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It has stood the test of time.
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God's book, the Bible.
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Still relevant in
today's complex world.
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It Is Written,
sharing hope around the globe.
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JB: I'm John Bradshaw,
and this is It Is Written.
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Thanks for joining me today.
The Bible says that we are
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fearfully and wonderfully
made. When you consider
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the human body, the human
mind, the body is a masterpiece
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of creation.
Perhaps it was God's
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most outstanding work,
and when you look at the body,
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the center, or the
nerve center, is the brain.
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We all have one.
Some of us use it to some
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effect, and some, we might
want to do a little bit better.
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My guest today, special
guest, is Dr. Neil Nedley.
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He's the president of
Nedley Health Solutions.
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Dr. Nedley, thanks
for joining me today.
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NN: Thank you. Great to be here.
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JB: Now often, we talk
about the brain in terms of IQ.
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Some a little
higher, some a little lower.
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NN: Yes. JB: Let's explore this
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a bit today. Tell
me first, what is IQ?
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NN: Well, IQ can be
explained very simply.
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It's our capacity to learn,
retain and apply knowledge.
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Sounds pretty simple,
but there's a lot to learning
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and retaining as well
as our ability to apply.
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JB: Now, we talk about IQ
tests. You know, we've probably
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all taken an IQ
test from time to time.
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How do you measure IQ?
NN: Some people might have a
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very low IQ, and actually score
very high on an IQ test because
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they're good at test
taking. And then there's other
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individuals that would be
very low on an IQ score but yet
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they're actually
brilliant individuals.
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But for 80 percent of us they're
a fairly accurate rendition
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of our actual capacity,
at that time, to learn,
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retain and apply
knowledge. JB: Let's talk about
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intelligence, how that affects
a person in practical terms.
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NN: Well, in practical terms
there's actually significant
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benefits. First
of all, if you are in
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school, you can be a lot
more efficient in studying.
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That means that you can live a
more balanced life, even though
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you're in an
academically rigorous program.
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Also, studies show
that you're more logical,
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you're more persuasive,
you have greater influence
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as a result of that, and if
this is a priority of yours,
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you're more
likely to become wealthy.
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In addition, you
actually live longer.
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We now know that higher
intelligent people, in general,
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live significantly
longer than people who aren't.
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JB: There's a
difference, isn't there,
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between
intelligence and common sense.
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NN: Well, there is.
People with higher intelligence
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actually do have
higher common sense.
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But you know, just because you
weren't at the top of your class
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doesn't mean necessarily
that you weren't intelligent.
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Academic standing is
not necessarily related
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to intelligence. In
other words, there may be
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very bright people in the
classroom that don't do well
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in school, and
the other way around
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can happen. And of
course that has to do
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more with motivation at
the time that you're in school.
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JB: Are there
myths about intelligence?
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Are there some
challenges to what we accept as
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the standards on the subject?
NN: There are myths because a
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lot of people assume that if
you're highly intelligent you're
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very irritating to be around.
It is true, some people that are
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highly intelligent are
very irritating to be around,
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but actually they're no more or
less irritating than people of
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average or lower intelligence.
How enjoyable we are to be
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around has more to do
with our emotional intelligence
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than our general intelligence.
And so, if you happen have both,
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you can be a very enjoyable
person to be around even though
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you have high IQ.
JB: What can you do about
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your intelligence?
Can you improve it?
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NN: Well, one of the
myths is that genetics
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is all that matters. Your
lifestyle practices and the
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environment that you choose to
surround yourself with actually
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has much more to do with your
intelligence, and your ability
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to develop a much
higher IQ, as you were asking,
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than your genetics. JB:
What do those numbers mean?
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NN: Yeah, 100
is your average IQ.
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And for every 10 points
it's a standard deviation.
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So if you're 90, you're
almost in the bottom third
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of the nation. If
you're 110, you're almost in
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the top third of the nation.
120, you'd be in the top 20
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percentile of the nation.
130, you'd be getting close to
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the top 5
percentile of the nation.
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140, you'd be up
there at the 1 percentile.
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JB: What's a
genius? NN: 160 is a genius
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in anyone's book, 'cause
you're 1 out of 1,000 people,
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as far as your ability to learn,
retain and apply knowledge.
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So, those people are
absolutely brilliant.
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JB: This becomes important,
too, when I think about my role
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as a father. I have
a couple of children
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I would like to see do
very well in this world.
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NN: Yes. JB:
And, one would expect,
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understanding that intelligence
isn't the only factor that's
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going to help a child progress,
but one would expect the sharper
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we can help them
be-- NN: Absolutely.
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JB: --the better they're
going to do in this world.
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NN: Absolutely. JB:
Let's go back and talk about
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people who have
improved their intelligence.
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Have you got some examples?
NN: Oh yes, absolutely.
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We had an individual
who came to us, IQ of 80.
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This individual had gone from
one grade to another in a public
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high school system,
without actually passing.
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And, he was a nice
guy. You know, he was liked.
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But he just didn't
have it. He actually came
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to our restaurant. And
he changed his diet some,
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and he started to get interested
in things of the Bible, and he
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actually changed his life.
Became a converted individual.
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And the owner of the restaurant,
which isn't me, but the owner of
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the restaurant recommended
he go to college to become
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a Bible worker. And at
the end I talked to him,
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and he said he barely made it.
You know, we actually got him up
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there and he wasn't the last
in his class, and he's starting
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to do a little better.
Well, he worked as a Bible
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worker for a couple of years and
he came back to the restaurant.
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I happened to be eating
there. And he says, "You know,
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Dr. Nedley, I think
I'd be more effective
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as a physician. What do you
think about me being a doctor?"
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And I'll just have to
tell you, I smiled and I said,
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"You know, being a
physician is not for everybody.
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It's something that, it may
be nice." But then I thought,
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"You know, I
can't say for sure that
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it wouldn't be for you,
but you would definitely have
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to improve your capacity
to learn, retain and apply
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knowledge." And so, he said,
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"I'm all in." Fortunately,
Les had what we call emotional
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intelligence, which is a
tremendous amount of motivation.
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And that's one of the things
you have to have, if you want to
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really improve your IQ.
JB: I want to find out what
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happened to this gentleman.
We'll do that in just a moment.
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How can somebody below average
turn around and embrace the idea
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of being a
physician? This is important.
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How can we sharpen what we have,
how can we take the gifts that
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we seem to naturally have been
given by God, and bring them
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back to God and say,
"Lord, you gave me two talents
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but I multiplied
them." We'll find out
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in just a moment.
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JB: It's one thing to read the
Bible, another thing to stop and
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consider what it says
and take that seriously.
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Here's a verse that's a
little challenging, actually.
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Philippians 4:6 says,
"Be anxious for nothing,
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but in everything by prayer and
supplication with thanksgiving,
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let your requests
be made know to God."
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Now, if I asked you if
you believe Philippians 4:6,
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you'd say, sure I do.
But if I ask you if you're
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anxious for nothing, it
might be a different story.
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And why is that? If
you can trust God, you can
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have certainty that he's
got your situation in hand.
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He's got your back. He
knows what you're going
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through, and he's
going to take care of you.
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Now, that takes some faith,
but if you can learn to trust
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God in those moments when
you're tempted to be anxious,
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you'll see your
faith in God will grow,
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and God will
always come through.
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I'm John Bradshaw
for It Is Written.
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Let's live today by every word.
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JB: This is It Is
Written. I'm John Bradshaw.
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I'm joined today
by the president of
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Nedley Health
Solutions, Dr. Neil Nedley.
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Dr. Nedley, thanks
for being here today.
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NN: Thank you. JB:
We began talking a few
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moments ago about somebody
who was, you said had an IQ
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of about 80.
Various things happened
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in this individual's
life. He is now talking about
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becoming a physician.
Tell me, what happened?
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NN: Well, it took some time,
but I broke down to him the ways
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in which you can
improve your intelligence,
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and a lot of it had to
do with lifestyle things
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and nutritional
things, and things that he's
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surrounding himself
with. And he was all in.
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And, I had him work on that for
about a year, and then he said,
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"Okay, I'm going to
pre-med. Going to the University
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of Oklahoma."
And he was taking now
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hard sciences.
And he was struggling,
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of course, because he
hadn't-- remember, this guy
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hadn't really learned anything
in high school, and he hadn't
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really taken any
pre-work, and so his first grade
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in biology and
chemistry was a C+.
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And the next semester he
had gotten it up to a B+.
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And then, as he was advancing
further he started getting A-
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and then, pretty soon,
he was ready for his MCAT
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and he scored well enough.
to get into medical school
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And his IQ went
from 80 to over 120.
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But his story is
not necessarily unique.
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If you remember, Ben Carson
was at the bottom of his class.
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JB: Dr. Ben Carson,
world famous neurosurgeon.
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NN: That's right.
Thought to be not intelligent.
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Actually hated poverty and
was a kind of an emotional and
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intellectual wreck. And
his mother came home and
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said, "No TV, Ben. And
not only that, you're going
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to write a book report.
Take out not a novel book
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but an educational book.
Two books, and write a book
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report before you get
any privileges around here."
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Then, he also began to
listen to music--that also
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enhances the brain.
Within a year he went
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from the bottom of the
class to the top of the class.
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And he tells a story.
He said he no longer hated
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poverty at that point.
He still was dirt poor,
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and the family
was, but he knew poverty
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was temporary. Not
only did he become a
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physician, he became a top
neurosurgeon in the country,
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doing things that no other
neurosurgeon had ever done.
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We are endowed and
created with wonderful brains.
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You know, this
two-and-a-half-pound organ
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that we're all carrying
has capacity for improvement,
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really in all of us.
Unless you're totally lacking
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a lobe of your brain.
You know, there are some kids
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that are born without frontal
lobes, for instance, where there
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are severe genetic
problems and mutations.
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But if you have a brain
where you can do things,
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like most other human
beings, you have a brain
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that can dramatically improve.
JB: So a lot of people are,
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and if I just use the phrase,
without wanting to be crass,
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a lot of people are
dumbing themselves down.
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NN: Exactly. JB: What
are some of the things
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that people do to
themselves that hurt themselves
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and degrade their intelligence?
NN: Well, the frontal lobe of
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the brain is kind of where
intelligence all comes together.
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It's to be the
control center of the brain.
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And there are simple things
that people do to suppress
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their frontal lobe.
Alcohol, drugs, you know, even,
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a lot of people
are not aware of it;
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- caffeine actually
will lower the circulation of
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the frontal lobe of the
brain. NFL quarterbacks are now
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told to consume zero caffeine.
And it's not their athletic
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ability that's
the most important.
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It's their
decision-making ability.
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And so, there is a lot of simple
things we can do to enhance
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our brains and
produce a positive benefit.
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JB: That's a lot
of the population.
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Caffeine,
nicotine, alcohol, drugs.
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NN: That's right. JB:
Marijuana becoming legal.
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NN: The largest study
showed that marijuana actually,
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when you use it regularly,
permanently lowers IQ.
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Not only that, it lowers
motivation to levels that are at
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the bottom of the scale, as
far as emotional intelligence
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and motivation. JB:
Tell me a little bit about
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the structure of the brain--
a little--but particularly in
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relation to
intelligence. NN: Okay.
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Well, where the ear is at, above
the ear is the temporal lobe.
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That's actually
where our memory is,
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so our verbal and
declarative memory actually is
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there in the side of the brain.
In the middle portion of the
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brain is the parietal lobe.
That's where our vocabulary
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intelligence, it's
actually where our mathematical
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ability is centered. In
the back of the brain is
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where our
visual-spatial orientation is,
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another thing that has
to do with intelligence.
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In the back bottom of the
brain is where our athletic
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intelligence comes
from, our ability to perform
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things gracefully and
with ease athletically.
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And then the frontal lobe
of the brain is the area where
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spirituality, morality
and the will is centered.
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But on top of that, it's
where our analysis is, as well.
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And so, our ability to make
good decisions is actually right
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there in the front
portion of the brain.
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JB: You can negatively affect
this front part of the brain.
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NN: Absolutely. JB:
It's a little bit like this,
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surely. If I want
to run a marathon,
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I want to be physically fit.
Or, if I want to be able to walk
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home from school or simply
function well, I want to be
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physically fit. And so
I know that breakfast at
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the fast food restaurant every
day, and being a couch potato,
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isn't going to help
me become physically fit.
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We understand that.
Pretty well everybody knows it.
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NN: That's right. JB:
But, in just the same way
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there are things you can do
to enhance your frontal lobe.
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NN: Correct. JB: Not
everybody knows that.
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NN: That's
right. JB: Tell me more.
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NN: Well, you know,
it's not just exercising
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the frontal lobe. You
know, we think, well, to do
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a marathon we have to exercise,
but you know the good nutrition
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part is important, and a lot
of other lifestyle components,
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if we're really going to
have the competitive edge.
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And the same is true
with the frontal lobe.
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Yes, we do need to exercise
it, but in addition we need
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to feed it right. So
nutrition is critically
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important. We need
to entertain it right,
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as well, because some forms
of entertainment are going to
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dramatically suppress
this area of the brain.
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And there's a lot
of factors involved.
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JB: And what strikes me as very
important is that our spiritual
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development is likewise
centered in the frontal lobe.
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NN: Exactly. JB:
That's extremely important.
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I'm going to ask you
more about that in a moment.
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How can we learn
to thrive spiritually?
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How can we look after our brains
in such a way that we're more
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apt to hear the voice of
God, have a more vital spiritual
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relationship and, ultimately,
spend eternity with God?
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We'll find out
more in just a moment.
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JB: This is It Is Written.
Thanks for joining me today.
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I'm John Bradshaw, and I'm
joined by Dr. Neil Nedley from
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Nedley Health Solutions.
Dr. Nedley is the president of
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Nedley Health
Solutions. Dr. Nedley, we came
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to a really important
place just a moment ago.
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NN: Yes. JB: We
can do something about
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the health of our frontal
lobe, this part of our brain
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behind the forehead. We
can affect that frontal lobe
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so that it has a detrimental
effect on our intelligence,
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or a positive
effect on our intelligence.
00:16:39.23\00:16:40.86
NN: That's right.
JB: It can negatively
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or positively affect
our spiritual capacity,
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our relationship
with God. NN: Correct.
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Yes, absolutely. JB:
You talked about what
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might impair the frontal lobe.
Now, it's less about how I might
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do on a test in school but more
about how I might be able to
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function as a
believer in God. NN: Yes.
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JB: Let's walk again through
some of the things that damage
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frontal lobe capacity.
NN: Well, adverse drugs,
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recreational drugs in general,
all suppress the frontal lobe.
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JB: What do they
do? NN: They lower IQ
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and they lower EQ.
And emotional intelligence
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is also the
frontal part of the brain.
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Our motivational area actually
comes from the frontal lobe
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of the brain. JB:
Not hard to imagine
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chemicals doing
something bad to the brain.
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NN: Yeah, and they
rev up the limbic system.
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So they imbalance the brain by
having the emotional part of the
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brain be much more overriding
than the control center
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of the brain. And
thus people on these drugs
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are managed by their
emotions instead of being able
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to manage their emotions.
JB: We know alcohol is not good.
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NN: No. JB: But
now, now somebody's
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sitting today
thinking, wait a minute.
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It's not just, well, I think
it's okay to have an occasional
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this or that.
Now, this affects my
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relationship
with God. NN: Correct.
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JB: By suppressing
frontal lobe function.
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How does alcohol do that?
NN: Well, alcohol actually
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impairs the frontal lobe before
it affects even the coordination
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system. So,
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our judgment goes down first.
And you know, baseball players
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have kind of mocked alcohol
a little bit, because it turns
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out, under the influence
of alcohol they can still, if
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they're skilled at
doing so, hit a curve ball out
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of the baseball
park. That's how good their
00:18:14.32\00:18:16.16
coordination is. If
they're just at the legal
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limit, for instance, or
just had a drink or two.
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But studies show they
are 10 times as likely to get
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into an automobile
accident, when they go out.
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And it's not because
of their coordination,
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it's because of their judgment.
JB: Alcohol affects judgment.
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NN: Yes. JB: In a
relationship with God.
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NN: Yeah, absolutely,
JB: You've got to have
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good judgment.
NN: You've got to have
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good judgment. JB:
Nicotine must be the same.
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NN: Nicotine has a more subtle
effect, but it also suppresses
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the frontal lobe of the brain.
JB: You mentioned entertainment?
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NN: Entertainment. JB:
Now, now, this affects us.
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NN: Yes. JB: I
mean, people, everybody.
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NN: That's
right. JB: Tell me more.
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NN: Well, these
fast-moving video games.
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Even the average entertainment
television program.
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This is actually good, that
your listeners are not watching
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entertainment television
programming, because the rapid
00:19:04.17\00:19:07.58
scene of reference,
every three- to five-second
00:19:07.58\00:19:09.84
change in reference
scene, will actually suppress
00:19:09.84\00:19:13.08
their frontal lobe 90
seconds into watching it,
00:19:13.08\00:19:16.38
and you'll see it on
EEGs where they go into
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alpha-wave rhythm.
Their memory can still work,
00:19:18.55\00:19:21.06
their emotions can work,
but they're no longer critically
00:19:21.06\00:19:23.66
analyzing the information that's
coming in, and thus hideous
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things can happen, in
front of their very eyes,
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and they're just taking it in,
and they're not rejecting it.
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And that, of course,
is a very dangerous thing
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and it lowers intelligence.
JB: We feel that a kid playing
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a video game where he's
dismembering or decapitating
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or killing beings every few
seconds, we look at that and
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say, that's bad for
a kid's development.
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Is it really bad? NN: It is bad.
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It is bad. Now
here's the argument.
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And this takes some degree of
intelligence, and also a degree
00:19:55.19\00:19:58.03
of honesty, for those that
say hey, you know, it might
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increase violence 8 percentile.
In fact, there was a study that
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looked like, hey it's not
that big a deal, 'cause it takes
00:20:05.33\00:20:07.67
people who are below average
aggression and it moves 8
00:20:07.67\00:20:12.41
percentile of the population
to above-average aggression.
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And they're saying, you know,
this isn't that big a thing.
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But if you look at a bell-shaped
curve, where human phenomena
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are located, an 8
percentile shift in
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the population means that
violence will double, as far as
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violent crime is concerned.
And so, whatever changes we make
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in a subtle way makes extreme
differences on either end.
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JB: Is there a difference
between watching an episode
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of Seinfeld, some comedy show,
compared to a sci-fi thriller
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horror movie? NN: Well, yeah,
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content is important, obviously.
So, the worse the content,
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the worse for us. But
it's not just content.
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You can actually
have a clean show,
00:20:54.82\00:20:58.39
but if it suppresses the
frontal lobe of the brain,
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it actually is still
not good for developing IQ.
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In fact, you know,
the interesting thing is,
00:21:05.16\00:21:07.13
the best movie producers in the
world refuse to watch movies or
00:21:07.13\00:21:10.70
entertainment television,
because they know it's going
00:21:10.70\00:21:13.23
to lower their creativity.
Creativity is one of the main
00:21:13.23\00:21:16.04
things that happens
when we have a high IQ.
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Creativity that's not only
original, but useful to others.
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Now there are some people
that say they're creative 'cause
00:21:23.81\00:21:25.88
they're just
strange, but that's not useful
00:21:25.88\00:21:29.12
to anybody. We're
looking for something that
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is creative and very useful
to others, and it turns out that
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watching entertainment
television will lower that
00:21:36.19\00:21:39.59
significantly. And
those in the high end
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mental health
fields, they recognize this.
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JB: It's a little bit scary that
well-meaning parents who are
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buying their kid a burger and
a large soda drink, and plopping
00:21:50.61\00:21:56.48
them down in front of their
computer console or their video
00:21:56.48\00:21:59.95
game console, feeding
them with movies and so forth.
00:21:59.95\00:22:03.79
Then they take them to
church. NN: That's right.
00:22:03.79\00:22:06.19
JB: And they say, wait a minute,
my kid isn't into this anymore.
00:22:06.19\00:22:08.49
NN: That's right.
JB: My child doesn't want
00:22:08.49\00:22:09.59
to go to church.
They're bringing it upon
00:22:09.59\00:22:11.83
themselves. NN:
They're bringing it
00:22:11.83\00:22:12.96
upon themselves.
They're suppressing the frontal
00:22:12.96\00:22:14.60
lobe, which is the area that
we worship, as human beings.
00:22:14.60\00:22:19.07
So if you're suppressing
the area that wants to worship
00:22:19.07\00:22:22.70
something grand, like the Lord,
and then you're revving up the
00:22:22.70\00:22:27.38
limbic system, which is the
emotional areas of the brain,
00:22:27.38\00:22:31.58
kids will get bored with
a worship service that would
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otherwise be very
meaningful to somebody who
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had a balanced brain.
JB: In terms of undoing the
00:22:37.92\00:22:42.52
damage, or enhancing the
frontal lobe of the brain.
00:22:42.52\00:22:47.20
It may be a little
bit self-explanatory.
00:22:47.20\00:22:49.50
Undo some of what's been
done. But let's talk about now,
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in a positive
way, how to fix this.
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What does a person do?
NN: Well, what we would
00:22:55.50\00:22:58.37
recommend is that they get
some good materials to really
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assist them in that. Of
course, we have an Optimize
00:23:03.08\00:23:05.88
Your Brain materials, where
you have a DVD, workbook series,
00:23:05.88\00:23:09.05
you can go through this.
But some of the simple things
00:23:09.05\00:23:11.69
they can do is just get rid
of entertainment television.
00:23:11.69\00:23:15.46
Another major thing, of course,
is getting rid of the video
00:23:15.46\00:23:18.13
games and then replacing
it with frontal lobe enhancing
00:23:18.13\00:23:21.16
activities. And
frontal lobe enhancing
00:23:21.16\00:23:24.13
activities would be
going out and taking a nice,
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three-mile run.
Going out and getting
00:23:27.04\00:23:29.30
a nature walk.
Actually reading the Bible for
00:23:29.30\00:23:32.61
the purpose of discerning what
it's actually trying to say,
00:23:32.61\00:23:37.88
and what was the scene like.
And so, reading and analyzing,
00:23:37.88\00:23:41.85
utilizing the frontal
lobe in studying the Bible,
00:23:41.85\00:23:44.85
or good educational material can
greatly enhance the intelligence
00:23:44.85\00:23:48.59
in the frontal lobe. JB:
How does getting the Word of
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God, the Bible, into your mind
00:23:50.73\00:23:53.86
affect your mind
in a positive way?
00:23:53.86\00:23:57.43
NN: It does it
actually, by, we'll see it.
00:23:57.43\00:23:59.90
We'll see the frontal
lobe light up, on EEG.
00:23:59.90\00:24:02.80
We'll see the beta waves going.
It's actually altering brain
00:24:02.80\00:24:06.24
chemistry for the better.
And that was Les's first thing.
00:24:06.24\00:24:09.91
You remember, he was starting to
study the Bible, so that's when
00:24:09.91\00:24:13.21
he started getting
his IQ up above 80.
00:24:13.21\00:24:16.55
And Ben Carson,
what is often not told
00:24:16.55\00:24:18.72
in Ben Carson, it wasn't
just TV and musical choices that
00:24:18.72\00:24:22.66
improved him, but he also
began to have a greater interest
00:24:22.66\00:24:27.13
in the Word of God.
And he would attend worship
00:24:27.13\00:24:29.40
services on a weekly
basis and actually enjoy
00:24:29.40\00:24:34.10
and be enhanced from
that. And so that's a very key
00:24:34.10\00:24:37.47
element, and one that the
world kind of looks down upon,
00:24:37.47\00:24:40.94
but they don't realize,
there are some very positive
00:24:40.94\00:24:43.75
things happening in biblical-
centered worship services.
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JB: So as we get
the Word of God in,
00:24:47.75\00:24:49.58
it's not just good for us
spiritually, it's good for us
00:24:49.58\00:24:52.09
on just every
level. NN: Exactly.
00:24:52.09\00:24:54.22
Exactly. JB: Wonderful.
00:24:54.22\00:24:55.82
That's why we
say at It Is Written,
00:24:55.82\00:24:57.03
man shall not
live by bread alone,
00:24:57.03\00:24:59.39
but by every word that proceeds
00:24:59.39\00:25:01.10
from the mouth of
God. NN: Makes sense.
00:25:01.10\00:25:03.16
JB: Dr. Nedley, thank
you for joining us today.
00:25:03.16\00:25:04.77
NN: Thank you. JB: Thank you.
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JB: Fearfully and wonderfully
made, made by God to thrive.
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Incredibly, we make decisions
and do things to our brain,
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our minds, that sometimes
push us down a little bit.
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But by the grace of God
there are those things that can
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reverse the
damage and lift us up.
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Not just up in this
world, but up out of this world
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and into the world
to come. Dr. Nedley,
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thanks for joining
me today NN: Thank you.
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JB: Let's pray
together. NN: Yes.
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¤ [Gentle Melody] ¤
JB: Our Father in heaven,
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we thank You that You
have made us to thrive,
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not just to battle our way
through this world but to be
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blessed as we make
choices that affect our minds,
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actually affect our very
brain, so that then we can
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operate more efficiently,
and operate and live
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our lives closer to You.
May we learn to make choices
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that will enhance our
relationship with You.
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Let us live according to those
wonderful principles of the
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Bible, with minds that are clear
and strong, and let our heart be
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joined to the heart of
God, that Your thoughts
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become our thoughts.
Bless us, keep us, save us,
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we pray. In Jesus' name.
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Amen. NN: Amen.
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¤ [It Is Written Theme] ¤
JB: I'm grateful you joined us
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today. Look
forward to seeing you again
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next time. Until then remember,
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it is written:
man shall not live by
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bread alone but by every word
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that proceeds
from the mouth of God.
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