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

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Computer. Welcome to Destin for success.

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

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

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

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

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have you here today. Well,

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

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here. Thanks for having me.

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

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

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

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should have married you. I always tease her. 33

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

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I show up in the world. I've

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

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we

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

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know. Yes,

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exactly. I married up.

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

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

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

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fix. We I speak on neuroplasticity, and we teach

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

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

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techniques and strategies for using neuroplasticity to well,

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

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

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

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then the other thing is just helping either entrepreneurs,

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business leaders, or companies that have people leadership

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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discoveries and new technologies, and then the field

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of neuroscience is just absolutely amazing today.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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neuroplasticity and improve that, you can improve your

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

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aggregate information on the internet. It just takes a long

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

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

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

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

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your neuroplasticity, does it just, it gets that information

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

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So,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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together.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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through neuroscience, that we can improve that recall, either

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

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

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emotional state, and something unique happens then that that

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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thinking and operating well.

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

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

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around people aging. My parents were really pretty young when

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

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

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

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

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do you have any tips or suggestions you can share with

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

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charged back up?

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

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

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

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directions that we can kind of correlate together or aggregate

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it together and really extrapolate some some

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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either rep repeated or those actions that are reinforced with

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a highly emotionally charged state, those become habits. And

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

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

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

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

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

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choices you make and the decisions you make that lead you

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stu Morris: 00:10:57

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

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

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10 neuroplasticity essentials to architect, a legacy of impact.

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And architect, we chose that word very carefully, because

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you're not just building something. An architect designs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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architecting a life that will have impact and that will live

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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chapters, and we take you through the lives of 10

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

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first two chapters, is overcoming fear and eliminating

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

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

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

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

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

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alive. I'm here because somebody ran right,

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that tiger, right?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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eliminate failure, because failure is a learned process.

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

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

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

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in perspective, neuroscientists have found that the an average

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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was going through, and just reading her story and learning

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

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

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

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

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

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paddle boarded across the Atlantic Ocean, right? The

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

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over 93 days without help, without chips coming in and

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

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

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

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chapter on Destiny or your destination life, as Chris

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

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

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

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

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and they train companies on how to have a purpose driven

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

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

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

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

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

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exceptional folks, a business consultant that consulted with

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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come in and share their experiences, and so people can

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:18:01

just so magical, but my so now, my

Jennifer Takagi: 00:18:04

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

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:18:13

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

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:18:20

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:18:44

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:18:48

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:18:52

ended up getting so involved in neuroplasticity and

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:19:00

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:19:04

me. Like, how did you get here?

Stu Morris: 00:19:09

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

Stu Morris: 00:19:12

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

Stu Morris: 00:19:16

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

Stu Morris: 00:19:18

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

Stu Morris: 00:19:22

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

Stu Morris: 00:19:26

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

Stu Morris: 00:19:29

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

Stu Morris: 00:19:32

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

Stu Morris: 00:19:36

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

Stu Morris: 00:19:38

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

Stu Morris: 00:19:41

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

Stu Morris: 00:19:45

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

Stu Morris: 00:19:50

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

Stu Morris: 00:19:53

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

Stu Morris: 00:19:57

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

Stu Morris: 00:19:59

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

Stu Morris: 00:20:05

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

Stu Morris: 00:20:09

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

Stu Morris: 00:20:12

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

Stu Morris: 00:20:16

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

Stu Morris: 00:20:18

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

Stu Morris: 00:20:21

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

Stu Morris: 00:20:24

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

Stu Morris: 00:20:27

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

Stu Morris: 00:20:32

taught you how to ask yourself good questions, empowering

Stu Morris: 00:20:36

questions, well formed questions, that will bring an

Stu Morris: 00:20:39

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

Stu Morris: 00:20:42

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

Stu Morris: 00:20:46

disempowering questions, because your brain will answer it,

Stu Morris: 00:20:50

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

Stu Morris: 00:20:54

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

Stu Morris: 00:20:56

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

Stu Morris: 00:20:59

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

Stu Morris: 00:21:03

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

Stu Morris: 00:21:05

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

Stu Morris: 00:21:08

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

Stu Morris: 00:21:11

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

Stu Morris: 00:21:14

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

Stu Morris: 00:21:18

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

Stu Morris: 00:21:22

your brain can pick all that information out your Raf,

Stu Morris: 00:21:26

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

Stu Morris: 00:21:28

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

Stu Morris: 00:21:31

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

Stu Morris: 00:21:35

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

Stu Morris: 00:21:38

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

Stu Morris: 00:21:43

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

Stu Morris: 00:21:48

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

Stu Morris: 00:21:52

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

Stu Morris: 00:21:58

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

Stu Morris: 00:22:02

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

Stu Morris: 00:22:08

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

Stu Morris: 00:22:12

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

Stu Morris: 00:22:17

memory and and was just throttled by dementia like

Stu Morris: 00:22:21

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

Stu Morris: 00:22:24

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

Stu Morris: 00:22:27

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

Stu Morris: 00:22:30

this just fabulous British accent, and she everybody loved

Stu Morris: 00:22:34

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

Stu Morris: 00:22:38

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

Stu Morris: 00:22:44

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

Stu Morris: 00:22:47

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

Stu Morris: 00:22:51

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

Stu Morris: 00:22:55

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

Stu Morris: 00:22:58

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

Stu Morris: 00:23:03

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

Stu Morris: 00:23:08

started memory care facilities and dementia care facilities,

Stu Morris: 00:23:11

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

Stu Morris: 00:23:15

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

Stu Morris: 00:23:20

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

Stu Morris: 00:23:24

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

Stu Morris: 00:23:29

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

Stu Morris: 00:23:32

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

Stu Morris: 00:23:36

some strategic for helping families through that whole

Stu Morris: 00:23:41

thing, and we could kind of relate your neuroplasticity to

Stu Morris: 00:23:46

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

Stu Morris: 00:23:49

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

Stu Morris: 00:23:53

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

Stu Morris: 00:23:57

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

Stu Morris: 00:24:01

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

Stu Morris: 00:24:06

incredibly stressful and overwhelming times of their

Stu Morris: 00:24:09

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

Stu Morris: 00:24:12

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

Stu Morris: 00:24:15

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

Stu Morris: 00:24:18

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

Stu Morris: 00:24:21

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

Stu Morris: 00:24:24

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

Stu Morris: 00:24:27

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

Stu Morris: 00:24:29

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

Stu Morris: 00:24:32

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

Stu Morris: 00:24:35

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

Stu Morris: 00:24:37

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

Stu Morris: 00:24:40

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

Stu Morris: 00:24:44

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

Stu Morris: 00:24:48

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

Stu Morris: 00:24:52

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

Stu Morris: 00:24:58

Oh

Jennifer Takagi: 00:24:58

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:25:01

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:25:06

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:25:11

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:25:14

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:25:19

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:25:26

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:25:31

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:25:35

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:25:39

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:25:43

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:25:46

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:25:50

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:25:53

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:25:57

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:26:01

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:26:05

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

Stu Morris: 00:26:10

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

Stu Morris: 00:26:11

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

Stu Morris: 00:26:14

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

Stu Morris: 00:26:17

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

Stu Morris: 00:26:20

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

Stu Morris: 00:26:26

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

Stu Morris: 00:26:28

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

Stu Morris: 00:26:32

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

Stu Morris: 00:26:34

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

Stu Morris: 00:26:38

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

Stu Morris: 00:26:41

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

Stu Morris: 00:26:44

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

Stu Morris: 00:26:46

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

Stu Morris: 00:26:49

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:26:52

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:26:54

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:26:57

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:27:01

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:27:04

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:27:07

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:27:12

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:27:19

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:27:24

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:27:29

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:27:34

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:27:38

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:27:43

subscribe. Please like, please subscribe. Please share with

Jennifer Takagi: 00:27:46

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:27:49

the interaction through a podcast that you might in other

Jennifer Takagi: 00:27:52

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:27:56

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:27:59

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:28:03

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:28:06

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:28:12

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:28:17

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:28:20

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:28:24

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:28:30

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

Stu Morris: 00:28:35

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

Stu Morris: 00:28:39

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

Stu Morris: 00:28:42

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

Stu Morris: 00:28:45

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

Stu Morris: 00:28:49

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

Stu Morris: 00:28:52

the books up.

Jennifer Takagi: 00:28:54

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:28:58

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:29:03

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:29:06

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:29:10

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:29:15

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:29:19

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:29:24

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:29:29

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:29:32

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:29:35

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:29:38

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:29:41

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:29:45

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:29:49

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:29:53

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:29:56

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:30:00

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:30:06

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:30:09

can start practicing to get even better? Yes,

Stu Morris: 00:30:14

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

Stu Morris: 00:30:15

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

Stu Morris: 00:30:21

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

Stu Morris: 00:30:27

neuro activity and electrochemical activity in your

Stu Morris: 00:30:31

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

Stu Morris: 00:30:36

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

Stu Morris: 00:30:39

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

Stu Morris: 00:30:44

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

Stu Morris: 00:30:47

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

Stu Morris: 00:30:50

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

Stu Morris: 00:30:54

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

Stu Morris: 00:30:58

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

Stu Morris: 00:31:01

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

Stu Morris: 00:31:05

really good one is this was a study neuroscientist did on

Stu Morris: 00:31:09

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

Stu Morris: 00:31:13

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

Stu Morris: 00:31:16

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

Stu Morris: 00:31:19

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

Stu Morris: 00:31:21

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

Stu Morris: 00:31:24

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

Stu Morris: 00:31:27

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

Stu Morris: 00:31:30

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

Stu Morris: 00:31:34

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

Stu Morris: 00:31:37

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

Stu Morris: 00:31:42

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

Stu Morris: 00:31:47

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

Stu Morris: 00:31:50

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

Stu Morris: 00:31:55

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

Stu Morris: 00:32:00

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

Stu Morris: 00:32:03

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

Stu Morris: 00:32:06

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

Stu Morris: 00:32:08

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

Stu Morris: 00:32:13

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

Stu Morris: 00:32:17

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

Stu Morris: 00:32:20

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

Stu Morris: 00:32:24

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

Stu Morris: 00:32:27

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

Stu Morris: 00:32:31

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

Stu Morris: 00:32:34

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

Stu Morris: 00:32:39

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

Stu Morris: 00:32:43

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

Stu Morris: 00:32:45

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

Stu Morris: 00:32:49

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

Stu Morris: 00:32:52

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

Stu Morris: 00:32:55

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

Stu Morris: 00:32:58

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

Stu Morris: 00:33:01

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

Stu Morris: 00:33:07

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

Stu Morris: 00:33:10

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

Stu Morris: 00:33:14

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

Stu Morris: 00:33:17

you're increasing your neuroplasticity by just writing

Stu Morris: 00:33:20

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

Stu Morris: 00:33:22

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

Stu Morris: 00:33:26

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

Stu Morris: 00:33:29

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

Stu Morris: 00:33:31

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

Stu Morris: 00:33:34

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

Stu Morris: 00:33:37

just those three little things will help increase your brain

Stu Morris: 00:33:41

activity, help increase those neural pathways, and help

Stu Morris: 00:33:44

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

Stu Morris: 00:33:48

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

Stu Morris: 00:33:50

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

Stu Morris: 00:33:54

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

Stu Morris: 00:33:57

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

Stu Morris: 00:34:00

do to improve your neuroplasticity, give or take.

Stu Morris: 00:34:02

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

Stu Morris: 00:34:05

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

Stu Morris: 00:34:08

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

Stu Morris: 00:34:11

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

Stu Morris: 00:34:14

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

Stu Morris: 00:34:18

get sharper. I

Jennifer Takagi: 00:34:20

love this, and I love the handwriting things,

Jennifer Takagi: 00:34:22

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:34:28

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:34:32

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:34:36

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:34:38

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:34:42

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:34:47

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:34:51

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:34:53

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:34:56

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:35:00

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:35:04

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:35:07

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:35:11

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:35:16

everybody says at some point you might need something that

Jennifer Takagi: 00:35:19

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:35:23

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:35:27

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:35:32

boring paint.

Stu Morris: 00:35:34

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

Stu Morris: 00:35:36

and that is exactly what happens, is writing something

Stu Morris: 00:35:40

down, tells your reticular activating system like this is

Stu Morris: 00:35:43

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

Stu Morris: 00:35:47

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:35:52

man. I was smarter than I thought I was.

Jennifer Takagi: 00:35:56

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:36:00

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

Stu Morris: 00:36:04

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

Stu Morris: 00:36:08

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

Stu Morris: 00:36:13

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

Stu Morris: 00:36:17

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

Stu Morris: 00:36:21

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

Stu Morris: 00:36:25

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

Stu Morris: 00:36:28

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

Stu Morris: 00:36:31

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

Stu Morris: 00:36:33

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

Stu Morris: 00:36:35

thinking. Alright,

Jennifer Takagi: 00:36:38

thing is, this podcast probably isn't going to

Jennifer Takagi: 00:36:40

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:36:42

alignment. It's going to be a

Stu Morris: 00:36:46

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

Stu Morris: 00:36:50

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

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

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

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poster child for neuroplasticity. She's sharp,

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

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

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

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

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

Stu Morris: 00:37:25

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

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wasn't trying to stay and increase their neuroplasticity,

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

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

Stu Morris: 00:37:38

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

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

Stu Morris: 00:37:47

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

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

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

Stu Morris: 00:38:02

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

Stu Morris: 00:38:06

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

Stu Morris: 00:38:11

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

Stu Morris: 00:38:14

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

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

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

Stu Morris: 00:38:26

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

Stu Morris: 00:38:29

your employees sharper and more profitable for your company. Or

Stu Morris: 00:38:32

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

Stu Morris: 00:38:37

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

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

Stu Morris: 00:38:45

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

Stu Morris: 00:38:49

you,

Jennifer Takagi: 00:38:52

this has been so much fun and so

Jennifer Takagi: 00:38:54

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

Jennifer Takagi: 00:38:57

being here. What

Stu Morris: 00:38:59

a pleasure. Jennifer, thank you so much.

Stu Morris: 00:39:01

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

Stu Morris: 00:39:04

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

Stu Morris: 00:39:06

honor. Thank you very much. Thank

Jennifer Takagi: 00:39:08

you. I'm Jennifer Takagi with destin for

Jennifer Takagi: 00:39:11

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