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Life Ecology Organization THE BRAIN SCIENCE OF SUCCESS, TRUE HAPPINESS AND OPTIMAL
HEALTH TESTIMONIALS
“What I’ve learned has possibly saved my life, literally.”
“Learning about what holds people back is really interesting because most of those things are misunderstood by almost
everyone.”
“I have tried to think about challenges in different ways since we started the LEO Program.”
“My perspective on life has changed. I know which things feed the lower brain and end up harming my potential. I have also
learned that life is great, and that if handled correctly, beauty can be found in any situation.”
“The LEO Program is the only program I have ever come across that takes a holistic and scientific approach to understanding
and transforming yourself to a healthier and happier you.”
“It has changed the way I think. I’ve become an observer of my mind and the way it functions. I’ve become so much more
aware of my subconscious and how it influences my decisions”. – January 2018
“A simple, yet brilliant set of tools to work with your body (instead of against it) to get the best results from tough situations.
This series changed my life”. – January 2018
“The LEO Program has given me enhanced lenses through which I view and approach life events, especially those
unplanned, unwanted events. LEO has also given me some tools through which I can coach myself through stressful
situations, taking note my reactions in a thoughtful way and moving on”.- January 2018
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Lower Brain Higher Brain
Presentation Summary
• Unlimited potential, The WHY of constant growth
• Survival biology, self acceptance, and self distrust
• Three Barriers to excellence in everything
• Six Accelerants for excellence in everything
• Joyful scientist, transformation, teacher
No matter where!
Teams
Golf
Webinars
Chronic Pain
LEO Results and Implications
Evidence of LEO Impact
Hamilton Depression Inventory
Zung Self-rating Anxiety
Zung Self-rating Depression Scales
World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF)
Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC)
Ryff Scales of Psychological Well-Being
Golf overall summary
Dramatic improvement in Stress Resistance/resilience
Total team score,
each line is a
tournament
Dramatic improvement in Stress Resistance/resilience
BEFORE
Total team score,
each line is a
tournament
AFTER
This is what your brain can do!
• 100% group level success
• Substantial reduction in anxiety,
depression, fear, and even addiction
• Better work and athletic performance
• 18-22 year olds...
• Highly brain malleable and stress
resistance and resilience quickly
Americans in Crisis (and WHY)
•Depression
•Illegal drug death
•Alcoholism
•Violent death
•Poor engagement
•Political chaos
1.3 million all wars combined over 200 years
1.5 million deaths from guns in past 50 years
40,000 per year illegal drug deaths
Behavior related deaths 1 million PER YEAR
Obesity, alcohol, smoking, violence...
Going to get worse
Caucasian men 30-50
Death as a symptom
Wealthy nation! So WHY?
#1 economy in the world?
China or USA?
#1 USA
China or USA?
#1 USA
China or USA?
What the heck!
Why?
Anxiety!
•Loss of identity
•Rapidly changing world
•Robots, hungry nations,
immigrants
•Every industry getting disrupted
•Healthcare just starting
•Can’t adapt
This is a war!
Revolution?
There is hope!
We need you
First strengthen yourself then teach
The location of the war?
Inside your brain!
What is neuroplasticity?
What is the nervous system?
Nun’s Study
PBS Brain and girl with hemilobectomy
Number memory
Neural Networks
No evidence great because of talent
100% evidence that hours e.g. Mozart
Peak by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
Neuroplasticity
Scary responsibility?!
We got you!
Our additional suggestions for where
to apply this neuroplasticity ability
and how to make it easier
In Summary…
• Unlimited growth/power
• Never meaningless job/role
• Performance management=
networks you keep
• Easier motivation
• We can ALL grow our neural networks till the day we die!
War! Revolution? The great battle in the brain and the one tool
Lower Brain Higher Brain
10 Lower Brain Problems 10 Higher Brain Gifts
Stress Stress resistant/resilience
ADHD Focus and functional IQ
Addiction Love/peace/joy
Lethargy/depression Optimism/energy
Rigid thinking Creativity
Lost highs/lower brain dominance Emotional openness/self-awareness
Why Lower Brain?
Americans in crisis
30 40 50 60 70+
Average life expectancy for most of human history?
Average life expectancy for most of human history?
30
Cancer Heart
Disease
Exposure Starvation Infection Predators
What were the top 3 causes of death
for most of human history?
Starvation, predators, exposure to elements
What were the top 3 causes of death
for most of human history?
What happens when the food runs
out?
5,000 vs 5,000,000 years
What are the best strategies for
surviving predators, climate and starvation?
What are the best strategies for
surviving predators, climate and starvation?
Knowledge Tools Tribe Cave
Which strategy can deal with all death sources? (Animal Predators, human predators, famine, exposure to elements)
Which strategy can deal with all death sources? (Animal Predators, human predators, famine, exposure to elements)
Hibernation
LB says “I got this”
•“Hibernation”
•Calorie burn + preserve
•New discovery!
Strategy #1
Cortisol=stress=death message
Be careful
Depression and anxiety=survival powers System overload
Science of sensitives
Gluttony Cortisol Hibernate
Sloth Cortisol Hibernate
Lust Dopamine Tribe
Greed Dopamine Resources
Wrath Adrenaline Status and Resources
Envy Dopamine Status
Pride Dopamine Status
Information Dopamine Resources
Communication Dopamine Tribe
Thinking Dopamine, Cortisol, Adrenaline Everything
Social Dopamine and Oxytocin Tribe
Strategy #2
Seven Eleven Deadly sins
Strategy #3
• Hormones (cortisol, oxytocin)
• Neurotransmitters (dopamine, serotonin, GABA, adrenaline)
• Now >>>Automatic
Bike Video
Automatic=No Trust
Decision Making
• Students
• Mates
• Consumption
Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
Leonard Mlodinow
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Strategy #4
Why are we addicted to judgement?
Strategy #5
Fear
Trust
Narrow
Lower Brain Tricks
Strategy
1. Cortisol
2. NT + hormones
1. Pride
3. Automaticity
4. Judgement
5. Fear
The Triangle of Doom in Action Introducing the Lower brain!
(Judgment)
(Fear + Automatic)
(Amplify)
(Pride + Deadly Sins)
(Stress)
A.I. problem is here, right now, inside us!
• Lower Brain colliding with modern world
• Too much dopamine, cortisol, thinking
• Anxiety, depression, fear, FOMO, addiction
• Best Buy and life
• **Don’t beat yourself up
• Have fun cracking your code
• Get ready for code cracking tools!
Takeaways so far…
• American society in crisis
• The war within and vital role of managers
• Your unlimited potential
• The one great tool: HB vs LB
• DON’T BE SO HARD ON YOURSELF AND OTHERS
• DON’T TRUST YOURSELF
• It’s you against your robot
• Must become a scientist
• Growth mindset=FUN
• Start launching tools!
• Life is never boring, always meaningful (6 v 3)
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with
the song still in them.
Henry David Thoreau
Lower Brain Higher Brain
Why HB Activate?
HB
Raining dopamine
above with network sparking!
LB
Rollercoaster dopamine
with suffering as external dependent
Happiness Levels
Go ahead and get high! Sin vs addiction trade vs turtle
Individual
Empowerment
Group
Empowerment Organization
Empowerment
Resilience Fearless Fulfilled
At the level of
Q&A
Back to the tricky devil, Lower Brain
So what do we about this Lower
Brain problem?
Setting the stage for brain empowerment
• Irritation scenario
• Prompting list
• Tool applied to the scenario
• Change feeling/reaction?
• Repeat
Uncomfortable situations to master
• Expressing your emotions
• Not being smartest person in the room
• Feedback received
• Feedback delivered and negative response
• Gossip and bragging
• Accountability (self or others)
• Creative risk taking including offering ideas
• Challenging other’s ideas
Practice!
• FEEL it in your mind, heart, and gut
• Label as LB and avoid temporary depression and
anxiety
• Stay HB in dealing
The Triangle of Doom in Action
The Triangle of Doom in Action
Mindfulness on Steroids
PDA
• Pause and delay
• Ask the questions
• Life or death?
• Food on the table?
• What should I do?
• What negative emotion?
• OUCH?
Is it important to feel good about yourself?
The Triangle of Doom in Action
Visual of “good” outcome
Normal
Outcome realized “chasing the high”
Normal
Outcome not realized
Normal
Unexpected “good”
Normal
Don’t Get on The Rollercoaster
Pride, pleasure, pain
• Nucleus Accumbens
• Dopamine trickery
• Amazing instant addiction ability
• Avoid pleasure and pride expectations
• Avoid the roller coaster
• Success is luck argument
• Gratitude not pride or pleasure
The Triangle of Doom in Action
Breath!
The Triangle of Doom in Action
Addicted to Judgement?
“There is nothing either good or bad, but
thinking makes it so”
-Shakespeare
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed
under CC BY-SA
No Bad
• No bad people
• No bad situation (self story, dopamine trick)
• No bad self, Best Buy
• Unlimited, stable, higher highs above
• The Six
The Triangle of Doom in Action
Gratitude in a new light
Build your own mental checklist of
gratitude
Visualize your difficult scenario and
imagine seeing/feeling your gratitude
checklist at the same time
HB activation in general
• Power of meditation
• Parts of the brain
• Scientific definition
• Broad=unintimidating
• Accelerant for the virtuous cycle of HB>LB
• Time and quality as with everything
Deep
Meditation
Chapter 15: Deep Meditation
Diagram 25: Concentrative meditation
Diagram 26: Non-directive meditation
Scientist of Self
• From no shame/guilt/pride to only beauty always
• Shame/guilt/pride=SCM hides you
• Self-awareness + self-acceptance + self-scientist + self-engineer
• Stress resistance/resilience
• Fearless accountability, growth, and innovation
• All networks growing=rich life
Practical suggestions to become a self scientist
• Journal, journal, journal
• Tools of Titans
• Accountability partners-as many as possible
• Measure
• Process not personal
• Once the pump is primed...
Good to Great
Leadership
Difficult conversations
Decision making
Analysis
Innovation
Customer service
Anything!
Anything= Process= Neural network
Genius anyone?
Peak by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
Accelerant
(Increased HB)
Barriers
(Decreased LB)
• Fear of Unknown (Basal Ganglia)
• FOMO/Pleasure Addiction (Nucleus Accumbens)
• Pride/Social Status Addiction (Nucleus
Accumbens)
• Connection-Empathy/Trust Networks (MPFC + BG)
• Creative- Cortical Networks (Cerebral Cortex)
• Champion- Focus Networks (LPFC)
• Celebrate- Joy/Love Networks (Insula, ACC)
• Content- Peace Networks (MPFC)
• Command – Self Mastery Networks (MPFC + BG)
Total Fulfillment with Fearless Creativity and Growth
Connection-Empathy/Trust Networks (MPFC + BG)
Creative- Cortical Networks (Cerebral Cortex)
Champion- Focus Networks (LPFC)
Celebrate- Joy/Love Networks (Insula, ACC)
Content- Peace Networks (MPFC)
Command – Self Mastery Networks (MPFC + BG)
Fear of Unknown (Basal Ganglia)
FOMO/Pleasure Addiction (Nucleus Accumbens)
Pride/Social Status Addiction (Nucleus Accumbens)
“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it;
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Get high from above!
The joy of a learning organization (community)
• Easier management
• No high like winning together
• We love to learn
• Accelerates growth
• Security/competitive advantage
• Replicate model throughout life
• Engagement
• Increased top line
• Accountability
• Increased bottom line
The Triangle of Doom in Action
5 I’s and the power of non-thinking
• Inquiry
• Iteration
• Intuition
• Inspiration
• Integration
The Triangle of Doom in Action
3 D’s
Discomfort
Data
Design
• Growth mindset- no rollercoaster
• Resistant/resilient to stress
• Open Higher Brain networks
• Widen which networks
• Together = social networks
• Holistic/hope
Growth Summary
• All areas of life
• Creative joy
• Engagement
• Excellent
• Agile on steroids
• Joy of agile
• Complete brain
• Complete team
• Social transformation
• Social responsibility on steroids
• Joy of mentoring
+
Solution is not to withdraw
• Stop the LB
• Increase stress resilience and resistance
• Grow those networks
• Creatively and growth fearless
• Fulfilled
• Repeat
Surprises of Brain Science Empowerment Tools
#1 Unlimited Growth, thoughts, quick
#2 NP+HB vs LB= profound
#3 Depression, anxiety…
#4 Pride+ FOMO+ Auto=Can’t trust self
#5 LB destructive but stoppable
#1 Dream big
#2 “Am I HB or LB right now”
#3 Compassion for self/others
#4 Self acceptance + scientist
#6 Gratitude=LB avoidance
#7 HB activation is the best action possible
#5 PDA, breath, OUCH, avoid 3 P’s, No bad, false
story PRACTICE!
#6 Gratitude checklist neuro-network
#7 HB v LB, time, quality
#8 Learning organizations to thrive #8 Build psychologically safe and courageous teams
#9 Get high from the inside #9 Shrink 3 LB networks expand 6 HB networks
• Raj before/after story
• Am Fam story
• Testimonials=hope
• Life is never ordinary (6 v3)
• Leadership and
organizations=game
• Fulfillment saves the world
Thank
You
Q&A
Life Ecology Organization THE BRAIN SCIENCE OF SUCCESS, TRUE HAPPINESS AND OPTIMAL
HEALTH TESTIMONIALS
“What I’ve learned has possibly saved my life, literally.”
“Learning about what holds people back is really interesting because most of those things are misunderstood by almost
everyone.”
“I have tried to think about challenges in different ways since we started the LEO Program.”
“My perspective on life has changed. I know which things feed the lower brain and end up harming my potential. I have also
learned that life is great, and that if handled correctly, beauty can be found in any situation.”
“The LEO Program is the only program I have ever come across that takes a holistic and scientific approach to understanding
and transforming yourself to a healthier and happier you.”
“It has changed the way I think. I’ve become an observer of my mind and the way it functions. I’ve become so much more
aware of my subconscious and how it influences my decisions”. – January 2018
“A simple, yet brilliant set of tools to work with your body (instead of against it) to get the best results from tough situations.
This series changed my life”. – January 2018
“The LEO Program has given me enhanced lenses through which I view and approach life events, especially those
unplanned, unwanted events. LEO has also given me some tools through which I can coach myself through stressful
situations, taking note my reactions in a thoughtful way and moving on”.- January 2018