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This is Oxford, England,
one of the world's most famous
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university cities. It's a
beautiful, privileged place
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steeped in history and studded
with hallowed walls. The stylish
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honey-colored buildings of the
universities colleges scattered
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throughout the city wrap around
peaceful courtyards that are
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meticulously manicured and
maintained. The oldest colleges
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date back to the 13th century
and little has changed inside
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these hallowed walls since. The
city's famed spires twirl into
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the sky above. The magnificent
architecture of the 38 colleges
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in the city's medieval center
led to its nickname, The City of
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Dreaming Spires. There are
around 22,000 students studying
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at Oxford University at any one
time. About 22 percent of the
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total student body are citizens
of foreign countries. Many
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overseas students study under
the Rhodes Scholarship scheme
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set up by Cecil Rhondes,
a British businessman. These
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include international leaders
like Bill Clinton, President of
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the United States, Lester
Pearson, Prime Minister of
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Canada, Bob Hawke and Malcolm
Turnbull both prime ministers of
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Australia. Other famous Oxford
graduates include Oscar Wilde,
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Stephen Hawking, J. R. Tolkien,
Hugh Grant, C. S. Lewis, Mr.
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Bean, Rowan Atkinson, Rupert
Murdoch, Indira Gandhi, John
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Wesley and Boris Johnson. These
graduates come from different
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countries and various
backgrounds but they all had
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one single thing in common,
which is key to their success;
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they learned how to get the best
out of their brain. Today we're
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going to discover their secrets.
So stay tuned because you will
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learn fascinating information
about the human brain, and you
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may even discover how to get the
most out of your brain as well.
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Oxford is located about 80 km
northwest of London in central
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southern England and
revolves around its prestigious
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university which was recently
ranked as the best in the world.
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Oxford University is the oldest
university in Britain and the
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second oldest in the world.
Scholars have been studying here
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for nearly 1000 years. From
the beginning students organized
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themselves into halls which soon
grew into the modern day Oxford
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colleges. These were
often supported and sponsored by
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wealthy individuals who
sometimes gave their names to
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colleges such as Merton
and Baliol. There are now 38
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colleges in Oxford University
located in the city's medieval
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center. Oxford University has
educated more prime ministers
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than all other
British universities combined.
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Theresa May is the 27th occupant
of 10 Downing Street to graduate
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with an Oxford degree. So too
did Britain's only other female
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prime minister Margaret Thatcher
It's a place of high academic
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excellence and Oxford students
have been among some of the
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world's highest achievers.
And like all high achievers that
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learned how to get the most out
of their brain. The bottom line,
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mankind's greatest achievements
are possible only because of the
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human brain. It's been said
that you can manage something
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effectively only when you can
identify, label and describe it.
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But how does one do that with
the brain? Well today's guest,
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a brain function specialist,
can help us figure this out.
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Dr. Arlene Taylor is the founder
and president of Realizations,
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Inc., a nonprofit corporation
that engages in brain function
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research and provides unique
educational resources. She's the
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author of several popular books
related to brain function and
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practical applications to
relationships and everyday
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living and creator of the
Longevity Lifestyle Matters
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program. In our program, How
to Find Your Natural Ability,
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our guest will share with
us aspects of your brain's
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cognitive or thinking
bent. Let's meet Dr. Taylor.
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Dr. Taylor, welcome to the
Incredible Journey. We're so
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glad you're on
our program today.
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I'm glad I'm on your program too
Gary. Thank you for inviting me.
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Dr. Taylor research shows that
our brains have a bent and you
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emphasize this strongly. Can you
please explain to us what that
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actually means.
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Well it means on our planet with
however many billions of people
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we have every one of them has a
bent. In terms of brain function
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the word bent is very, very
positive. It really means that
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every single brain has the
special uniqueness, a special
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talent, some innate giftedness.
Some people have more than one.
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But everybody has at least one.
And if you can identify what
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your bent is and you own that
you can achieve high levels of
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skill, high levels of competence
enjoy what you do. Because
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following your bent tends to be
energy efficient. You don't use
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as much energy as you do with
other types of activities. It
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allows you to develop a higher
level of skill. You can become
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competent in anything that
involves that bent and currently
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the wisdom is that if you could
match 51 percent of all the
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tasks you do somehow to your
bent you would be healthier,
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happier, likely more successful
and might even live longer.
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So what's so important
about this thinking brain.
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Well Gary I can give it to you
in two words. Energy consumption
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Everything we do takes energy.
When you are working within your
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brain bent you are spending
less energy which makes it last
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longer if you will. PET scan
studies by Dr. Richard Haier
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suggest that probably each brain
has an innate energy advantage.
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What does that mean? It means
that you can do some tasks more
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easily and energy efficiently
that others. I can do some tasks
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more easily and energy efficient
that others. And that's why we
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need to work together because
we have different bents and
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it is all about energy
consumption. Naturally the brain
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prefers to do energy efficient
tasks because it knows how much
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energy it's using even if
you haven't identified that. And
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interestingly enough it will
try to push you to procrastinate
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the types of tasks that are not
energy efficient, that take lots
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more energy. So figure this out
for yourself and you know how
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to use your energy by design in
terms of energy consumption. If
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you're doing a task that is not
part of your brain bent, it's a
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task that is more energy
exhausting for your brain you're
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going to have some consequences.
First of all your brain's going
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need more glucose, it's going
to use more fuel. Secondly it's
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going to need more oxygen. It
already takes 20 percent of all
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the oxygen that you breathe
in and that gets into your blood
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stream. It needs more oxygen. It
gets exhausted quicker. A little
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bit of that task is much more
tiring than a lot of the task
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that primarily is driven by your
brain bent. You don't think as
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quickly because it doesn't
cross the synapse as quickly.
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And bottom line is you get
irritable because the brain is
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trying to tell you this is
really not working well for me.
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So you can watch people doing
different tasks and you can
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observe them being more and more
irritable as the brain gets more
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and more fatigued. So it's real.
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My _ is that most people
have been led to believe that
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procrastination is a bad thing.
This sounds, after listening to
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what you've just said, as if
the brain is trying to be energy
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wise.
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Well I would say so, Gary. If
you pay attention to what needs
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to be done in life and what
your brain tries to make you
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procrastinate, don't need to do
it at all or do it later, that
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will give you some idea of
the type of tasks that the brain
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does that requires more energy
and now you can manage that.
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Because some things I have
to do for which I have no innate
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bent, no giftedness whatsoever.
I still have to do them. But I
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sandwich them in between things
that are energy efficient and
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energy effective for my
brain so that I don't get too
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exhausted. Because the brain
does not store unlimited amount
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of energy. It doesn't have
unlimited energy banks. Some
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research suggests that you only
have about enough glucose in
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your brain to power for about 10
minutes. And so it continually
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depends upon the blood stream
bringing in fresh supplies of
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fuel, which is glucose, oxygen,
micronutrients like vitamins
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and minerals and enzymes.
So identifying at least to some
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degree your brain's energy
advantage and matching a little
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over half, I say 51 percent,
which is more than less, of the
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tasks for which you do
have some energy advantage can
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enhance your competency and
develop higher levels of skill.
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It can improve your health.
We've done some studies that
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show that people who do a lot
of adapting, meaning, they spend
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hours and hours and hours doing
tasks for which they have no
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bent often they do that for
several years, they can really
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get sick. They can develop some
stress related illnesses because
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it's stressful for the brain to
do most of the work it has to do
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in areas for which it has no
bent. And so you potentially can
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extend your life by doing this.
And it's not that hard to do.
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You look at all the tasks you
have to do. You figure out which
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ones are most energy efficient
for your brain and then you
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sandwich the ones in that take
more time and energy so that
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you're not just totally
exhausted at the end of five
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hours and now you don't even
have any energy to do the fun
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things that we
also need to do in life.
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So how does one
go about doing this?
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Identify when your brain
procrastinates for example.
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Well there are some assessments
that are available that can give
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you a jump start. But just
simply ask yourself, when I look
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at the tasks that I'm doing
today, this week, whatever,
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which ones do I find myself
putting off or I would put them
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off if I thought I had the
choice. Now you write down those
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and eventually you begin to
see a pattern. You know I look
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forward to doing this. I can
do this tasks longer. Oh if I
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didn't have to do this task
at all it would be wonderful and
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so on. I'll give you one example
in my life. Balancing my check
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book is really energy intensive
for my brain and for years I
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would struggle and I'd
procrastinate and then I'd have
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to do several months at a time
and that means if there was a
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mistake somewhere I would
be behind the eight ball for
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several months. And I finally
said, my brain really doesn't
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like to do this. It's exhausted.
I'm going to trade somebody.
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And for several years I'd
been cutting one of our neighbor
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person's hair because I've cut
hair my whole life starting with
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my own. Didn't do a good job
of that first haircut when I was
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about three. So I said look I'll
cut your hair any time you want
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if once a month you'll balance
my check book. The answer was
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deal. I don't like to cut my
hair, I don't like to pay for it
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Okay that's great, works for
both of us. So here's the kicker
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Many people have learned to
do very well tasks that do not
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match their bent, either because
that's what was emphasized at
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home and they were made to do
it or their job requires it and
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they don't have a lot of options
for income. It's not what you
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have learned to do well, as my
kids used to say, read my lips
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Mom. It's what you've learned
to do well, it's what your brain
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does energy efficiently, meaning
you don't dread doing it and
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you're not totally wiped out
when you've spent an hour doing
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that. A second thing you can
ask yourself is, when I do this
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task how exhausted am I at the
end? Do I feel like if I could
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I'd just like to go to bed. Or,
do I still have energy. And the
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third thing you can ask
yourself is when I'm doing these
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different tasks which task ends
up the one that I make the most
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mistakes while I'm doing
it. Because if it's not energy
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efficient you just tend to make
more mistakes. So the goal is to
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become a little more aware of
what's going on in your brain so
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you know how to work
with it more efficiently.
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So Dr. Taylor, whereabouts
in your brain is this energy
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advantage located?
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Who knows? It may be in
different parts of the brain but
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at this point what we believe is
that you can think about it and
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manage your energy and evaluate
your energy in the third brain
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layer where you have conscious
thought. So as a reminder, you
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can describe the brain in three
layers. Your wrist has the first
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brain layer. There's no
conscious thought there.
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Make this hand into a fist;
that's the limbic system, again
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no conscious thought. Put this
hand over the top. There's your
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neo-cortex that third brain
layer. You can actually see that
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on a brain model. Your other
hand represents this whole part
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here, this rind on the
watermelon, if you will.
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Now this third layer is divided
by natural fissures into two
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hemispheres, right hemisphere
and left hemisphere, which is
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about the size of your brain.
And if you look at the screen
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then you can see the drawing of
that. Each hemisphere also has a
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fissure. It gives us four chunks
of cerebral tissue and way back
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in the 5th century B.C.,
something like that, Hippocrates
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said, the brain has four chunks
of tissue, or division. Don't
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know how he figured that out.
And you can see that now we have
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brain scans the brain has four
chunks of tissue in that third
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layer. He names those starting
at the tope left, the choleric,
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sanguine, melancholy and
phlegmatic. Some people talk
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about the left frontal or right
frontal, the left posterior, the
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right posterior. That's
confusing for some people so I
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just name renamed them with key
functions. So what he called the
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choleric division I call the
prioritizing division. What he
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called the sanguine division,
it's the visualizing, making
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pictures in your mind, imagining
What he called the melancholy I
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call the harmonizing division.
It's the part that wants
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relationships with each other,
with nature, with whatever. And
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what he called the phlegmatic
I call the maintaining division
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because that part of the brain
develops routines and follows
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them over and over again so you
can do it the same way all the
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time. So within those four
chunks we have some conscious
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thought and are able to evaluate
energy: How much am I expending?
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How tired am I? And so we are
at least processing this in that
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part of the brain and my guess
is that the energy advantage may
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be there as well because it
impacts our thinking ability and
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that's where we
consciously think.
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Dr. Taylor, this has been
so fascinating, relevant and
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helpful. Thank you
for being with us today.
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It's my pleasure, Gary. I just
love talking about the brain.
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Dr. Arlene Taylor has certainly
given us a lot of valuable
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information and much to
think about. And that includes
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discovering our brain bent,
what we're good at and where
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our talents lie. To us today
the word talent refers to the
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person's natural ability to be
very good at something. Talent
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refers to above average ability,
an extraordinary ability like
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a talent to sing, or learn, or
paint, or excel in sports. But
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the only reason this word is in
our dictionary today is because
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Jesus used it in a story,
or parable, that he told. Jesus
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parable of the talents is
found in Matthew chapter 25
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verses 14 to 30. In this parable
Jesus described how a wealthy
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master entrusted talents
to three of his servants.
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Now, a talent was a
huge amount of money,
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it was worth about 20 years
of wages for a common laborer,
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so it was serious money,
probably millions of dollars.
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But in Jesus parable, He
was clearly using this large
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unit of money symbolically,
figuratively, to refer to any
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God-given talent
we are entrusted with,
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including our abilities.
This concept became so widely
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and commonly taught in
England during the Middle Ages
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that the word talent was adopted
into the English language
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to mean our natural abilities.
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Listen to how Jesus started
His story, His parable in
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So Jesus tells this
story about a wealthy man
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preparing to leave on a
journey who entrusts three
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of his servants with
talents. A lot of money.
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He give one five talents,
another two, and another
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one talent and he expects the
servants to invest those talents
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wisely and well so they will
be able to provide him with a
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good return on his investments
when he gets back from
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his journey. All we are told
is that the master of portion
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the amounts to each of the
servants according to their
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ability. While the master is
gone, the five talent and two
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talent servants invest their
talents diligently and wisely
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and they receive a 100%
return on their investments.
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but the one talent
servant, just buries his talent.
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He does absolutely nothing
to develop or grow his talent
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so there's no increase
on his master's investment.
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The opportunity is
lost, gone forever.
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So when the master returns,
he commends and awards the
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five and two talent servants.
But the one talent servant
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who did nothing with his
talent, is rebuked and punished.
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Now, Jesus is telling us
some- thing very important here.
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We've all been
given or entrusted by God
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with something of value.
In fact, everything we have
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is given to us by God.
Now, although this parable
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refers to money, it
has a far wider application
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and can teach us a lot
about work, success, wealth
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and yes, even our brains.
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Some believe this
parable align with brain bent
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and our natural
talents and abilities.
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Every brain has some
unique talents and its important
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that we identify
and develop them.
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Because as the parable
indicates, it's either use it
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or lose it. If you want to
make the most of your natural
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abilities and talents
that God has given you,
00:23:34.88\00:23:37.71
and experience the fulfillment
and happiness associated with
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developing the gifts
that God has given you,
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why not ask for His
guidance and blessing right now
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as we pray.
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Dear heavenly Father,
Thank you for your love and
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goodness to us. We recognize
that all we have comes from you.
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You are the giver of all
good gifts and so we thank you
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for the talents and
natural abilities you have given
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each one of us. Lord,
we want to be good stewards
00:24:06.81\00:24:11.01
and use these talents
diligently and wisely.
00:24:11.05\00:24:14.22
We wish to experience
the fulfillment and happiness
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associated with developing the
gifts that you have given us.
00:24:17.69\00:24:21.72
So please bless and
guide each and every one of us
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and thank you for the
greatest gift of all, "Jesus."
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We wish to accept and
follow Him and ask all this
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in His holy name. Amen.
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Every brain has unique
talents and is something special
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today we've been reminded
that if we don't use it,
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we lose it so take good care
of your brain, you only have one
00:24:53.09\00:24:57.86
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Now, I saw a new heaven and
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for the former
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