A transcript excerpt from a Whole Man Academy podcast episode (EP108) featuring Ross Anderson discussing mental training, wellbeing, personal development and recovery. The speaker links psychological states (hope, gratitude, optimism) and measurable neurology to behaviour change, recounts personal struggles and recovery, and criticises the lack of wellbeing education in western curricula.
No one even knows what it is to mentally train. So how therefore can they engage with it?
The Whole Man Academy podcast.
Emotions and feelings are measurable neurological factors.
Ross Anderson, speaker, psychologist, consultant. Specializes in well being, scientists and human optimization.
Wholeman Academy. And I take a second overdose and you think things couldn't get much worse for me. Then my lawyer turns and tells me, you know, you're looking at two years in jail for this, which was your TED Talk, so.
So what was that like for you?
Disastrous. Some major opportunities with Dale. Then ended up becoming their national ambassador for mental health and wellbeing. So that paid off, thankfully. But there was a problem. Speaker number one was in a car accident, but the clicker was broken.
You want to be channeled into what you're supposed to be doing, not thinking in your back of your mind.
So mom and dad split up. Dad was in and out my life for a period of time until I was about 14. Less than 5% of our global western curriculum is dedicated to health well being and personal development.
You can make a decision like that and then everything can change with brain.
Fog, memory issues, cognitive impairment, or you want to just optimize. Overweight, metabolically unfit, sugar loving, beer drinking male. He went to the doctors, he done follow up scans. He doesn't even need chemotherapy anymore.
His old self again. But he's a different man.
If you look at the root of all we experience, our thoughts. To change the visible world, we have to change the invisible world. So hope, faith, gratitude, optimism, the power of mental training is significant, but it's about your resourcefulness. It's not about your resources. I never had money. I was like me.
I wasted so much of my time.
I did that too.
Because motivation, I guess, is another fleeting feeling, isn't it?
Yeah. I could talk all day about this, about motivation and the psychology of what drives us. I don't want to bring this up too much, but I was a cute baby. Call it how it is.
