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Unlocking Your Brain With Cognitive Communication - Stu Morris
In this insightful episode, host Jim Johnson interviews cognitive communication coach, author, and speaker Stu Morris. They delve deep into the concepts of cognitive communication, neuroplasticity, and how to enhance mental creativity and productivity.
Stu shares practical techniques like a five-minute brain hack to boost productivity instantly and discusses the significant impact of self-think and gratitude on brain function.
They also tackle the myth of retirement, emphasizing the importance of enjoying life now and continuing to add value well past traditional retirement age. Tune in to discover the secrets to maximizing your mental capacity and leading a prosperous life.
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People get this idea of like, Oh, I want to, you know, retire and do nothing. And people don't want that. And then they never did, but also they were from a mindset in the forties and the fifties and the sixties where they didn't think in terms of internet. So we can easily think in terms of reaching a million people. A friend of mine said, Oh gosh, you know, I did this, uh, YouTube thing only had a hundred thousand views. Bro, you know, that's like two football stadiums, right? I mean, what are you, what are you whining about a hundred thousand views for, right? And so we're of a different mindset and that creates more opportunity for us because we can bring content to the world where they can actually reach it now. And we haven't had that because of low orbiting satellites and millions of other things.
Jim Johnson:The next economy is this creator. It is
Stu Morris:the next economy today. It's today's next economy.
Jim Johnson:See, I think the world has convinced us, and I don't know whose bright idea it was, I don't know if it just kind of coalesced over time, but go to school, get good grades, go to college, get the degree, get the job, work your way up the corporate ladder, work till you're 60, 65, retire, get the house with the picket fence, and just enjoy the rest of your life. Where I'm like, no, I want to enjoy my life right now. Why would I wait for any of that kind of stuff? I'm like, you guys have all heard that 50 is the new 30, right? Like there's like, that's just where that's at at this point. And so that's the stuff I literally tell myself out loud. I think about, um, my goal is to be in better shape at 55 than I was at 25. And I'm, I'm close. Like, it's, it's a good race between those two. Um, and it is all about like, what do we say to ourselves? What do we think? What do we picture about what our lives are going? And this idea of retiring, I think is one of the worst ideas that our society gives to anybody.
Stu Morris:You always land on your kids and wife and all that kind of stuff first, but then you work down and you ask yourself, how important is this to me? What are other things that are more important and what's a way that I can make this a priority for me and your brain will find a way because it's, it's programmed to do that from lizard, right? Where can I put this in the priority list? How is this important to me? How can I make it more important to me? Why am I grateful for it? Asking questions is how you talk to your brain. That's how you, that's how you communicate with your brain is asking questions, ask those gratitude questions and I'll move that past your values.
Jim Johnson:Hey everybody. Welcome to the show. I'm your host, Jim Johnson, and I am pretty excited about this guest that we have on today because it is in one of those areas that I've put a lot of focus in my life. Uh, we have this thing that we talk about, uh, whenever we're looking at being a prosperous person. And one of those things that's really important is mental creativity and curiosity is spending time thinking a little bit. And we have one of the preeminent folks on this subject out there in the world. He is not only a cognitive communication coach, but he's an author and a speaker. Uh, he's actually written a couple of books on this. One of those books is power, influence, purpose, 10 questions to define your legacy. Everybody, um, get a good seat. Get ready to take some notes because we're going to talk about how to think better so that you can get more done in less time. I'm super excited to bring on our guest today. His name is Stu Morris and Stu, um, Welcome to the show. How are you, man? Thanks very much, Jim. It's
Stu Morris:a pleasure to be here. Appreciate you
Jim Johnson:having me. Yeah, it's, uh, I got an email from you saying, Hey, you listen to one of our podcasts and you're like, Hey, that kind of fits with what we do and you reached out. So just to help our audience, like, understand what it is and why we're doing this conversation. What is cognitive communication? Why is it so important?
Stu Morris:Well, that's a great question. And why is so important? It's kind of in a category by itself. So I'll try to answer the first part. First, the cognitive communication is a number of different aspects. One is that little voice in your head. Or when you're trying to make a decision and maybe you talk to yourself, some folks, um, communicate cognitively where they get a gut feeling and they kind of speak in terms of this is a concrete, uh, idea for me, right? Or someone, uh, could say, you know, I really, I feel like it's going this direction or whatever. So there, You, you can tell by the words you use how you speak to yourself and you speak to yourself through one of your five senses. So cognitive communication is how to speak to your brain using the communication process that is most natural for you. For me, since I was a little kid, I got a voice in my head. I got just, I always, I'm talking to myself and, and someone says, can you picture this? I'm like, I can't, I don't see if pictures in my head very well. Uh, my daughter works for Disney and she doesn't, she isn't, she hasn't ever heard a voice in her head. She can see everything. She's an artist. She sees things. And so we show people how to speak to yourself in a way that your brain naturally will understand you and your, Communication style, um, to, well, communicate, right? Communicate what you need. And we're not, we're not super good at that. We're not super good at communicating with each other. And we're, frankly, bad at communicating with ourselves. We tend to compare ourselves to, To the worst of what we do to the best of what someone else does, or at least what we think they are, because the background on Instagram, it's just paper. It's not, they're not really at the beach. Okay. And so we tend to communicate like what we want against what we don't have and, uh, our strengths against other people's weaknesses. And we talk to ourselves in that tone of voice and in that, um, the way that's many times disempowering for folks. And it's easily fixable. I mean, you can, you can, you can speak nicely to yourself and you can speak nicely to others. You don't have to speak that way, right? We've all done it. I'm not in the business of trying to teach people what they don't know. I'm, I really, uh, like to teach on neuroplasticity and cognitive communication because you already know it. I mean, you know, that voice in your head, you know, that feeling you get when you're about ready to make a decision or, you know, or whether to think you get this inkling about somebody, if they're really kind of shining on here or they're being truthful. So since you already know it, it's much easier to, um, show you how to. Get the best out of what you know and kind of reveal it to you.
Jim Johnson:Yeah. So, so this kind of in line with, uh, I'm not even going to say self talk because that leads to this idea of a voice talking to you, but self think like what we think about ourselves, whether it be feeling, seeing, talking, whatever that mode is for each one of us. Um, I know I had a big battle with it when I was much younger. Uh, pretty much my late high school time. Where I had been indoctrinated, brainwashed, whatever you want to call it, uh, by a stepfather who was pretty rough. I mean, I was called a moron every day of my life. I wasn't going to amount to anything. And there was this part of me inside, there was this. pushback against that, very much so, like I am not going to let this happen to me. And so I took on the persona of no, I'm not, I'll show you like that kind of a thing. Is that what we're doing with this cognitive communication, this interpersonal communication?
Stu Morris:That's, that's very insightful of you, Jim. And it is, um, in, in your case as a kid, You had fewer resources and you really just dug deep and said, I'm not, right. I'm not, I'm not a loser kind of a thing.
Jim Johnson:Yeah, that's not most people, right? Most people aren't wired that way. Most people, the, whatever, they're getting fed all the time. And then what they're saying about what they're getting fed, it kind of determines who they're going to be.
Stu Morris:Oh, most people, Jim, uh, most people watch seven hours of TV and social media.
The
Stu Morris:thing that they did in neurology is they put a halo on this guy's head and just pads, you know, it wasn't like screwed into his head or anything, but he's watched his brainwaves, which is so cool about neuroscience now is that we can watch your emotions on the Commuter screen. It's
Jim Johnson:just, I love that stuff, right? That's so cool. And any of that I've seen whenever we're in that place where, you know, some people use the excuse of it's an escape or entertainment, right? The drudgery of everyday life, or I just need a break. So I'm going to go death scroll on Instagram or whatever it is that you choose to do, or go watch binge, watch an entire season of a show in one day. Okay. Um, what was the results whenever they put this halo on the guy? Like, what did it do to his brain?
Stu Morris:Well, the, um, the control was the cracker, saltine crackers. And so if you were watching TV and we were measuring your brainwaves at nearly zero, and if you were eating a saltine cracker, it was just right about the same, just nearly zero. Um, and so that's for seven hours a day, you are Not working your brain. As a matter of fact, eating a salting cracker had more effect on your senses. Salty, crunchy, swallowing, uh, more work. Neurologically, to chew a cracker, then to watch TV just shuts your brain down, or scrolling mindlessly through social media, it just, it turns your brain off, and that's no way to build neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity, we want to walk over that grassy patch over and over again until it's a nice, solid, easy to run on path, you know? And so turning your brain off is the fastest way to grow weeds over your neuroplasticity.
Jim Johnson:So, so let's talk about that for a second. Cognitive communication is, um, how we self think, right? Is that a fair, like, cut it down to Reader's Digest version?
Stu Morris:That's, yeah, it's, maybe, um, cognitive communication is how we communicate with our brain.
Jim Johnson:Okay.
Stu Morris:With that feeling, thought, pictures, or speaking, linguistics.
Jim Johnson:So let's take this next step, because you brought this word up and said it a couple of times. Neuroplasticity. Yeah. I don't know if everybody knows what that means. It's one of those things where I have spent quite a bit of time, uh, in that arena because I don't want my brain to die. But can you explain what, uh, neuroplasticity is? Neuroplasticity.
Stu Morris:Jim, I love that. I don't want my brain to die. Cause it's, it's the truth. Um, even like maybe closer than brain dying would be muscle atrophy.
So
Stu Morris:I worked in the emergency room. Like I said, about 22 years and I lifted, I lifted a lot. I, I, Lifted six days a week and a couple mostly two hours a day as about two. Well, I wasn't 280. I was 279 And i'm six foot five by the way I was so big Yeah, and And and I hurt my back. I mean I had a 400 pound patient following my back and ruptured disc And now i'm still six foot five and i'm like 220 So your muscles atrophy when you don't use them. I couldn't use them. I couldn't, I couldn't walk for 44 days. I couldn't, I couldn't feel my toes. It's a little scary, but the point being is that you don't move around in your, your muscles atrophy. Same with your brain. Um, and there's other things that happen, um, electrochemically. As we get older, there's a, there's two big things that happen as you get older. People think, oh, I'm getting older, so I should be forgetful. And that belief system ruins people. I mean, it's just, there's nothing faster. You believe what comes out of your own head first.
Jim Johnson:It's what I call a self fulfilling prophecy.
Stu Morris:It absolutely is a hundred percent. And then the second thing is that things do. Um, they slow down, but they really kind of expand. So because of when you get older, say, let's just use over 51, you might even find a website called over 51. com. That would be weird. But if you're over 51 and, and you will find that your values have been, um, I don't know, let's take Joe, and he loves his kids, and so he takes them to school, and he works his schedule around his school's kids, and he goes and watches football and volleyball and piano recitals, and that's his important tool, but now his kids are gone and off and raising their own families, and his, what he values is gone, and that's a beautiful thing, because you want your kids to launch, but then at the same time you reorganize your values, which is what we've been doing in our brains since the moment we were born. very much. We've been organizing and prioritizing what is valuable. Before we're even aware of ourselves. For us in the world and our place to it, um, we know that mom, warm, milk, shelter, and we know that's a valuable thing. And when we smell that, see that, get near that, hear that, before we ever can make a cognitive judgment on it. We've created a value and you're three months old, right? Or less or more, but you finally hit seven years old and you seem like you can learn everything because you can, as a matter of fact, if we can get you about two years old, just teach you the piano in Chinese and you can learn almost anything. And I'd throw in Latin too. I'm telling you. The math falls into place, um, neuroplasticity in kids is just really expansive, it's really rubbery, right? You can make a lot of really good paths that stick with them and create really good habits. The problem is that the 96 percent of the people that have zero brain activity because they're watching TV and scrolling through Instagram or social media, they have, they raise kids and they, those kids never get that, right? Now, as you get older, we always thought, oh, it's older, you're past youth and now you're. Sorry, you're just, now you're going to be dumb or now you're just going to be forgetful or Oh, you're one of those old guys, but not anymore. We know we, I can show you the science. I can show you a lot of science to really cool, like cutting edge computers using graphics. I mean, just amazing, um, AI 3d simulations of the brain working, just craziness. We can watch you think, and we can watch you dream and we can watch emotions in your head and we can see pain and we can stimulate parts of your brain and you can smell the candles from your third. Oh wow. It's amazing. You don't forget stuff. You just can't recall very well. When you're more neuroplastic, you can recall much better as a kid when you get older. We tend to believe that we can't with call recall, and that's a huge part of the problem, but it is also a little slower. But it's like when you get older, maybe I, you know, I can't run a mile in six minutes because you know I'm lying. I never could run a mile in six foot five I could never run a mile in six minutes, But I couldn't run, I couldn't run a seven minute mile when I was 15. I couldn't run one Now. And I just, I'm older or whatever. So there's kind of some proof for us that, Oh, we're getting older. And yeah, I don't just remember as well. The brain turns out it's not so much like your body. The mind wants data. The mind wants to be neuroplastic and it can be overdone and there can be some dangers, but I mean, it's like, there's no dangers. You can't get good enough at it to create a neuroplastic brand where say, You taking too much, like somebody who perhaps is on the, uh, is on the scale, maybe is, uh, they, they taken so much information that they're, they, they can't communicate and they can't speak and they, you know, and that's, that's not a problem. That's like the danger of becoming over neuroplastic. And that's just, that's, It's never happened. So it's, uh, it's such an exciting science and it's, it's so much fun for a guy like me who, you know, I just write books and talk about my books. And then I had a Nana who taught us how to think and had dementia and I was a kid and put in charge and take care of her and couldn't. It just fits now that if I knew now what I knew, if I knew then what I know now, I couldn't fix my Nana, but I could have fixed three, three decades worth of Nana is kind of a thing or it helped people stay sharper, longer, um, and with the, you know, with the data behind it, like we have 102 year old lady who is sharp as a tack way smarter than me. I mean, that's not a high bar, but it's, she's sharp as a tack and she knows, recalls everything Just an amazing, amazing person and we can see that neuroplasticity still ripe and, and, and really rubbery in her. And we know we can bring that along to the next person. So it might have been the long answer, but, uh, Jim, you get me kind of excited with these questions, man. Well, here's like,
Jim Johnson:there's been a lot of talk and it's been for a while now, you know, last 10, 20 years. Of when you get older, you need to keep your brain active because you run the risk of dementia, Alzheimer's and all the other stuff that goes along with it. And I have a whole like show just on all the things that involve dementia, Alzheimer's and all that. But there's been this big press to keep the brain active with like puzzles and things like people that do crosswords, people that do like Wordle is a big thing out there with a lot of folks. Is it anything like the body that after doing it for a while it doesn't have the same amount of impact? Because it's now repetitive, and you have to like, keep stretching it, keep pushing. Like, instead of doing three sets of bench press every single time, like, I gotta do some incline, I gotta do some decline, I gotta do some flies, like, mix it up a little bit. Is there any, uh, science on that?
Stu Morris:Well, that's a great question. There is a little bit. And, uh, like, like much science, it's not super conclusive. Right. Um, I like to draw more from the science than scientists do because they're so, you know, they're, I'm like, wow, that's amazing. Like, yeah, but it only happens under these where I'm like, I don't care what the wattage of the light bulb was. It's okay. Like, look what you did. Right. So, um, so, So, there seems to be a case that, yes, if you mix up the routine, you can increase the neuroplasticity, uh, by doing certain exercises. In that same vein though, if you learn Latin and you learn, you know, how do I get there and where do I go and my name is, and then you're speaking Latin fluently, it's different parts of the brain. And so, because not everything's a puzzle, so if you learn the piano, you can learn, um, Okay. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, and then you can play Beethoven's Fifth. So, because the things we do can grow with us, that fixes, I don't need, I don't need two routines for Neuroplasticity, unless you only do crossword puzzles. Now, Gigi Poorman, who's 102 years old, she, 102 years ago, she had crossword puzzles, and she does one every day. She also happens to speak a couple languages and just happened to be able to do that, but she had a lot of things fall in place on accident, which kind of prove what we seem to think happens now in science, um, only because nobody wants to come out and say, look what we did in science. Or I'm okay with that. I'm just an author and a speaker. And I like to, I like to tell people like the cutting edge stuff and it's just cool. So yeah, that's a great question because you do need extra reps and you do need to mix up your bench press, but you can do that because. Because expertise, because imagination, because creativity, it grows when you use it. So it's a self fulfilling prophecy kind of a deal.
Jim Johnson:So, so one of the things, like, I'm sitting here, I'm going, okay, I don't like crosswords. Um, Wordle wasn't even a challenge for me. Uh, the very, very first one I ever did, I got on the second try. Like I, there's the, I put my letters in. Okay, that's not, this is it. And I did that three times in a row. I went, this is nothing. I'm not doing this anymore. Um, I tend to read a lot. That's a big one for me as I read, but I don't just read. I read, I take notes. I highlight, I make flashcards. I do what I call intensive reading. I don't read a whole bunch of books, but the books I do read, I'm there to get understanding, not just read through it and see how fast I can get it done. There's anything to that, like this intentional aspect, uh, whenever it comes to neuroplasticity.
Stu Morris:Yeah. Um, so research and focusing on a very, very specific point of something. So reading a book and not just reading it, but taking notes on it and doing a lot of research in it. Like when you're a kid, you do a lot of research and, uh, the, that, that will strengthen neuroplasticity a lot. So reading is good. Research is good. Better memorization is best. Oh, okay. Kind of in stuff, right? So, and you always think like, um, it's not uncommon in Israel for a seven year old
Jim Johnson:Israeli
Stu Morris:boy to have the, the, the sect to, you know, memorize all the first five books of the, of the Old Testament. Yeah, the Torah. And that's seven, seven years old, memorized.
Yeah.
Stu Morris:Those aren't small books, right? So those for sure. What you can do at seven, you can do at 77, but you got to unlearn some things that, that what are these along the way?
Jim Johnson:What are these things we need to unlearn that? Now you got me interested. You piqued some interest right there. What, what do we got to unlearn?
Stu Morris:The first thing we need to do, this is not the first thing. Here's a list of things you need to do first.
That sounds better. Okay.
Stu Morris:So you got to change your thinking because I bet you, your thinking is not It's not helpful, right? I would say
Jim Johnson:most people think in the negative, they have self doubt, uh, they're sitting there telling themselves that they're not living up to whatever ever anybody else has done. They're not living up to what they thought their life would be. And they're not doing the job they thought they were going to do. Um, they're feeling like a lack of self worth and, and just it snowballs on itself and becomes it's just negative. Uh, that's why I think most people live in that social media world or the binge watching of TV. It's fake. Because if they're quiet for just a second, start thinking all the negative stuff comes running out. Yeah. Yeah. It's an escape.
Stu Morris:Yeah.
Jim Johnson:So escape
Stu Morris:and entertainment, like you call it is, is the, those are the perfect words for it. It's entertaining escapism. It's, it's what's for. So how do
Jim Johnson:we change that? Like we know we need to do it. How do we do it?
Stu Morris:Okay. So the, it goes back to values, right? The values that you prioritized before you knew who you were, right? People that love you. That didn't mean to screw you up, have screwed you up. Some people that didn't love you and you should have known better not to screw you up, screwed you up, and some people just did their best and you screwed up. And so
Jim Johnson:there's a fourth group. There's some people that intentionally screw you up. There's people that wire
Stu Morris:out for you, right? Hopefully in the formative years between zero and three and four years old, you're not a lot of people out to get you when they are. Yeah. When you're the third, you know, when you're the adopted kid and because parents got married and you're the one odd man out and you're always getting beat down by your bigger brothers and sisters or, or stepmoms something like that, that's the authority figure in your life. That's, there's no reason to dispute that. Prove it. I mean, when someone says that to you as a little kid, that's concrete evidence. A hundred percent. They're sorry, kid, you're a loser. Right. And to grow past that just is crazy to see people that have grown past that. Cause they, they, they know that they can do anything they want and they are the rare, they're the one or 2 percent right. That of us that do whatever we
Jim Johnson:want. I would say a lot of us, um, well, I don't know, I'll use me. Um, I was aware of the self aware. That hey, uh, bad input, no likey, right? Not good. I'm going to go think about other things and what my life could be like, what it might be like whenever I do get out and get on my own. And I kind of got that as like the outcome I was looking for at some point in the future. So what do I need to do now to kind of get there? And I just thought like, I don't know why I was wired that way. For those of us that are out there going, Hey, I know I'm talking in self doubt. I know that I'm being negative to myself. I get that. I see what Stu is saying about this. You don't just flip a switch today and go, Hey, I'm going to start talking positive about myself. Or do you? Like, I don't know.
Stu Morris:There you go. Well, uh, I would say as in starting with your values, the first thing that shaped your values was communication. What people gave you, how you, how they communicated to you that you were loved, that here's where you can get food, this is warm, you're sheltered, you're safe, forms of communication. Communication is how your brain works and, and learns. And I'm, I wouldn't recommend changing that. I would use that form of how you think me. It's a little voice in my head. So for me, you know, affirmations, I would don't, wouldn't normally guess, use the word, but, but finding. Finding empowering things that, that overcome whatever negative, uh, disempowering things come through my head. So it's going to be different for everybody, but there's a format that works fairly well for everybody. Um, and it's based on the same things. So your values, what you value, you think about what you think about your reticular activating system, your little walnut, the bottom of your brain stem that that's saying, is this important? No, is this important? No, is this important? No. And it's a deletion machine. Everything you see, feel, smell, all five senses coming to you all at once, it, it deletes 90 percent of it or else you'd be autistic.
Jim Johnson:So is that what I'm doing whenever my wife's talking to me, the deletion machine, I
Stu Morris:think the white things when you are actually, but, um, yeah, I perforated my air drum scuba diving and I can't hear out of my left ear and, uh, or my right ear and, um, uh, saved, saved by marriage. So many times. Yeah. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. So, so what we value, we think about what we think about, we focus on,'cause our reticular activating says this, you know, you know this, when you buy a new car, you ever, you go down, you buy a new car, or maybe it's a used car, but it's new to you. And then you're driving at home and you see three of'em. Where do they come from? Where does a yellow Volkswagen bug come from? I should have seen them all over the place, right? You don't see them until it becomes important to you. That's your reticular activating system saying, Hey, let's pay attention to this. So you pay attention to, or focus on what's valuable because that's what you're thinking about. What's valuable. You think about what you think about, you focus on what you focus on. You, you start building. Belief systems. You start building really certainty, levels of certainty under your beliefs. You can kind of think of them as legs on a chair, legs on a table. And when you're certain about something, you have a, you believe. And we all know, believe, right? Believe will change the world. So what you believe you'll take action on. If you don't think the chair is going to hold you up, you will not sit in it.
Jim Johnson:I'm sitting, I'm sitting
Stu Morris:there thinking, you can sit down, you flop down in it.
Jim Johnson:Yeah. You don't even think about it. Don't think about it because you know, it's going to be there. Yeah. I'm thinking like how that really, cause I, I kind of have this thing that I've worked on through my own, like. Journey through this world and whatever I desire. So that's probably your value, right? Like if I put those two things together, is what I'm going to think about. That's what's going to happen in my brain. I desire this thing. So I'm thinking about it, which creates my. What I'm going to talk about are my focus, right? Like this is, this is what I'm thinking about all the time. So I'm focusing on it. That's what actually comes out of my mouth. Like that's the words that are coming out of my mouth. And even what I'm self thinking now that I'm like thinking about this, like what's actually happening there, which then leads to what I'm going to do. Like that's how I look at it. Like what I desire is what I'm going to think about, which is what I'm going to say, which is what I'm going to do. Is that in line with this?
Stu Morris:Very
Jim Johnson:much so. Because I believe in it.
Stu Morris:Yep. Values. It starts with values, because that's just innate within us, and we have to prioritize if this is going to kill us or not. So we have to give it a value. That's the reticular activating, doing the same thing as if this is important. Your reticular activating system is part of your brain, and it tells you, boom. This is. Now, the reticular activating system is also based on another, another Premise, which is, is this going to kill you and be careful and have some fear because fear saves you, right? Cat walks over a hot stove, doesn't walk over it again, hot or cold, just, you know, right? So, and that's been drilled into us. So fear is part of the reticular activating system. Fear is part of neuroplasticity or how you think and how you speak to yourself. That we can overcome. We can't eliminate it because it's our, it's how the brain works. So, and to really, we don't want to over, we don't want to. Take it away. We want to overcome it. We want to use it for us. We want to use it as fuel.
We
Stu Morris:will move away from, and if we just. It just take a moment and think about what we don't want and tell our brains that we want to fear that we will move away from what we don't want him to what we want. So that's the that's the fear part. The failure part is what others think of us. That you can overcome because that's not part of your neuroplasticity. That's just being into us. The reason we see this really, really well, that's the fear of failure. We see it hugely in two year olds because the average two year old tries 27 times a day to stand and walk. Most of them don't do that for about four to six months. They, where they can walk evenly with a consistent gait and have balance, so they're stable. Right. And so the thousand times. They fail a thousand times a month. Wow. The average 14 month old kid fails a thousand times a month. So are you saying they do have fear or they
Jim Johnson:don't have fear of it?
Stu Morris:They don't have, they don't have the fear of failure. They have the fear of her getting hurt. Right, but they don't have the fear of failure of what other people are going to think of me. Ah, okay. Because if you, if you trip and fall in the middle of, in the woods and the tree falls down, do you hear it? No. If nobody sees you fail, you didn't fail, right? They're not worried about failure until someone points it out and says, dude, you screwed up right there. That's why Charles and I have a deal, is mistakes are how we learn to move forward, right? So failing forward is, that's a much better way to fail forward than let's run out here and not know what we're doing and just fail at it, right?
That's really good. Not
Stu Morris:the best idea. But if you're just going to do stuff, learn from your failures, embrace them. You don't know how to do it, do it and fail at it and learn. And it's not a failure that way. So there is no failure because we can overcome it. We don't overcome fear. We just, or we don't eliminate fear. We overcome it. Eliminate
Jim Johnson:failure. I always look at it like, okay, I get it. Failure. Like, don't like something you got to try things, right? Like, it's just the nature of us as human beings. We learn from experience, but whenever you, whenever you do it, you know, two or three times, and then it's like, Hey, wait a minute here, you're like grown adult now, like that's the definition of insanity, right? So try it a different way.
Stu Morris:Um, yeah. And that's where we lean towards what we're used to. Um, Because our reticular activating system says, Oh, I know this, right? I know this is good. I know this. Have a beer, have a watch TV. smoke, crack, whatever you do, right? Or, or go, I go, for me, I go surfing, right? I'm a hoedad, so I don't actually go surfing, but I look good. Oh, nice. Perfect. Surfing. Yeah. I'm a real deal when it comes to being a hoedad. Um, but, um, so, I mean, we, we escape to what saves us from that, those feelings, right? So. Yeah.
Jim Johnson:I want to qualify what I said there for a second. I, no problem with, you know, um, this two or three times I fail on something, And, um, I go, Hey, no more of that. I got to try it a different way. That that's the key to it. The different way, like doing a new route, a new way of looking at things. Um, if, if the information already exists, the knowledge already exists on something, stop failing forward, just go get the information from somebody. It makes it a lot easier. But if you're doing something new, creative, um, outside of the norm of things. Um, go fail forward. Now, for example, when I started the podcast, I didn't just go out there and just randomly like, Hey, I'm going to go start a podcast. I went to learn somebody else. I went and got a coach and said, Hey, what, how should I approach this? What is going to actually be engaging that people want to hear. Um, I really worked hard to kind of fine tune my interviewing skills and I want to really bring out you guys, like what you're about, not what Jim is about. And so, um, that shortened my learning curve by like times 10 because I didn't have to go through all this, like break it over and over and over again until I kind of figured it out. Intelligence. Um, I don't know. There's that. Okay. You and I both did this. I call it self deprecating humor, right? You said it earlier. It's not harder to be smarter than you. I said it in much the same way just now. Um, how does that affect our neuroplasticity and cognitive communication?
Stu Morris:Well, it's what you believe. So, um, Jim, I got Julie. Also, my dad died when I was 10. My mom became the resident director of a girl's dorm. So I was raised by women. And 120 new freshmen girls every year. And right. So, so I know some things maybe other men don't know, like they're smarter than us. Just go, just go with it. All right. Just ease into it. And so not only that, but I have Julie and she's smarter than almost anybody. She runs five companies in three continents and stuff. She's an amazing woman. And so. I can, I have that what you have, I can go somewhere else and learn that. But some people, they don't have that knowledge base to say, Oh, I can go learn this somewhere else. As a matter of fact, someone like, uh, like a stepdad said, you're a loser. And they believed it and they never stopped believing it. They didn't build the belief system of I'm going to show you one day. They're just like, Yeah, I'm a loser. And so I'm, I'm done working in the cannery. So I'm just gonna go out for a beer with the rest of the guys and I'll watch comics on TV or something like that. I don't know what's on TV. I can't think of anything. I don't know
Jim Johnson:what's on TV. Probably if you're at that place, you're in a cannery, go have some beers. You're going to probably watch. I don't know. Um, breaking bad Netflix. You're going to binge breaking.
Stu Morris:There you go. Yeah. Cause everybody can afford 20 bucks a month for Netflix. I mean, that's money well spent rather than a subscription to like a book service or John. I mean, yeah. I mean a million other things, right. You can stick your money into that are.
Jim Johnson:So, so one of the things I really wanted to get and talk with you about from the information that you shared with me is this five minute brain hack to become more productive instantly. You know, like you do this thing instantly more productive. I am always about how do I perform better. So I'm interested to find out what this five minute brain hack is that'll let me perform better.
Stu Morris:Well, cool, cool. I'm glad to share it with you. Um, so it's, it's, it's like everything else that we do. We want to train people on what you're already doing, right? So you're already do this every morning, afternoon, all the time. But, and there's just a couple little parts that maybe we'll just add to maybe your routine or something like that. So a five minute hack is like take five one minute segments a day. and wake up in the morning and do one minute of breathing, right? Sounds, Oh, I've heard this before. Have you done it? One minute of breathing every morning. And in three weeks you'll be, you'll get these huge breaths and, and, and, and a trained diaphragm and be able to focus on things while you breathe and you just practice it, but just do a minute of breathing. Right. And then do a minute of gratitude. There's been a two out of five, right? So is this new? No. How does your brain value something? How does your brain list it on the hierarchy of values? It depends on how grateful you are for it, because it could be the most important thing to you, like the roof over your head. And I know 50, 17 year old kids that don't value the roof over their head. Right. But your brain does. Your brain knows like, Oh yeah, you might, you know, say you're going to run away, but I'm not going anywhere. Like, are you really thought this through kind of a thing? So focusing on those things and being grateful for them will move their priority on your values list, which is the Has so many spots and so and you've been evaluating and moving things up and down the hierarchy ladder for so long that you, it's, it's, it's a good, I mean, every the first of every year when you set your goals, you should stop and think about what you value. Right? So we should do that when you change the batteries in your clock, which is at the. When the fall back and spring forward on the clock. So you do those things, right? Another thing that you can do for a simple hack, one minute, a one minute hack journal, right before you go to bed, you want to do two things for one minute, read something inspirational or that's important to you or something that you want to change about yourself. Seriously, one minute and then go to sleep. So you journal about something and it embeds it, as a matter of fact, journaling with writing, thinking, and a lot of times when we journal, we speak out loud, which is awesome. So what we found with neuroplasticity is when you speak something, you're using your body, your diaphragm, your lungs, your vocal cords, and there's more brain activity going into it. So when you speak something, you create a stronger neuro plastic, uh, pathway. Yeah. Right? Connection. And so speaking, it's always better. So if you can journal and speak, you're ramming that stuff in and then listen to something good or read something good before you go to bed. And it's five minutes. It's five minutes that you're spending doing something that's not going to take any time out of your day. But. You could be grateful. You could do breathing exercises. You could do a stretching exercise for one minute will change your body because lymph is the system in your body that moves and excretes all, not all the toxins, but many of the toxins, especially from the hard, like liver, kidneys, um, Um, pancreas, those kind of things in the heart organs, it moves that out because you that your lymph system doesn't have a circulatory system like your blood. Your blood has the heart. Your circulatory system has the heart. The lymph system doesn't have a pump like the heart. So it uses breathing and movement. Looks like I breathe and move and stretch for a minute. You've done three things that totally push toxins out of your body. Now, you might do it for five minutes each and really like, wow, I'll be a real go getter, but I'm telling you a five minute hack. I can show you five things. Do it for 60 seconds. 99 is my, Jim, it's the same people that can go turn on Hulu or, you know, or are going to go on social media are going to go watch TV again. And there's not, but there's going to be the one or 2 percent that changed their life for five minutes in five minutes a day.
Jim Johnson:Well, I'm, anybody
Stu Morris:can do it.
Jim Johnson:I'm proof in the pudding on this. Um, cause I was interested, like, Hey, what are the things? Cause I've never spoken to you before. Um, and I was going to compare them to what am I currently doing? And so I was, you may have noticed me, I was writing, right? And so I do, I do about 10 minutes of breathing work every single day, every single day, 10 minutes of breathing work. I do, um, I do three minutes of gratitude every single day. I do, um, on reading, I'd read a bunch. Like I, I tend to read at least 10 pages of a good book every day. And I also journal every day. I write every day. Um, now the one thing I'm going to do differently. That I wasn't doing because what I normally journal about is like what my day was like like a recap of my day So it sticks like I want to keep the good stuff get rid of the bad stuff And that's why I'm doing the journaling what I'm gonna change is whatever I read I'm gonna journal right about it. I'm gonna say it out. Well, that's good. Yeah Cause I'm actually a person that believes in saying things out loud and the impact that has on them sticking. I teach sales and so we teach a lot of sales to, uh, folks that we work with on the contractor world. And whenever we're teaching them sales and we talk about role play, um, they tend to go home and they like practice in their head. And the ones that practice in their head versus the ones that go and record themselves saying it out loud. Yeah. Massive difference. I mean, huge, massive difference in the ability. Then when they role play together, it's even better, right? This is something that we've noticed is like two people with interaction, real, um, that reality aspect of things, um, makes it stick even better. And they're saying it out loud. And then the one that really like this, and I would love to see some research on this. So if you want to do research or find somebody that does research, When you make that thing competitive, it increases, it increases your focus so it sticks better. And so we've started to create these pods where people will compete on the best role play and everybody else at the table has to score them and they can only give one score to one person. So what I mean by that is, let's say you got six people around the table. So you're going to hear five other people give, um, a role play on a piece of their sales pitch or whatever else it is that you're doing. It could be anything. So they listened to it five times and they have to pick the one that was a five, the best one. And then the one that was a four and the one that was a three, one that was a two, one that was a one. So whenever you were actually doing your presenting, you're really focused. You're trying to earn that five and it's sticking better because of that amount of focus. I don't know if there's any research out there on it. I'd love to do it in our stuff because this is kind of new for us. We didn't learn it from anywhere. And what we have found is that what we're teaching doesn't just stick for a week or two. It sticks for a lifetime. Like they're coming back with way better results than we had before. So yeah, I'm going to implement that. Thank you very much for that. And then I do stretch at least five minutes every day, usually five minutes in the morning, five minutes in the evening before I go to bed. Mostly I learned that from somebody who's like, what does a cat do when a cat wakes up? It stretches. What does a cat do before it goes to bed? It stretches. And it makes sense to me that, uh, that would be a good thing. All right. So, um, can I add some to that real quick? This is interesting. I'm having a blast.
Stu Morris:Go. Me too. Me too. When you're. When you're writing those things down and when you're saying them out loud, when you, when you're doing the gratitude part, the, the, the point of gratitude is it tells your nervous system if it's important to you. So think of something that you're grateful for. And I, you know, you always land on your kids and wife and all that kind of stuff first. But then you work down and you start, right. So I have like my big 15 because I, I, Been doing a gratitude list so many, I can do 15 in like one second, right? Just get them out of the way. I know I'm grateful for them, but, and then maybe it's like Julie's birthday yesterday. So I was more grateful and I had a thing, but ask yourself, how important is this to me? What are other things that are more important? And what's a way that I can make this a priority for me and your brain will find a way because it's, it's programmed to do that from lizard, right? It's programmed to do that to prioritize those values for you. And so if you're thinking about what you're grateful for and have your brain prioritize it, you can't do that yourself. It's like AI, right? I mean, I just can't remember the word, right? But I can look it up on AI. Your brain remembers everything like AI. It's just the retrieval process. But if you ask it the question. Where can I put this in the priority list? How is this important to me? How can I make it more important to me? Why am I grateful for it? Asking questions is how you talk to your brain. That's how you, that's how you communicate with your brain is asking questions, ask those gratitude questions and it'll move that past your values.
Jim Johnson:And you're saying to say those questions out, out loud and the results, the answer is out loud.
Stu Morris:Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Well, whatever you do, if you can do it out loud, you increase the neuroplasticity and you increase the stickiness of the neuroplasticity, but you already do it.
Jim Johnson:Yeah. So that's pretty cool. You're on
Stu Morris:track. You're not on track. You're, you're, you're running on the track.
Jim Johnson:Well, that's good. Like, yeah, that's confirmation that, uh, some of the things I'm doing, um, Have really helped with where I'm at today. Like things are pretty good. You can tell. I mean, I just
Stu Morris:met you too, but you, I can tell, you know, you're one of the ones you're bright and sharp and yeah. Yeah. Love it.
Jim Johnson:Oh, you set me up. This is a two hour.
Stu Morris:This is a five hour podcast, right?
Jim Johnson:You set me up for some of that self deprecating humor right away. Um, so, so another question I have for you, um, this is another one of the things that, uh, came from maybe some of the things that you wanted to. To hit on a secret technique used by top CEOs to make million dollar decisions. Here's something I noticed about your inquiry to me. Um, one was that it was very well written. You communicated really, really well. I get a hundred of these a week and I like may pay attention to three. It was written really, really well. Um, and then you had a great way of putting together these things that were Short, but super interesting in the marketing world. They would call them hooks. They're the thing that you go, Hey, I want to, I want to hear more. Right. Um, so great job on that. I'm assuming that was somewhat intentional by whoever put this together. If it was you or somebody else, but what's the, what's the secret technique?
Stu Morris:Which one are we talking about now, the secret technique that CEOs use to make million dollar decisions? That's cool. Okay, so, the decision. So a lot of times the techniques, so they think their way through it, right? So the technique of thinking your way through a decision is, is like you start with the Abe Lincoln process, right? Right and left, right? Is it good? Is it right? Is it true? Is it valuable? Does it need to be said? Those kinds of things. Um, but when it comes down to, to pulling the trigger on a multimillion dollar decision is they step out. In what they don't know, the future is uncertain and a million dollar decision has ramifications into the future. So you gather, they gather as much information as they can up front from very reliable sources that they know are reliable and have a certain amount of, they have a certain amount of certainty. They have a reasonable, a, a very solid. Uh, amount of certainty to back up why these people can help them and then they weigh those decisions and they ask themselves the same question. Why is this important? Essentially take the gratitude questions. Why is this important to me? What's it going to do in the future? How can, what's, what's more important to me that I might miss out on if I do this, right? Where would I put this in my, in my hierarchy of values, right? Those kind of things. So, before you make a big decision, you need to decide how valuable it is to you. But what's valuable to you is also what's important to you. valuable to your company. If you're making a decision on behalf of your company, or, you know, if you're, if you're a 19 year old kid and you're getting married, that's one decision. And if you're about ready to lay off 1000, you know, sheet metal workers in Ohio or something like that, that's a whole different decision. So you're asking yourself different, different questions. But the process is relatively the same is you're asking yourself those questions, how you think, yeah. You're asking your brain questions on where is this on the level of my values? What? Why is it important to me? What makes it important to me? Where did I come up with this idea that this is important, right? And CEOs are very good at that because they're, I think a minute ago, you kind of said the same thing. You get a hundred of these a week or whatever, a hundred of these a day. So to CEOs, they get a hundred new ideas a day, right?
Jim Johnson:I'm the worst.
Stu Morris:I'm like, dude, you're just started. Right? We, we, we already, we fixed it. Right. That department doesn't even exist anymore. And you found a solution for it. So, um, they have a, they have, they're much better at the bigger picture because they, they oversee those kinds of things. So they bring a lot more data in, but essentially making those same, the same. Questions you can ask yourself to wake up in the morning is how valuable is this to me, to the company, to, and, and they, they have a, they, they step through a process of, of doing that, which is those same questions. I mean, I imagine I could probably find a list of like the 10 super questions that we have and stuff like that, that you can ask yourself, but I mail that to your, send that to you, send it to your audience. But, but it's, it's those same, it's those same types of questions. It's finding out what that value is so that we know what to pay attention to so that we know what we're making, we're going to take action on. So that the actions that we take lead to a destiny or a destination that we want to arrive at that is, uh, yeah,
Jim Johnson:I
Stu Morris:actually think
Jim Johnson:this is, yeah, I think this has gotten harder for CEOs because there's so much more opportunity out there today than there's ever been. There's a million different ways to. create better for your company. And that can be a bunch of different things. It can be like for your employees, the money you make, the profit you make, the products you make, the service you give. There's all these, there's a million different things and a million different ways to, to get there where I think 50 years ago, that was different. Um, you didn't have access to knowledge and information and, uh, the YouTubes and all this stuff. Right. Which I think actually confuses people today. I think they get over information and end up getting pretty confused. And you gave me another bit of comfort there because I am that type of person. I tend to think about like, and, and. I think from a value, like on the good side and value for on the cost side, like what's it going to cost me and sacrifice and effort and energy and all this other stuff. And it allows me to say no more often. I think that's a really valuable trait of CEOs is this ability to say no to things. because you say yes to too many things and you're then split focus and not a lot of good. Yeah.
Yeah,
Jim Johnson:man. That was, that was really, really good, Stu. Um, uh, I think there's a lot of great information in there for our listeners. Um, so I think you mentioned it earlier. Uh, what was it? It was over 51. com. And I just, you know, First things first, I want to ask you why that number because um, I'm on the other side of that at this point. I'm I'm, i'll be 55 in Five days something like that four days. Happy birthday. Mine was the
Stu Morris:19th
Jim Johnson:And I'm like sitting there going, okay, why over 51 is that the point where we all start thinking we're old? Because I don't think that.
Stu Morris:Yeah. Yeah. Nope. Um, a couple of different reasons. Over 50. com was taken.
Okay.
Stu Morris:And I always liked the idea of over 51 because it seems like, uh, you know, when you hit your fifties and that's, uh, people talk about that and there is something to the idea that, well, I'm still 40 and I can, I'm, I'm smart enough. Yeah. And then I've, I've talked to a lot of people who've said that to me, and I've talked to a lot of people who said, yeah, well, you know, I'm over 50 and I'm not quite sure I could pull that off. The only, the only thing I'm talking about is what they're over or under an age, which has almost zero bearing because by the time you're 19, you're about the same age. 19, 20. So for, for women, about 19 for men, about 25, we're a little slower than girls, but, and then our neuroplasticity, thank God. Thank God. We are a little more rubbery in our neuroplasticity longer than girls because they learned so much more than us is, you know, ego. When you're seven years old, you have an ego. You're like, oh my gosh, I can't believe it. Right. It's amazing how well they retain this. I saw a seven year old say that the other day. You don't expect me to wear this like
Jim Johnson:super funny. Um, so,
Stu Morris:uh, yeah, over
Jim Johnson:51 is about, well, see, I think the world has convinced us. And I don't know whose bright idea it was. I don't know if it just kind of coalesced over time, but go to school, get good grades, go to college, get the degree, get the job, work your way up the corporate ladder, work your Work till you're 60, 65, retire, get the house with the picket fence and just enjoy the rest of your life where I'm like, no, I want to enjoy my life right now. Why would I wait for any of that kind of stuff? And so I work really hard, like. For one of the examples, when I turned 50, everybody does the whole, yeah, you're 50, the black balloons and all that other good stuff. I'm like, you guys have all heard that 50 is the new 30, right? Like there's like, that's just where that's at at this point. And so that's the stuff I literally tell myself out loud. I think about, um, my goal is to be in better shape at 55 than I was at 25. And I'm, I'm close. Like I it's, it's a good race between those two. Um, And it is all about like, what do we say to ourselves? What do we think? What do we picture about what our lives are going to be? And this idea of retiring, I think is one of the worst ideas that our society gives to anybody. Um, anybody I know.
Stu Morris:Actually, it was a marketing. The, the idea of retirement was a marketing program from marketers for, um, Retirement plans to companies and things went back when you had a retirement and a company and then now and then get into the market and all that kind of stuff. But the retirement plan was that promise of the fifties. And that was, it was a marketing. It's, it came from,
Jim Johnson:yeah, this is how we can sell some retirement
Stu Morris:plans. Yeah. For marketers. It wasn't something like we had to do.
Jim Johnson:You're going to get to live this life of peace and joy because you have all the money in the world and you don't have to worry about anything and you can just go golf and fish all the time or just hang out. And I'm like, that sounds like a terrible, terrible life.
Stu Morris:And we were, we just finished World War II where like half the men were just gone or not. Yeah, the joints didn't work anymore. And they were going through kind of the same thing we went through in Vietnam, but they were slower process. And I mean, a lot of guys spend a lot of time just hanging out in the front yard. I mean, they don't talk about in the fifties, but it was a lot to get over watching your buddies just get mowed down on the beaches and stuff. Right. And so they came back with a lot of that and then started the country and the baby boom happened. And They, they wanted, at the same time that was happening, they moved into the 60s and were building fallout shelters in Florida, and they're like, for Pete's sake, man, give me a break here. And they're like, retirement. You can retire. You have this money to live on. You can go be free from all this kind of stuff. And it sold like hotcakes. It wasn't like, Oh, we need people. You don't work anymore. So we're getting rid of you. People worked. It was, we worked in your sixties and seventies. I grew up in a little farming community. That's what we do here on the, on the coast. We make asparagus and stuff, right? I mean, I grew up in a little farming community, 800 people. And uh, we worked, I don't know, grandpa worked and then he died. Then we buried him. And then we went back and fixed the fences because farm never stops working. Right. And so it's a whole, this idea of retirement is a whole new idea. There's that. And there's a huge dip in. population growth, like not just stagnant, but China is like negative 13. 13, which is huge numbers. And we are moving into a, into a, the economy of the future, the legacy economy, which is 51 and over are working into their seventies and don't want to retire. Many of them don't want to work for corporate America. They want to work as like, uh, Traveling, you know, travel, see the world and write articles for Wall Street Journal or something like that. And a lot of them do. I talk to a lot of them that I show you should go do this and they do. And so that whole swing is he is not the greeter at Walmart anymore. He is the 70 year old CEO or executive vice president or maybe the janitor, but he's, he's working because he wants to work. Yeah. Or she's working because she wants it. Mostly it's really she. And they have 51 percent of the economy. They, 51 percent of the money, they, they 70, 62 percent of the cars, new cars purchased are 51 and over 60 something percent, 65, 64 percent are over the counter medication purchases, which is I don't know if you heard about this about pharma, but it's a billion dollar industry. So if you can control like 60 percent of that, they are a movement in that thing. And same holds true with the insurance, um, and a new home sales, a new home starts a new loans. Over 51 and over 51 women, they live longer, they own it all, and they're going to continue to own it all for the next 25 years. So if you're not working down this path, if you're, you're still chasing after the tick tock 15 year old and your marketing plan here, the trees, the trees, not going to be there, you know? So the doughnuts, I say. I've
Jim Johnson:always thought of retirement as kind of selfish. Like I gained all this experience. I learned all these things. Um, they've helped me to create a lifestyle that I want to live and I'm just going to go off into the sunset and hang out at my porch and have iced tea and listen to music or whatever. Like, why don't I share that with other people? Why don't I bring value to other folks that are out there and receive value in return or you really do there's fulfilling it. And I think this is an observation thing. I think this is why it is going the way it's going is. We watched what retirement looked like for most people and the people that truly retired like, hey, I'm done hanging it up I'm out and i'm gonna go do my thing Most of them don't last very long
Stu Morris:at all. Well, I mean that that's what they based social security off of The actuarial said nine live past 61. Hmm. Wow. So they, they, they built it. It's a Ponzi scheme. If you and I built a social security administration, they'd throw us in jail for a Ponzi scheme, but yeah, we get to talk about, but, uh, yeah. And people get this idea of like, Oh, I want to retire and do nothing. And people don't want that. And they never did, but also they were from a mindset in the forties and the fifties and the sixties where they didn't think in terms of internet. So we can easily think in terms of reaching a million people because you're like, Oh, my, you know, I, a friend of mine said, Oh gosh, you know, I did this, uh, YouTube thing only had a hundred thousand views. Bro, you know, that's like two football stadiums, right? I mean, what are you, what are you whining about a hundred thousand views for, right? And so we're of a different mindset and that creates more opportunity for us because we can bring content to the world where they can actually reach it now. And we haven't had that because of low orbiting satellites and millions of other things.
Jim Johnson:The next economy is this creator. It is
Stu Morris:the next economy today. It's today's next economy. Yeah. They're making
Jim Johnson:decisions right now. Current right now. It's a thing that we need to be aware of. Um, I, I feel like a lot of the support type positions and stuff like that are going by the wayside with AI, like AI is going to replace a lot of jobs. And so what are you going to do to, this is the only way anybody makes any kind of, um, Reward for their effort. They provide value to somebody else used to be provide value on a factory floor. Then it became a little bit more service and product oriented. And now it's becoming this creator economy, like, Hey, this room, we're going to go do some research and learn some things and, and have some valuable information that I can share with others. And I'm going to bring people that have done likewise onto my show to help you Move forward in your own life and hopefully have this prosperous and expeditious journey that we're all on, on this planet. Stu, this has been great, man. This has been really good. Um, what a
Stu Morris:pleasure, Jim. I've had a ball. I'm, I'm sweating. I'm standing up. I was talking, if I, if I wasn't my, if I wasn't, you know, mic'd up here, I'd have been running around cause I was having a lot of fun.
Jim Johnson:Good. So over 51. com, people should go and check you out there. Um, you do coach folks on cognitive communication so that they can get more out of their lives, which is super cool. I should have done that a long time ago. I should have thought about that one, but that's not what I do. I, I, I work to help people. Create a lifestyle that doesn't have all this pressure that goes along with it to be okay with where things are and to find this sweet spot. So over 51. com, the other thing you're going to do is I think you're going to give people free access to a course on this, if I remember correctly.
Stu Morris:Sure. Yep. Yep. We, we got a course, uh, just to expand your neuroplasticity is about 10 exercises for neuroplasticity. Uh, it's me, you lucky dogs, you got to watch me walk you through about neuroplasticity. And that's a lot of fun. Uh, one thing we were just talking about ahead of time, Jim also is I just finished another book and I know we probably don't talk about two books in one spot, but it's such a fun, fun book. It's a, it's called 102 years. And it's the biography of G. G. Poorman, and she's 102 years, sharp as a tack, active, runs around, does the crossword puzzle, goes for walks, smart as a whip, I mean, like I say, smarter than me, but that's not a huge bar, but, um, just, um, Uh, a delightful, delightful woman and she's had a lot of very close relationships, a lot of relationships around her and that's kept her neuroplastic. So one of the things you're talking about is, you know, we used to do it in the cannery. We used to build a legacy and I was the CEO of a company and now we can add value to other people, but it's value that value through relationships. Is I think where we connect where we can connect with people and that builds that neuroplasticity and she has that and so that books coming out like the book was going to come out next year, but I think what a fun thing to give away because this fits feeds right into this. So it's um, It's ten, it's ten secrets of literally how she stayed neuroplastic and how you can too. And, and I thought if you liked it, it'd be good for your audience. If you like it for your audience, we'd love to give that away. It's a regular 24. 99. You can buy it on Amazon 24. 99 next year or I'll give it to you. If email me at, uh, stewart stu morris.com.
Jim Johnson:stu@stumorris.com. Got it. Okay. Yep. So that I repeated that so my people like put it into the show notes and all that as good stuff. So they'll take care of that. Thank
Stu Morris:you. Um, and you can get to me either way, I mean over 50 one.com or stewart stew morris.com. But, um, yeah, you, you, you, you. You smoke signal me you want the book. I'll make sure it gets in your email box for sure.
Jim Johnson:Yeah. If you can't remember any of all that, you can get ahold of me here at Jim at prosperous human. com. And we'll help you out with that as well. If you have any questions, feedback, anything like that, uh, feel free to put them in the notes down below and comments. If you're watching on YouTube, if you're listening on one of the podcast services, give a like, and subscribe all that good fun stuff. Uh, hopefully you found this valuable today. Hopefully it's something that's going to help you with one of those seven elements and that's one is creativity and curiosity. But there's also this connection and a community part that Stu just hit right there at the very end. We're going to leave it there and how important that is to each of our lives. And we'll
Stu Morris:talk about
Jim Johnson:that on a future show. Stu, great to have you on board. Thanks for being on our show today. And, uh, we'll see you in the future. I hope. Thank you. I look forward to it. Thank you very much, John. Awesome. Thank you very much. Hey guys, that was our show today. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope it helps you start to look at some of the things in your own life. About, Hey, how can I be around longer, provide value longer, leave legacy and impact longer and be this person that you want to be and to live the lifestyle that you want to live and hopefully enjoy this prosperous and expeditious journey that we're all on together by getting in community with others that you surround yourselves with to help you along the way. I'm Jim Johnson, your host on the show today, and we will see you on our next episode.