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All right, everybody, your question for today. How to be happy based on your brain type. I want to welcome you to the quick rain podcast. This is a show for busy people who want to upgrade their brain, so they can learn faster and really live there and Limitless life. And we're going to talk about happiness today. I don't know many topics that are more important than that, and we're very excited to have back on our show. Dr. Daniel Amen. Position psychiatrist Stone over 200,000.
Brain scans study including my own. Well, quick brain read not about a dozen or so, New York Times best-selling books, including his latest and greatest you happier 7 Neuroscience secrets of feeling good based on your brain type. Thanks for being back on the show. Dr. Raymond the gym. Always great to see you. You and I you have been on each other shows. We have a longtime friendship and I want to thank you for taking care of my brain and it helped me.
To be able to love my brain because I was experiencing brain Envy. Having a few traumatic brain injuries. And so I want to thank you for the care from yourself and also your amazing Clinic which people could find out. More about online will put all the Links at Jim quick.com, poor /, and notes. So this subject about happiness. I wanted to have you back on our show because it seems like people are pretty unhappy. The past couple of years. Is that objective, or is this subjective Americans are the on,
Happiest. They've been since the Great Depression before the pandemic, we were at epidemic levels of addiction depression suicide. Since 1999 suicide had gone up 33 percent and then boom. The pandemic with the isolation to fear the social stress, the political divide, the vaccination divide families.
He's are mad at each other and people are sadder than ever before because we need connection. And all of a sudden what we have is disconnection, fear and anger, because there is a lack of trust in the people. We want to trust, like, the CDC and the FDA and depression, doubled and worse. It doubled in children.
I've never seen anything like it in my 40 years of being a psychiatrist. And, you know, at the beginning of the pandemic, I lost my dad had to close my clinic in New York for three weeks. It was stressful. And when I thought about well, what's my next book? I'm like, what do I want to think about for a year? I want to think about happiness, because we need it now more than ever before. And as I was,
Doing my research. I came across a video by Dennis Prager called. Why be happy? And he basically says, happiness is a moral obligation when I grew up that idea was nowhere to be found and he said, just think about it. If you were raised by an unhappy parent or married to an unhappy spouse or raising, an unhappy child, whether or not happiness is in
Cole issue because of how you impact other people take guarantee. People will say it's an ethical issue and I love that because people think it's fluff. Oh, you're going to talk about Hedonism and I'm like, now, he nezam is the enemy of Happiness. There are very specific things to do, but our society lies to US money will make you happy to about 75,000 dollars a year. And then there's no relationship at all with
Happiness and money or open happiness, you know, the slogan from Coca-Cola. It's a lie. It's open obesity and diabetes. Those things go with depression. When my favor of Lies is, don't worry, be happy because the research on Bobby, McFerrin says Don't Worry. Be Happy song is the opposite. The people who have low levels of anxiety actually dying early from accidents and preventable.
Listen, let's talk about the right dose of anxiety, rather than you shouldn't have any. So these statistics can make somebody who's listening or watching on YouTube, which I encourage you to do that, as you put extended version of this conversation on their can make somebody unhappy. So there's no pill for happiness, but a lot of people prescribe it as if it's or advice as if it's one-size-fits-all, and they leave out the most important thing, which is the humans and brains, and the book you talk about brain types.
Oh, and how it relates to happiness. Can we discuss that? Because centered around a seven, what I call Neuroscience secrets of Happiness. We just recently went over 200,000 scans and one of the first big lessons. We learn is everybody's got a different, Briny. Some people are balanced somewhere spontaneous. They love surprises. They need novelty. What makes them happy is very different than the persistent.
I ate their frontal lobes. Work too hard. They're sort of worried and rigid a little bit inflexible and if things don't go their way, they get upset, they hate surprises and they love routine. And then there's the sensitive type who need connection. They're very empathic. They make great therapist and the cautious, they need safety. They need security. They need peace. They can't deal with.
With a lot of conflict and Chaos, where the spontaneous type loves conflict loves chaos. So, what would you say for somebody in our community? They're very into brain health and learning all the time. How do they start to generate happiness, or protect their happiness? Where's the starting point for this? So one, know your type, you know, if you know your type, then you can generate what makes me uniquely happy. And then for the book I did.
Study on 500 consecutive patients. They gave them the Oxford happiness questionnaire and then we scan them and analyze the scans. If you have low frontal lobe function, you're much more likely to be unhappy optimizing. The physical function of your brain is crucial to happiness. And one of the most important things I discovered is you want to supplement your brain because
Ninety percent of Americans. Do not eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day and you end up with deficits in things like omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin D, magnesium at my favorite happiness. Supplement is Happy saffron. When I first started Imaging. I realized some of the medications I prescribed like benzos and opiates were bad for the brain. And so I'm like
What are the natural things I can do to optimize? Your brain has a psychiatrist. I've been following the science of saffron for about 20 years and they're 24 randomized, controlled trials showing about 30 milligrams of the specific extract of saffron is equally effective is anti-depressant. Medication to boost your remote saffron. Also has studies showing it. Enhances memory also has
Studies show that enhances sexuality. There's actually two studies showing it can reverse the side effects of ssris people. Pre-order the book, they get a bottle of happy saffron, along with our 30-day, happiness, Challenge and a new cookbook. That Tana developed specifically because you want to eat. That's one of the strategies eat for your brain type. I say you only want to love food that loves you back. We are not
Vote in this country that loves us back, which is why were sicker that virtually any developed country in the world. People are watching this on video on YouTube as opposed to Spotify or iTunes. I'm wearing a shirt that says mental health and you and I both believe that good mental health starts with good brain health and the food, you eat matters, especially for your gray matter and if you're not getting it through your meals, then you have to be able to supplement. We're starting a brand new book club, and we're very
Excited about this. People have been asking about this for years and years. They and we know that leaders are readers that have been expert. Like yourself has Decades of experience and you put into a book and somebody could buy your book and then read in a few days they could download Decades of wisdom, and experience, and research and knowledge in two days, which is the fastest way to fast-track your learning and also your life. And so we're going to read it with everybody and we're happy to announce. We're going to add you happier to our book club. And so we're going to spend a month.
Together and I'll show people memory tricks on how to remember what they read. It was nothing worse than reading a book and forgetting. What you just read. Where do people find out more about the book. So if they go to you happier, y, OU happier.com., It has all the ways to order the book and redeem the gift. So, we're really excited. Thousands of people have already done it and we are hoping to help people get happier as you.
Get happy or the people. You love will be happier as well. He I love that in the book, which I really enjoyed. You talk about different decisions that people can make her questions that they can ask themselves to be happier. We don't have time to go through all of them. And I encourage people to get the copy of the book from themselves and also a copybook to gift to somebody else, but maybe let's talk about some of those decisions, a few of those decisions or questions. So secret number 5,
This is Master your mind and gain psychological distance from the noise in your head. The book is filled with tiny habits. What's the smallest thing? You can do? That, will make the biggest difference. One of my favorite strategies is notice the micro moments of Happiness. Me. Just looking at your background. I'd love it. And that's like a micro moment of happiness. I just, I appreciate all of the work you do, right? I didn't have to win a
Nobel Prize, I could just look at something and go. Oh, that's so cool. But then notice that's a micro moment of happiness. And I noticed because one of the things I want to do is drip dopamine. I don't want to dump it when you win a Nobel Prize or you with me, a ba or you want to Gold Medal job stopa me, but the more that happens, the more you actually wear out your pleasure Center, so you never want to dump this nerd.
Better. That's why I said earlier Hedonism is the enemy of happiness. You want to drip it. So when I make eye contact with Tana, I'm dripping Doberman or I see my granddaughter at the park and we're playing basketball. It's dripping dopamine. And it's beginning to really pay attention to the micro moments of happiness and write them down. So that when you feel down, you can go
Oh, the sep Abernethy, odd chocolate every day, trips dopamine. I have this list like 150 things that are just micro moments of Happiness. Do you talk about your work, killing ants? These automatic negative thoughts. I would imagine some of those thoughts that people have, especially of recent is making them more sad and taking away further happiness. What advice would you give to somebody in our community? That's maybe,
Bubbles with the negative. Self-talk, so there's two big strategies in the book. I talk about one is give your mind a name so that you can psychologically distance from the noise in your head. I'd love that. I named my mind after my pet raccoon, when I was 16. And then whenever you feel sad or mad or nervous or out-of-control write down what you're thinking. I called them ants automatic negative thoughts and they and
In fast people's minds and if you write it down and then take it through a series of questions. I talk about it, the book pretty soon. Your mind is really focused on Truth, rather than the negative abusive chatter that's going on in your head. There's a new testament verse. I like John 8:32 know the truth, and the truth will set you free too. Often people lie to each other.
I am not enough and they hurt themselves. I adopted my tooth. Bases are now 17 and the 12, their parents couldn't stop, the addictive behavior that had. And the older one came to me a couple of weeks ago. And she says, I needed apartment of Homeland Security and my head like thoughts, just get in that, don't belong there. And so I'm going to hire Denzel Washington from The Equalizer and Rocky Balboa.
Boa from the Rocky movies, they're going to be my TSA agents. And so I'm not letting things and I'm not let people and or bad thoughts in the damage my self-esteem and my sense of self and I just love that and she is working on disciplining her lined. You don't have to believe every stupid thing, you think. And oh by the way, thoughts.
They come from all sorts of places including thoughts that are written in your genetic code. If your parents go through trauma, they wrote that in their genetic code that they then gave to you. It's just fascinating area of science called epigenetics. And so it's good to discipline our minds much like you discipline a child. Right? Discipline doesn't mean to punish means to teach and you have to teach your mind to help you rather.
Other than just let it be the wild west that hurts you and you can stand guard to your mind. Also in terms of what you're letting in a lot of negative news, you and I have talked about this, if it bleeds it leads and it's done a silly, those platforms and the business that have news as much as it is to get people paying attention selling advertisements. And that's an algorithm that the more you know, when your amygdala gets hijacked by things that are threatening and scary, doesn't leave a lot of bandwidth for possibility and
Unity and what you could be grateful for. So it's putting quarters and boundaries around your things that you value in your emotions your time or your heart as well. Let's give everybody the website one more time for the book. You happier.com, you happier.com and dr. Raymond. Thank you so much for the work that you do. Thank you for being so supportive of me and our family and our and our team also as well and taking such good care of our community. Well, I adore you Jim.
And I am just so grateful for you. And for all the people you touch, I love to have sort of a partner brained Warrior, making the world a better place. Can your brain, as he said, change your life, change your brain? We can change the world.
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