How to Stay Calm When Someone Loses Their Sh*t | Saturday Reset

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The reflex.

The silk feels heavy tonight. I'm done with the polite night. I'm fine is a lie, a script I'm burning Good morning, everyone.

Thank you for spending Partyverse Saturday with us. It takes something special to recognize that you want more for your life and that you're ready for something to change. So welcome, this is a Saturday Reset. If this is your first time here, drop new in the chat so we can see you. And if you're joining us on the livestream, share today's session with someone who wants to create lasting change in their life. I'm Shane Chu from the Five Second Reflex team, where we help people create lasting change by training the reflex behind the reaction. In today's Saturday Reset, you'll train your body to stay calm when someone loses control. So just 10 minutes of their chaos doesn't take over your entire day. Now, before we begin, take a second to settle in. Let yourself arrive. You made time to be here, and that matters. Please turn on your camera if you're in the Zoom. The more presence and energy you bring into the room, the more Jerry Lin can give back. Alright, let's get started.

Quick heads up before we jump in. Shane and I are at a speakerpreneur conference this weekend, so The Reset is pre-recorded. But hear me on this, the work works if you do the work. So I might not be here live right this second, but y'all can read each other's comments, and I read all of the comments after I get back from the Zoom the YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook Live messages after the stream. So I want you to see what's happening with your calibrations. So do not sit back and watch. Drop your answers in the chat. Do the reps with me live. That's what keeps this room alive. So step into my body for a second. See, I just got back from a 3-day staycation or short vacation getaway with my girl. And what happens going to change how you look at conflict forever. See, day one, we went to Monterey Bay Aquarium. Ocean roaring outside, total zoo inside. The kids screaming off the walls. A wall of hundreds of strollers jammed. Yeah, our stroller parking area jammed all over the place. The salt air was mixing with the hot waffle cone sugar. That smell that just captivates your nose, and otters splashing. Cannery Row under our feet. So we duck into Bubba Gump's, right? The actual restaurant born out of the Forrest Gump movie. And right there on the old Cannery Row where the very first one opened, the walls were covered in movie memorabilia, giant shrimp boat net hanging over the bar, and the servers Cracking Gump trivia at every table. So I look at the gift shop wall and see a box of chocolates displayed there, but I can't help but say it out loud, right? Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get. And so we laughed, we grabbed the photo in the Gump shoes, and we kept walking. And then we grabbed the boba tea next door at the Quikly. And the first sip, man, it was rotten. Slimy, over-soaked tapioca. I don't know if you've had that, but it's like really gooey instead of chewy. And it slid across my tongue all bitter, chemical tasting. This weird taste. And their small was $7. It was a cup about that big. Anyway, you know, I looked at my girl, we looked at it, took a sip, it was like, "Ah, this is so gross." But we laughed and then we just tossed it. We walked away. It didn't dent our peace for one second. See that line with Forrest Gump? It looks a little bit different looking back, right? You never know what you're gonna get. That's the one. Sweet, random, harmless surprises. Now hold on to that feeling because day 2 is gonna test it for real. See, on day 2, you feel this in your chest. The beach in California where you can actually drive straight onto the sand. There are dune buggies flying through, you know, ATVs, military Hummers. The sand's kicking up and you hear the engines roaring. The cold Pacific wind on your face. Then off to the natural hot springs. Mineral water wrapping around our tired legs and shoulders and melting for 3 straight hours. Across from us sat a grown man in a full 3-piece suit. Jerry Lin sitting there chest deep telling us about swimming with sea turtles in Hawaii wearing the same suit. So we're floating, you know, we're hyped for the state fair that night and the rodeo and with barbecue, funnel cake, and all that stuff. All the rides that are at the state fair, it was gonna start in a couple hours after the hot springs. Then I walked into our hotel lobby to check in and this polite little Indian man, he hands me the keys to room 103 and says, "Enjoy your day." 2 minutes later, he's standing next to me next to my truck. The owner, this intense Indian man, looks down, sees my service dog Buddy, and instantly flips. You can hear the sharp escalation in his voice. He gets really loud and aggressive. He's pointing his finger right at my face and yelling, "I said no pet allowed and you go!" "Yu go!" Two things. First, the listing online said pet friendly. But regardless, second, Buddy is not my pet. He's a service dog. Now under federal ADA law, he is legally required to let the animal stay. See, I stand tall, I look at him in the eyes, and I calmly explain. He is a service animal, so by ADA law, he's allowed to stay. But if you want us to leave, send me a refund and we'll just book another place down the street. He snaps and he says, "No, you go! I keep your money! You go, you go!" He screams, "Let me see the ID! If he's a service dog, let me see ID!" I get Buddy's vest and show him the service tag. He said, "You can buy that on Amazon! Anybody can buy on Amazon!" I keep the money, you go, you go! I feel the surge in my chest. I look him dead in the eye. I lower my voice and I said, ADA doesn't require he have an ID. And if you've seen someone with a service dog ID, it's fake because it doesn't exist. I said, do you know ADA law, sir? Do you know you can't kick us out regardless? He said, "I don't know. I don't know nothing. I don't know ADA." I said, "You run a hotel, sir. This is your hotel. You need to know the law." He said, "No, no, you go. You go." I said, "If you want us to go and leave the property, call the police then." He said, "No, no, no, you go." I said, "Go ahead, call the police. It's the law. You have to let us stay. We paid." He screams back, "Why do I have to call the police? Why don't you call the police?" I said politely, "Because you're the one trying to break federal law and steal my money and asking me to leave. So you choose." He glares at me with the evil eye and says, "Fine, I let you stay today, but tomorrow you gotta go and I will complain, let the system know not to let you book any more hotel in any of the hotels anywhere." anymore. I have your credit card on file. I'll just charge you extra $20. I stepped right up to him. I looked him in the pupils and said, try it, and you'll be committing credit card fraud. Go ahead. Now lock into this visual. This man is red-faced, sweating, veins popping out his neck, and practically vibrating with rage. And right next to me On my left leg was Buddy, my service dog, sitting there dead still, quiet, calm, and he leans into my body, giving me his trained tactile signal, "Bring your heart rate down, Jerry. Stay grounded." Buddy was totally still. I was still composed, and the calmer Buddy and I stayed, the more insane the hotel owner became. He was almost choking on his own anger because Our comm gave him nowhere to land, so he took off for a smoke break while trying to give me the evil eye while we were unloading the car. Here is where the real disaster hit though. We finally got into the room, but the blast radius was already active. My girlfriend was so shaken and so drained by this stranger's explosive rage that she sat up at the edge of the bed and looked at me with heavy eyes and said, "I don't even want to go to the State Fair anymore. Let's just go eat dinner and go to sleep." You feel that contrast? One man, one 10-minute fight, and almost hijacked 3 days of magic. Fortunately, after a nice dinner and some beer tasting at a microbrewery, and about an hour we got the magic back. So ask yourself, why did a disgusting $7 boba tea disappear in 3 seconds, but 10 minutes with an angry stranger nearly took down our whole night, maybe the whole vacation? Let's look at the system engineering behind that. Welcome home to the Saturday Reset Room. I'm Jerry Lin, the human systems engineer. And if you're new here, here's the deal. You try hard to be better, but it doesn't stick. We train together so that change gets programmed at the root, not just understood in your head. This isn't a podcast you watch. It's a session your body participates in. Every Saturday runs the same way. 3 teaching blocks and 1 guided reset you're gonna feel in your body. And by the end of the show, I'll show you exactly How we make this permanent, not just powerful for an hour. Drop this in the chat right now. A, B, or C. A, you woke up this week feeling off and couldn't name why. Or B, you know exactly what went sideways and you're still carrying it. Or C, you feel fine, but something pulled you into this room anyway. Now remember, I'm not on this live with you this second, but I want you to talk to each other in the comments too. And I go back and read every single one across Zoom, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook Live after this airs. And I want to see your calibrations. So don't just lurk. Tell me and each other where you're at. Here's your promise for today. One teaching for why your body does what it does. One story that makes it real. And one practice you actually do, not just watch. You've lived this. A gorgeous day. One sharp text lands and it hijacks your whole drive. A rude clerk cuts you off and 3 hours later you're still replaying fighting them at dinner. Someone steals your parking spot before you walk in to buy the thing you were really excited about, and now the whole experience is ruined before it even starts. So go ahead and drop in the chat right now, when did a 10-minute kerfuffle try to rewrite your entire day? I may not be here live to respond in the moment, but I'm reading every one of these after the fact, and I want to see the pattern across this whole room. So go ahead and type it in there. Type it in the chat. So here's the mechanism. When someone loses their temper, their nervous system is fighting for control. Anger is a weaponized attempt to pull you into their chaos so they can dictate the dynamic. When you don't match their energy, exactly like Buddy sitting still against my leg, you strip their leverage. Your calm becomes a mirror. And to an out-of-control ego, that mirror feels like defiance. See, angry people don't want resolution. They want power. Refuse to hand them your chaos and they burn themselves up trying to set you on fire. This is a rep. One of what we build inside the 21-day sprint. Staying regulated while someone else is dysregulated is a trainable skill. It's not a personality trait. And here's the second half of the puzzle. Why did the bad Boba vanish the memory in seconds? While the hotel fight stole our state fair night? You remember that line from Bubba Gump's on day one? Laugh is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get. Yeah, cute at the gift shop, but here's the thing nobody tells you. Your nervous system takes that line dead literally. It does not distinguish between a random surprise that's harmless and a random surprise that's a threat. It just registers unknown and prepares to respond. That's exactly what happened 48 hours later in that hotel lobby. Your system runs on 3 brains. Your head brain, logic and language, about 10 bits of data per second. Then there's your heart brain. Your heart brain is for connection, relational coherence. Then there's your gut brain, instinct and memory in motion. Running roughly 1 billion bits per second. When that hotel owner threatened our money and our housing, the gut brain fired a full survival scan. Even after we legally handled it and walked away, that emotional loop stayed open in the nervous system. And here's the twist: it wasn't even my loop that ruined the night. It was hers, and she was just watching. And her gut brain fired anyways because she doesn't like conflict. When a high-stakes loop doesn't get explicitly closed, the charge stays live and looks for the next thing to attach to. Her brain flagged the state fair as an unsafe input. That wasn't a decision. That was an open loop steering behavior on autopilot. So no, life is not actually like a box of chocolates once your gut brain gets involved. See, your gut brain wants to know exactly what it's going to get every single time because unknown outcomes used to mean survival was on the line. That's why one bad surprise sticks around so much longer than one good surprise. Let's play Rate Your Kerfuffle. Think of the last thing that ruined your mood. Think of it. Now, on a scale of 1 to 10, how big was that actual event? See, a boba tea was 1, the hotel fight is maybe a 5, and a real threat is a 10. Okay, now on a scale of 1 to 10, how much emotional real estate did you give to it after it was over? Drop both numbers in the chat right now. Example: 2 and then an 8, or a 3 and then a 9, and keep dropping them in. See, I'm not here live to call your names out this second, but y'all can read each other's numbers, and I'll go through every single comment across Zoom, YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook Live. So I want to look at that gap between what actually happened and what you handed over afterwards. See, that gap is your vitality leaking through an open loop. The tool to close it is your right hand on your chest. You name the loop and you choose what fills it. And one rep repeated for 21 days is what turns this from an idea into a reflex. And that's the whole architecture behind the sprint. Before the guided reset, let's break state. So we're scanning our bodies, from the top to the bottom in 15 seconds. All right? I'll call the part, you just feel it. No fixing. You ready? All right. Forehead. What do you feel in the forehead? Jaw. Your throat. How about your shoulders? What do you feel in your shoulders? Now your chest. Stomach. Your hands. How about your hands? Type the tightest one in the chat right now. Go ahead and type the tightest one. I'll read through all of these after the fact too, so don't hold back. Okay, wherever you are right now— laptop, phone, car if you're parked, safe if you're driving, just listening— don't close your eyes. Keep driving, I gotcha. For everyone else, let your eyes close or just soften your gaze.

You don't have to do anything yet. Just let your body be exactly as heavy, as tired, as wired as it already is. You're not performing calm for me right now.

You're just here.

Take one breath in through your nose and let it out slow through your mouth like you're fogging up a cold window.

Ah.

Good.

One more like that.

In through the nose, hold, and out slow. Now bring your right hand up and rest it flat on your chest and feel that That's your heartbeat under your hand. That's not a metaphor. That's an actual rhythm that's been beating, keeping you alive since before you had a single memory. And every time you put your hand here on purpose, on your chest, you are telling your body one thing: I am not in danger right now. I am just in a feeling. Say that back to me. Not in danger, just in a feeling. This hand on this chest is now your red anchor. We're going to build it stronger every single week. So that one day, in a hotel lobby, in a group chat, in a meeting that's going sideways, this one motion brings you back to you in under 5 seconds. Keep your hand right there on your chest. Now I want you to think of your version of the hotel lobby, not mine, Yours. The 10-minute kerfuffle that tried to rewrite your whole week. Find it. Maybe it's a text. Maybe it's a parking spot. Maybe it's someone's tone on a Tuesday morning. Here's what I want you to do with it. Don't relive it. Watch it. Picture a small screen like an old television sitting way across the room from you. Now push that whole scene onto that little tiny screen. Now drain the color out of it. Black and white. Now turn the volume down until the voice are just a low hum far away. Now that's it. Now that it's small and far away and quiet, notice something. You're not in that scene anymore. You're just someone watching it happen to someone who looks like you. That person on the little screen, they didn't have a red anchor yet. You do. That's the only difference between them and right now. Now here's the part most people skip. You don't need to win that old scene. You don't need the last word. You don't even need it to make sense. You just need to close it. Picture Buddy sitting completely still, not fighting anything, not proving anything, just leaning his weight onto the leg of the person he trusts, saying without a single word, "You're safe." Stay grounded. That stillness isn't weakness. That's the most trained, most powerful state in the room. And your body already knows how to do it. It's done it before. It's doing it right now. Hand on your chest. Breathing slow. So say this quietly to yourself, in your head, right now: That happened. It's over. I don't need it anymore. Feel that? That's the loop closing, not because the other person apologized, Not because you won, because you decided you were done carrying it for free. Now look ahead, not far, just to the next time something small tries to hijack your day. Somebody's tone, a canceled plan, a stranger who's had a bad morning and decided to make it yours. See yourself there, a few feet away, like you're watching a clip of your own life. Watch that version of you, hand rising to the chest, shoulders staying down, voice staying level. Watch them. Watch them say out loud, or just in their head, Not in danger, just in a feeling. Watch them close the loop before dinner, before the drive home, before it ever gets the chance to steal something that mattered. Now I want you to step forward, right now, into that version of you. Feel what they feel. That's not a fantasy. That's a rehearsal. Your body cannot tell the difference between a vividly rehearsed moment and a lived one. So you're not imagining calm right now, you're practicing it. Good.

Hands still on your chest. Take one more breath in with me and let it all the way out. Ah.

Now we're coming back. 3, you feel your feet on the floor. 2, feel your hands resting on your chest.

1, eyes open. You're back. You're here and you're clear. That's it. That's the whole rep. 10 seconds of practice every time life hands you a hotel lobby. So go ahead and type in "clear" into the chat right now if you just closed the loop you've been carrying around for free. Remember, I'm gonna read this across YouTube Live, Facebook Live, TikTok, Zoom. Um, all the different platforms that we're streaming on right now. So I'm going to read it, so go ahead and type in clear in the chat, okay? I'm gonna come back and see how you're calibrated. All right, now sit up, pull your shoulders back, put your right hand on your chest and feel that physical heart beating under your palm. All right, I want you to feel the massive difference between the open loop we just closed and the absolute clarity you're sitting in right now. See, calm is beautiful, but let me be completely real with you as your friend and as an engineer. Calm does not survive Monday morning on its own. If you just sit here in a nice relaxed haze, your brain is going to file this whole session under Saturday morning feel-good, and by Monday at 9:00 AM, someone is gonna cut you off in traffic or send that one email or look at you the wrong way in a meeting, and that same old gut brain is going to fire the exact same loop we just closed. You're gonna snap, or you will just shut down, and you'll hand your whole day away to someone who didn't earn it. We are not here to cope anymore. We are here to change the system. I want you to make a physical, definitive decision right now. Look at the last time someone's anger hijacked your peace for an hour. Look at that relationship where you still are replaying fighting, some kerfuffle in your head. Look at how much emotional real estate you've been handing over to people who don't deserve a single second of it. Look at the difference between the person who gets pulled in every storm and the person who stays still like Buddy against my leg while the storm burns itself out. Because if you keep handing your calm away for free, you're gonna keep getting the same results. Are you gonna let some stranger's bad day keep hijacking yours for another decade, or are you ready to draw a line and claim your composure as a non-negotiable. Because if you're ready to stop letting other people's chaos write your story, I want you to flood the chat right now with 3 words: I am clear. Flood it. Flood it so when I come back I can see it. Flood it with I am clear. I am clear. Everybody write I am clear. I want you to feel the collective energy, feel the temperature in your body shifting. That shift in your chest, that is your gut brain realizing it doesn't have to hijack the whole day anymore. That is your state changing. But your state is like a muscle. If you don't train it, it atrophies. To keep this composure, you have to condition it daily. And that's exactly why I built the 21-Day Reset Sprint. This is not a course where you just sit and passively watch videos. This is a daily conditioning gym for your nervous system to re-hardwire this exact composure into your autopilot. And it only takes 10 minutes a day. We take the exact stillness you feel in your chest right now and we run it in daily reps and you stay on it and still staying calm under pressure is your default Automatic Reflex. It's designed to stack easily into your life with 2-minute lessons, a 10-minute guided rep, and 60-second check-off. See, most people catch their triggers and close the loop by day 4. When you join the sprint today, you get live weekly coaching every Monday by me to smash through those specific triggers. —your own reflex tracker to map your nervous system's progress. A quick win library for exact moments you feel a loop trying to hijack you in real time. You might say, Jerry, I don't have 10 minutes a day. If you don't have 10 minutes a day to protect the rest of your life from other people's bad days, you need this even more. Let me tell you straight, if you don't take the action to close your own loops, Who's gonna come close them for you? Remember that man in the hotel lobby? Veins popping, face red in the moment right after when my girlfriend sat on the bed, didn't even wanna go to the state fair anymore? That's an open loop running your night on autopilot. Free yourself from that. Come practice, come get the reps in. And my promise to you is simple. Show up for 18 of the 21 days and if your mind and your body don't feel calmer, steadier and harder to rattle, I'll give your money back, no questions asked. Do not let the composure you found today get hijacked by the first angry stranger you met by Monday night. Lock in the state. Make the decision for your future self. The next cohort starts this Monday. The link is in the chat right now. Click that link, claim your spot, and let's get to work. I'll see you live on Monday morning. And if you're not ready yet, you're always welcome back here. This is your home every Saturday with a new reflex to train for the week ahead. One last thing, if someone came to your mind today, someone you know who lets every small kerfuffle hijack their whole week, send them this replay. Not to fix them, just to open the door. I'm Jerry S. Lin, human systems engineer with a 5-second reflex. Thank you for sharing your Saturday with me. For you. I'll see you next week.

Head hard, go! Head hard, go! Alignment, alignment. The reflex, the 5x, the 5-second reflex. I choose this life. 1, 2, 4, 5. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Built for power, built for pain. Winning back my inner space. Pure direction, pure intent. This is where the soul ascends. Every muscle, every bone claiming what I've always known. System ready, system clear. Action is the end of fear. I choose this life. I choose this life. Guts! Move! Move! 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.