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Dr. Tara Swart

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“Yes, I think there's so many versions of grief that we've seen, particularly in the last few years, which is loss of sense of self, loss of someone through a relationship breakdown and loss of someone through actual death. And it's interesting to hear you say as a caring onlooker that it's something that's so overwhelming and resistant to advice, I strongly believe that To ever heal from grief, you have to go to the bottom of the hole, and however you do that Is not something that anyone else can comment on. I think if you are doing things like throwing yourself back into work or like partying too much to avoid it, that's not right. But if somebody has to go somewhere emotionally to deal with grief.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Unfortunately Difficult things can happen to people in life, but every time something like that's happened to me, I've gone down a rabbit hole of, okay, what can I find that can help me to overcome this and be better?”
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“Not being resilient to stress or being more liable to anxiety or mood disorder. And it's already starting off inflammation and this like tiny baby that hasn't even been born yet. I know that sounds terrible and I really don't want this to come across like all mums have to be completely Zen and never get stressed because that's just not reality. But, you know, everything that you can do, of course, to manage your stress during pregnancy is helpful. But then completely understanding that if your child then starts to show any symptoms of anxiety or, you know, inability to manage their emotions after an age where they should be kind of able to do that, you can introduce them to meditation. You can sit with them and talk to them about their emotions and how they're feeling. There are lots of really great books and videos that you can use to educate children about that kind of thing. I always say knowledge is power.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, so I'm going to give you a really tangible answer before I take it back to something we were talking about before. Imagine the mother's a heroin addict. Is affecting the baby, right? And that's because they share the same blood supply. So if the mother is stressed and she's got high levels of cortisol, then that cortisol is going through the placenta into the baby's blood supply And basically being stressed from in utero could switch on genes.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I always say to people that you aren't born with the genes that your parents had when they were born, you're born with the expression of the genes that your parents had around the time of conception And then of course your mother's stress levels through the trimesters of pregnancy. And this isn't meant to blame anyone for what happened in the past or how stressed they feel when they're pregnant, it's meant to raise awareness of the fact that if you have something in your family's history or you did have a particularly stressful pregnancy, you can use neuroplasticity to improve the chances of your baby expressing genes that will be more helpful for them in life than if you didn't know about all of this stuff.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Eventually changes the expression of your genes. So we have a genotype and a phenotype. The genotype is your DNA. It doesn't change, but the phenotype is which bits get switched on and switched on. The most famous examples of this are the Holocaust and the Dutch famine, but there are other examples, and we are sufficient generations away from that now to have seen like three plus generations changes in the stress responses. And so and it's not always bad so sometimes people are more resilient because their grandparents or great grandparents went through something terrible. Sometimes people are more anxious. And it's hard to know necessarily why things might go one way or another.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I know. I mean, it's a relatively new area of research. So I'm actually going to separate this into a few things. So generational trauma, and you can look this up, is related to specific times of acts that were Placed onto particular marginalized groups. So like first Americans, slavery. In Asia, there are some particular groups that were Treated in a certain way. And that is, so the impact of generational trauma is when something happened to one generation, there's a psychological spillover and it can be something to do with you always feel isolated or you always feel lonely or you always feel at the margin or you always feel left out. That's because a whole generation were treated in a certain way and that has an impact. Intergenerational epigenetic trauma is about how some external”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Deal with every single thing that you've experienced or the full extent of what you've experienced. But I do believe that there's a lot that everybody can do.”
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“I don't want to say yes to that, but what I am going to say is we've moved away from using this term hardwired, which kind of means like it's there forever. And we talk about softwiring now because of neuroplasticity. I know people who have been through incredible amounts of trauma. There's going to be an example coming up on my podcast soon. Who has done so much work on herself that she's really in a beautiful place as a psychologist and a Vedic astrologer helping other people learn to deal with that trauma? So there's a lot that can happen. She was clearly a very resilient person and got herself educated. Some people deal with the consequences of trauma for the rest of their life, and you know it runs their life, and it's sad. You may not be able to”
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“So With years of practice and journaling, I have become better at holding myself accountable. But for most people, there's got to be some external. So it could be a friend. One of the reasons I'm a big fan of doing these action boards is that there's a very tangible thing in front of you that with images of what you said you wanted to achieve this year, which you can clearly and your friends and family can see at the end of the year whether you did or you didn't. And, you know, of course you can have an actual professional person that is there, like your language teacher to hold you accountable.”
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“It's not a step, but the fourth factor is accountability. Because most people left to their own devices. Give up on that process when it feels too hard.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I'm going to speak from my area of expertise. I'm not going to worry about that other stuff that, you know, can go on in my head. Let's say this time I managed to do that 50% of the time, and then I go and do another podcast next week, and I managed to do it 75% of the time, you know, and so on. Eventually, this new pathway that I've been building will become stronger than the one that I had before. And then every time I turn up for a podcast, I'll just be completely present and attentive, and I'll get to the end of it. And that's the new me now.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Or she will be able to say no to that man this time. So the next step is deliberate practice, which is where you say, okay, I used to behave like this. This is the new me that I want to be as somebody who says no to every man that's married who replaces every negative thought with a positive thought or whatever it is that you're working on. You then look for scenarios to practice this new behaviour, and at first it will be hard because you have a pathway there that may have been set since childhood that is used to doing a certain thing and the brain is a very energy hungry organ, so it's always trying to use the path of least resistance. Let's say I'm an overthinker, okay? And you're asking me these questions, and I've got this voice in the back of my head saying, why Stephen asking me that? What's he trying to get to? Is he trying to trick me? What I would try to do is silence that voice in my head and say, okay, in this podcast with Stephen, I'm going to focus on him, I'm going to take his questions for what they are.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Engaged in a relationship with someone else, or this time I had an affair with a married man, what happened? Like, that decision-making process, the point from which you agreed to get into that, what was the consequence? So really, that's the focused attention, marrying together that decision with the consequence. You know, one of the things I say is you are basically the sum of every decision that you've made in your life. That's who you are. So once there's a bit more understanding and attention around like what causes that and how it happens, the next stage just deliberate practice. Who's not available And she may not yet be able to say no to that. She may have to make another mistake, but she'll make it armed with all the knowledge that she's got now, and she'll see it for what it is.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So that's the kind of conversation I would have with someone like that. I would probably ask her, like, you know, what goes through your mind when you decide to do that again? And she would say something that she's conscious of thinking. I would want to dig below that and ask what it is that she believes about herself that makes her think that. So that's quite an important part of the raised awareness is getting below the thought into the belief. Next step is, well, certainly if she's got a history of this as, you know, maybe in journaling, acknowledging, writing down, okay, this time that I went out with someone that was, you know, kind of...”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So in this case, that is obvious. If you're getting into relationships with people who are already attached, you're aware of that. What I would want to dig in to with her... Is what it is that she believes about herself that makes her think that that's okay and I'm imagining already that there must be The level of self worth, that is. Has struggled, you know, and maybe there's something in her childhood that's caused that, but you would only do that if you didn't believe that you deserved someone of your own.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And step one is 50% of the battle. So, you know, once you know, okay, this is a thing that I think or I believe or I do that comes out with a result that I don't want, that is half the battle. So once you've done that, You don't try to change anything straight away. The next stage is called focused attention. So you look around in your life at work, in your personal life, in sports if you play sports. With different types of people and through your past, where are the times I've done that? What triggers me into doing that or what pushes me into doing that?”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So the process for that, which is underpinned by neuroplasticity, like the physiology of what happens in the brain, is raised awareness. So let's say that you've had a relationship break up again for the similar reasons and, you know, whatever happened before. So then you get to a point you're like, okay, last time I just kind of didn't really deal with that and just moved on to the next relationship. Now I'm beginning to see there's a pattern. I think I need to do something different.”
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“Yeah, like a motivation overthinker, negative thinker, lose your temper. You know, sort of feel very stuck. People pleasing, you know, like so many things.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah, we will do it. I'm really glad you've taken this into the intangible because obviously I use the analogy of language as a great one to help people understand that you learn something new, it builds up that pathway in your brain, it shifts your brain around, it has other benefits. But what people are really looking for is changing habits and behaviors that are not serving them in life.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It is in terms of the facts that you're learning. But your actual process of finding a person, doing a bit of research into them, meeting them, having a conversation with them, being good at asking them certain questions, that's a very natural pathway for you. You're getting better and better at it, but that's not a new big change in your brain.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, you're meeting different people, you're learning new things. It's probably not what we would call attention intense enough To actually be shifting pathways in your brain.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So that's great. So, you have actually a reason to learn one or two languages. If you do that, Your brain will not only get the benefits of being able to speak French or Portuguese, but you will actually improve your executive functions. Now these are the highest functions of the brain. Things like being able to regulate your emotions better, solve complex problems, think flexibly, think creatively, override any conscious or unconscious biases that you may have. These are great benefits to get from actually just doing something like learning a language or a musical instrument. And it can be smaller things like travel, interacting with people who've had a different life to you, cooking something new, taking a different route to work, reading a newspaper or a magazine that's very different to what you normally read.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You didn't miss it. So from 25 to 65, and I would say even beyond now. If you don't do anything to change your brain, it will tend to plateau. So, you know, if you're in a job where you do the same thing every day and you're pretty good at it, you could stay like that for the rest of your life. And that is fine for some people. If you do things to that are intense enough to force your brain to change then you can basically learn lots of new things but also get what we call global benefits in your brain so let's say you decided to learn a new language maybe you'd learn Portuguese or French”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, we have to start by saying that when I was at medical school and doing my PhD in neuroscience, we did not know about neuroplasticity, so we absolutely thought that when you physically stopped growing, that everything in your brain was set for the rest of your life, that you couldn't change your intelligence, you couldn't learn to manage your emotions differently, that it would be much harder to learn new things. What we know now is that the brain is actively growing and changing till we're about twenty.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We're always working on ourselves, hopefully. And you want to be with people, if you are, then you want to be with people who are growing too, who are open to challenge, who are learning, who are interested in exploring spirituality, who care about their mental health and other people's mental health. So it's really About having this circle of trust and knowing that you've got support, but equally that if you do something that's really not okay, that somebody's going to tell you.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, if we just link this back a little bit to the question that you Googled, which is, is stress contagious, then there's another rabbit hole you could go down, which would be about social contagion. So there are statistics that show that in your social group, if someone gets divorced, you're more likely to get divorced in the next year. If someone in your social group is obese, you're more likely to become obese. Now, I'm not absolutely not saying don't be friends with someone because they got divorced or they put on weight, but I'm talking more about the... At latitudinal stuff, so the You know how you treat other people, how kind you are, how generous you are, how open you are to conversations about intuition or spirituality. Basically, you meet people who are at a similar psychological level to you. And so”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When I said, you know, I mean, I absolutely do not have my phone in my bedroom, but when I say limit screen time, that is a difficult one because we will use our screens for work and to communicate with our friends. But there are studies that show the amount of time you spend even communicating with friends online versus face to face has all sorts of impacts in terms of how socially comfortable you are, how empathic you are. It can even have on teenagers a really big impact on body dysmorphism. So it's fine to actually spend quite a lot of time online as long as you are also spending a lot of time with people face to face.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“again what I hear now very commonly is Oh we've been on three or four or five dates or whatever it is that must mean you know move to the next level kind of thing so I think that going back to having like really respectful relationships having a lot of empathy for other people looking out for the people in your life that might be lonelier than you”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Um, I think that The ideal of what a woman has to be or can be is very distorted by pornography. I think if I put together, you know, what I hear from my friends about dating apps with that, that the way that people feel they can treat others has really, really changed. And I think this has accelerated since the pandemic as well. So this real lack of empathy for the consequences of your actions and comments on other people. And I think pornography contributes to that because it changes the way that men view women. I think the impact on women in terms of what you have to look like, like how much plastic surgery you have to have, what you've got to be prepared to do in an intimate relationship, or actually the biggest issue I would have is what you're expected to do when you're not even in an intimate relationship. You know, just when it becomes more of a transaction, when the rules have changed about...”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, the two most basic drives in the brain are sex and food, so the potential impact is huge. I agree with you that increasingly it has created a big disconnect between men and women in real life, which is really sad.”
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“Um I actively try to spend as much time in nature as I can and I have like a lot of plants and flowers in and around my house. I am very, very careful about who's in my tribe, so it's positive, meaningful, deep spiritual relationships. Don't use pornography or dating. I just go through your limits. Yeah, and I, you know, I try.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You can start with yourself. So I completely agree with what all those things that you've just said is how most people live, but I don't know if like that.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that to me is beautiful because it's not like we have to do some crazy new different things that we've never thought of before. We cannot The way that I put it is we know about Generational trauma and intergenerational trauma and epigenetics and how all these bad things can come down the line. But there's also a lot of beauty and wisdom that's there that we can have access to. We don't have to reinvent the wheel at all. We can just go back to doing the things that we did when we were at peace.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's neuroplasticity. It's repeating that and giving yourself the message that every time I'm around trees, I'm safe. I feel safe. It won't be the same for everyone. I would imagine that, again, when we lived in the cave, that we naturally did things like looked at the stars in the sky at night, danced around the fire, did cave paintings. So that's very wired into our psyche as well. You know, they would adorn themselves a lot more than we do. So that appreciation of aesthetics has always been there and not just from nature, from some of our rituals and ceremonies as well. And really the conclusion that I've come to with this whole spiritual crisis and then the potential revolution is that all the things that we need go through that revolution have always been in the world as long as we've existed.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think it's to do with safety. So if you were able to spare your mental resources to appreciate beauty. That must mean that you're safe, that must mean that you're not just trying to survive. So it's actually, I mean, we do appreciate beauty. So seeing, smelling, you know, hearing, tasting nice things, it's going to make us feel better. But also... We're only going to be doing that if we have the luxury of being able to do that, but it can be such small things. But also what it signals to your brain is, I'm safe, because I have time to read a novel or I have time to crank the music up and dance around my living room.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I wanted to mention this, but I had zested a lemon last night when I was cooking. And so this morning when I went to get the milk out of the fridge, I smelt it because it was in the fridge and I just thought that is so beautiful. And so they say things like, you know, if you've put like a bunch of flowers on your bedside table and it smells nice and that's the first thing you smell in the morning and then you like look at the beautiful flowers if you've got objects of beauty in your house if you listen to birdsong in the morning that that's all neuroaesthetics it's living a life that is aesthetically pleasing to your brain and that's good for your health Should we go back to evolution? Should I make a guess”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Mobile if you were elderly, if you weren't contributing, then you might get left behind. And then there's this really interesting new area of research called neuroaesthetics or neuroarts, which is about having some kind of creative activity in your regular schedule. So there's lots of research that shows that if you're not doing something creative once a week, and that could be dance, music, painting, drawing, going to the theatre, reading a novel, so really quite broad, time and nature actually is included in it. Then, because nature is the palette that we all love, you know, you could have different taste in art or music to me, but all humans love nature because we've always been in that, that beauty. So the impact of that on your mental health and your physical health and your longevity is huge as well.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I love that. I think I hadn't thought of it like that exactly like that before, but I think it's true. You know, a tribe sadly could not afford to carry dead weight. So if you weren't enough, you know, if you were injured, if you were”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I love what you've done, which is exactly what I said, which is when I'm not sure of the answer, I'll go back to evolution.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That could be volunteering, it could be For me, I give out a lot of free information on Instagram and not to try to get work or anything like that. It could be, so when I say volunteering, that sounds quite big, but it could be like asking your elderly neighbor if you can do their groceries for them when you go to the supermarket. It could be calling up a friend and checking that they're okay. Something that makes you feel like life is worth living. But doesn't necessarily earn you money or directly improve your life.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I do my podcast and I love doing my podcast and I get to meet interesting people and I share that knowledge with others. A lot of that is still to do with self-satisfaction. So having something that doesn't necessarily do anything for you, but gives you purpose in life is really important.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, I think most of us felt that being able to get out and be somewhere green was really important. And because there was like no planes and no traffic, you know, we could see the stars in the sky again. We saw amazing sunsets. People began to appreciate bird song. And now the studies are showing that time spent in nature actually has a really positive impact on your physical health, your mental health and your longevity. So, you know, that's one good thing that's come out of it. Are we all still making time for that or are we just going back to kind of our old ways? The other thing, things of interest that have come out is that having a purpose that transcends yourself is really important to your mental health particularly, but it will have knock-on effects. Know you could say”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If I look back and you've led a very nice story of my journey since I changed career, is that it started off with that physical piece? For me, where I was working, there was stress, but people were having heart attacks. Then I spent many years working on mental resilience with people. And emotional regulation was part of that. And that became important again in the pandemic because we were in closed quarters with people and it was just very different and it was hard and it was homeschooling and working and everything. What I've seen, some of the good things I've seen as a result of the pandemic is that we've definitely appreciated again the importance of our time in nature.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just think about what's going on right now. We don't even really think about our own future, like some of the time. I remember thinking literally in March of 2020, this is going to be a mental health crisis. Like whatever happens physically. And as time went on, more so, I thought mental health crisis, mental health crisis. And then I started to think, okay, What else could it be? And I had time, of course, to indulge in some of the other areas of life. And I thought this could be a spiritual revolution.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The teenagers that interestingly boys did better than girls because they play video games on the internet, so they stayed connected. The older people that were isolated, the people that lost loved ones, etc. There's so many things I could say more things than that. We haven't really acknowledged that that's what happened and what we went through. Most people are not really Understanding what's changed for them or what's going on for them at the moment as a result of that. And we certainly haven't made any plan for the future You know, I'm really into indigenous wisdom at the moment. And one of the things I've learned about the First Americans is that when they make a big decision for their community, they imagine the impact of that decision seven generations into the future. We don't even think about one generation into the future”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Stephen, I saw this looming at the beginning of the pandemic. It's not looming anymore. It is, we are in crisis. So, you know, all of the health anxiety and the uncertainty and the fear and the loss that we experienced during the pandemic Was bad enough, you know, it caused a level of stress that no one who's alive today has experienced before. But we've come out of it. We're relatively I don't know if I could say back to normal or in the new normal. And we have not paid any attention to the consequences of what happened to us, and when I say us, I mean everyone from the babies that were born at that time that never saw anyone but their immediate family.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And, you know, then it takes a challenge like that because also the other thing that happens in, you know, with groupthink, whether it's at work or in your social circle is that we don't challenge each other enough on those sort of things. So if a friend said, oh, I've had this cold for six weeks, I might say, oh, poor you. But I wouldn't, but someone might. But, you know, it's also about saying, is there something else wrong? Because that's not usual. And for me, that would absolutely lead back to cortisol”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's not necessarily that they had a cold virus that they suppressed, but it's that their body is, you know, the immune system is being run down by the cortisol. And so as soon as it gets a break, that's when it kind of succumbs. And there was a time after the financial crisis when I had people saying I've had this cold for like four weeks now or six weeks, but everybody's got it. And I was like, I'm sorry, but do you actually think that's normal? Do you think it's normal to have a cold for more than a week?”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“pathways in them. So that's the connection. That brings us back to what I was saying about the brain body connection. They're intimately connected and it's a bi-directional thing. They can't exist without each other. And the more you understand that there's that constant feedback going back and forth, the more you can tap into that kind of thing. The more you can know days before you're going to get sick. I bet your girlfriend knows days before she's going to get a cold or flu.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT