Brain training

But how often do we intentionally train the way we think, feel, respond, and relate to others? My guest today is Arnold Blitz.

the creator of brain fitness and brain athletics, whose work focuses on helping people train their brain and nervous system so they can think clearly, feel steadier, and perform better in life.

Arnold Brink, Dickens of Experience across technology, organizational leadership, psychology, coaching, innovation, and personal development.

leadership.

My sister was depression.

It's like, once you... your mental and emotional state is past a certain threshold, you're really, really in a bad situation.

So I was thinking, what could we do from a preventive point of view? What can we do from an optimization point of view? And that is where the idea for brain fitness emerged.

What exactly is brain fitness? And what does training your brain actually look like?

All right.

The creator of Brain Fitness and Brain Athletes.

Arnold is an explorer, generalist, innovator, and coach who has spent decades working in technology, organizational leadership, psychology, and personal development.

His mission is to help people develop better brains and create better innovation for better living.

Through his work, he helps people improve their focus, emotional stability, self-awareness, and performance under pressure.

He also introduced the idea of brain athletes, people who see their thoughts, emotions, and relationships as trainable rather than fixed.

Today, we'll discuss brain fitness, neuroplasticity, mental awareness, unconditioning leadership, and how we can unlock our potential by learning to train the mind.

Arnold, welcome to Telling My Story, and it's a pleasure to have you here with us today.

All you need to do is think about it.

There's no magic bullet out there in brain training or eating well or exercising.

You've just got to think about it.

Neuroscientist Dr Adrian Owen is with us.

Yes.

And this is getting more and more complicated every year.

I mean, it was back in 2010, we published the largest ever study of brain training and we took 11,600 people and we got them to use a commercial brain trainer.

And I can't mention which one it was for legal reasons, but we used a commercial brain trainer, 11,000 people training several times a week for six weeks.

I'm going to argue with my own posture later.

Not every case, but the broader point is coordination training is brain training.

Breathwork is fifteen seconds to break a panic spiral.

Vagal tone stuff was wild.

I wasn't getting a percentage of their sales.

So we partnered with them, and we showed them how to use brain fitness in their labs, and we told them that they usually did not have a, uh, HRV.

Some did, so we showed them how to use that HRV 'cause-

Yeah

the study with, with neural feedback, and we showed that what neural feedback does in 40 sessions, we proved we do it in 15, and ours last.

We did a one-year washout and it still was there.

So that's why we call it brain fitness.

So we, I think that brain fitness will become as popular, not just our device.

So you want to be smart about this, okay? We're using common sense and we're being safe about this.

But the idea here in Neurobics is just like with aerobics or doing some, whether you're doing, or you maybe you're doing CrossFit for your body, this is like a way of doing CrossFit for your mind.

Because especially in a world of AI where people are more and more are using it, and they're using it to almost replace their own thinking, they call it cognitive offloading.

And so the, that creativity, you know, any muscle, this is going back to feeding pe- it's always what you feed, right? If you're not exercising and feeding your thinking, your decision-making skills, your creativity, and you're asking AI to remove all the friction and do it for you, it's like going to the gym and asking a friend to lift the weights for you, then you never get the benefit of doing the work.

That's a good analogy

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Neurobics is like life.

It's, it's based on what challenges you will change you.