Are you chained by chaos? 

• All the things in life that are derailing, hold us back, take our time

  • What if your mind was not held back by these chains? 

Neuroplasticity = the ability to adapt and restructure our brain as needed

• Gets manipulated all the time 

  • Often by you yourself.

The path to finding more for your life 

• Trail and error 

  • “You don’t get reward out of life without taking the risks” 

Purge the chaos

• Internet or social media addiction

  • Avg. American spends 11hrs per day consuming some kind of electronic media

  • When you’re consuming, you’re not thinking 

    • If you’re not thinking, then who’s in control? 

    • When you’re unthinking, you start to not want to think for yourself. 

      • Journal of Science article shows 67% of men and 29% of women chose to administer painful shock to themselves to combat just minutes of boredom

        • We’re addicted to distractions; don’t like to be alone with our thoughts 

Decision Fatigue 

• a.k.a. Ego destruction 

• Your brain is tired —> you start to not make decisions or make bad decisions 

• You have a finite amount of willpower in your day

  • When parole hearings are in the morning, have 70% chance of getting out, later in the day it’s 10% 

    • Judges get decision fatigue, shut down decisions rather than make a bad one 

Input Purge

• Remove sources of input from life and then add back in only what’s needed 

• i.e. If you watch too much TV, on e-mail constantly, social media 

  • Pick one thing (that won’t effect your career) and remove it for just one week, and document the time you would’ve been doing that thing with what you did instead. 

Will you look back on your deathbed and be glad you binged watch a series on Netflix all weekend? More than you’d be glad you spent that time planning a trip?