: stuff unconsciously and unconsciously labeling shit. Oh fuck, this is
- 12:17Speaker 1: a catashphi and now I have a catastrophe. You know.
- 12:21Speaker 1: I was talking to someone this morning about without mentioning stuff.
- 12:27Speaker 1: I've mentioned my parents fair bit on the show, but
- 12:29Speaker 1: my parents are, you know, heading towards the home straight
- 12:33Speaker 1: like they've Hopefully it's not, you know, I said, the
- 12:37Speaker 1: check and flags in sight, And this person I was
- 12:39Speaker 1: talking through is laughing, right, and I said, hopefully not
- 12:42Speaker 1: too soon, you know. But it's like they're eighty six
- 12:45Speaker 1: and there's lots of challenges and I hope they're around
- 12:48Speaker 1: for another five years or more, but it just is
- 12:50Speaker 1: what it is. And then there's you know, like I'm
- 12:53Speaker 1: submitting my PhD in four weeks, and then I've got
- 12:55Speaker 1: a few friends I had, you know. Anyway, it doesn't
- 12:59Speaker 1: but lots of shit. And in the middle of it,
- 13:01Speaker 1: none of it I can control. I can't control the outcome.
- 13:06Speaker 1: I go, all right, well, what can I do which
- 13:11Speaker 1: might be a positive influence or impact on that person,
- 13:14Speaker 1: which might be of help or value. Let me do that.
- 13:19Speaker 1: But it's very difficult because we're so emotionally driven, and
- 13:23Speaker 1: we believe our emotions and your emotions is going this
- 13:26Speaker 1: is a fucking catastrophe, mate, What are you bullshitting yourself?
- 13:29Speaker 3: You know?
- 13:29Speaker 1: And it's like, oh is it? And then my nervous
- 13:32Speaker 1: systems go, system goes, oh, of course it is. And
- 13:36Speaker 1: now that thing is is inhabiting us, not the other
- 13:39Speaker 1: way around. So that's this. When I talk to corporates,
- 13:44Speaker 1: this is not the right word. I don't mean this offensively,
- 13:46Speaker 1: but dumb it down. And we talk about the external
- 13:49Speaker 1: world in the internal world, and I go external world,
- 13:52Speaker 1: and I right, situation, circumstance, environment, government, traffic lights, other people,
- 13:58Speaker 1: bank balanced, blab But these are these are things you
- 14:00Speaker 1: can't in the moment anyway. Bank balance, maybe the exception,
- 14:04Speaker 1: but these are things you can't control. More broadly, what
- 14:07Speaker 1: other people do, say be well, they like you, not
- 14:10Speaker 1: like you. You can move the needle a bit, right.
- 14:12Speaker 1: But here's all the shit. So that's my external world,
- 14:16Speaker 1: whether you know, whatever internal world is thoughts and feelings
- 14:20Speaker 1: and data processing and meaning giving and storytelling and realizing
- 14:25Speaker 1: that I don't live in an external world. That's where
- 14:28Speaker 1: I do life. But where I live is in that
- 14:32Speaker 1: internal place, and it's that internal world that drives all
- 14:37Speaker 1: my physiology to a large extent, one way or the other,
- 14:40Speaker 1: better or worse. And then I don't know I might
- 14:44Speaker 1: be If I sound arrogant listeners, I apologize, but I
- 14:47Speaker 1: don't know that. Too many people really try to zoom
- 14:52Speaker 1: out from the in the moment me experience right now,
- 14:56Speaker 1: to get like a high level perspective, like to be
- 14:59Speaker 1: the observer of the self in the middle of shit.
- 15:02Speaker 1: It's like, oh no, this is just you know. And
- 15:06Speaker 1: sometimes I like, I'm really good under pressure. I do
- 15:09Speaker 1: not know why, but if something fucking terrible happens, you
- 15:13Speaker 1: want me there because I'm good. But there will be
- 15:15Speaker 1: other things that are not catastrophic that I won't cope
- 15:19Speaker 1: with as well as the average person perhaps you know,
- 15:23Speaker 1: and then that trying to understand what you are opening
- 15:27Speaker 1: the door on. I can regulate me, I can understand
- 15:30Speaker 1: me better. Oh, my stories aren't the reality. My stories
- 15:35Speaker 1: are stories. They're interpretations of things. But the problem is,
- 15:40Speaker 1: or one of the problems, is my body can't tell
- 15:42Speaker 1: the difference between what I think and what is real.
- 15:46Speaker 1: So that do you know what I'm saying? So I think,
- 15:48Speaker 1: which is why And we've spoken about this before. I
- 15:50Speaker 1: think people wake up in the middle of a fucking
- 15:52Speaker 1: horrendous dream which is completely untrue. You know that is
- 15:58Speaker 1: not the reality, but your body he doesn't know that.
- 16:01Speaker 1: For five minutes, like you wake up, heart rates up,
- 16:04Speaker 1: All these things are happening despite the fact that there
- 16:07Speaker 1: is no risk, there is no drama. You are not
- 16:11Speaker 1: in trouble, you are safe, you are okay, And it's
- 16:14Speaker 1: trying to you know. That's the not always symbiotic relationship
- 16:20Speaker 1: of mind, you know, emotion, physiology, and trying to navigate
- 16:24Speaker 1: life with some level of awareness and understanding and perhaps
- 16:28Speaker 1: self regulation. In the middle of the ship, we can't regulate. Yes,
- 16:34Speaker 1: steps down off soapbox. I love it.
- 16:36Speaker 3: And what there's so many things about that. One of
- 16:39Speaker 3: the things that I've noticed is that there is no
- 16:42Speaker 3: end to understanding yourself, like the layers that come off,
- 16:45Speaker 3: and you'll you'll go through the same lesson three or
- 16:48Speaker 3: four times, but every time you go through the lesson,
- 16:50Speaker 3: it's with another layer of awareness, another layer of consciousness,
- 16:54Speaker 3: and that lack of consciousness it's not just a matter
- 16:58Speaker 3: of Obviously, you can increase that by deciding to be.
- 17:01Speaker 2: More aware and taking a more observer look at your life.
- 17:04Speaker 3: Then there are things that obviously, and we've spoken about
- 17:07Speaker 3: this previous ones as well, is the subconscious elements of
- 17:12Speaker 3: things and stuff that you're not even aware of even
- 17:15Speaker 3: and when you try and be aware, and it's and
- 17:18Speaker 3: that's obviously where the right mentalist can really help you. Psychotherapist,
- 17:23Speaker 3: whatever it may be, whatever your flavor is. But I'd
- 17:27Speaker 3: have to say that a lot of the I'm getting
- 17:30Speaker 3: stuff and holding it better because I cleared a bunch
- 17:33Speaker 3: of subconscious stuff. And I know we spoke about that previously.
- 17:36Speaker 3: The things that are landing for me now, they used
- 17:39Speaker 3: to be things I couldn't let go of, like the negativity,
- 17:42Speaker 3: and now I find that I could literally just choose
- 17:45Speaker 3: to switch my brain and think about it in a
- 17:47Speaker 3: different way and immediately my state changes. Whereas and when
- 17:51Speaker 3: you hear Bruce Lipton talk about this is very interesting
- 17:53Speaker 3: that ninety five percent of your world is being constructed
- 17:56Speaker 3: by your subconscious and so if you're not aware of
- 18:00Speaker 3: that stuff, then I can be giving this thing about oh,
- 18:02Speaker 3: just flip everything into our heads and towels.
- 18:04Speaker 2: You go, Okay, that doesn't work for me. That's because
- 18:06Speaker 2: we'll probably.
- 18:07Speaker 3: Because there's some subconscious stuff that's still playing out that's
- 18:10Speaker 3: blocking your ability to just flip.
- 18:13Speaker 2: Your mindset and go that way too.
- 18:14Speaker 3: So I just want to put that as a disclaimer
- 18:16Speaker 3: because the advice that works for one person generally doesn't
- 18:20Speaker 3: work for the next person because their situation is so
- 18:23Speaker 3: different and the things that stresses.
- 18:24Speaker 2: Them out are so different as well.
- 18:26Speaker 1: I think, also, yeah, I love that, but we're not
- 18:29Speaker 1: trying to Firstly, I think everyone knows by now, and
- 18:32Speaker 1: we're not trying to direct people or prescribe anything for people.
- 18:35Speaker 1: But it's I think it's like this, it's a journey, right,
- 18:40Speaker 1: It's not like here's a strategy, do this and this
- 18:42Speaker 1: will be the outcome. No, fuck that, because you know,
- 18:46Speaker 1: we don't even to it. You know, this is my research,
- 18:49Speaker 1: like you know metapception, metaaccuracy, theory of mind, metacognition, Like
- 18:56Speaker 1: we don't even know what we're like. Really, we only
- 19:00Speaker 1: know our version of us. And one of the questions
- 19:03Speaker 1: I ask groups is I walk in and often in
- 19:07Speaker 1: the first minute or two, if I'm going to talk
- 19:09Speaker 1: about self awareness and communication and context and culture and
- 19:13Speaker 1: problem solving and conflict resolution and all that communication y
- 19:17Speaker 1: into personal human e stuff, I say, I'm going to
- 19:22Speaker 1: ask you a question. I need you to be honest,
- 19:23Speaker 1: straight up, put up your hand if you've heard your
- 19:25Speaker 1: voice on audio recording, And people reluctantly put up their hands,
- 19:30Speaker 1: shaken the head, and I go, how many of you
- 19:32Speaker 1: think you sound shit? And they all go me, I
- 19:35Speaker 1: sound shit on And I go, well, how you sound
- 19:38Speaker 1: on audio is exactly how we all hear you all
- 19:42Speaker 1: the time, right, So you know you think you've got
- 19:45Speaker 1: that when it's recorded, your voice is different. It's whiny
- 19:48Speaker 1: and it's shitty. I go, no, that is the voice
- 19:51Speaker 1: that the rest of us. You don't even know what
- 19:53Speaker 1: you sound like because none of us live in your head.
- 19:56Speaker 1: We don't hear what you hear. Now, even that as
- 19:59Speaker 1: kind of an open of the door to realizing not
- 20:02Speaker 1: only do you not know how people see you, you
- 20:05Speaker 1: don't even know how you sound because we're we're hearing
- 20:10Speaker 1: you through different modalities, you know, and that that where
- 20:14Speaker 1: you go, because that's a nice kind of entree into
- 20:17Speaker 1: oh yeah, what is the rest of me? Like, well,
- 20:20Speaker 1: if that's what my voice is like for everyone, what's
- 20:23Speaker 1: my personality? Like, what's my energy? Like, what's my body language? Like,
- 20:28Speaker 1: what's what's my actual language that you know, Craig stop
- 20:33Speaker 1: saying fuck, this is not the right environment, you know,
- 20:35Speaker 1: or or where you start to try to see yourself
- 20:40Speaker 1: from a curiosity perspective, not a I'm insecure perspective, but like,
- 20:45Speaker 1: what is the Craig experience like? And I talk to
- 20:49Speaker 1: speakers about this often because I coach speakers, and I go,
- 20:54Speaker 1: here's here's the deal. You can get up and have
- 20:57Speaker 1: you know, the best content, and you could have rehearse
- 21:00Speaker 1: whor you're blue in the face and you've got I
- 21:02Speaker 1: don't know, you've basically got a forty five minute monologue,
- 21:05Speaker 1: which I do not recommend any potential speakers. I do
- 21:08Speaker 1: not recommend that. Neither do I recommend forty seven PowerPoint slides,
- 21:14Speaker 1: don't never use them, but don't use them like that.
- 21:16Speaker 1: And then that whole thing of like being on stage,
- 21:20Speaker 1: and which is if you're in experienced, obviously it's difficult,
- 21:24Speaker 1: it's nerve wracking, or it can be it's you know,
- 21:27Speaker 1: But then in real time one trying to be calm,
- 21:30Speaker 1: trying to be very aware of why you're there and
- 21:33Speaker 1: your messages and stories and ideas, but perhaps most importantly,
- 21:39Speaker 1: trying to understand what the audience are getting right now
- 21:43Speaker 1: in this moment. Because you could be a genius. You
- 21:46Speaker 1: could be your mate, the superstar, right who's a legit genius,
- 21:52Speaker 1: but he gets in front of them, which I'm sure
- 21:54Speaker 1: he wouldn't, But you know, you could have someone of
- 21:57Speaker 1: that quality or intelligence or potential or aptitude, but they
- 22:01Speaker 1: don't know how to connect with an audience and they
- 22:03Speaker 1: don't know what the Brian experience is like for the
- 22:07Speaker 1: group or whatever it is. And now you're all over
- 22:11Speaker 1: the shop. So that kind of multi layered cognitive understanding
- 22:16Speaker 1: and emotional and psychological and sociological understanding of the self
- 22:21Speaker 1: and of the others. It's like a superpower. When your
- 22:24Speaker 1: job is talking, yeah or sharing or educating or leading,
- 22:29Speaker 1: or being a mom or dad or anything that involves connection.
- 22:33Speaker 1: This is a superpower understanding how others think.
- 22:37Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely absolutely, And that's been the I keep reflecting.
- 22:41Speaker 3: We've got a beautiful She's a forty year experienced social
- 22:47Speaker 3: worker with creditation and mental health and family therapy and trauma,
- 22:52Speaker 3: and she runs a lot of our precision behavior change content,
- 22:55Speaker 3: which is all about how people's biology changes the way
- 23:00Speaker 3: that they think, the lens that they see things through,
- 23:02Speaker 3: the way that they filter information, and in relationships, in
- 23:06Speaker 3: parenting in a health professional space. And every time I
- 23:11Speaker 3: listen to it, it's like, ah, like you just realize
- 23:15Speaker 3: how many of your biases you think are good, you know,
- 23:18Speaker 3: the way that you're expressing things, the way that you're
- 23:20Speaker 3: thinking things through. I've got some really close friends that
- 23:24Speaker 3: I get into a deep conversation with them, like let's
- 23:26Speaker 3: really unpack this and get some structure and certainty around it,
- 23:29Speaker 3: and they just detest it because they want to be
- 23:33Speaker 3: having fun things, being a bit more sparky and spicy.
- 23:36Speaker 3: And it's just I think that I'm doing the best
- 23:39Speaker 3: thing by getting really deep. They're just thinking, oh, we
- 23:42Speaker 3: just have to tolerate this still cams done. It's just
- 23:45Speaker 3: so fascinating, and when both people are aware of both
- 23:49Speaker 3: people's biases, it just runs so much better. There's so
- 23:52Speaker 3: much more acceptance, and yes, it's just a better relationship
- 23:57Speaker 3: as a result.
- 23:58Speaker 1: And also the tenness and humility and authenticity for you
- 24:04Speaker 1: to go. Some people won't vibe with me, some people won't.
- 24:09Speaker 1: You know, if you've got one hundred people listening to you,
- 24:11Speaker 1: I mean we've got thousands listening to this over the
- 24:14Speaker 1: days when it's heard, guaranteed someone thinks that's an absolute shit.
- 24:18Speaker 1: If not ten or twenty people, which is completely fine.
- 24:22Speaker 1: Somebody else has a bit inspired, someone else's curious, somebody
- 24:25Speaker 1: else's harps, you've been here before, fucking let's go down
- 24:29Speaker 1: or whatever. And there are a bunch of people probably
- 24:32Speaker 1: just driving to work or doing their workout or who
- 24:35Speaker 1: are going, ah, yeah, this is relevant to me because
- 24:36Speaker 1: I'm a human as well. So what you do is
- 24:40Speaker 1: you try. And I know I'm not going to connect
- 24:44Speaker 1: with everyone. I know I'm not going to land with everyone.
- 24:46Speaker 1: But what I do know is the stuff that we're
- 24:49Speaker 1: talking about is universally relevant because we're all humans and
- 24:53Speaker 1: we all have relationships and we all have problems, and
- 24:56Speaker 1: we all have to build trust, respect, rapport connection some stage.
- 25:01Speaker 1: So then you lean into that and try to make
- 25:04Speaker 1: it as I try to make it as unacademic, as unjargoning,
- 25:09Speaker 1: as user friendly as possible, because the more listener slash
- 25:14Speaker 1: user friendly it is, the greater the potential for somebody
- 25:18Speaker 1: to do something with that in their life and create
- 25:21Speaker 1: shift in a good way. Because you and I are changing, Dick.
- 25:26Speaker 1: You know, we're not changing anyone. We're just two blokes
- 25:28Speaker 1: talking about stuff. But the better that we do our job,
- 25:32Speaker 1: the more valu valuable it is for people.
- 25:35Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
- 25:37Speaker 3: Just and it's one of those things, geez, I really
- 25:40Speaker 3: needed to hear that today, you know, like you get
- 25:42Speaker 3: people that are just I've heard this before, but it's
- 25:45Speaker 3: just said in a different way, and it really hit
- 25:47Speaker 3: me where I need to like means do the same.
- 25:50Speaker 2: Thing to me as well. You know, you just go,
- 25:51Speaker 2: you know that really makes sense today. Whereas for other
- 25:55Speaker 2: people exactly as you're saying, it's yep, I've heard it.
- 25:59Speaker 2: Nice confirmation, but I'm flicking off right now. Not a problem. Yeah,
- 26:03Speaker 2: I get it.
- 26:06Speaker 1: This is seems like a red herring. But if you've
- 26:08Speaker 1: heard this story, stop me. But I was taught.
- 26:13Speaker 2: I know.
- 26:13Speaker 1: I was listening to what is her name? Her surname
- 26:19Speaker 1: is Zoftness, which is the weirdest name ever, respect z
- 26:24Speaker 1: O F F N doubles. It might be Rachel anyway,
- 26:28Speaker 1: google that if you want everyone. She she's written this
- 26:32Speaker 1: book which is Phenomenon. I'm listening to it. And she
- 26:34Speaker 1: was on another podcast that slips my mind. But she's
- 26:38Speaker 1: talking about she's a researcher. She was talking about, you know,
- 26:43Speaker 1: the relationship between you know, mind, brain, nervous system, all
- 26:49Speaker 1: kind of attached and emotion and behavior and physiology and
- 26:54Speaker 1: all that stuff that you love and I love. And
- 26:56Speaker 1: she's talking about a guy who was working on a
- 26:58Speaker 1: building site and he was up on a truck unloading
- 27:03Speaker 1: shit and he jumped down off the truck and he
- 27:05Speaker 1: landed on a piece of wood that had a seven
- 27:07Speaker 1: inch nail sticking straight up. Have you heard this story? No,
- 27:12Speaker 1: So he jumps on this piece of wood. The nail
- 27:14Speaker 1: goes through his foot and boot and he he doesn't
- 27:19Speaker 1: even know, and then he looks down and sees it
- 27:21Speaker 1: and is in immediate agony and like screaming. So workmates
- 27:27Speaker 1: come listen as if you've heard this, I apologize half
- 27:29Speaker 1: of you have. Half you haven't. People come running and
- 27:32Speaker 1: they're like, oh my god. So they don't know what
- 27:35Speaker 1: to do. Obviously can't get the boot off because it's
- 27:39Speaker 1: got this fucking nail through the boot and the foot
- 27:41Speaker 1: and up through the soul, up through the leather. Whole
- 27:44Speaker 1: shooting match. The paramedics come or whatever this was in
- 27:48Speaker 1: the States, so whatever they're called over there, and those
- 27:50Speaker 1: paramedics and he actually it might have been in straight
- 27:55Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Stories are same. They come and they give
- 27:58Speaker 1: him the whatever it is they give him in that place,
- 28:00Speaker 1: could have been the green whistle or the equivalent, like
- 28:03Speaker 1: the most painkiller you can have inhale it and most
- 28:06Speaker 1: people get somewhere between pretty good relief and a lot
- 28:11Speaker 1: of relief. He got none. He was still off the
- 28:14Speaker 1: chart in pain. Took him. The hospital got him in there,
- 28:19Speaker 1: medicated him up. They were waiting for the doctor to arrive,
- 28:24Speaker 1: which took I don't know, another five or ten minutes.
- 28:26Speaker 1: In that time, he was just in a cute, screaming pain.
- 28:32Speaker 1: The doctor comes in, they've got this whole shit. They're
- 28:35Speaker 1: going to cut the boot off and then just deal
- 28:36Speaker 1: with whatever. They cut the boot off and he looks.
- 28:41Speaker 1: The doctor looks and he goes, he didn't say this,
- 28:43Speaker 1: but this is what he said. He goes, bro It
- 28:46Speaker 1: didn't touch her foot. It went through his big toe
- 28:49Speaker 1: and his second toe. I'm demonstrating for cam with my
- 28:52Speaker 1: fingers here. Everyone sorry about the lack of visual but
- 28:56Speaker 1: it went between his big toe and his second toe.
- 28:59Speaker 1: It went through the up, through the top of the
- 29:01Speaker 1: boot and did not touch his foot. He had no
- 29:05Speaker 1: physical injury whatsoever. But the story in his brain was,
- 29:11Speaker 1: you know, and all the other bits that flow on,
- 29:14Speaker 1: I've just done myself a fucking life changing injury or whatever.
- 29:18Speaker 1: And also another thing that she spoke about is how
- 29:22Speaker 1: crazy is that? Right? And another thing she spoke about
- 29:26Speaker 1: Rachel her name is Rachel's oftness. She spoke about how firstly,
- 29:31Speaker 1: there was no pain until he looked down. That's a
- 29:33Speaker 1: bit of a giveaway, right, And then all of a sudden,
- 29:36Speaker 1: his mates turn up and they all look like they
- 29:39Speaker 1: all go white as a ghost. So he's got ten
- 29:41Speaker 1: blokes around him, all looking fucking horrified. Then that's confirmation,
- 29:47Speaker 1: right now, I am fucked. And then so there was
- 29:51Speaker 1: all of these confounding and compounding variables that added up
- 29:56Speaker 1: to I've got a nail in my foot. I've got
- 29:58Speaker 1: a seven inch nail through my foot and then obviously
- 30:01Speaker 1: they cut it off when mate, you don't have any
- 30:04Speaker 1: injury whatsoever and almost immediate you know, relief. And I'm
- 30:11Speaker 1: like that what we think and what we believe is
- 30:14Speaker 1: so fucking profound. We don't even begin I don't think,
- 30:20Speaker 1: this is my opinion everyone. I don't think we begin
- 30:23Speaker 1: to understand the potential of our brain, our mind, our thoughts,
- 30:27Speaker 1: our beliefs, and the subsequent impact on the body behavior,
- 30:33Speaker 1: you know, for good or bad. It's like, isn't that
- 30:37Speaker 1: shit fascinating?
- 30:38Speaker 2: That's absolutely fascinating.
- 30:41Speaker 3: I just think about the blake when he goes back
- 30:43Speaker 3: to the work site.
- 30:44Speaker 2: You definitely just put a bandage on it for a
- 30:47Speaker 2: couple of.
- 30:47Speaker 1: Weeks around on hobble around till Christmas.
- 30:51Speaker 2: Definitely takes some sick leave.
- 30:53Speaker 1: Yeah, as your foot mate, Oh, I'm all right, old
- 30:56Speaker 1: soldier on that's tried. And didn't think of about that?
- 31:00Speaker 1: The fucking the humility or the embarrassment and the shame
- 31:06Speaker 1: you spoke about something before I want to ask you
- 31:08Speaker 1: about and that was sorry, what's your friend's name the
- 31:10Speaker 1: smarty pants Matte Matt Matt, Yeah, so Matt, like you
- 31:15Speaker 1: spoke about capacity. So there's another concept in psychle called
- 31:23Speaker 1: the performance capacity gap. Have we spoken about that?
- 31:27Speaker 2: No?
- 31:28Speaker 1: So performance capacity gap essentially speaks to what you're currently doing.
- 31:32Speaker 1: It could be at the gym, it could be in
- 31:34Speaker 1: your business, or it could be anything, right, relating to
- 31:37Speaker 1: anything that's perhaps measurable or somewhat performance based, you know,
- 31:42Speaker 1: is the difference between what you're doing and also what
- 31:47Speaker 1: you think about what you're doing and capacity what you're
- 31:52Speaker 1: actually capable of. And with the idea being that a
- 31:58Speaker 1: lot of people think that they're performance is pretty close
- 32:01Speaker 1: to their capacity, right, and it ain't. It's like not
- 32:06Speaker 1: they think my capacity is ten, I'm currently at eight. Yeah,
- 32:10Speaker 1: And then you go, bro, this is good and bad news.
- 32:14Speaker 1: The good news is you've got way more ability than
- 32:17Speaker 1: you think, and the bad news is you're currently sitting
- 32:19Speaker 1: at a three telling yourself an eight story.
- 32:22Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 32:23Speaker 1: That's that shows up all the time, right, we don't
- 32:26Speaker 1: understand us.
- 32:29Speaker 2: That's so interesting as well, because there is.
- 32:32Speaker 3: When people are asked that question and they're looking they're
- 32:36Speaker 3: looking to validate it's I guess it links into the
- 32:40Speaker 3: idea because we just ran some stuff on imposter syndrome
- 32:42Speaker 3: and how that turns up for people differently as well.
- 32:45Speaker 3: And I guess are these two ideas related where you
- 32:48Speaker 3: just don't think, you can't conceive of yourself being better
- 32:52Speaker 3: because you're not aware of it.
- 32:53Speaker 2: You have an experience that you don't know.
- 32:55Speaker 3: What you don't know, and that is because what's interesting
- 33:00Speaker 3: is people are saying, I'm actually doing really well against
- 33:03Speaker 3: my capacity, but the imposter syndrome stuff says that I
- 33:07Speaker 3: don't think I'm good enough, you know, like whatever I'm
- 33:09Speaker 3: doing is not enough.
- 33:11Speaker 2: And so we live in this.
- 33:12Speaker 3: Really crazy world where we don't think we could do
- 33:16Speaker 3: better and we're going okay, but.
- 33:18Speaker 2: Actually there's a lot more we are truly not acting
- 33:24Speaker 2: up to where we can.
- 33:25Speaker 3: It's the brain and how it gets influenced by our
- 33:28Speaker 3: current social environment is absolutely mind boggling. Like there is
- 33:33Speaker 3: there's really no there's no structures in our world, and
- 33:40Speaker 3: it's because of this work that I'm doing with schools,
- 33:42Speaker 3: the work that I'm doing at workplaces. There's very few
- 33:45Speaker 3: structures anywhere and definitely not implemented in an organized way
- 33:50Speaker 3: of saying how can I help you develop to be
- 33:54Speaker 3: the ultimate person that you are? Like, there's really no
- 33:57Speaker 3: language that we have for that, or no systems that
- 34:00Speaker 3: we have for that.
- 34:01Speaker 2: It's truly this is the job of school and you've
- 34:04Speaker 2: got to get it done.
- 34:05Speaker 3: We actually don't care if you do better or you're
- 34:07Speaker 3: somewhere in the middle.
- 34:08Speaker 2: You just need to get these marks.
- 34:10Speaker 3: And yeah, we've mentioned some curriculum around general capabilities, and
- 34:14Speaker 3: we want you to be a good person and identify
- 34:16Speaker 3: yourself or whatever it might be, but it's never Hey,
- 34:20Speaker 3: we want you to realize your potential, and we're going
- 34:23Speaker 3: to put resources around you.
- 34:25Speaker 2: So that you can discover who you are. We're going
- 34:27Speaker 2: to get you to.
- 34:28Speaker 3: Discard things that aren't related to who you are, and
- 34:31Speaker 3: we're just going to get.
- 34:31Speaker 2: You to stay on that path.
- 34:33Speaker 3: Everything is around how can I meet the mark of
- 34:36Speaker 3: the average? How can I meet the you know, the
- 34:38Speaker 3: criteria that make me mean that I fulfilled this job
- 34:42Speaker 3: even though if it's not in my strength whatever.
- 34:43Speaker 2: It might be there is.
- 34:47Speaker 3: It's an entirely different world when you're thinking, what would
- 34:51Speaker 3: I do if I was going to live my best
- 34:53Speaker 3: life in my best way, in my best strengths you
- 34:56Speaker 3: would go about life in such a different way. But
- 34:58Speaker 3: we don't have a language for that, or at least
- 34:59Speaker 3: we don't have an organized language in our society.
- 35:02Speaker 2: And I don't know really of any any population around
- 35:05Speaker 2: the world.
- 35:06Speaker 3: I'm sure there's pockets that actually have something that relates
- 35:09Speaker 3: to that. It's really really interesting, and it is constantly
- 35:13Speaker 3: capping even our awareness of how great we can be.
- 35:17Speaker 1: So I think that you go, sorry, did? I also
- 35:22Speaker 1: think with that one of the barriers for some people
- 35:25Speaker 1: is they're like, Hey, Craig, I want to be a
- 35:28Speaker 1: fucking high performer. I don't want to be an Olympian.
- 35:30Speaker 1: I don't want to join the Space program. I don't
- 35:32Speaker 1: want a PhD. I don't want to be a billionaire.
- 35:35Speaker 1: I don't want to be an entrepreneur. And I would say,
- 35:38Speaker 1: good that being a high performer has not necessarily anything
- 35:45Speaker 1: to do with that shit. Being a high performer or
- 35:48Speaker 1: exploring your potential. It might be your potential to reduce anxiety.
- 35:53Speaker 1: You might live in a constant state of you know,
- 35:57Speaker 1: two to nine anxiety, and what we're trying to do,
- 36:01Speaker 1: like your goal, your Mount Everest might be I want
- 36:05Speaker 1: to live a lot of my life somewhere near a
- 36:08Speaker 1: state of calm, the absence, like when I do goal
- 36:13Speaker 1: setting with people, which is not, like not formal. I
- 36:17Speaker 1: used to do a bit of that, like formally, but
- 36:19Speaker 1: now more what do you want, what don't you want,
- 36:21Speaker 1: what's working in your life, what's not? What gives you anxiety,
- 36:23Speaker 1: what makes you happy? Blah blah blah. When we dig
- 36:26Speaker 1: through all the shit that people say they want and
- 36:28Speaker 1: then we get down to what's really the driver for
- 36:30Speaker 1: that goal, Quite often the driver is I just want
- 36:35Speaker 1: my inner world to be calm. I just don't want
- 36:37Speaker 1: to be anxious. I don't want to be a chronic overthinker.
- 36:40Speaker 1: I don't want to be I'm like, they're great goals.
- 36:43Speaker 1: Fuck making a million dollars, fuck having six percent body fat.
- 36:47Speaker 1: You know they're not bad. Cool, But show me one
- 36:50Speaker 1: person who who achieves something in their external world and
- 36:55Speaker 1: then they're permanently content, like that person doesn't exist, or
- 37:00Speaker 1: they've got a perpetual state of internal nirvana and calm
- 37:03Speaker 1: and equanimity, and it's like, oh, no, I'm at six
- 37:06Speaker 1: percent body fat, I'm the happiest, But no, no, In fact,
- 37:12Speaker 1: it's often the opposite. So I think This also comes
- 37:16Speaker 1: down to this is weird, but you'll dig it, I think,
- 37:19Speaker 1: is the difference between the idea or the perceived situation
- 37:26Speaker 1: of success versus the experience of success, Like, Oh, look
- 37:32Speaker 1: at her, she's done this, done, that, lives there, drives
- 37:35Speaker 1: that has achieved this, which are all good things and
- 37:39Speaker 1: well done and a big tick for you. Therefore she's successful. Well, yes,
- 37:46Speaker 1: if we base our criteria for success on acquiring stuff
- 37:50Speaker 1: and doing stuff and achieving stuff and ticking boxes. In
- 37:55Speaker 1: other words, all the stuff that's visible to everyone, right,
- 37:58Speaker 1: all that external look at what I've done and have
- 38:00Speaker 1: an own and earn and look like and where and whatever,
- 38:03Speaker 1: versus all the shit that people can't see success. There
- 38:09Speaker 1: was a stage where I had five different businesses, bricks
- 38:12Speaker 1: and mortar businesses, and it wasn't good or bad. It
- 38:15Speaker 1: was just my life. And I had over one hundred
- 38:17Speaker 1: employees at the same time, and there were all these
- 38:20Speaker 1: moving parts and from the outside looking in successful all
- 38:25Speaker 1: businesses make and do all good. And I'm not saying
- 38:28Speaker 1: one caused the other, but the concurrent reality for me
- 38:32Speaker 1: was overthinking, not sleeping, anxious, worry, like all of this
- 38:38Speaker 1: stuff that didn't reflect the external, And then you get
- 38:42Speaker 1: to that point and you go, well, I've done all
- 38:44Speaker 1: this shit. Why am I miserable? Why am I sad?
- 38:48Speaker 1: And you go, well, maybe an external or a physical
- 38:51Speaker 1: thing won't resolve an internal or non physical thing. And
- 38:54Speaker 1: then it kind of recalibrates you, or at least prompts
- 38:58Speaker 1: you to think, oh, forget what everyone tells me or
- 39:02Speaker 1: what the definition of it is on bloody Instagram or wherever.
- 39:07Speaker 1: What actually is success for me? Is it about stuff
- 39:11Speaker 1: or is it about non stuff?
- 39:13Speaker 2: Yes? Yeah, yeah, yeah, And this is what I love.
- 39:16Speaker 2: This is the because I do a lot of a
- 39:20Speaker 2: lot of courses.
- 39:21Speaker 3: I create courses for various types of people, and it's
- 39:26Speaker 3: really interesting talking about the concepts of purpose, natural strengths, happiness, flow,
- 39:35Speaker 3: love and all of these things that and it's interesting,
- 39:39Speaker 3: Like the skeptical person says that I don't want to
- 39:41Speaker 3: be a high performer, you would ask them the same
- 39:43Speaker 3: question of do you want to have relationships that make
- 39:46Speaker 3: you feel great where you're not in contest.
- 39:48Speaker 2: And where it's just flowing and you're supported. Do you
- 39:51Speaker 2: want to feel like you've got more energy throughout the day.
- 39:55Speaker 2: Do you want to feel like at the end of.
- 39:57Speaker 3: The day, you feel really satisfied with the way that
- 40:00Speaker 3: you showed up. Do you want to feel like you're
- 40:02Speaker 3: closer to your kids and you're having a really positive
- 40:04Speaker 3: influence on them, et cetera, et cetera.
- 40:06Speaker 2: And everyone says yes, yes, yes, yes. Across the board.
- 40:09Speaker 3: A lot of high performing people don't achieve any of
- 40:11Speaker 3: those things, but they just have a really great one
- 40:14Speaker 3: hundred meters sprint for example. The where I was going
- 40:19Speaker 3: with that, the physiology of love is it's dopamine and serotonin,
- 40:26Speaker 3: and these are focus and reward, and then some endorphins
- 40:31Speaker 3: as well, and then also generally a better heart rate variability,
- 40:36Speaker 3: so calmer, less cortisol, and then oxytocin. And then if
- 40:42Speaker 3: you look at purpose, it's dopamine and serotonin and some endorphins,
- 40:49Speaker 3: and then it's lower cortisol and lower stress, better heart
- 40:54Speaker 3: rate variability, and maybe some more adrenaline because that's keeping
- 40:58Speaker 3: your focused on purpose, and then you have happiness or flow.
- 41:04Speaker 2: Let's say we talk about flow.
- 41:06Speaker 3: Flow is dope mean nora, adrenaline, a bit of serotonin,
- 41:10Speaker 3: some endorphins, It is a lower cortisol.
- 41:14Speaker 2: It's exactly the same map.
- 41:15Speaker 3: But then they measure anandamide as well, which is this
- 41:18Speaker 3: nice little reward chemical that does good things for your brain.
- 41:21Speaker 2: And then you go into into your natural strengths.
- 41:25Speaker 3: And when you're in your natural strengths, you're more motivated,
- 41:28Speaker 3: so you've got more dope mean and more nor adrenaline.
- 41:30Speaker 2: You feel more awarded, so you've got more serotonin and more.
- 41:33Speaker 3: Endorphins, and it's costing you less strained to actually be
- 41:36Speaker 3: in your natural strengths, and so your cortisol is lower.
- 41:40Speaker 3: And so all of these different states that we are
- 41:43Speaker 3: all aiming for actually have precisely the same physiology plus
- 41:48Speaker 3: or minus a sort of an indicative chemical like oxytocin.
- 41:52Speaker 2: For love and nor agrenaline for focus, whatever it might be,
- 41:55Speaker 2: and it it just makes the whole picture, makes so.
- 42:00Speaker 3: And what it means is if you can be in
- 42:03Speaker 3: a state that is resonant with you, and that is,
- 42:06Speaker 3: I feel purposeful, if you feel like you can be
- 42:09Speaker 3: yourself in relationships, if you feel like you're working in
- 42:12Speaker 3: your natural strengths and doing things with talent and capacity,
- 42:16Speaker 3: if you feel like you're naturally enjoying your life. What
- 42:20Speaker 3: it means is the environment is reflecting back to you
- 42:24Speaker 3: that this is an environment for your body because once
- 42:28Speaker 3: you get to that state, if we look at health
- 42:30Speaker 3: and disease, it's all of the opposite of the things
- 42:34Speaker 3: that I just mentioned.
- 42:35Speaker 2: It's untethered stress.
- 42:38Speaker 3: With a high with a hot with poor high cortisol
- 42:41Speaker 3: and poor heart rate variability.
- 42:43Speaker 2: And less serotonin and less endorphins, but maybe lots of
- 42:46Speaker 2: nora adrenaline and stress chemicals. So it's the idea of
- 42:52Speaker 2: success and happiness internally physiologically is essentially how can I
- 42:57Speaker 2: be more of meat? How can I be doing the
- 43:00Speaker 2: things that really align and make me feel good? And
- 43:04Speaker 2: there's sometimes a selfish period that you need to take
- 43:07Speaker 2: to actually renavigate back towards that. Because we often spend
- 43:11Speaker 2: so much of.
- 43:11Speaker 3: Our life following somebody else's purpose, putting up with relationships,
- 43:16Speaker 3: or not truly in connecting with relationships that allow us
- 43:19Speaker 3: to feel that deeper sense of connection, we are not
- 43:23Speaker 3: really ever encouraged to find flow. We're just encouraged to
- 43:27Speaker 3: get it done, rather than what can we do to
- 43:30Speaker 3: change this environment to help you get these outcomes in
- 43:33Speaker 3: the best way possible.
- 43:35Speaker 2: So I just I find.
- 43:37Speaker 3: That conversation really really interesting because we have a set
- 43:41Speaker 3: physiology that indicates this is the right environment for you,
- 43:45Speaker 3: and you're working in your strengths and it's going to
- 43:48Speaker 3: feel great and less stress and more rewarding, and it's
- 43:51Speaker 3: doing all the normal stuff and it's completely influenced by
- 43:57Speaker 3: your mindset.
- 43:59Speaker 2: The nutrients that you eat, the movement that you do.
- 44:02Speaker 3: When you do all of that stuff, the work that
- 44:04Speaker 3: you're doing, and how purpose all that feels.
- 44:06Speaker 2: It's it and this is what people are chasing. Like
- 44:10Speaker 2: if you say, hey, do you want.
- 44:10Speaker 3: To feel happy in all of these things? One hundred
- 44:12Speaker 3: percent people say, yes, I want to feel that. And
- 44:14Speaker 3: there's a and you've essentially you've got to get to
- 44:16Speaker 3: a point where the environment allows you to feel that
- 44:19Speaker 3: way because your body is continually responding to that environment.
- 44:23Speaker 1: So interesting and yeah, I mean your body will tell
- 44:27Speaker 1: you if you're happy or sad, anxious or not. Like
- 44:29Speaker 1: your body's like, nah, you're anxious. You know why because
- 44:32Speaker 1: all this shit's happening. Yeah you know that, Like it's.
- 44:37Speaker 2: So just.
- 44:38Speaker 1: You might even want to listen to this lady. So
- 44:41Speaker 1: her name is Rachel's Softness. I don't this is how
- 44:48Speaker 1: you know that I love you listeners, because I'm actually
- 44:51Speaker 1: going to point you towards another podcast, which I think
- 44:53Speaker 1: is fucking brilliant. This episode there's a little bit of
- 44:56Speaker 1: waffle at the front, like there often is on The
- 44:58Speaker 1: You Project. But it's on a show called The Armchair
- 45:02Speaker 1: Expert and it went up April fifteen, and she's just
- 45:10Speaker 1: written Rachel has written a new book called Tell Me
- 45:13Speaker 1: Where It Hurts, The New Science of Pain and How
- 45:15Speaker 1: to Heal. But she goes far and wide. She told
- 45:19Speaker 1: that nail story. But she also talks about, like, you know,
- 45:25Speaker 1: when people think about obviously the general public and the
- 45:29Speaker 1: general messaging from the health and wellness and medical spaces.
- 45:35Speaker 1: You know, eat better and move your body and sleep
- 45:39Speaker 1: well and minimize stress, and all of these things are important,
- 45:43Speaker 1: of course, and they really matter, and they definitely move
- 45:45Speaker 1: the needle, and now all the other things. Don't drink
- 45:48Speaker 1: too much booze, maybe, don't ever have a cigarette. You know,
- 45:52Speaker 1: don't need anything bigger than your head in one sitting.
- 45:54Speaker 1: You know, all the fundamentals. But she talks about what
- 45:59Speaker 1: you were talking about in terms of oxytocin and relationships
- 46:04Speaker 1: and love and like what a massive impact something like
- 46:10Speaker 1: being lonely, like legit lonely, It fucks up your body.
- 46:15Speaker 1: You know it is not it is you know, It's
- 46:18Speaker 1: like I would rather have a six out of ten
- 46:22Speaker 1: diet and ten out of ten social life or not
- 46:25Speaker 1: social life but social connections. I'm not really a big
- 46:28Speaker 1: social life person, but like I'm I'm insecure as fuck.
- 46:34Speaker 1: I need people to love me. I need to be loved.
- 46:37Speaker 1: I don't mean worshiped, I don't mean idolized, but I
- 46:41Speaker 1: you know, and there's a you know when you like
- 46:45Speaker 1: for me, there's an because I'm the only kid like
- 46:48Speaker 1: I don't have a wife, I don't have nieces and nephews.
- 46:51Speaker 1: I don't have obviously brothers and sisters. I don't have kids,
- 46:54Speaker 1: and part of me is like, oh, not a Mary
- 46:58Speaker 1: eighty six and the check and flags not too far away,
- 47:01Speaker 1: you know, let's hope it's fun. But all that shit
- 47:03Speaker 1: where I go, Oh, and even though I understand this
- 47:07Speaker 1: stuff relatively well theoretically and academically and from a research perspective,
- 47:14Speaker 1: then you go, even though I know all this shit,
- 47:17Speaker 1: I still need a fucking hug. I still need Cam
- 47:21Speaker 1: to like me, or I want Cam to like me.
- 47:24Speaker 1: I want to when I see Cam, I want to hug.
- 47:26Speaker 1: I want to. I don't need twenty hugs a day,
- 47:29Speaker 1: but like the moments where I've found felt really genuinely
- 47:35Speaker 1: alone and lonely, that's just doing terrible my body. Anyway,
- 47:40Speaker 1: maybe some people cope better. I'm like, ah, this is
- 47:44Speaker 1: this is no good. Yeah, sure I eat well and
- 47:46Speaker 1: train and so sure I'd tick all the other boxes,
- 47:49Speaker 1: but it's it's such it has such an impact on us,
- 47:52Speaker 1: and especially because and I'm generalizing here, so not all men,
- 47:58Speaker 1: but I think probably more men than women because women
- 48:01Speaker 1: are women are maybe more socially and emotionally evolved. Who knows,
- 48:05Speaker 1: there's another podcast. But you know, like my best mate Vinn,
- 48:11Speaker 1: every time I talk to him, at the end, he goes,
- 48:13Speaker 1: love you mate, and I go, love you mate, and
- 48:15Speaker 1: there's no because I love him. I just say, you know,
- 48:19Speaker 1: I'm reminding you you're loved and he does the same,
- 48:23Speaker 1: and it's not love ya, it's like love you mate,
- 48:26Speaker 1: and he's like me too. And whenever I need anything,
- 48:29Speaker 1: when the shit hits the fan, like I only need
- 48:33Speaker 1: to go mate, can you help me with this? He
- 48:35Speaker 1: goes course, And it's just like when I moved Mum
- 48:37Speaker 1: and Dad recently from their big old unnecessarily huge house
- 48:43Speaker 1: into an independent living place in a kind of an
- 48:47Speaker 1: old people's village, which is gorgeous. Like he just showed
- 48:51Speaker 1: up for three days and work like a fucking weapon.
- 48:55Speaker 1: Like no, didn't want any gratitude, didn't want any thanks,
- 48:58Speaker 1: didn't want any acknowledgement, and then did that and then
- 49:02Speaker 1: went see you, mate. I went to see you. That's it,
- 49:06Speaker 1: you know for me, because we've all got our love
- 49:08Speaker 1: language whatever. Like for me, that's like, oh yeah, and
- 49:12Speaker 1: I would do the same for him, Like there's no
- 49:15Speaker 1: where you go. Oh you know, this human loves me.
- 49:17Speaker 1: And that's and I'm waffling a little bit, but it's
- 49:20Speaker 1: so important that you have that deep human connection because
- 49:25Speaker 1: without that, I think, where as a very social species,
- 49:29Speaker 1: we're a bit fuked.
- 49:31Speaker 2: Yep.
- 49:31Speaker 3: Absolutely, And this is one of the most interesting things
- 49:35Speaker 3: about what people need in that connection as well. And
- 49:38Speaker 3: this is where I get really interested in the differences
- 49:42Speaker 3: in eurochemistry. And I know that Tiff and Kyle previously
- 49:45Speaker 3: have picked you as a connector or whatever it might
- 49:47Speaker 3: be in our model of health types, but that what
- 49:52Speaker 3: we see with the connective body is that they are
- 49:54Speaker 3: much more oxytocin dependent and oxytocin is the sense of connection.
- 50:00Speaker 2: I can look at your face and I can.
- 50:02Speaker 3: Feel like I belong And without that oxytocin, when it
- 50:05Speaker 3: gets released, it vasodilates opens up your blood vessels, It
- 50:09Speaker 3: reduces cortisol.
- 50:11Speaker 2: It actually creates like a bit of a glow up,
- 50:15Speaker 2: but also a destress for you. And it's the sense
- 50:18Speaker 2: of belonging.
- 50:19Speaker 3: And you know, the quality time or the access service,
- 50:22Speaker 3: whatever it might be. And then another individual and that
- 50:25Speaker 3: I guess this is more aligned with my brain. I
- 50:28Speaker 3: don't need as much of the contact. I just need
- 50:31Speaker 3: people to go geez. I love the way you think.
- 50:33Speaker 3: Can I really value your thinking?
- 50:36Speaker 2: You know? And it's the respect.
- 50:38Speaker 3: For my thinking that I'm really searching for in people,
- 50:41Speaker 3: Whereas another person will be completely selfless and they'll just
- 50:47Speaker 3: be looking after people all of the time by themselves,
- 50:50Speaker 3: like you know, just really just living for everybody else's goals,
- 50:55Speaker 3: and what truly lands for them is a low maintenance
- 50:59Speaker 3: friend doesn't ask anything of them.
- 51:02Speaker 2: And it's not about I need to love your thinking.
- 51:05Speaker 3: I can sit here and we support each other, but
- 51:08Speaker 3: there's nothing that needs to be said in order for
- 51:10Speaker 3: that to happen.
- 51:11Speaker 2: I'm going to put some energy back into you because
- 51:13Speaker 2: the rest of your life you're giving it away to
- 51:15Speaker 2: everybody else. It's low maintenance friends. And when you talk
- 51:18Speaker 2: to them and say, hey, you need some low.
- 51:20Speaker 3: Maintenance people, and you're like, they're oh my god, yes, yes,
- 51:22Speaker 3: so right, well that's one of my best friends. We
- 51:24Speaker 3: just sit and we virtually just do whatever we want
- 51:27Speaker 3: to do. But no, we don't require anything of each other.
- 51:29Speaker 3: So even that sense of deep connection is so different.
- 51:33Speaker 3: My dad, he's a connector, so he has the deep
- 51:36Speaker 3: connection of my mum and the family that live up
- 51:40Speaker 3: up that way with them, but then he also needs
- 51:43Speaker 3: all of the.
- 51:44Speaker 2: Fun of walking around meeting all the people with dogs.
- 51:49Speaker 2: He's got a bunch of friends called the rock Lobsters that.
- 51:51Speaker 3: All they hang out on the rock wall because they
- 51:55Speaker 3: all go swimming in the morning. They're all sixty plus
- 51:57Speaker 3: to get a ticket to the rock wall. So he's
- 52:00Speaker 3: got all his rock lobs to friends. And he's like
- 52:02Speaker 3: sort of the man about town, like's not he's a dentist,
- 52:05Speaker 3: so he's treating the cafe janitor that he goes to
- 52:08Speaker 3: because he just can't help himself, like.
- 52:10Speaker 2: He's just in people's business. So he needs that. But
- 52:13Speaker 2: my mum just has the connection with dad. That's all
- 52:17Speaker 2: she needs.
- 52:18Speaker 3: Like she's a censor, totally totally different neurochemical makeup. She
- 52:24Speaker 3: just doesn't need other people. And she doesn't go out
- 52:27Speaker 3: wandering around and she's got maybe one or two friends
- 52:30Speaker 3: she might have a catch up with and that's her.
- 52:31Speaker 2: That's her film. So just even.
- 52:34Speaker 3: This idea of deep connection and what it is, you'll
- 52:39Speaker 3: just the best way to market is when you think
- 52:42Speaker 3: about your friend where you just feel like you can
- 52:45Speaker 3: completely relax. What do they give you? You know, and
- 52:49Speaker 3: that as a starting point is a really helpful thing
- 52:51Speaker 3: to say. What is the kind of connection that I'm
- 52:53Speaker 3: actually looking for is that the people that really love
- 52:56Speaker 3: the way that I think is the people that are
- 52:57Speaker 3: just there for me.
- 52:58Speaker 2: It's the people that I can rely on it of course,
- 53:00Speaker 2: whatever it might be, but as.
- 53:02Speaker 3: A starting point, just knowing that one friend that really
- 53:07Speaker 3: has your back, or those two friends that when you
- 53:09Speaker 3: hang out with them, it's just a full wave of relief.
- 53:11Speaker 3: That's the starting point for you know, what truly makes
- 53:14Speaker 3: you feel connected.
- 53:15Speaker 2: It's a good place to begin.
- 53:17Speaker 1: It's such a and I mean this speaks to your
- 53:19Speaker 1: like your model at pH three sixty and like it's
- 53:24Speaker 1: all about beginning to understand how you work and being
- 53:30Speaker 1: okay with that even if you know, sometimes I think
- 53:33Speaker 1: I'm an alpha male and I always go but I'm
- 53:38Speaker 1: not and I'm not really. But in certain situations, like
- 53:43Speaker 1: I said to you, I think earlier and en if
- 53:45Speaker 1: we're off here on here, but if there's shit happening,
- 53:47Speaker 1: you want me because I'm very calm in that and
- 53:51Speaker 1: I'm a good leader when I need to be. But
- 53:54Speaker 1: I have no compulsion to go and lead, like I
- 53:59Speaker 1: don't want to sert myself into something. But if things
- 54:02Speaker 1: are going bad, I'm quite good in that situation. But
- 54:08Speaker 1: being able to recognize how you are and then do
- 54:16Speaker 1: something with that without judgment or self loathing, but just
- 54:20Speaker 1: self awareness and recognition. It's like this is part of
- 54:25Speaker 1: the you know, how do I optimize me? I need
- 54:28Speaker 1: to understand me first, you know, I need to be
- 54:32Speaker 1: like and I was thinking as you were talking this
- 54:37Speaker 1: how my brain works, because I'm you know, I respond
- 54:40Speaker 1: to that a couple of things, one ironically and almost
- 54:43Speaker 1: ad juxtaposition. I don't like being around people all the time,
- 54:47Speaker 1: by the way, I need lots of time by myself.
- 54:50Speaker 1: I live by myself, but I don't want to have
- 54:53Speaker 1: no interaction day to day, Like I need a little
- 54:57Speaker 1: bit and it needs to be quality, be me giving
- 55:01Speaker 1: to someone, not me getting. Like most of the time
- 55:03Speaker 1: it's me giving in that I'm usually sitting with someone
- 55:06Speaker 1: who's got some challenges. Like probably five coffees I have,
- 55:10Speaker 1: four out of three or four out of five coffees
- 55:12Speaker 1: I have is me helping someone and one or two
- 55:16Speaker 1: is maybe with a friend, right, and it's just an
- 55:18Speaker 1: hour of bullshit and caffeine. But then the opportunity like
- 55:24Speaker 1: and I feel this sounds quite magnanimous, but it's kind
- 55:28Speaker 1: of not. Is like when I know that I can
- 55:30Speaker 1: talk up a walk up to somebody who maybe I
- 55:33Speaker 1: think is doing it hard a little bit or just
- 55:38Speaker 1: and just go go to mate and I go how
- 55:41Speaker 1: are you? And they like are you good? I go, yeah,
- 55:44Speaker 1: but how are you? And then they go well actually,
- 55:47Speaker 1: and I go what's going on? And they'll unpack a bit.
- 55:50Speaker 1: I go, fuck, that's hard, that's hard, and how are
- 55:54Speaker 1: you going with all of that? Like how are you sleeping?
- 55:56Speaker 1: Or you go, man, I get it, that is that
- 55:59Speaker 1: is tough. So how do you fix that or how
- 56:02Speaker 1: do you manage? You know, and I just might talk
- 56:04Speaker 1: to them for five minutes and give them some love
- 56:06Speaker 1: and some attention and for five minutes they're the focus
- 56:09Speaker 1: of my world. And not always, but I'm pretty sure
- 56:13Speaker 1: most time I walk away, most times I walk away,
- 56:17Speaker 1: that's given them a boost. Yeah, that, you know. And
- 56:21Speaker 1: it's like, could be a guy, could be a girl,
- 56:23Speaker 1: old young, Try not to be speak inappropriately or out
- 56:28Speaker 1: of you know. I try to read the room. But
- 56:33Speaker 1: you know, now you've got Oh, you've got to go,
- 56:36Speaker 1: it's time, it's two o'clock. Well maybe it's been gorgeous always.
- 56:42Speaker 1: I love chatting with you. Tell people where to find you,
- 56:45Speaker 1: follow you.
- 56:46Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks mate, it's been awesome. The doctor km McDonald
- 56:50Speaker 2: just searched.
- 56:51Speaker 3: That with Shay Group, SAHAE Group, and that'll get your
- 56:55Speaker 3: corporate staff health professional stuff, school stuff.
- 56:59Speaker 2: We're doing a whole lot of work.
- 57:00Speaker 3: In precision health and helping people understand themselves and essentially
- 57:03Speaker 3: trying to build the structures that we're lacking in the
- 57:05Speaker 3: world right now. So it's all of this work is
- 57:09Speaker 3: exactly the stuff that we're doing on one level, and
- 57:11Speaker 3: then there's a whole physical level as well.
- 57:12Speaker 1: So always appreciate you mate, You're a gift and we'll
- 57:16Speaker 1: have a quick ten second goodbye off fair but for
- 57:19Speaker 1: the minute doctor Cam appreciate you.
- 57:21Speaker 2: Thanks, see you mate,