One Mind-blowing Takeaway My "SPECT" Brain Scan Revealed - Wisdom4Humanity with Patrick Mosher

A few years ago, there's a, there's a man called Daniel Amen, and he looks at brain scans. And I went to the Amen Clinic just to find out about how to optimize the brain performance, my brain performance. And one of the things that I wanted to find out was, you know, more about like how does my brain fire. I wanted to see a, you know, a brain spec, a picture of my brain. And so I went there, and one of the things that the neurologist-psychologist, he pulled me aside and he said, looking at my brain scan, and he looked at it and he said, you know, you were shy at one point and you overcame that shyness. There must be, you know, that must have happened in your life sometime. And I was like, what? I mean, he just was looking at a brain scan and he could see that. I said, "Yes, I was painfully shy in grade school and high school, and then I decided not to be that person anymore." You might have heard me tell the story before. I won't repeat it here, but when I went to college, I wanted to make sure that I learned how to drink beer and talk to the prettiest girl in the room. That sounds like, "Oh, that's so funny. That's so good." It was excruciating for me. For the wallflower guy that I was, what a tremendous challenge that was for me. But I overcame that. And now, these days, I've done TEDx talks. I'm an international speaker. I've talked on stages to 2,000 people. And it doesn't bother me so much. I've done stage work as a dancer. So I overcame those things. But you could see that on a brain scan. I was like, "Wow, that's so amazing." And then he looked at my scores and he said, "You know, your resilience scores are off the chart. I've never seen any as high as yours." And I'm not trying to say that to brag at all. I'm just trying to say, I think there's ways that we can bounce back from things. Resilience is being able to change our story. And I think I did that for myself. And I know if you've got a story in your head about who you are or how you are, Maybe part of this is resilience is like changing the story in your head. So that's my story about resilience. And I look at resilience as a competency. It's something, it's a muscle that we build. And when we face challenge and adversity, it helps us build that resilience. And in some ways, sure, we take on challenges and stuff like that, but some really high performers They seek the challenges. They seek adversity. When they get too comfortable in their skin, they step out and they go like, I need to create a level of discomfort because my resilience is going down. I want to keep staying resilient because I want to be able to reorganize and retain my identity, the things that I'm core to my being, myself, my values, my philosophies. And so in order to do that, I have to absorb these disturbances and be able to reorganize in new ways.