WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.439 --> 00:00:03.600 Hi. 2 00:00:04.120 --> 00:00:07.240 I'm Kurt Bonham from Atlanta, Georgia and I play at 3 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:10.119 Eagles Landing. Welcome to Golf Smarter. 4 00:00:10.599 --> 00:00:10.759 Hi. 5 00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:14.679 I'm joe Yorke from Panavitu Beach, Florida. I play golf 6 00:00:14.679 --> 00:00:17.640 at Marsh Landing Country Club and this is Golf Smarter 7 00:00:17.960 --> 00:00:19.160 number ten fourteen. 8 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:21.719 So I talked about this in my book where in 9 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:25.879 my opinion, the reason golf in general, but putting in 10 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:29.679 particular is the hardest target sport in the world is 11 00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:32.079 because your eyes are not on it. In what other 12 00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:34.520 sport are you trying to be so accurate, Like it's 13 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:36.719 a four and a half inch target, but you're not 14 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:40.039 looking at it. That means that your brain needs space 15 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:42.799 that when it looks back down at the ball after 16 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:45.320 your last look at the hole or whatever your target is, 17 00:00:45.439 --> 00:00:50.119 it needs low frequency, it needs space, It needs less 18 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:53.240 traffic to be able to remember where the ball is 19 00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:55.439 going to go because you're not looking at it. Wait 20 00:00:55.679 --> 00:01:00.000 times in golf is one of the largest untapped opportunity. 21 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:03.039 Why are you looking at somebody else? It's of no 22 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:06.200 value to you. But if you want a higher outcome, 23 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:09.079 if you want a better motor output out of yourself, 24 00:01:09.319 --> 00:01:12.319 you've got to use your weight times as a countdown 25 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:14.760 to your preshiat routine. 26 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:23.000 Use the waittime during year round for the greatest opportunity 27 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:28.200 for increased success with Doctor Izzy Justice. This is Golf Smarter, 28 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:32.959 sharing stories, tips and insights from great golf minds to 29 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:36.120 help you lower your score and raise your golf IQ. 30 00:01:36.920 --> 00:01:40.480 Here's your host, Fred Green. Welcome back to the Golf 31 00:01:40.519 --> 00:01:42.400 Smarter podcast, Doctor Justice. 32 00:01:43.079 --> 00:01:45.159 Hey Fank, it's so nice to be back. Thanks for 33 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:45.560 having me. 34 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:48.040 Thank you for coming back. I haven't talked to you 35 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:52.439 since twenty twenty two when we talked about Jyra Golf. 36 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:59.680 I think we should start with you telling us what 37 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:02.239 it is that you do and how it relates to golf. 38 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:05.079 Let's get the base understanding here. 39 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:08.599 Yeah. Yeah, Well, I've said this on your show before, 40 00:02:08.639 --> 00:02:11.400 and I've said it on other shows. But you know, 41 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:14.960 this is very forrest gumpy, and I'm kind of making 42 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:18.000 it up as I go along, and strange things happen 43 00:02:18.039 --> 00:02:24.080 at sort of every turn, and you know, the discovery 44 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:28.199 and the exploration of what is happening in the human 45 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:31.879 brain is still relatively new. If you look at all 46 00:02:31.919 --> 00:02:35.280 of the things that just from a human experience perspective. 47 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:40.719 We're trying to understand how we travel, our diets, you know, 48 00:02:40.759 --> 00:02:44.039 our sleep patterns, all these things, technology a lot of 49 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:47.919 that allow us to work and function, communicate. I mean, 50 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:51.680 all these things we've made significant advances on, but we're 51 00:02:51.719 --> 00:02:55.080 still fred believe it or not. I don't care what 52 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:57.840 people believe in in terms of when life started. But 53 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:02.120 we're still literally learn to understand what's happening in the brain. 54 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:07.400 And just to close the thought there, you know, it's 55 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:11.039 been very hard to study the brain, honestly because number one, 56 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:13.439 there's electricity in the brain. So what like, what are 57 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:15.439 you looking at when you look at the brain. It's 58 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:17.479 not like the heart or the liver. W you know, 59 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:19.960 you can see things coming in and see things going out, 60 00:03:20.039 --> 00:03:24.000 and how do you measure electricity and what you know, 61 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:26.000 how do you interpret what it is that you're actually 62 00:03:26.039 --> 00:03:31.960 looking at. And then lastly, you know, I have unintentionally 63 00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:36.639 sort of drawn this, you know, gap between clinical view 64 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:39.560 of the brain versus functional view and think of clinical 65 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:42.599 as you know, probably ninety five percent of all the 66 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:44.560 work that's done on the human brain and the human 67 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:46.800 experience is on the clinical side. I have all Zheimer's, 68 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:51.360 have dementia, I have epilepsy. Something's wrong, and therefore there's 69 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:54.120 a reason for me to go look and find what's 70 00:03:54.159 --> 00:03:57.199 wrong and then find a cure for it. That's not 71 00:03:57.360 --> 00:03:59.680 what I do or what I've been doing. I've been 72 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:02.159 on the functional side, which is we're just trying to 73 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:03.719 make a putt. I'm just trying to make a free throw. 74 00:04:03.759 --> 00:04:06.159 I'm just trying to respond to an email. Like what 75 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:08.360 goes on in the human brain when we're just trying 76 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:11.439 to be functional, when we're just trying to remember our 77 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:14.719 best inventory of skills and past experiences and what we 78 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:18.279 want to do. And so it's been an amazing discovery 79 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:23.360 journey and I've just learned so much myself, and you know, 80 00:04:23.399 --> 00:04:25.439 I put it all together in this new book and 81 00:04:25.800 --> 00:04:28.480 or at least as far as as as I've learned 82 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:28.920 thus far. 83 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:33.639 What is your doctorate in? Are you a medical doctor? 84 00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:39.639 Are you an academic doctor? Let's understand that you started 85 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:40.839 cutting up heads. 86 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:44.560 Yeah, great, great question. No, I am not a medical doctor, 87 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:46.519 never claimed to be one. I didn't even stay at 88 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:48.120 a holiday in express last night. 89 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:50.800 No. 90 00:04:52.560 --> 00:04:56.560 No, So you know my doctor has is in human performance, 91 00:04:56.680 --> 00:04:58.879 and I got it back in two thousand and seven, 92 00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:03.199 and it was still almost ten years before the technology 93 00:05:03.279 --> 00:05:06.759 was even invented. And I remember reading a paper. It 94 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:09.519 was a soft peer review paper that I was reading, 95 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:14.680 and this person talked about, you know, wirelessly looking at 96 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:19.519 an epileptic patient to see, you know, are there any 97 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:25.600 motor functions or patterns that lead up to a seizure. 98 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:28.759 And so that was the context of this technology where 99 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:32.360 somebody could stand six twelve feet away look at a 100 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:37.439 human brain while something is going on. And this ability 101 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:41.240 to do it wirelessly is the game changer because we've 102 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:43.959 been able to look at the brain, but typically it's 103 00:05:44.079 --> 00:05:46.800 using an MRI machine or and you have to stand 104 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:49.720 very still, you have to be horizontal, you can't even move, 105 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:53.319 so there's no functional work that you can really measure 106 00:05:53.399 --> 00:05:57.519 or track if you're you know, using traditional methods. So 107 00:05:58.279 --> 00:06:01.519 when I could expose to that technology, I quickly pivoted 108 00:06:01.560 --> 00:06:05.319 and said, all right, you know what is going on 109 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:08.360 in the human brain for example, you know when someone 110 00:06:08.439 --> 00:06:10.920 makes a free throw or makes a pot is there 111 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:13.279 a certain pattern What's going on in the brain when 112 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:15.360 someone misses a free throw or a potter? And I'm 113 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:19.199 just using two examples, is there a pattern there? And 114 00:06:19.240 --> 00:06:22.000 lo and behold, I discovered along with you know, other 115 00:06:22.079 --> 00:06:25.480 studies that were done long before I came along, that there, 116 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:29.680 in fact, is a state in the human brain that 117 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:33.879 you know from an electric perspective, because electricity is the 118 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:37.759 language of the human brain. Electricity is the language of 119 00:06:37.959 --> 00:06:42.279 motor function and fred if you think about it, it 120 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:45.639 has to be electricity. It cannot be anything else. It 121 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:48.519 can't be light, it can't be gravity, because just think 122 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:52.279 about it. What else is so fast that it can 123 00:06:52.360 --> 00:06:55.639 allow us to protect ourselves. If I am walking and 124 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:59.040 I see a lion, do I not need that visual 125 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:00.959 input of the line to go to my brain and 126 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:03.600 within a half a second turn around and start running 127 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:06.720 as fast as I can. So there has to be 128 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:10.959 you know, a top of a gas a modality that 129 00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:14.959 can work very quickly. And in the human experience, electricity 130 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:19.560 other than light, is like the fast the second fastest mode. 131 00:07:20.040 --> 00:07:24.600 So electricity really is the language of the brain. It 132 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:28.199 really is the language of mode of function. And so 133 00:07:28.399 --> 00:07:31.079 studying it and saying, okay, how do you get the 134 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:35.360 brain to a state when it can use that electricity 135 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:38.879 at an optimal perspective? And by optimal. I mean two things, Fred. 136 00:07:39.399 --> 00:07:43.639 One is you can access your inventory. So if you 137 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:46.040 tell me Fred, for example, oh, I've been putting for 138 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:50.639 playing golf for twenty years. Great, and I will ask you, okay, 139 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:53.399 all those shots you've hit, all the putts that you 140 00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:57.720 made in a tournament or non tournament, where's that inventory. 141 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:00.399 It's not on a Google drive, but it's on some 142 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:05.000 hard drive in your brain along with you know, dozens 143 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:08.439 and thousands and millions of other data points about your life. 144 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:12.199 So you need access to it when you're about to 145 00:08:12.199 --> 00:08:16.079 make up put you know, the factory setting of the 146 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:20.000 brain is your brain to retrieve your last worst one 147 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:22.519 because it wants to predict, It wants to protect you 148 00:08:22.519 --> 00:08:25.639 from making the same mistake. Now, if that's a factory 149 00:08:25.639 --> 00:08:28.319 setting of your brain to remind you of your worst 150 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:31.480 pot when you're trying to make a pot, right, should 151 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:34.080 you not have the ability to say, oh, let me 152 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:37.200 change that factory setting and let me access that inventory. 153 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:41.240 So when the frequency, when the electricity generally speaking in 154 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:44.399 the brain is low, it's vibrating at a low frequency, 155 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:48.159 how access goes up because it just isn't enough. There 156 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:51.159 isn't a lot of traffic And the second magical thing, 157 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:54.759 and both in sports as well as life, that happens 158 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:57.759 when electricity is low in your brain is that it 159 00:08:57.840 --> 00:09:01.720 amplifies sensory input. As human beings, we don't have five 160 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:04.759 hundred and fifty. We have five senses, right, that's not 161 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:07.799 a lot. But you know, there is an airport in 162 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:10.919 our brain where it's called the sensory cortex where all 163 00:09:10.960 --> 00:09:13.879 of that sensory input goes, and it's always there, even 164 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:16.639 when we're sleeping. It's there. But a lot of times 165 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:19.799 that input is not processed by the brain because there's 166 00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:22.440 just so much other noise. So, for example, Fred, if 167 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:25.080 you had a really really crazy day at work, you know, 168 00:09:25.159 --> 00:09:27.000 just a lot of stuff going on. You get in 169 00:09:27.039 --> 00:09:28.519 your car and you're driving home at the end of 170 00:09:28.519 --> 00:09:30.559 your day at five o'clock or whatever time it is, 171 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:34.279 and you put some music on. The odds are by 172 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:36.120 the time that you get home whatever it is, thirty 173 00:09:36.120 --> 00:09:39.639 minutes later that you're able to recall the music that 174 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:42.840 was playing is almost a zero. But it was playing. 175 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:45.720 The auditory input was there, but there was so much 176 00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:50.720 other noise in your brain. So by bringing that frequency down, 177 00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:54.159 you know, it allows us to for example, feel the 178 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:57.639 grip pressure, feel the weight of the putter head, see 179 00:09:57.679 --> 00:10:00.799 the target, see how you want the bar to roll 180 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:03.039 or where the ball you want the ball to start, 181 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:06.200 and where you want to finish it. So those two 182 00:10:06.360 --> 00:10:10.320 magical things access to your inventory and just an applification 183 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:14.639 of sensory It would happen when that frequency is low 184 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:17.799 around ten to fifteen herts in your brain. So that's 185 00:10:17.799 --> 00:10:21.120 why I call it chasing ten hurts because that magic number, 186 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:24.639 chasing ten herts is in life. That's what we're doing. 187 00:10:25.039 --> 00:10:27.519 We're always doing something to allow us to get to 188 00:10:27.559 --> 00:10:30.480 a point where we can enjoy a moment or be 189 00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:34.600 the best version of ourself in each moment. And ironically 190 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:38.919 it's not a secret, Like how many people have told you, oh, 191 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:40.799 I was the best version of myself when I was 192 00:10:40.840 --> 00:10:45.080 angry and agitated, Yet everybody says, oh, when it's calm 193 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:49.159 and relaxed and focused and slow. Well, those are all, 194 00:10:49.279 --> 00:10:52.679 you know, lay labels that we're using to describe that stage. 195 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:57.279 So we're beginning to de mystify how this brain works. 196 00:10:57.360 --> 00:11:00.240 And for a golfer, you don't have to be in 197 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:05.000 that magical ten hurts for five hours. It's just fifteen minutes. 198 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:09.559 I mean that's the amount of time in totality that 199 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:13.080 you're hitting a golf shot. So it's a reasonable ask 200 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:16.000 to say, hey, can you be in that state for 201 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:21.200 fifteen minutes, non contiguously over five hours, that's doable. 202 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:34.720 When you talk about electricity, my lay brain goes to 203 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:39.879 charging my phone, goes to turning on a light, thinking Edison, 204 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:43.320 thinking Tesla, And I don't mean the car. I mean 205 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:48.080 Nikolay Tesla, the real inventor of right of this stuff. 206 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:51.240 Are we talking about the same electricity here when you 207 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:53.399 keep talking about that with our brain. 208 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:59.080 Yes, it is literally the same electricity, real electricity. Oh yeah, absolutely, 209 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:02.879 we even measure it using the same units of hurts, 210 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:08.200 and absolutely it's the same electricity. And again, if you 211 00:12:08.200 --> 00:12:11.159 think of electricity on your phone or any type of 212 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:14.120 a device or coming into a house, sure you know 213 00:12:14.200 --> 00:12:16.759 the power of it is that it does have this 214 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:20.399 this this charge to it that allows you to transfer 215 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:23.480 energy if you would, And we need that, We need 216 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:27.120 that same energy for us to you know, function, especially 217 00:12:27.159 --> 00:12:30.679 motor function. I mean our ability as living creatures to 218 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:36.440 move is central to our survival. That movement has to 219 00:12:36.559 --> 00:12:39.480 happen at an accelerated pace. I must be able to 220 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:42.679 see something and say, oh, there's a big gully here, 221 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:44.840 I'm about to step into it, let me stop walking. 222 00:12:45.240 --> 00:12:47.720 Or there's a snake walking by, let me jump over it. 223 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:50.720 You know. So, for example, let's say that right now, 224 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:54.519 as you're speaking, something over your right shoulder is itching you, 225 00:12:55.480 --> 00:12:59.480 and suddenly you feel like it's biting you. Well, very quickly, yeah, 226 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:01.799 well very prickly. You'll take your left hand, you'll go 227 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:03.960 to that spot. You'll you'll itch it, you'll scratch it, 228 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:07.679 you'll you'll shoot it away. But just think about that moment. 229 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:10.600 How did your hand know where to go? How did 230 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:13.519 you find that exact spot to scratch? How did it 231 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:15.080 know when to stop scratching? 232 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:18.039 I mean, that's the question is why does my brain 233 00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:20.639 distract me away from what's going on that I need 234 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:23.399 to like focus on a little dot my on my shoulder, 235 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:27.399 because you know, you and I are looking at each 236 00:13:27.399 --> 00:13:30.559 other right now while were doing this recording, and the 237 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:36.559 thing that's just made me hate doing is watching back. 238 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:39.679 It's like all these things ticks and movements and scratches 239 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:42.240 and things that I have while I'm having a conversation 240 00:13:42.360 --> 00:13:45.799 with someone. So it's you know, is that part of 241 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:48.600 the electricity that distracts me away from it as well? 242 00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:53.879 Yeah, So look, the average human being, a male, you know, 243 00:13:53.960 --> 00:13:57.000 like five eight, one hundred and fifty five pounds, has 244 00:13:57.080 --> 00:14:01.240 anywhere between I don't know, thirty to thirty five miles 245 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:05.960 miles of nerves in their body. Every part of your 246 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:10.159 physical body, your anatomy is in constant communication with your brain. 247 00:14:10.679 --> 00:14:12.960 You need to know if something' is itching you, if 248 00:14:12.960 --> 00:14:15.720 it's getting too cold or too hot, or or uncomfortable 249 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:18.879 or all those kinds of things. And so part of 250 00:14:18.919 --> 00:14:22.480 our distraction is that when we you know, when all 251 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:25.080 this information is going to the brain, we lose focus 252 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:28.279 of what's happening now. I don't know if that's the 253 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:32.480 bigger distraction. I think the bigger distraction is the world 254 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:36.000 that we found ourselves in, where our devices now are 255 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:39.720 giving us so much stimuli. Our brains are not designed. 256 00:14:40.159 --> 00:14:42.399 We talked about this three years ago, but our brains 257 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:48.200 are not designed to consume this much volume of stimulation. 258 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:51.879 So if I see even a ten second video, for example, 259 00:14:52.840 --> 00:14:55.399 I mean my brain has to interpret that, and it's 260 00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:59.440 interpreting that using lots of parts of our brain and 261 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:03.080 so you know, our hippocampus, for example, is our memory. 262 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:06.320 It gives context to what's going on. It alerts us 263 00:15:06.360 --> 00:15:10.039 that's nice, that's not nice, I'm angry, that's that's that 264 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:13.600 makes me feel good. It you know, produces all of 265 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:17.559 these you know, neurotransmitters and homones and and chemicals that 266 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:22.320 are going on in the brain. So it's becoming I've 267 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:25.759 said this, it's we're living a time reread now where 268 00:15:25.799 --> 00:15:29.759 I don't think it's ever been easier to be physically healthy. 269 00:15:30.279 --> 00:15:33.600 Like we can track so many buyer markers, our nutrition. 270 00:15:34.279 --> 00:15:36.799 There's so much high quality information of what we need 271 00:15:36.840 --> 00:15:40.320 to do to be physically healthy. Yet I don't believe 272 00:15:40.360 --> 00:15:43.720 in the history of our existence that it's ever been 273 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:50.000 harder to be mentally healthy, just because there's so much garbage. 274 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:54.799 There's so much stimulation in our brains that it's, you know, 275 00:15:55.159 --> 00:15:58.440 all of our good you know, values like empathy and 276 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:03.440 compassion and kindness and listening skills, they're all getting compromised, 277 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:07.080 not because we've suddenly become bad people or but because 278 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:10.080 our brain is competing. It's competing between being present and 279 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:13.279 noticing a frown on someone's face and say, oh, you okay, 280 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:16.399 versus replaying the ten things that you have to do 281 00:16:16.600 --> 00:16:18.679 as soon as you get done with the conversation or 282 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:24.240 before or after or tomorrow or yesterday. So in non 283 00:16:24.279 --> 00:16:28.360 reactionary sports like golf, oh my goodness, it's even a 284 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:30.000 bigger challenge, rightow. 285 00:16:31.799 --> 00:16:37.720 So is your expertise and your thesis for your PhD 286 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:42.559 was the brain in athletics in sports? 287 00:16:43.080 --> 00:16:45.159 No no, no, no, no no no. So all that 288 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:49.559 came just in the last ten years you so think of. 289 00:16:50.440 --> 00:16:53.320 So around twenty fifteen twenty sixteen is when I started 290 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:55.879 to look into the brain, right, So this was almost 291 00:16:55.919 --> 00:17:00.399 ten years after I'd already got my doctorate. So this 292 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:03.399 was new technology. The reason I did not get my 293 00:17:03.480 --> 00:17:06.279 doctorate in neuroscience is because almost all of the programs, 294 00:17:06.319 --> 00:17:10.880 matter of fact, even today, are clinically based. I'm looking 295 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:15.079 at serotonin levels to reduce stress or you know, to 296 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:20.240 you know, almost every malaise about the brain is a 297 00:17:20.400 --> 00:17:24.200 target for a drug, right, And so a lot of 298 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:28.160 these doctoral programs are funded by pharmaceutical companies and research 299 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:31.119 and grants. They're designed to come up with some cure. 300 00:17:31.160 --> 00:17:32.799 And that's good, that's not a bad thing. I'm not 301 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:36.240 judging that. But again, where is the money to be 302 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:38.960 made by teaching someone how to get to ten herts 303 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:43.240 without using anything? Like if I just taught you a neurohak, 304 00:17:43.559 --> 00:17:46.359 you know, like what we did last time. You know, 305 00:17:46.480 --> 00:17:49.880 for example, we can do one right now. So let's 306 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:53.039 just do one right now. I want you to count. 307 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:56.079 Don't start until I say go right. I want you 308 00:17:56.119 --> 00:17:59.079 to count from one to ten as fast as you can, 309 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:01.599 and then do a pop and then go from ten 310 00:18:01.640 --> 00:18:03.119 to nine as slow as you can. 311 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:08.359 Go ahead, one to three, four, five, six, seventy nine, ten, ten, 312 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:28.160 nine eight seven six five four three two one. 313 00:18:29.079 --> 00:18:32.680 There you go. That is a neurohak. If I were 314 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:35.079 to ask you how you felt going from one to ten, 315 00:18:35.200 --> 00:18:38.440 you'd say something like very fast, very agitated. But how 316 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:40.720 did you feel like going from ten to nine slowly? 317 00:18:41.559 --> 00:18:44.319 Well, you made it easier. I'm looking right into your eyes. 318 00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:48.680 It was it definitely. I felt as I got lower, 319 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:50.440 I definitely felt calmer. 320 00:18:51.400 --> 00:18:54.279 There you go. So that label that you just gave calmer, 321 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:58.240 you are describing a low frequency. Now did you need 322 00:18:58.279 --> 00:19:00.960 any medication for that? You buy any drugs? 323 00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:05.440 No, not in the last minutes or so. But I'm 324 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:06.400 highly medicated. 325 00:19:06.599 --> 00:19:11.559 That's okay, no, But my point is that studying the 326 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:16.279 brain and coming up with these non evasive techniques, and 327 00:19:16.319 --> 00:19:18.400 you know, our answers used to do something like that, 328 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:22.160 breathing techniques and those kinds of things. But technology now 329 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:24.680 allows us to look into the brain and say, okay, 330 00:19:25.200 --> 00:19:27.960 how can you get somebody to that magical ten hurts 331 00:19:28.839 --> 00:19:31.720 using other forms? And you can by trial and error, 332 00:19:32.279 --> 00:19:34.279 like that technique that I just did with you, that 333 00:19:34.440 --> 00:19:38.079 ten fast and ten slow, that wasn't random. We did 334 00:19:38.319 --> 00:19:42.000 thousands and thousands of these scans to see, okay, which 335 00:19:42.079 --> 00:19:45.079 ones allow most people to get to that ten hertz 336 00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:48.359 and you'll be in that calm state, not permanently for 337 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:50.319 the rest of the day, but at least for the 338 00:19:50.319 --> 00:19:53.960 next few minutes. And again in that calm state, two 339 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:57.720 magical things are going to happen. Number One, your ability 340 00:19:57.759 --> 00:20:02.000 to access your own inventory brain functionality. Remember an article 341 00:20:02.039 --> 00:20:04.599 that you read, a video that you saw, a conversation 342 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:08.480 that you had. Make your conversation richer, make you human 343 00:20:08.480 --> 00:20:12.359 experience richer by you know, inventoring what's in your brain. 344 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:15.319 And the second thing, like I said, is just amplification 345 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:19.359 of your senses. After you did that slow, countdown, and 346 00:20:19.440 --> 00:20:22.039 you ate something, I guarantee you taste more of it 347 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:26.680 because that traffic is gone. So this model, I think 348 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:30.039 is a model that I am advocating, is that all 349 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:33.799 the traditional wellness techniques like yoga and meditation and mindfulness 350 00:20:33.799 --> 00:20:36.160 and working out and cooking and going for a walk 351 00:20:36.240 --> 00:20:39.480 and listening to music. These are wonderful things to do 352 00:20:40.200 --> 00:20:42.400 and people should do them and I do them every day, 353 00:20:42.920 --> 00:20:45.440 but they're not things that you can do on the go. 354 00:20:46.880 --> 00:20:52.599 So you know, it's it's our mental wellness is based 355 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:55.640 on how can we fix things as they're happening. So 356 00:20:55.720 --> 00:20:58.880 I call it when the brain spikes. So, for example, 357 00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:01.039 if I started yelling at you right now, if I said, 358 00:21:01.079 --> 00:21:02.680 oh my god, Fred, you're one of the worst people 359 00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:05.680 I've ever met. This is horrible blah blah blah, And 360 00:21:05.839 --> 00:21:08.720 obviously I'm joking here, But if I meant that and 361 00:21:09.079 --> 00:21:11.119 you were like, oh my god, this is going awful 362 00:21:11.640 --> 00:21:14.640 in that moment, in that unpredicted moment of stress, you 363 00:21:14.680 --> 00:21:19.400 could do that count up and countdown and your response 364 00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:25.160 to my unfair characterization of what's happening would be better. 365 00:21:25.559 --> 00:21:28.039 You would have a response before, but you would say, ah, 366 00:21:28.279 --> 00:21:30.000 let me say this, let me say that, let me 367 00:21:30.039 --> 00:21:32.720 do it in this way. So this sort of fix 368 00:21:32.759 --> 00:21:35.720 it as you go model is what we as human 369 00:21:35.759 --> 00:21:38.559 beings need, but in golf it's also something that we 370 00:21:38.599 --> 00:21:41.200 can do. I don't have to be perfect three minutes 371 00:21:41.240 --> 00:21:44.279 before I make a putt, but if I'm ten seconds 372 00:21:44.359 --> 00:21:47.039 before making a putt and I can feel my brain saying, 373 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:49.319 don't leave it short, don't need it too hard. Oh 374 00:21:49.359 --> 00:21:51.440 I just missed the last one I got to make this. 375 00:21:52.160 --> 00:21:55.160 That's a clue that Oh my gosh, now my frequency 376 00:21:55.240 --> 00:21:58.599 is higher. So in that moment, what options do you have? 377 00:21:58.720 --> 00:22:00.960 What options does the golf I have? Ye? I mean 378 00:22:01.000 --> 00:22:03.559 you could say, start your routine again, but how many 379 00:22:03.599 --> 00:22:07.160 times are you going to do that? Right? So these 380 00:22:07.359 --> 00:22:11.960 neural hacks, these techniques of getting that frequency down, not permanently, 381 00:22:12.119 --> 00:22:16.920 but long enough to execute the next thirty sixty ninety 382 00:22:17.519 --> 00:22:20.839 three four minutes to the best of your ability, is 383 00:22:20.920 --> 00:22:24.480 really the key, both on the golf course for athletic performance, 384 00:22:24.519 --> 00:22:25.720 but also in life. 385 00:22:32.039 --> 00:22:38.880 Playing golf gives us a great opportunity between shots to 386 00:22:39.000 --> 00:22:43.759 utilize these neural hacks. Is that a way to focus 387 00:22:43.799 --> 00:22:46.599 on this, is that a way to take advantage. 388 00:22:46.079 --> 00:22:50.519 Of this absolutely. So let me dig into something that 389 00:22:51.279 --> 00:22:54.240 I talked about quite a good bit in this new book. 390 00:22:54.319 --> 00:22:57.119 So as you know I have. This book came out 391 00:22:57.279 --> 00:23:00.680 back in May. The name of the book is Your Brains. 392 00:23:01.160 --> 00:23:05.640 Your Brain Swings Every Club. But I have a whole 393 00:23:05.720 --> 00:23:10.119 chapter on wait times. So for example, if you're on 394 00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:13.119 the putting green and you're playing with a foursome or 395 00:23:13.119 --> 00:23:16.519 a twosome, you know, and you're waiting for your turn 396 00:23:16.599 --> 00:23:20.319 to put, the overwhelming majority of golfers are going to 397 00:23:20.359 --> 00:23:23.839 watch the other player putt. And I will tell you 398 00:23:23.880 --> 00:23:27.160 that that is garbage input for your brain. Of what 399 00:23:27.480 --> 00:23:31.680 value is that information to you? You know, you're watching 400 00:23:31.759 --> 00:23:35.160 someone go through their routine. You're you're judging them, you're 401 00:23:35.200 --> 00:23:38.599