 Hey, what's up everybody? So hopefully in this video you'll be finding out how you can actually optimize yourself to think faster, smarter, and better. I'm spending a lot of time thinking about certain principles and certain methodologies for anybody anywhere in the world to apply in their life so they can kind of optimize the way they think. So you're about to kind of learn certain philosophies and principles from way smarter people than I pretty much what I've done is I've kind of summarized their thought process and how they view the world, individuals such as Elon Musk, individuals such as Richard Feynman. Okay, so I'm gonna break down this category or I'm gonna break down this video in different sections. The first section we're gonna be talking about over here is number one is how the brain works. See, when most people, when they look at, see when most people when they look at kind of becoming smarter or thinking faster, they always look at adding more in their life. They look at the next hack, they look at the next maybe like drug or they look at all these kind of cheats. They're trying to go from here to there without the actual work, without the actual journey and above all, most importantly, without actually creating a foundation for you to have a sustainable way of thinking. So we have to understand for your body or for your brain to work efficiently, it needs healthy levels of neurotransmitters, say dopamine, serotonin, GABA, adrenaline, norepinephrine, all these neurohormones and neurotransmitters have to be at the proper levels for your body and brain to be functioning properly. And then we can go into different categories. We can be talking about the healthy fats in your body, omega-3, omega-6, omega-9, then on the B vitamins, vitamin B, 3, 6, 12, et cetera. These are the ingredients in the recipe to have a healthy mind. And the problem today is people aren't eating healthy. They're eating a lot of high fructose corn syrup. They're eating a lot of junk foods and they're not giving the body, the brain, the necessary tools to create these neurotransmitters, neurohormones and all these vitamin Bs and vitamin Ds, okay? So the first thing you guys got to do to optimize your mind is you gotta get your diet on par. I'm now gonna go into the dogmatic views of which diet is best. I'm gonna tell you what works for me and I'm gonna tell you what works in studies. For me personally, very low carb, ketogenic diet does wonders for me. High fat, not high protein. I put in the MCT oils, the avocados, the butter, the steaks. But, but I'm a little bit more on the side of the pescatarian side where I get a lot of fish, a lot of seafood because it has omega-3s and I think it has a more mineral density than the lion animals, okay? So low carb, ketogenic diet, you can go on PubMed, you can go on Google Scholar, I don't care what you do, search it out yourself. But that's the first place I would start. Personally, it would be a low carb, ketogenic diet. Second of all, once you got your diet on par, I'll try to figure out your sleeping schedule because listen, your body repairs a nighttime, it doesn't repair it during the day and a lot of studies, actually last year, many studies came out showing that when we sleep in proper rhythm, your body actually recycles certain plaque off your cells in your mind and they've linked to people who have very bad sleep, may cause issues with, say, multiple sclerosis, may cause issues with Parkinson's disease, et cetera. So organize your sleep, get that on point in your life. I don't give a fuck what excuses you have, I don't wanna hear it, get your sleep in order. What I do is around, say, oh, right now, it's the wintertime, so it sucks, but around six o'clock, give or take, when the sun sets here in Canada, I put on blue light blocker glasses and basically what I do is I also lower down the temperature so the room is very cold. I'm not really surrounded by electronics anytime past eight o'clock, so I go to bed at 10 o'clock, so two hours before bed, I'm either reading books, usually that's what I do, or sometimes I like to do something called a mandala for coloring book. Either or, I'm not on electronics, I'm blocking the artificial blue light, I go to bed, I wake up every day at five o'clock in the morning, I shine this light bright box, 10,000 lux with infrared laser on that side, and then I do Wim Hof breathing in the morning for four to 10 minutes, fantastic. And then, since it's wintertime over here, there's no vitamin D, I go 10-ing about three to five times a week for five minute sessions, what a UVA, UVB mixture evolves. Okay, that's my routine when it comes to diet and when it comes to lifestyle. And obviously it's up to you what you wanna include anything else, certain workouts, you gotta either, whatever. Okay, diets number one, lifestyle is number one. Number two, okay. Number two is this, knowing how your program, so my biggest beef, let me just grab some water, my biggest beef when it comes to anybody telling you how to do something, and this includes me, is they paint it as the absolute answer to anything. And in science, there is no absolute answer to anything, in fact, science is probably the only thing that's evolving constantly. So for example, Galileo said 500 years ago that the earth is round and everyone said he's crazy and they actually killed people for saying the earth is round. But the issue right now is people read something and they're like, this must be the answer, they read that, that must be the answer, that's not the case. And what I mean by finding out how you're wired or how you're programmed is figuring out the cycles of your body, the cycles of your mind. For example, myself, I'm a very early bird, I wake up at 5 a.m., I don't need any priming, I'm literally up, I do my things, and I get from 5 a.m. to like 11 o'clock, I get a lot of work done. I have no distractions, I crunch a shit ton of work in that small period of time because that's where my mind is most optimal for work and most optimal to connect the dots between certain tasks, whether that is email replying, talking to my employees, whatever it may be, doesn't matter, my brain is most optimal for getting shit done right before lunchtime. Now, after lunchtime, my mind tends to slow down, not slow down in an aspect that is bad, but slow down to aspect, it switches gears, it's more creativity. So as the day progresses later, my mind becomes more creative. So it's not really more about the hustle, it's about thinking outside the box, maybe doing exercise to kind of stimulate the contrarian model of thinking or how Elon Musk thinks what's rule gets into a little bit. Okay, so you gotta figure out how your program, you can't go against the grain. If you're not a morning person, you're gonna try to do morning things and try to learn in the morning or read a book in the morning or do exercises in the morning or learn mathematics, it's not gonna fly. If you understand yourself, you understand that in the evening you're more open to more creative work than you do the creative work in the evening or opposite, if in the morning you know that you're a creative individual, maybe then you do whatever you wanna do in the morning, whether you wanna learn a new language or whether you wanna absorb more information from a book, it really doesn't matter, but know thyself. And honestly, you know yourself, so there's really no exercise to it, you already know how you're wired, okay? So that was the second thing, is knowing yourself. Okay, so moving along into really understanding how a person thinks, and this is individualized, and how a person absorbs information because we've been programmed through school, certain people, have been programmed through society and school to think in a very linear model, and the thinking is one, two, three, four, five, A, B, C, D, E, F, G. As opposed to the human, the human mind is naturally programmed to think in fractal terms, meaning it goes from A to Z, Z to G, G to Q, Q to R, et cetera, doesn't go in a linear path, it's very fractal, like fractal geometry or fractal mathematics, and that's how the universe works naturally as well. So that being said, when wanting to learn something new, the whole idea of you just picking something up and reading it from A to Z, it doesn't fly. This is where Elon Musk comes in. He has a great principle, and the principle is most people tie things to stories, like, oh, that thing is green because of yadda, yadda, yadda, or that thing, or did he hear what she said? It's always attached to some type of mythos or some type of story. As opposed to how Elon Musk thinks and same thing how Richard Feynman thinks, they both have exactly the same way or same model of thinking is this. Find out the basic principles of that subject that you're trying to learn. Let's say it's a new language. As opposed to just trying to learn random words or trying to learn, say, just the alphabet of the language, what is the most common principles, no matter what in that language? So you do your research and then you do a deep dive. So this goes back to the foundation. What is the foundational principles of this language? Or maybe you're studying a book. Let's say the book's about investment. So what is the foundational principles of basic investments in a stock market or basic investments as an angel investor? Then you write down these basic principles and these principles are set in stone and these principles is what kind of determines your thought pattern because on the journey of reading, on the journey of becoming smarter and on the journey of absorbing information faster, you will base your new information you've acquired against the principles that dictate the subject that you are learning. And in essence, you become a scientist because what scientists do is they gather data and they take that data and they correspond it to set a theory or thesis they had at the beginning to see if they are correct, okay? So basically what you can do is no matter what you're doing, new language, mathematics, reading a book, understand, and this is where your own hypothesis comes in, you can go to Google, it doesn't matter, you can literally have a cue card but understand the core principles of that topic, okay? Okay, the next thing is quite simple and this is what it is. Most people, I will say generally most, except for a few, most people, when they wanna learn something new, they tend to crunch. Same thing like they do in college university, they'll spend maybe two, three months crunching on this topic, leave it alone, and they never come back to it. However, that's a mistake and it's proven in science that for you to absorb any knowledge or information, you must constantly force your body to regurgitate it at random times. What this means is the whole idea of you studying a topic, the same topic, every single day is outdated. And this goes back directly to what we talked about before, is a human mind does not work linearly, doesn't work one, two, three. So if you're studying something, say in the morning, based on how you're wired, you're studying a new language, maybe Spanish, hola, you're studying new language and maybe you're studying today certain phrases, you're studying today maybe how to add verbs or writing whatever it may be and what you can do is you don't study the same thing every single day. So if you're studying Spanish every single day, what they would recommend and what I recommend is you switch it up. Maybe study Spanish three days out of the week and two days maybe you do something else in the morning or maybe you study German or Russian, it doesn't matter. In the following week, you wanna study Spanish again and regurgitate that information. The whole idea is you want to regurgitate information. You want to force your body to go back into your database, into your mind and recall what you learned and this creates the new neural pathways that you need to actually connect the dots on what you learned in the past. So the whole idea of just picking up the same thing every single day and do the same thing for what Einstein said before is a definition of insanity. So take breaks, go back and what's great about this is you get a new set of eyes or ears or whatever and you actually absorb information much more efficiently because your body now subconsciously is creating connections that you never thought of before in the first place, okay? I'm a firm believer in controlling your stress and what I mean by stress is asymptomatic stress and symptomatic stress because most people when it comes to learning they wanna learn by forced nature. So they think they're forced to learn because society is telling them to learn or they're forced to learn by their employer, whatever, it really doesn't matter with me but under that circumstances, you feel stressed and I don't think so under any circumstances you should feel stressed for learning. Learning should be a meta skill and you should be fun, you should have curiosity and there's no failure in learning or fail stands for first attempt in learning. So I'm a firm believer in actually understanding how your brain is wired. Certain apps you can use or devices such as Headspace is really good, Muse is really good, any biofeedback tools actually one of the best resources for that is the Heart Math Institute. Check them out, they have an M wave one and M wave two which you can track your alpha, beta, delta, theta waves on the mind which is really good. So kind of summarizing this and looking at the general aspect or the general thesis of becoming smarter and absorbing information is really not an easy fixed solution. It's having a sustainable lifestyle, it's eating healthy to give your brain the necessary tools to have a functioning optimal brain. It's having a proper lifestyle once again to give your body the necessary tools to function optimally. It's also thinking very contrary and thinking in principles, thinking in just basic terms. This is why Elon Musk is so good at what he does. This is why Richard Feynman was one of the best scientists possible because Richard Feynman said it's not enough just knowing something. People know something, oh the color of the bird or he talks about the bird story. That bird is this or the different language now bird is called that, that bird is called this but you know nothing of the bird. You don't know how the bird is the anatomy of the bird. You don't know the heritage of the bird. You don't know where the bird goes in the winter, where the bird goes in the summer. So I think there's a disease right now. Most people they can recall things but they don't understand it. And what Elon Musk does and what Richard Feynman did is they understand the subject that they're talking about. They understand everything. So when you look at this mouse you can't just say the mouse moves because of energy. What do you mean because of energy? You know the mouse moves because I have my hand. My hand is mechanically moving the mouse. Well how does my hand work? Well my hand works because there's nerves and neurons going up to my brain. My brain works because of X, Y and Z. So once you understand how a topic works then you can truly and actually once you understand how a topic works then you can actually educate somebody. And that's a true test of knowing a topic or knowing a subject. Is if you can now take what you learned and truly understand it, repackage it in your own way and teach others then that's when you've become the master. Hope this helps. And like always, if you find value in this video like this video, subscribe this video and leave a comment below. I wanna know exactly what you do, what's your kind of strategies and tactics. And that's it, peace.