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Understanding Hair Restoration – a conversation with Dr Matee Rajput
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Hair transplant specialist Dr Matee Rajput explains what is involved in having a hair transplant.
Dr Matee Rajput is a specialist in hair transplant and the founder of the MinSim FUE™ technique.
Approximately half of all men and many women will experience some form of hair loss as they age. Undertaking some form of hair restoration treatment is increasingly popular.
In this episode of the Abeceder health and well-being podcast Fit For My Age, Dr Matee explains to host Michael Millward what is involved in having a hair transplant.
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- The causes of hair loss
- Some of the myths surrounding hair loss
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- The stages of deciding to opt for a hair transplant
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- The transplant process
- Post operative care
- The future of hair care and hair loss prevention and restoration
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Introduction to 'Fit for My Age' Podcast
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Hello and welcome to Fit for My Age, the health and well-being podcast from Abbasida. I'm your host, Michael Millward, Managing Director of Abbasida.
Introducing David Ameland and Episode Theme
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Today, I'm going to be learning about how to be built to last from the author of that book of the same name, David Ameland.
Promoting Zencastr and Podcast's Mission
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As the jingle at the start of this podcast says, Fit for My Age is made on Zencastr, the all-in-one podcasting platform that really does make every stage of the podcast production process, including publishing and distribution, so easy.
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The description includes more information about Zencaster and my discount code. Now that I have told you how wonderful Zencaster is for making podcasts, we should make one. That will be well worth listening to, liking, downloading and subscribing to.
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Very importantly on Fit For My Age, we don't tell you what to think, but we do hope to make you think. Today, my guest is the author of the book Built To Last, David Ameland.
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David is joining us from Greece. Lucky man. If I was on my way to Greece, I would have made my travel arrangements with the Ultimate Travel Club because the Ultimate Travel Club gives me access to trade prices on flights, hotels, trains, holidays and all sorts of other travel-related purchases.
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You'll find a link to a Fit for My Age discounted membership page in the description. Now that I've paid the rent, it is time to make this episode of Fit for My Age.
David Ameland's Writing Career and Motivation
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Hello, David. Michael, hi, how are you? I'm so thrilled to be here. I'm thrilled that you're here, but you're in Greece. You're working, holidaying, living in Greece?
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Well, it's a mix of those things. Because I write, i kind I can write anywhere. But I'm kind of holidaying and taking a break. And writing a book is a process which is quite exhausting mentally and a little bit physically as well. So I'm i'm sort of recovering from that. Sounds nice. I hope you're enjoying a good time as well. I am. Brilliant. You're a writer. How many books have you written?
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Well, this is number 19, would you believe. Well, when did you start writing? I've been writing fu for a long time. I think the first one came out in 2008. two thousand So it's almost a book every year then? Almost, yeah, absolutely. yeah Although, you know, books take about two, three, especially if the these sort of, fun the last three or four books have taken like two and a half, three years to actually write from research to writing. So, you know, the the earlier ones were kind of a little bit faster to write.
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What made you decide in the first place to become a writer? It's the kind of thing that's always been there for me ever since I can remember. and And writing for me is one of the, tools I use to explore the world and kind of categorize it it and and understand it.
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And then i I take what I've discovered back for my readers and then i have to sort of structure it and serve it in a way that's easy to to consume. So the first person that you're writing for then is is yourself? Yeah.
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The world is ah fairly complex and at same time really simple. So looking at the complexity, you have to go digging to find the simplicity. and then when you find the simplicity, it's never easy to articulate. So then you have to find ways to actually bring it to the surface.
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So you're building a level of understanding through your research, which enables you to understand it, which, and understand the subject, which then, with an increased level of understanding, makes what you've been researching seem straightforward, common sense, simpler, because you know more about it And then the skill almost is to take what you've learnt and communicate it to other people who haven't had the opportunity to do all of the research but need to know about the outcomes.
The Impact of Accessible Writing
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Exactly. That's exactly right. You got it. You got in mind. You I'm a simple man, so I need somebody to explain things to me. ah We all are when it comes to reading. i mean, the last thing you want is to read something so complex that you kind of don't understand it. it makes you feel stupid.
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And that's that's really bad. Yeah, because you know you've invested time and energy and effort. And more than that, you actually invested brain power. And if you read a book that's actually accessible, and it doesn't matter what it is, fiction or nonfiction, we have studies that show that your brain actually gets rewired.
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So six months down the line, you can't remember a single word of that book. but the neurons in your head have changed, which means your behavior has changed, which means that the way that you behave when you encounter situations similar to the ones you have read about, whether it's fiction, where you run scenarios in your head about right and wrong and and bravery and fear and cowardice, or it's nonfiction. We actually create learning modules with...
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create highlights in your head about how the world is structured. Because of that, now your behavior is different, even though you can no longer recall the book, but you have actually changed because of it.
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If you have to read the paragraph or the page twice to understand what the author has said, whether it's fiction or non-fiction, then the book isn't doing its job.
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The author has failed. He's showing up. And we shouldn't be blaming ourselves when we're in that situation. We should be saying, this author has not positioned this book correctly so that someone like me can read it.
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Yeah, I mean, it's two things. Either the author doesn't understand the audience, so he's not writing for you specifically, so you're not his audience. Or sometimes, and it does happen, and and also like an author can become self-indulgent.
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know They lose themselves in the research and their own understanding and clarity of what they found. and now they're showing off so they show you how complex it is and how smart they are in understanding this but they articulate it in a way that actually shows off the complexity and their own smartness and you know that's that's peacocking right it's the wrong the wrong approach When you pick up the book for the first time, you don't know what you don't know.
Exploring Human Behavior and Improvement
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What you were saying about six months after the book is that you've reached that point because of the book where you don't need to think about remembering the book. You just know what you know and it becomes that habitual automatic type of application of the knowledge.
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Yeah, i mean, think about the first time you touch a red hot flame and you you don't know what it does and it burns you and your hand just jerks back because you feel that pain. And then for the rest of your life, whenever you approach a hot surface, without recalling that instance, the first instance that created that instinctive response for you, you will have that instinctive response. Now, how is that possible?
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Because you don't have time to dredge up the memory and then appraise the situation. It's the wiring in your brain that's actually created, yes becomes activated by the circumstances, and you respond in order to protect yourself in that particular scenario.
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Yes, I see what you mean. Yeah, there's a bit of a talent to be able to do that, which has then resulted in you being able to make a life out of writing books, which has got used to number 19. Talent is something you work on because you have a certain predisposition to something. Yes. Or you were naturally good at something. But you need to work at that.
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What keeps you, however, at working at that is the desire to achieve something which goes beyond just that, just you being good. you You want to share the excitement. Yes.
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And then it's exciting because the world opens up. Okay, it's that excitement that you discover through writing. It's an aspect of the world. which allows us to create structured understanding and knowledge out of what appears to be unstructured chaos. Brilliant.
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And like I say, you're at book 19, so book 19 is called Built to Last. What's being built in book 19 to last? Us. In a word, us. you know Basically, I've written ah i've written books in different subjects, you know search and marketing and business and branding and trust and decision-making and intentionality.
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And, you know, we're talking themes now because some books sort of explore things in the same sector in different ways. All these subjects use appear so different on the surface. There's a unit uniting thread and the thread is us. It's the way we behave, which fascinates me.
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We behave in different ways in different contexts. We do things which we shouldn't be doing and we find ways to justify them. We don't do things which we should be doing And again, sometimes we find ways to justify them. So I go digging, asking why why do we behave like that?
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And the subtext of my digging is if we understand ourselves a little bit better, which is my hope every time I write a book and present it to the reader, then we have a good opportunity to improve the way our operating system works.
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So in a sense, we become slightly better human beings every time. And that's a win for me and a win for everybody else. It's a win-win situation. What you're aiming to do then with the book is to, well, you're fascinated by the topic. You research it, you understand it, you simplify it, and then you present that in an argument or a debate for the audience to then form their own opinion from reading the book.
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Almost. What I'm fascinated by always is a particular problem in that topic.
The Disconnect Between Knowledge and Action on Fitness
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So when we talk about the latest one, for instance, it's fitness, right? We logically, if we take anybody in the world, doesn't matter who they are, and we sit them in front of you and ask them, is it important to be fit?
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Do you want to be lean? Do you want to be healthy as you age? Do you want to enjoy life in the fullest sense possible because your body isn't decaying beyond its ability to enjoy the world? And the answer is going to be 100% yes.
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Logically, nobody is going to disagree with that. We all understand the logic. we live in a world which is information rich. We know what to do. We know the studies. We know where to find podcasts and videos on YouTube which show you workouts.
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There are gyms in almost every neighborhood. There are ah facilities in many businesses. There are home gyms and home equipment you have at a very sort of accessible price these days. But even if you don't have any of those, you can still work out using the weight of your own body in zero space, in your underwear, in your bedroom.
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And yet the figures we face to today are abysmal. We know that from the World Health Organization figures that by the year 2050, just a quarter of a century from now, half the world's population is going to be either overweight or obese.
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We know that despite the fact that globally we spend almost a trillion dollars a year on fitness, we fail at maintaining even and in any in any given developed country population, more than 35% of people that actually train, which means that 65% of people don't train regularly or don't train at all.
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So there has to be a reason for that. This is the problem. And the problem isn't there's no access. It's not socioeconomic conditions. They all play part in that, but it's not that. It's not lack of knowledge. It's not lack of opportunity.
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So it has to be something else. And that's why that's what i I sort of um started digging in. We can't ask you in a podcast about the book what the conclusions were that you drew. Well, you can. i I'll tell you. I don't mind.
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sir Well, we do want people to buy the book and enjoy reading it and finding out for themselves and then working out whether they agree with you or not. But the figures about obesity is one of the things that is always interests me because how do we measure obesity? What's the definition of being obese? There are several.
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But i mean the mode the usual one is going through BMI, which Body Mass Index, which in itself is a questionable metric, but it's the one we have, which we broadly ah broadly apply. But beyond that, it's having a certain weight about above the weight that you can easily support and have positive long-term health outcomes. So if you, for example, can't stand up without assistance, then... much of for Sure, yeah, it's a problem for sure. your should your body should be able to support your own body weight. And if you can't do that, then you are either you either are or you are on your way to being obese.
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Absolutely. You should have basic mobility. You should be able to pick yourself up from the floor if you are on the floor, without unassisted, without using your hands to get on your knees. You should be able to get up from a chair with without holding onto the arms for support. right You should be able to walk at least a couple of kilometers without aches on your knees or your back.
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I mean, these are basic mobility sort of requirements. And Yes. A large portion of the population is failing. Yeah. You see, one of the things that you talk about there is being able to walk a couple of kilometers without feeling tired.
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Totally agree with you. But then I'm thinking, how many people get to walk even one kilometer day? That's part of the problem, exactly. i mean, you see, once you start thinking about it logically, you begin to see some of the issues should crop up.
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And that's one of them. We structured a modern lifestyle. We haven't done it consciously. it's something it's There's no grand design in this. But there is a modern lifestyle where we have lost the lifestyle of the past.
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10,000 years ago, 2,000 years ago, your everyday life would have had physical hardship by definition. We know from tribes across the world which are isolated from civilization, and there's very few of them.
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Anthropologists get embedded in them. to study their way of life and that's the closest we have the paleolithic hunter-caller community. They get up in the morning, they're constantly active all day.
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It's almost as if our human body has not kept tape kept up with the speed of change that the human brain is able to envisage and fulfil.
Modern Lifestyles vs. Evolved Bodies
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So we invent engines, we invent motors, we invent air conditioning, we invent mass production but that all comes from the human brain but the human body is still designed for that hunter-gatherer type of situation not as we have evolved in the UK for example into people who sit at desks of some form or another. You're partially right in your approach when you think the brain gives us these things and the body then doesn't keep up.
00:14:53
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The brain and the body have two fundamental things to do, to to two basic roles, and they're both intended to help us survive. The brain is a predictive machine, so its entire structure and everything it does is designed to help it accurately as accurately as possible predict the next moment.
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And the basis of that is that if it can predict the next moment, well enough for us to be able to function in it, then we know how to behave because we have anticipated it.
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And if we know how to behave, then we know how to survive it. That's all it does. So in that complex, in that simple function of the human brain, we get the complexity which we call civilization, which we call traditions, which we call laws and structures and mores and morality and everything else and all the labels you stick there.
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But the outcome of all that complex structure is that if you live in a developed world, you have a reasonable expectation of surviving the next moment after you step out of your house because you don't expect anybody to attack you, you don't expect anybody to try and eat you, you don't think somebody's going to try and kill and take your clothes because these things no longer happen.
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And we have created that out of all this. Now the human body trying to help us survive only has one basic function and that's to adopt adapt, to adapt to environment and to adapt the conditions.
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When it comes to the modern world, the adaptations it makes to a largely sedentary lifestyle unfortunately work against us. But it's because of all those things. they still They're trying to help us survive.
00:16:32
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It's just that we live in an environment that was never really adequately foreseen by a biological organism like us. You know, you and I work in front of a screen most of the day.
00:16:44
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You have a refrigerator like I do. It's about 15, 20 paces away. It contains about 10,000 calories at least. And that's an environment that was never really fascia envisaged because it's artificial. It's entirely artificial. We created it through the successful application of all those structures to allow us to survive.
00:17:02
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And the price of that survival now is that we're endangering our own life.
Brain Mechanics and Physical Exertion
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Because we are no longer physically healthy if we don't exercise, we don't do something active. And then we're not mentally healthy because the brain and body are really integrated into one.
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What we're saying, I suppose, is that the way in which we live in the 21st century in the Western world is almost designed not to make us last. Well, yes, that's a natural ask outcome if we do nothing.
00:17:33
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If we, i mean, again, going back to those, and I need to sort preface this little bit to explain why this happens. um If we um look at thee those tribes people explain I talked about before, who have really active lifestyles,
00:17:48
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What they do when they don't have to do anything is nothing. They just hang about. They don't go and practice know lifting big rocks to get stronger. They don't swing about their machetes to get better. They is zero. And the reason they do zero is because the lifestyle, the physical activities in the lifestyle are considered stressors. their brain trying to make them to help them survive tells the body to conserve energy. And the basis of any kind of survival in any kind of environment is that you actually use up less energy every day than you're able to take in.
00:18:20
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and that's how you survive. If you switch that then you know you're going to die because you're not going to get enough energy to function. We take that into modern environment. Those circuits, those tendencies still persist.
00:18:31
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we see the setting but We say to each other, let's go and exercise, go for a run. Well that's a stressor. The body knows that and the brain feels it. So there's a voice at the back of our head that tells us you know it's cold outside. It's not the cold that's bothering us, it's the activity.
00:18:46
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Say, oh, I'm tired. You know, i've got emails to do. These are logical things. I've been exercising all my life. I still have to deal with that voice in my head every time I want to exercise. So it's there for everybody.
00:18:57
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And it's there for everybody because that's also survival mechanism. Again, 10,000 years ago, those people came out of the caves and one of them said, hey, you know, let's go to those mountains and see what's on the other side. And the other one said, are you crazy? You know, we have no support mechanism, no food, no way of getting food. The tribes people are here. We don't know what we're going to encounter.
00:19:15
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But the other person still went the ahead and did it. And he never made it back, right? So he didn't procreate. So we ended up, all of us, with a negative voice in our head that's trying to help us survive by avoiding stressors, by avoiding the expansion of energy.
00:19:30
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Unfortunately, in the modern world, this is exactly what we need. And this is where our smartness comes in, because we are smart creatures. And of all the creatures in the animal kingdom, we're the only ones who are actually able to rewire our brain.
00:19:44
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We can consciously switch the value proposition of what we do so that we can overcome the adverse evaluation of stress in my head and actually do it.
00:20:00
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So what what you're saying, i suppose then, is that part of our hardwired survival mechanism in the human brain says, no matter how much food that you eat, never so exhaust yourself, never exp so expend more energy than you have consumed, because obviously you wouldn't survive. And that is part of our makeup going back to whenever. So we are almost hardwired to be a little bit lazy as well, not to go to the next level that we might be able to possible to go to because the brain is thinking, keep some energy in reserve because you don't know where your next meal is coming from.
00:20:44
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Yeah, it' singing thinking about all the time. yeah And there was a study carried out um back in 2020 where they asked different groups of volunteers. They gave them a rucksack, and the rucksack was about seven pounds in weight. They had some weights in it.
00:20:57
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And they asked them to estimate the distance to a particular point in the horizon and the amount of time they would require to get there. And they asked them that in the morning, and then three weeks later, repeated experiment doing it in the evening, at the end of the day.
00:21:12
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same people gave different answers and the reason they gave different answers is that at the end of their day they had less energy which the brain factors that in and then it tells them oh now it's the distance is almost twice as far and the time required going to be one and a half times as long So now the effort perceptually is longer and they're disinclined to do it. Whereas in the morning when they're fresh, they're thinking, oh yeah, and now they're actually underestimating the distance and they're underestimating the time it'll take them to get there because they're fresh and they're full of energy.
00:21:47
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So yeah, that's exactly that illustrated by that example. So what you're saying then is really that we need to re rewire our brains to accommodate what happens in the 21st century, as well as managing our bodies better as well.
Rewiring Our Brains for Modern Challenges
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I mean, if we if we rewire our brains, we have better control of our bodies. It's a simple sort of connection. And the examples that come to mind are people who have had a health scare or people who have seen a loved one go through a really difficult illness because they were not healthy and fit.
00:22:26
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And that allows them to create an emotional connection to the health outcomes they want that recalculates in their head the energy and the cost of the stress of exercise.
00:22:37
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So that is now deprecated and they're more willing to do it because the outcome of what they want has now risen in value because of that emotionality. we are for a our logic and for all the power of our logical thinking we're emotional machines that think as opposed to thinking machines that feel now you see you know what we were saying earlier on about how if you have to read the page twice you shouldn't blame yourself but
00:23:10
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tell me that bit again the last bit again just so i'm sort of thinking know Well, we we are everything we do, everything, the thoughts we have, the actions we take, the decisions we make, they're primarily driven by emotion, not logic.
00:23:26
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And then we apply logic to explain it. We emotional machines that actually think. as opposed to thinking machines, logical machines that happen to feel. So we always start with emotion and then we apply logic.
00:23:39
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And that's the shortcut to rewiring the brain when it comes to exercise or any kind of stressor. you want to do something at work and you're disinclined to do it because it's going to be difficult, but you're focusing on the task instead of the outcome.
00:23:54
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If the outcome is really meaningful for you, then the difficulty, the perception difficulty of the task is deprecated in your mind and you don't mind doing it.
00:24:05
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when we look at a task that needs to be done, we think about the emotional side of it. We're thinking about all the things that will make it difficult. Whereas if we focus on the outcome and the desirability of the outcome, then the emotional side should be much more positive. Yes.
00:24:20
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it's If it's something that you really want to do, it doesn't matter what it is. And I'm going to try and stop you. going to say, you know, it's going to be hard. It's going to difficult. And everything every obstacle I place in your in your path is simply going to see something to get over or around off. not going to see it as something that will stop you.
00:24:38
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Because you really want it for you. It has real value as opposed to something being abstract. And if it was abstract, then all the obstacles I place in your path will stop you. Because you'll think, oh, you're right. It's too hard. The solution is to try and look at issues more logically rather than emotionally first. And when we're looking at the logic, look at the outcome rather than the process.
00:25:02
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Well, what it is ultimately, it comes down to you understanding who you are and why you do things. and that's more emotional as opposed to logical. You have to dig deep into yourself.
00:25:14
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Like, who are you really? Once you understand that, then you you begin to understand why things are important to you. And the moment you understand why things are important to you, then you begin to prioritize because things have meaning, which means they have value as opposed to being just things which you have to do.
00:25:29
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And the moment you prioritize things which you need to do because have meaning and value for you, well, there's your motivation. There's suddenly all those things fall in line. Things become clear based on that understanding of the who and the why.
00:25:44
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So before you start your fitness campaign, whether that's going to the gym, going for a run, going swimming, whatever it is that you are going to be doing, you have to get your mindset right in order to make sure that that fitness routine program is going to be a success. Yes, that's absolutely right.
00:26:02
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If you're looking for something which will help you, truly help you, you need to understand what it is. And it doesn't matter if your initial understanding is superficial. it It really doesn't matter. It's that understanding which will drive you. and you will change through the process.
00:26:16
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So you're building the the mindset and you also got to recognize that your mindset will change as a result of the process itself. It's a saying which I find fascinating and I had to think about it for some time and it's absolutely true.
00:26:29
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And it was said by Herodotus about three, two and a half thousand years ago. And he said, and he was a Greek philosopher stroke historian. And he said, no man crosses the same river twice.
00:26:42
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because they're not the same man and it's not the same river. There's a fluidity in both. The river will change because it's a stream. It changes temperature, pressure, depth.
00:26:55
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And then the process of crossing the river, like the process of reading a book, like the process of listening to this podcast, has changed the person that actually consumed
Reflecting on Knowledge and Self-Change
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it. They're not the same person, exactly. and As the host, I think that's a really nice thing to have happen, to have added value into someone's day and they end up as a change as a result of it is a really nice sort of thought and a nice place to conclude.
00:27:22
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But, you know, David, thank you very much. You've certainly made me think. Certainly have. Thank you. That is the aim. that Thank you very much. I really do appreciate your time today. It's been very interesting.
00:27:35
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Thank you for having here Brilliant. It's been fantastic. Thank you. I am Michael Millward, the Managing Director of Abusida. And in this episode of Fit for My Age, I have been having a conversation with David Ameland, the author of Built to Last.
00:27:50
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You can find out more information about both of us at abusida.co.uk.
Resources and Listener Engagement
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I must remember to thank the team at matchmaker.fm for introducing me to David. If you are a podcaster looking for interesting guests, or if like David you have something very interesting to say, matchmaker.fm is where great hosts and great guests are matched and great podcasts are hatched.
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00:29:15
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There is a link and a discount code in the description, which all in all means that the description is well worth reading. I'm sure that you will have enjoyed listening to this episode of Fit For My Age as much as David and I have enjoyed making it. so please give it a like and download it.
00:29:33
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Until the next episode of Fit For My Age, thank you for listening and goodbye.