"Meanwhile, what a kid feels like when we say, 'I believe you,' to a hard experience or hard feeling is, 'The feelings that overwhelm me don't overwhelm my parents. They can tolerate it. They're not scared of me being a loser in gym class one day.'"
"Physiology wants to return to homeostasis. What happens in terms of adaptation is, you've challenged it to a level that it realizes if it does not make a change, it will not be able to get back to the same level of homeostasis."
"And perhaps most importantly, today's episode provides information and protocols that anyone can use to cultivate their generative drive, which is a hallmark of mental health."
"Omega-3 fatty acids... have been shown to have significant effects in reducing the intensity or frequency of tension type headaches, migraine type headaches."
"What is dissociation? A lot of people might not have experienced it, but it's actually very common. More than 70% of people who've been through trauma experience dissociation."
"Testosterone doesn't cause aggression. It lowers the threshold for the sort of things that would normally provoke you into being aggressive so that it happens more easily."
"Gamification, when applied correctly, can help us drive untold creativity, a new kind of creativity one that's pretty different from the creativity we thought of before."
"Every time you eat a fruit, you're not just eating a snack; you're sipping Nature's finest beverage, giving your circulatory system a VIP pass to the express lane."
"Watermelon isn't just about spitting seeds and Instagrammable moments; it's packed with citrulline, a magical amino acid that gets converted into arginine, which then becomes nitric oxide. Let's just call it the VIP guest at the blood flow party."
"The first thing is to change our school environments from places where we score kids and track them based on scores to a place where every child is seen as an individual and is treated as valuable and is treated as a person with infinite potential to learn."
"With the pandemic and everything going on, we may be entering a new golden age of Cults, a generation-defining event that is completely upended social norms."
"Losing is in how you deal with losing. It's extremely important in trading because winning is easy; it takes care of itself. The key to trading is learning and figuring out how to take a loss."
"Touch releases oxytocin, which is this little chemical that floats in your brain in your blood and it helps you be kind to other people and cooperate."