Power Influence Purpose: 10 Questions to Define Your Legacy with Stu Morris | DFS 326

Computer. Welcome to Destin for success.

I'm your host, Jennifer Takagi, and I am thrilled to bring with

you, or to you today, a guest, Stu Morris, and Stu is going to

talk about his book, power, influence, purpose, 10 questions

to define your legacy. Right up our ally, Stu, I'm so happy to

have you here today. Well,

thanks very much. Jennifer, it's a pleasure to be

here. Thanks for having me.

Well, tell me, how do you show up in the world?

Where are you from? Who do you help? Like all the questions

that I have, I'll just turn it over to you. Oh, wow,

should have married you. I always tease her. 33

years later, she she's used to me teasing her a little bit. So

I show up in the world. I've

been married 32 so we're like in line yet again,

we

are. We're kindred spirits. Stick with what you

know. Yes,

exactly. I married up.

So that's super helpful. Well, Jennifer, have

you ever walked into a room and forgot what you were looking

for, forgot why you walked in there? Yes, yep, that's what we

fix. We I speak on neuroplasticity, and we teach

you how to remember, maybe a little more thorough than that,

but that's what we do. We we teach and train and have

techniques and strategies for using neuroplasticity to well,

we kind of, we kind of do 222, things. First of all, our, our,

our big push is how to either eliminate or and reduce, slow

down and stop cognitive decline. That's a big focus of ours. And

then the other thing is just helping either entrepreneurs,

business leaders, or companies that have people leadership

that's over 51 and how to keep them neuro plastic, how to keep

them plastic, and how to keep them sharp and on the top of

their game. And so that's those are kind of our two we want to

slow down cognitive decline, or we want to help you stay sharp.

Sharp in business tends, tends to be the Lean there, but you

can stay sharp and whatever. If you're a gardener and you want

to be a better gardener, or if you're surfer, God bless you,

then you can be the sharper surfer. You can be a smarter

surfer. About it, and it is every day there's new

discoveries and new technologies, and then the field

of neuroscience is just absolutely amazing today.

Jennifer, I can show you. I can show you yourself thinking, I

can show you on a computer monitor fear or love. We can we

can place an electrode on your brain and you can relive, I'm

not talking about remembering, I'm talking about reliving your

third birthday, the smell of the candles, the taste of the cake,

the laughter of the children, what you were wearing, you know,

if it was bright or dark, or every sensory input that you

have. We can you remember. You remember everything. Your

problem is not memory. Your problem is recall. Your your

recall is not there. And if you can increase and expand your

neuroplasticity and improve that, you can improve your

recall and sort of, kind of like AI, you know, we can all

aggregate information on the internet. It just takes a long

time. My research used to take me, you know, months to do what

I can do in, you know, six hours using AI and stuff like that,

just because they've aggregated all that information. And so

it's easier to get to and that's what neuroplasticity improving

your neuroplasticity, does it just, it gets that information

that kind of the tip your tongue or the tip your fingers there.

So,

yeah, oh my gosh. Well, I'm just gonna, I'll

just let you in on one little secret, and that is, I have an

excellent memory and excellent recall, and my friends hate me,

hate me, but I have one friend her, her kids are mostly grown,

but they'll say, Mom, what about blah, blah, blah, and she'll go,

Jennifer was there? Just go ask her. She'll know, right? And so,

like, it's a blessing and a curse on all wrapped up

together.

It is, it is a curse. And I'm, I probably don't

quite have the memory you do, Jennifer, but I have a that kind

of similar problem. I remember, and it actually became a bit of

a problem with me, like I wanted to forget. You know, I'm tired

of reliving this stuff sometimes, and so. And that's

it's, you know, what's really great about that, though, is

that if you don't have a great memory, we know that with

through neuroscience, that we can improve that recall, either

by repetition, that's a that's a good way of doing that's how

your habits are formed. But also anytime you're in a highly

emotional state, and something unique happens then that that

can anchor that neural pathway. And instead of, if you think

about it like a grassy field that you walk through, and if

you walk through a grassy field, you turn around looking you

could, you can kind of see where you've knocked down the grass a

little bit, and you've created just a little bit of a path. But

it with, if you're highly emotional charge, say, like a

football team getting ready for a game, and they get all hyped

up, or getting ready for a podcast, and you got to put your

game face on, or something like that. So if you put yourself in

an highly emotional state, you can make that little path that

you've just walked through the grassy area you make like a semi

truck ran through it, and you can create very strong neural

pathways very quickly. And it has well, in a lot of ways, it's

it's changing the world. It's changing the way people are

thinking and operating well.

And it's so good because I, I have a couple

questions in on all of that. But one thing that I have seen being

around people aging. My parents were really pretty young when

they died, 73 and 75 so that's fairly young in my book. But

like I've seen other people, as they age, that whole memory and

recall goes down, and the less active there are, they become,

and the less active they are, the less the recall is there. So

do you have any tips or suggestions you can share with

the audience on how to boost that and get it like, triggered,

charged back up?

Yeah, yeah. We do, um, that's an excellent

question. And not only do, do we have some research on it, but we

have, like, a tremendous amount of research in many different

directions that we can kind of correlate together or aggregate

it together and really extrapolate some some

exceptional results from it. So for instance, have you ever

bought a new car, or even a used car, but new to you, right? And

you're driving at home, and you see that thing everywhere. I

mean, I just bought a yellow Volkswagen bug, and everywhere I

go, I see yellow Volkswagen bugs. They weren't there

yesterday, but now I see them everywhere, yeah, and the truth

is, we did. They were there yesterday, but in your, in your

in your brain, you have the reticular activating system, and

the the RAF, or the RAS, is, is it's what decides what you focus

on and what's important to you. So your brain is really a

deletion machine. If it wasn't, we'd be more autistic, really,

because in autism that you you just, you can't sort and delete

all the information coming in through your five senses, and so

that's where the disability comes in. But your RAF says,

Well, Jennifer, you just bought this yellow Volkswagen bug, and

now it's important to you. And so we're gonna, we're gonna find

that. We're going to focus on that. And what you focus on, you

tend to build certainty around. And what you certain about is

what you believe. And once you believe something, you'll take

action on it, right? So if that chair is not going to hold you

up, if it's an old, rickety chair has been sitting outside

for 25 years, you're like, I don't think I'm going to sit in

that one, right? Because you don't believe is going to hold

you up. But if it's a chair you've sat in 100 times, and you

have a reinforced belief, you jump in it, right? I got a big

fluffy chair in the front room, and if the dog's not in it, I

just, I just dive right into that thing. And so once you

believe something, you'll take action on it. And those actions

either rep repeated or those actions that are reinforced with

a highly emotionally charged state, those become habits. And

those habits, those habits, the sum total of those habits, is

your destiny. So when you're creating a legacy, we kind of

tend to look at the end of our life or our destination, or

destiny is like, what legacy did we create? But in actuality,

legacy is built every day, little by little, by the small

choices you make and the decisions you make that lead you

to those habits that create your destiny or create your legacy.

Everyone's going to have a legacy, right? And we're all

going to have a legacy. Is yours going to be a legacy of impact?

And so we just kind of walk through in the book, we walk

through kind of the eight things that that really create a legacy

of impact, and not just tell you about them, but we show you a

step by step of how the process of how to get those and it's

nice to read about it. There's a lot in for. Information on it.

And it can be, it can be a little difficult. So we created

this, you know, 10 steps to improve your neuroplasticity, of

course. And you know, we've been selling it for $249 for forever,

kind of a thing. And we decided that it's great to have the book

and have that information in there, but you kind of need to

be walked through it. And so we're just giving away the

corks. You buy the book for 25 bucks, or 2499 and you get the

$250 course in the book for free. And you get me Poor

things. You get me eating, yeah, about neuroplasticity.

You buy the book, and you're giving away the

course, genius, I love it. So where do we get your book? And,

okay, like, redo the title. How did you come to decide to write

it, and where do we get it? Like this basic, Oh, thanks.

Well, okay, so power influence purpose. And the power

influence purpose is it's really the it's the 10 essentials, the

10 neuroplasticity essentials to architect, a legacy of impact.

And architect, we chose that word very carefully, because

you're not just building something. An architect designs

it. He thinks about it, first he comes up with the ideas, and

then an architect, she is also the project manager. Many times

the architect is and and then is the final say on, you know, is

this completed, or is it done? And if there's something to be

changed, or the building inspector comes out, yeah, I

gotta call the architect, right? So we chose that word really

carefully, because it's the full it's not just creating or

building a new memory around something, but it's really

architecting a life that will have impact and that will live

past you. And that's, that's kind of nice. I mean, I'm, I'm

I'm over 50 I'm over 51 I'm over 50 one.com and so at over 50

one.com, that's what we talk about, being over 51 and and

being able to to create that legacy of impact that is going

to live past you. And that's, that's I love, that you know,

we're all our kids and our grandkids and our great

grandkids, can, can, be impacted by that, and then the world at

large can also as long as you as long as you build that. So

that's what we're doing in the book, power influence purpose.

And it's really kind of it's the 10 neuro neuro plasticity

essentials to architect a legacy of impact. And in there we 10

chapters, and we take you through the lives of 10

extraordinary people we have so one of the first chapters, the

first two chapters, is overcoming fear and eliminating

failure. Now you can't eliminate fear because it's hardwired into

our system. It's fight or flight. It's your amygdala

saying I gotta get out of here. There's a fire, or there's a

saber tooth lion or something like that, right? That's great

when we were living in caves, and it was great for kept us

alive. I'm here because somebody ran right,

that tiger, right?

So the but now a lot of times our fears are are

unfounded. Our amygdala says, oh, you know, don't be afraid.

You know, what will people think? And it's like now, it's,

it's just not, you know, it's not a life or death kind of a

thing. And so we, we put that in perspective. And then if you can

overcome, you can, you can overcome fear, and you actually

use it as a as a compelling force in your life, but you can

eliminate failure, because failure is a learned process.

We've studied, we've studied a neuroscientists have studied,

I'm a farm kid from a town of 800 people. I live on the

California coast, and they surf, I mean, so just to keep things

in perspective, neuroscientists have found that the an average

18 month old learning to walk, will fall down about 2737 times

a day. So 1000 times, 1000 times a month. And they never are

like, oh gosh, I'm a failure. And you know what, moms and

dads, they never say, Well, I guess my kid won't walk. Oh,

well, he fell down, right? Nobody does that with a kid. You

learn failure. You learn what people think and and how they

treat you and how they act around you if you don't live up

to those expectations. And so we can overcome failure completely.

And if you can, if you can overcome fear and eliminate

failure, you're about 80% of the way there. And whatever it is

you want to do, you're most of the way there, and then we take

you through so shell cleave. For instance, she started sea hugger

sea huggers taken 1000s metric tons of plastic out of the

ocean. I mean, just a tremendous thing. She was a highly. Sought

after a well paid executive in Silicon Valley, and she left it

all and stepped out in faith and just, just decided to overcome

fear. Then she got breast cancer, and she was very public

about it, and was talked about on Facebook, and just what she

was going through, and just reading her story and learning

about her, she's she lives here on the coast with us, and it's

just it almost scares you, you know, just to think, Wow, I

can't believe you went through that. And so shell cleave has

been so kind to help us in the narrative for overcoming fear.

And then we have a Guinness Book of World Record holder who

paddle boarded across the Atlantic Ocean, right? The

flight for that is like 37 hours, and he paddle boarded it

over 93 days without help, without chips coming in and

giving him resources or anything like that. And, oh, just

overcame. And so if you're going to paddleboard across the

Atlantic Ocean, you better know where you're going. And so our

chapter on Destiny or your destination life, as Chris

burdish, has been so kind to kind of be our our theme of our

narrative for that chapter, and that's what we've done

throughout the entire book. Brian and gab Bucha, I mean,

they own the purpose company. They have a million followers,

and they train companies on how to have a purpose driven

employee, and how to get the most out of your life, and what

purpose will do, and how that can help others. And they so

they took the final chapter on on purpose. And so we've, we've

really, you know, like I said, I'm, I'm a farm kid who lives on

the coast, but we've been unable to get some, just some really

exceptional folks, a business consultant that consulted with

the governor of California. Now, California is the fifth largest

economy in the world, and he was the business consultant, the

Harvard grad, and he lectures at Stanford. And so we got, we got

these, these folks that, you know, trying to find someone

smarter than me. That's not a real high bar. And so I love to

read, and I read a lot, and I write a lot, and, you know,

between my newsletters and my books and everything, but I got,

I there's, there's folks that focus in and specialize on those

things, we've really been very blessed to be able to have them

come in and share their experiences, and so people can

see how that works in someone else's life, and Use those ideas

and and use that to to, you know, do what they want to do,

right to to produce the results that they want to produce. And

that was great. You learn a lot, but it's so much easier just to

have someone to hold you by the hand and say, Okay, now, what

are your goals and what do you want to do? And then take you

through the process, step by step by step, and then that's

what we did in the course. And I thought, what's the point buying

the book if you can't utilize it? And the course has been

great for us, and we've been blessed in other ways. And so we

just decided we're not going to sell it anymore. We're just

going to give it away as part of the book. This is

just so magical, but my so now, my

question is, I love all of this, and you're right up my alley. I

was at a conference one time, and one of the speakers said, I

want to impact, I don't know how many people, maybe it was 10

million or something. And I thought, Oh my gosh. Like, how

do you impact 10 me? Like my brain, just like, exploded.

Like, I don't even know how to make this happen. And he said,

If I impact one person and they, they're learning from me,

impacts 10 and 10 and 10. And then he did the math, and I was

like, Okay, I get it. So now the word impact has much more

meaning for me, because, like, I can see it like it makes sense,

and I love all that you're doing and how you put this together.

But my question is, like, what is your background that you

ended up getting so involved in neuroplasticity and

neuroscience? Because it's a big thing. Like, I love studying it,

not at all to the degree you have, but it's so fascinating to

me. Like, how did you get here?

Well, I lucked out. That's for sure. That's for

sure. Jennifer, so and I'll keep this short, I promise, because I

can only tell people like, Oh, really, you're gonna go back to

when you were five, very quickly, when I was five years

old, my Nana moved from London to the United States to live

with us in our in our family, and my mom took me by the hand.

It was big deal, I mean, walked me into her bedroom, sat me down

on the bed, and said, I need your help taking care of a Nana.

And I thought, at five years old, okay, I can take care of

Nana. You know? I thought that was my job. And in reality, I

was a little kid, and Nana was my babysitter. But way more than

a babysitter, Nana was just this exceptional individual. She was

a nurse. She was the head nurse on a hospital ship. She traveled

the world nine times. She spoke five languages, read, write, and

could speak five languages, plus Latin. I don't know why she

didn't. Include Latin in the languages she spoke, but she's

just super sharp, and just an amazing, amazing woman. And we

would go on these long walks. We had the Taha creek ran through

our little town of 800 people, and we would go for walks up and

down the creek for hours. I mean, that's what we just that's

kind of what we did. There's nothing to do. And a little town

of 800 folks, and so we go on these walks, and she would talk

and talk, and she she came to the understanding that you

Americans, you yanks, didn't know how to think that nobody

taught you how to ask yourself good questions, empowering

questions, well formed questions, that will bring an

outcome that you're looking for, instead of, Oh, why does this

always happen to me? Or, why am I so stupid? Or just

disempowering questions, because your brain will answer it,

right? I mean, if you ask, Why? Why? Why am I so dumb? You're,

you're, you're an income poop. I mean, your brain will come up

with an answer. That's what it does. And so if you ask yourself

empowering questions, and you're patient, and you continue to ask

good questions and the same question, and you focus on it,

and you think about it, and you meditate about on it, you will

get an answer. And it's amazing what your brain comes up with,

because it's like that AI, it doesn't forget anything. And you

give it enough time and focus and and you bring your reticular

activating system in there by continuing to focus on it, and

your brain can pick all that information out your Raf,

rather, I guess, could pick all that information out of your

brain and come up with a solution for you. So that was a

big thing. Is my Nana, when I was very young, taught me how to

think, taught me how to ask myself good questions. And so I

didn't know it was that big of a deal at the time. And then my

and when I was 10, my dad passed away, and if suddenly he was 42

years old, we were, my mom was an immigrant from Great Britain

after the war. And we, we were poor. I mean, we were Po, we

couldn't afford the O and the R. We were really we were broke,

and that that just was a huge impact in my life. My my father

passing away. But right after that, maybe a month or two after

that, my my Nana started, she started having problems with her

memory and and was just throttled by dementia like

dismantled by it very quickly, over a course of just a few

months. And this lady who could speak all these languages and

tell stories, a storyteller, she was brilliant at it. She had

this just fabulous British accent, and she everybody loved

her. She was just urbane and sophisticated, and she just

gone, and I was in charge of her. I was 10 by then, but I was

in charge in Anna, and so I became her primary caregiver. So

I started taking care of folks with dementia. Early on in life,

I went to college, right? I got a degree in business and minor

in human resources, and my freshman year, I became an EMT,

and that led to working in emergency services, and I ended

up working the hospital for 22 years. And at the same time, I

started memory care facilities and dementia care facilities,

because I had that passion from when I was a kid. And in helping

those folks, not a lot of, not a lot we can do. There's some

things, but there's not a lot of definitely, there's not a cure

for dementia, right? But where I found I could make a large

impact was on the families. I could take really good care of

the people with dementia, but I really had some resources and

some strategic for helping families through that whole

thing, and we could kind of relate your neuroplasticity to

the cognitive decline that was going on, you know, in your

loved ones brain. And so we it just kind of blossomed from

that. I've helped 1000s of families with with going through

dementia, and I've seen I worked in the emergency department. For

22 years, I've seen 1000s upon 1000s of people in the most

incredibly stressful and overwhelming times of their

lives, and some of them just bounce back and are just really

resilient with it, and some of them just crash and burn, and

there's not a lot of difference between them, except they're

thinking, and that's what that's what neuroplasticity is. Your

neuroplasticity is that that neural pathway, and that's,

that's you thinking, you think one thing one time, and it's a

little tiny path, maybe the size of a thread, and it's easily

broken, and it's easily it's hard to see through the weeds,

but you take that same thread, and you keep going back and

forth and back and forth and back and forth, and pretty soon

you have a steel cable that can cross the Golden Gate Bridge,

right? And so we have just kind of moved that. That's kind of

the progression of where, where I started and and what gave me

the the Inkling and the passion to do that, and really kind of

have built my purpose around that. So that's how we got here.

Oh

my gosh, that's so beautiful. My. Um, mother in

law had dementia, and when it first started surfacing, I was

the newest one to the family, and, like, I could see things

that I got pushed back from everybody else that, you know,

that's kind of not happening. And unfortunately, I was right,

and we really struggled with she passed away in 2006 but we

struggled getting any type of support or help. And, you know,

she had a minor stroke and went to therapy, physical therapy,

and they just immediately said, Oh, you're great. You can walk.

And it was like, of course she can walk like it didn't. I say,

of course, my mother had a stroke and she couldn't walk.

But yes, she can walk, but that doesn't mean that everything's

clicking up there like she shouldn't be home alone, and it

was a really hard process. So it's amazing and wonderful that

there are, you know, people like you who create the build the

facilities and the care that they need, but also helping with

the family members, because it does take just such a toll.

Well, you know, Jennifer, it sounds like we've

kind of chewed some of the same mud going up that hill, for

sure, and it's a tough place to be. And that was one of the

first, you know, I've written 12 books, but one of the first ones

that was published was dementia caregiver mistakes. And it's

just, you know, the 10 or 15 mistakes that caregivers make

that really, we can fix. And that's, you know, you all go on

Amazon and buy it if you want. But I tell you what for your

listeners. And since we kind of have this, this similar pass and

with loved ones with dementia, if we'll just, we can email you

that book. Let's email you the PDF format of that book. And if

any of your listeners want it and they're struggling with

dementia, we can nip that right in the bud right now. We'll

just, we'll get that book for free. Oh my gosh, that's

that's just lovely. And I love this. So

everybody, we will have it in the show notes, um, how to get

the book power, influence and purpose. So you don't even have

to leave your device. Just go, scroll down to the show notes

and click the button, and it'll connect you so that you can get

the book power, influence and purpose. And you know, there's,

there's so much that we we have power over and we often pretend

we don't like I have no control and influence. We're influencing

people every day in so many ways we don't even know. It's always

fun to have somebody that I know casually say I listen to your

podcast all the time. And I'm like, wait, what you even know I

have a podcast. But again, people don't like, they don't

subscribe. Please like, please subscribe. Please share with

your friends all the things. But you don't, you don't always have

the interaction through a podcast that you might in other

areas. So you don't know the influence you have. But I'm just

here to say we all have an immense amount of influence, and

then that purpose, like, Why do you get up in the morning? Why?

How do you want to show up in the world? Why do you get up it

like it's creating that impact and and helping those lives? Do

it better. Yeah, do it better in this go around. Oh my gosh,

dude, this has been awesome. I appreciate this so much. So

let's just, you know, put the word out there. Sell bunches of

books, buy the book, get the course, create your own desk.

Have you? Have you read the book younger next year?

No, I haven't. I've heard about it, but I have not

read that, and that's right up my alley, and I've I've got a

library, I gotta tell you, I kind of get in trouble because I

got a whole wall full of books, and then stacks of books around

the house, and Julie gets on me every going. So I like cleaning

the books up.

I'm a big audio book person, but I do have books

also, but towards the beginning of that book, I was listening to

the audiobook, and he said something, and I was like, I

don't know what that meant. And I had to back it up. Like, what

did he say? And I'm not going to get the quote exactly right, but

go with me. It was something like, I'm not going to get to

the end of my life slowly going down that hill, I'm falling off

the cliff. I was like, I don't understand. I mean, like it, it

just it came so foreign to me. I was like, Wait, I don't

understand. And then finally it hit me, I'm not going to just

sit down and wait to die. I'm going to be living life up until

the last minute when I just fall off the cliff and go. And it was

like, yeah, that's how I want to go. And I want to go with my

brain intact. I want to have this memory. I want to be, you

know, 105 and people going, go ask aunt Jennifer, she

remembers, like she knows who was there. Like, I want to be

that person. So I love this. Thank you. For all the

information, can you give us one thing that we can actually do to

improve our memory right now? Like, is there one technique I

can start practicing to get even better? Yes,

absolutely. If you don't mind, I'll just try to

maybe give you two or three real quick ones. So we we use our

devices a lot, right? And we really found that there's more

neuro activity and electrochemical activity in your

brain. There's more of that eating a salting cracker than

there is watching TV. When you watch TV, your brain doesn't

have to do anything. It just er, it just, it just pods, right? I

just knocks out, right? And so you want to keep your brain

plastic. You want to keep it malleable and your memory sharp.

I'm not saying I love a good movie. Tell me about it. I love

a good movie. But if you want to, you know, come home from

work every night and watch two hours of TV. It's probably not

the most empowering thing you could do for your brain. Another

really good one is this was a study neuroscientist did on

London taxi cab drivers, and they, they did a study between

the taxi cab drivers and the bus drivers, and the bus drivers

just drive the same route, stop, go, stop, go, and there's no

it's like they it's after a while they're hypnotized. I

mean, they don't even have to think about it, right? Whereas

taxi drivers, I mean, London is a maze, and there's so many

different routes and ways to get there, and traffic's building

up, and you got to go over here, and the neuroplasticity was way

higher, like six to seven times higher in the taxi cab drivers

than it was in the bus drivers. So the kind of the takeaway for

that is a very simple thing to do, is people use ways or maps

for like, you know, like, we drive into the city here, San

Francisco is 40 minutes away, so I live on the coast, so I try

not to drive into the city. I don't want to, but you have to a

lot of times. I just how many times I've been in the city I've

lived here 30 years, right? I mean, I know where I'm going,

but you just, oh, I want to make sure. And you pop that map on,

and then you stop thinking and maps and directions and stuff.

It touches on four or five places in your brain. And though

that's a good way of of, you know, so I've told people, you

know, don't look at your screens and don't use maps. So we might

as well hit the trifecta here, and really ruin all your days is

we keep everything in our phone, and then you put someone's

birthday in there, and then it just repeats on and on and on,

or something like that, or a standing you know, we automate

things right on our calendars, especially. And if you want to

increase your neuroplasticity, I'm not saying get rid of your

calendar. I got a CRM that has 1000s and 1000s of people on it,

so I'm not telling anyone do that. But I got just a little

calendar book, right? Like, this kind of thing. And it's, it's, I

just keep important dates and, like, something fun I'm going to

do that day or and I just make a little note in there with a

pencil and my hand and a piece of parchment, and so you just

writing things down. You're using your eyes, you're using

your your thinking about it, so cognitively, you're using you

can feel the pencil and you're you're producing more neuro

you're increasing your neuroplasticity by just writing

your writing quick note. So I'm not telling you to stop using

your phone, but if you just get a little $5 little, you know,

academic planner, and just put the fun things that you love in

life, you're going to a movies, or you're going on date night,

or it's salmon season, or whatever it is, right? And put

little notes in there like that, then that will help improve and

just those three little things will help increase your brain

activity, help increase those neural pathways, and help

increase your neuroplasticity. And there's dozens of them,

dozens of them in the book, and you know, there's 10 of them in

the in the in the training, in the an online training, but the

you know each each chapter of 10 has, like, you know, 15

different things you can do. So there's like, 150 things you can

do to improve your neuroplasticity, give or take.

So there's there's lots of them, but those three things right

there are easy to do. It's a small, simple change you can

make in your lifestyle, and again, have a very large impact

without really noticing it. Not a lot of time, effort, energy

goes into that, but just simple steps you can take every day to

get sharper. I

love this, and I love the handwriting things,

and I think that's why I, very early on, started developing a

really good memory. Because all through college, I made it a

point to attend every class. You know, I had friends who would

skip class all the time. Oh, I can read the book and get it,

and I'm like, yeah, no, if I go to class, it'll be easier, and

it was, but I would take avid notes to the point that I, like,

knew what happened in the class. And so I think that really

helped, because, like you say, you're using your eyes, you're

using your ears, you're using your hand, you're feeling it

like you're doing all the things at once, and it makes. Big

difference. And I I did a podcast one time on how to

survive a boring meeting. And if you're in a meeting and you're

miserable, the most impactful thing you can do, in my personal

opinion, is take copious notes. Yeah, write down everything

everybody says at some point you might need something that

boring. Rambling on. Might have had one nugget that you need to

come back to later, but it makes the time go faster. You're just

writing it down, and time goes by. So that's a little hint for

boring paint.

That's a gradient that's that's a great insight,

and that is exactly what happens, is writing something

down, tells your reticular activating system like this is

important. Let's focus on this and you remember it better, so

you nailed it. Do it or not. Great job. Thanks,

man. I was smarter than I thought I was.

Dude. Thank you for your help. Thank you for your information.

Is your book on Amazon? Is that where we get your book? Yep,

so it's due out in October, or, I'm sorry,

November, um, be ready for Christmas and New Year and your

resolutions and all that. It's out. We're getting a cover

cleaned up a little bit. And you know, when you, when you do a

book, there's Okay, I did a book that has 10 people in 10

chapters, and so they gotta read through it, make sure they like

it, and then, you know, the publisher and the editor and all

those kind of things. So we're, it's not, it's not out yet, but

it, it'll be out by end of November, is what they're

thinking. Alright,

thing is, this podcast probably isn't going to

go out till then. Anyway. So it's going to be in perfect

alignment. It's going to be a

well, good, oh, good. Well, yep, it'll be right

there. And then, you know, right behind it is 102 years we have

had just a blessing of being able to interview Gigi Poorman.

She's 102 years old on the 16th and five more days, she is the

poster child for neuroplasticity. She's sharp,

she's active. She has 1000s of relationships. She does the

crossword puzzle every morning. She puts her own makeup on, she

gets up, she you know, she goes exercises. She's an amazing,

amazing individual, and we've taken the 20 of the just the

most impactful things that she's done, and to stay neuroplastic.

And she she, she wasn't trying, you know, 100 years ago, she

wasn't trying to stay and increase their neuroplasticity,

right? But what she did and how she did it, we've outlined, and

then put the science behind it in the book, and it is just

fantastic. I'm just super, super excited about it. I can't

believe I didn't turn off my phone. I thought I did anyway.

So that's right, right behind power, influence and purpose is

where you'll you can get 100 to 102 years staying plastic. 102

years the biography of Gigi Poorman, and she is just a hoot.

She's so much fun. And so you can see it, the science behind

it, and you can also see, like real life kind of a testament to

it, and doing all those things will be available on over 50

one.com that's our that's our website, over 50 one.com and all

the training and speaking, and all that kind of stuff that I do

is all there. So you go to over 50 one.com and reach me and I

come. I can come and talk to your company about how to keep

your employees sharper and more profitable for your company. Or

I can work with you one on one or just or we can chat, or we

can go surfing. Let's put down a Mavericks. Come on over. We walk

down to pillar point Harbor, buy a salmon. Right out the boat.

Smoke some salmon. There. It's it's clean living. Let me tell

you,

this has been so much fun and so

informational. I appreciate your time so much. Thank you for

being here. What

a pleasure. Jennifer, thank you so much.

Love your love your podcast and what you're doing to make an

impact out there. So it's a pleasure to be on. It was an

honor. Thank you very much. Thank

you. I'm Jennifer Takagi with destin for

success, and I look forward to connecting with you soon. You.