 in older adults, there's something called allostatic load. Allostatic load is the physical impact of trauma over time, physical damage to your body, mental damage, whatever. We realize that because of allostatic load in most people, and sometimes this could show up as early as 30, right? When Jenny earlier was talking about it, his friends were starting to get really conservative at 30. There's reasons for that neurobiologically, why that happens, but that constriction that starts to show up are challenge skills, but especially for things that we're scared about, like park skiing, it's down to like 1%. So what we realized is with this stuff, you have to go incredibly slowly. So here's what we did just with park skiing and snowboarding, then we talked about otherwise, but we didn't teach anybody, it wasn't about learning new tricks, right? It was park riding for skiers with snowboarders. There are eight foundational movements. There is it, you have to know how to jump, you have to know how to crouch, you have to know how to slash, you have to know how to grind, you have to know how to throw a 180, a 360, and a shifty. Those are the foundational movements. Our goal wasn't to teach people how to do tricks, it was to teach them the foundational movements so that they could start with one of those that they already knew how to do and could execute with zero fear and no conscious interference, and build on that one micromovement at a time. So here's the other thing, even everybody who's ever been on skis or a snowboard, if you've made it to advanced beginner, you know how to do a hockey stop, how to turn your skis or your snowboard sideways, that, now if I take a hockey stop and I do it on a slightly diagonal, that's a grind or a slash, depending on which way you turn your body into it. So I knew going in, myself included, but everybody else, we've all got a basic movement that we can start with, because everybody has, you have to know how to do this to get in the gateway of the sport. So start there and build one at a time. Creativity is a flow trigger, pattern recognition. When you see a small hill, you're skiing through, like what would people look at the train park and they see like the big jump and they don't notice that it's on a roller hill known as a knuckle and you can do all kinds of tricks on the knuckle without ever leaving the ground or this is just shapes of snow. You can move your body in creative ways. So we wanted to teach people how to use their body in new ways with these foundational motions because that's creativity and creativity produces pattern recognition and pattern recognition drives dopamine and dopamine drives flow and flow amplifies learning. So start with these really basic movements, go one at a time, do something totally safe and don't try to learn tricks. When let the flow state take care of that, you'll do more in the flow, right? Your job is just to creatively interpret train features in novel ways and like playful ways. That's the only thing people were aiming for and we took a lot of shit out of the equation. We played follow the leader games. I would follow Ryan, I would do what he did. We didn't talk. So flow requires the prefrontal cortex to stay quiet meaning you don't want your ego involved at all. So you don't ever want to talk about yourself. You don't want to talk about world events. Like anything you can be scared or whatever. The R rule was we could make each other laugh. We could talk about the skiing or we could shut the fuck up. That was our rule, right? Like those were, and when we ran the experiment that was the rule and I will say people were shocked by it and there was some resistance at the beginning and like we were shushing people on the chair like but after like two hours of it, everybody got it. We was like, oh, wow, this is really important. It's the same reason, by the way why if you're like, you don't want to check social media between tasks, if you can avoid it because it like gets your emotions all stirred up and it'll break your focus and pull you out of flow. It's a bad distractor, you know what I mean? Whereas like two minutes of exercise is probably a little bit better if you just like want to break up the task because same reason you want to keep that prefrontal cortex turned off to keep yourself in flow if you can especially when your tasks switching.