This content was created by Brian Johnson. This content was uploaded by Brian Johnson. This is a YouTube video titled '+1 #1174: Shaping Our Brains' created on June 22, 2020, featuring Brian Johnson discussing insights from Kate Heffron's book 'Positive Psychology in the Body' and the impact of thoughts on brain structure.
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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another optimize +1. In our last +1, we spent some time on the cortisol melatonin teeter totter. How's it go like that. Reminding ourselves to give our melatonin a chance to have some nice relaxing fun by turning off our cortisol spiking inputs nice and early today I want to go back to another gem from Kate Heffron's Positive Psychology in the Body. It's a super simple bit of wisdom, but equally powerful quick context. Her book has a bunch of fun. Did you know? Sections like this, did you know? We take 10,000 blinks, 20,000 breaths and 100,000 heartbeats a day and this did you know? 99.9% of DNA in all humans is identical and 98% of our DNA is shared with with apes. And the one I want to focus on today, did you know? Researchers propose that even positive or negative millisecond thoughts can change the brain structure for either the better or the worse. Yowzers. We're shaping our brain millisecond by millisecond. I find that incredibly inspiring and humbling and inspiring. How about you? It goes well with another one of Kate's gems that quote, one of the greatest findings of the past 20 years is that through effort and experience, the brain can change today's +1. Let's have some fun reshaping our brain millisecond by millisecond. Plus one. Plus one, plus one.
