Speaker 1: Ero dot net a r r oe dot net. Not
just one podcast, it's twenty different podcasts. When I'm listening
to a podcast, I don't want the same old story
over and over again. And you know where we usually
go after that, terrestrial radio? You need aero dot net.
One of my favorite places is my day of Play.
I did it for the students that I'm with all
the time inside broadcasting class. But the thing is, though,
you're just as important as they are. Why not share
with you the real, unedited experiences my day of play
on ero dot net A R r oe dot net.
Enjoy your exploration. Good morning, Nelson, how are you doing today?
I'm glad you remember to show up today.
Speaker 2: Huh, I'm great. And that's a fantastic joke to start off.
Speaker 1: I love what you're doing here because I swear to
God that we have become such a lazy generation due
to the Internet that it's almost like I don't need
to remember because it'll do it for me. But man,
you give us so many reasons why that's a bad
decision to put dependence on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm I'm glad you can bring that up
to start because it's so true and It's kind of
the genesis of.
Speaker 2: Why I wrote this book.
Speaker 3: You know, we live in a day where tech is
threatening to replace what we do with our minds or
what we used to do with our minds every day.
And while obviously there's room for tech and tech can
be helpful for a lot of things that we do,
it's removing this agency that we have over our own
cognitive abilities, and I think that kind of detracts from
our human experience. So I'm all about using our mental faculties,
faculties before we you know, outsource to a device or
an AI agent, just because if you don't use it,
you lose it.
Speaker 2: That is true with physical things, but also the mind.
Speaker 1: See that's the way I feel about my spelling. It's
not that I'm a poor speller. I swear to God
I'm not. It's just that I don't trust what I'm
putting on because I'm a daily writer, and if I'm
not thing without spell check inside those journals, then somebody's
gonna come by ten years from now and go, God,
this guy sucked when it come to spelling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but listen, imagine there was no spell check, right,
what would you do.
Speaker 1: I'll be the happiest guy on earth.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, but you'd also be better at spelling right,
because you'd painstakingly, at one point at the beginning, you'd
have to painstakingly recheck a lot of the words that
you think you miss misspelled, and you'd learn the hard way,
but you would learn right, and then over time you'd
remember a lot of those ones that you'd mess up
and get wrong. And that's that's what people need to
do now. Is Yes, these tech and devices out there
will make our lives faster and more efficient. But if
you take a moment to pause and try to use
your own brain for a second, to use your own
memory before you, you know, with a phone number, before
you put it in your phone, just that little step.
I'm not saying just eliminate tech. I'm just saying, use
your mind before you use the tech.
Speaker 1: See now, is that the reason why being a daily
writer is maybe a positive thing to attract and which
I could teach you to more people, because it's not
that I'm living in my past. It's forcing you to
use that brain so you can remember what's your insight
on being a daily writer?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I wrote a book and I've written
a couple books, but I wouldn't call myself a daily writer.
Speaker 2: I wish I was.
Speaker 3: I don't feel like I'm a great writer unless I
really sit down and force myself to be writing something.
Speaker 2: But yeah, any type of activity you can do.
Speaker 3: Where you're purely using your brain and focusing for a
period of time, and I'm assuming for a writer you
do have your methods for focusing in and getting work done.
That's the sweet spot, especially nowadays where we're so easily distracted.
If you can find a mental task that you can
stick to for a certain period of time and do
that consistently, you'll see the benefits in your mind's performance
really quick.
Speaker 1: How are you reacting to all of these little supplements
and pills that people are taking, And it's like, why
are they doing that when all they need is everyday
genius hacks to boost your your memory. I mean, your
book says it right there without having to pop a
damn pill.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: And it's in this age, you know, everybody wants to
quick facts. Unfortunately, and while my book I have a
lot of very quick, immediate wins and hits that can
make you think, wow, I could do that with my brain.
That's amazing, but a lot of it does come down
to intention and intentional actions that do require consistency and time.
But people should know that with any skill and using
your mind to a genius level is a skill. I argue,
it's something you got to work on. And I you know,
I'm very aware that people don't want to be discouraged.
So I think there's very quick wins that people can
get from my book that will head them down the
right road of using their brain more.
Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Nelson Dellas coming
up next. The name of the book every Day Genius
Hacks to Boost your Memory. Let's get back into that
talk with Nelson Dellas well. Your book, the idea of
it has been with me for a very very long time,
so for it to physically finally be out here is
a gift to me. And I'm being so selfish when
I say that. But the thing about it is, though
it's helped me strengthen my concentration, I've been using your
techniques and trying to do this because if we don't
have concentration, we've got problems.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, that's I love hearing that. That's amazing and
exactly what you said, like, nowadays, it's so easy to
be distracted. I mean, there are literal apps and machines
out there that are designed specifically to distract the human
and we're almost helpless to fight against it. So having
focused techniques and practices is so important, especially now.
Speaker 1: And one of the things that you do, which I
just think is fabulous is the fact that you put
focus on fitness as well as proper diet, because that
you've got to feed that head. And that's one of
the things, especially when it comes to the memory, it's
not going to exist without the fuel.
Speaker 3: No, exactly. Just like when we work out our body,
we know that we need to fuel it right, have
the energy to do that. The brain is the same thing.
It requires blood flowing to it. So smooth blood flow
comes from working out your body and being healthier in general.
So the brain is a big part of your body,
and you can't ignore feeding at the right things.
Speaker 1: So now, what is your proper diet? Because the one
thing that I went to in studying your words is
the fact that for months now I've done this is
my go to when I'm about ready to write Sauer
Kraut and olives, and I swear to God I get
energy from those. I know it's not supposed to work,
but dude, you should see what I write after I've
mixed the two.
Speaker 2: Man, I'm going to maybe steal it from me.
Speaker 3: I don't like either of those things, and it sounds
kind of gross, but I trust you for memory, you know,
there's the main thing is trying to kind of eliminate
this brain bog.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: If you can feel more focused and clear in your head,
then you can pay attention more and that feeds a
better memory, because you can't have a good memory unless
you can focus.
Speaker 2: And some of the things.
Speaker 3: That I try to incorporate in my diet, but the
main thing is dha Omega three. Yes, yeah, you can't
find from some supplements they have it in like fish
oil pills. There's now food that had it infused in it.
And then antioxidants, so things that reduce inflammation in the
body and subsequently in the mind.
Speaker 1: What about beats, because I am a sucker when it
comes to beats, Man, put more beats in that diet.
Speaker 2: You like beats?
Speaker 1: I do, because well, it's could say it's a Montana thing.
We dug that stuff up from the ground and ate
it right there with a dirt on it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that is a I don't eat a
lot of beats, but it is a nutrient dense, antioxidant
food as well, So it's just like a blueberry.
Speaker 2: It's one of these foods that will reduce inflammation.
Speaker 1: Wow. Hey, So now where can people go to find
out more about you? Because I only get ten minutes
with you? Somebody forgot to give me twenty, but I'll
take the ten. But where can we go to find
out more about you?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: My website Nelson Deels dot com, hasty much everything there.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty active on YouTube.
Speaker 3: If you search my name, you'll find a lot of
memory tips videos and just cognitive ability musings and explorations.
Speaker 1: It is a book of leadership and I'm so proud
of you for giving yourself permission to do this.
Speaker 2: Dude, Thank you so much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Will you be brilliant today?
Speaker 2: Okay, I will you too.