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Wall Street Traders With High Interoception Make More Money
“I was also reading a book recently called The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, which looked at Wall Street traders, and they correlated higher degrees of interception with basically making more money and making better decisions.”
Miller: Cortisol Acts as a Bodily Numbing Agent
“When there's cortisol present in our body, the cortisol basically acts as a numbing agent. So it's much harder to kind of tune into those sensations”
How Somatic Breathwork Lowered Jonny Miller's Vocal Pitch
“Like if you listen to the podcast episodes I recorded four or five years ago, my voice is, is higher pitched. It's like it's, It just sounds different. It has, like, a different resonant quality to it.”
Miller: Trauma Lives in Cortical Maps, Not Physical Tissues
“It's not strictly true to say that the trauma is in the body. There's actually a cortical map in the brain, which kind of tracks these things, but for kind of practical purposes, it looks and feels as if there is stored grief in my right hip or anger in my sol…”
Afferent Neurons Outnumber Efferent Neurons Four to One
“And there's four times more afferent neurons going from the body to the brain as from the brain to the body.”
How Breathing Ratios Act as Nervous System Levers
“And so what scientists have discovered that when the exhale is twice as long as the inhale, it has a calming effect. And when the inhale is either more intense or twice as long as the exhale, it has an activating effect.”
Humming Releases Nitric Oxide and Reduces Eye Fatigue
“I note on the humming, it also releases nitric oxide, which is a vasodilator, and that helps to create that kind of calming effect, and it also reduces eye tension as well, so I'll do it if I've been looking at a screen for too long. It's really good for kind …”
ADHD and PTSD Correlate With Low Interoception
“ADHD tends to correlate with low levels of interoception, as does if people have PTSD or trauma, again, interoception is lowered.”
Why We Can't Make Decisions Without Emotion
“There was a landmark study by this guy, DiMazio, who's this kind of famous neuroscientist, and he studied a patient called Elliot, and Elliot had a tumor in his brain that was removed, and it basically meant that he was unable to feel emotions. So his entire e…”
Survey: Burnout Costs Startups a Median of $100,000
“There was a research report that I did a couple of years ago where we interviewed these leaders And they'd all experienced burnout of some degree. And we said, if you were to estimate like how much this costs your startup or business, what would you say? And t…”