This is a YouTube video titled "How to motivate yourself to workout #daveasprey #biohacker #biohacking #motivation #smarternotharder" containing a motivational talk or monologue recorded on August 28, 2023. The speaker discusses neuroscience concepts related to motivation and how the brain processes stimuli, encouraging smarter approaches to motivation rather than forcing hard efforts.
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There's a neuroscience measure you probably came across called P300D, and this is a measure that gets longer as you age. But it's when I do this, clap my hands, well, you and I see it right away. Maybe there's a speed of sound going to your ears. No, there's a speed of sound going to your ears. Then there's a third of a second. And then your brain gets the first signal there was a sound. And then you think about it. Your body takes that third of a second to decide if the sound was worth showing you. It's doing that all the time in the world around you, and it also influences what you see. It's the one that makes the couch look so sexy and the gym look so just not gnarly and unattractive. And then instead of going and laughing at the fact that our bodies do that, we go into this loop of, oh, my gosh, something's wrong with me because I didn't want to do the hard thing. No, you didn't. So don't do the hard thing. Do the smarter, not harder thing. And the way you motivate yourself is just recognize, since my body loves being lazy, let's do what marketing companies do to us.
