- If you've got a big project on your hands,
you're trying to set up a brand new business,
get it cranking, or give it, you know, starting to do,
but for the life of you you can't get focused and your
energy's too low, well, I've got some crazy cool tools
that are gonna help you achieve more focus in less time.
Let's take a look.
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Hey everyone, it's Ben Angel here,
the author of the upcoming book the Identity Gap:
a 90-Day Mission to Become Unstoppable.
Now, through the course of this challenge,
I had to go from complete and utter exhaustion to achieving
high levels of energy, but also high levels of focus.
So, what did I do?
Well, I traveled across the country, even to Canada,
to make the biohacker Dave Asprey,
as well as speaking to brain health experts, neurologists,
and tech startup companies that are producing gadgets
that help to train the brain to focus a lot easier.
I've got some of my top tips to help you get started
if you're struggling with focus right now.
And the very first tip is to address
nutritional deficiencies, which I spoke
at about length in the last video.
Now, what we're leaning is that everything
from food sensitivities, medication, as well as inflammation
in the brain and body can cause cognitive issues.
So this can lead to everything from anxiety,
depression, to various different diseases.
Now, if you're nutritionally deficient, attempting to focus
is like driving a car with a handbrake on.
It doesn't matter how much you try and use willpower,
you're gonna spin your wheels and you're not going
to get the outcome that you desire at the end of the day.
So number one, address those nutritional deficiencies.
There is one way to do it.
And this is particularly to address cravings.
When it comes to cravings, that's when our brain
switches from the logic mind into the primal mind,
and we are less able to make logical decisions.
And there's a couple of hacks
that I've got here for you right now.
One is a supplement called Brain Octane Oil.
Now this is full of MCTs.
So MCTs are another fuel source for the brain
aside from sugars and carbohydrates.
Now as you know, when you have sugar and carbohydrates,
you're gonna get that energy spike,
but then you're going to come crashing down afterwards.
By supplementing with MCTs, which helps to produce
ketone bodies, a cleaner fuel source
for the brain to work on, your energy increases,
but it stays increased for a longer
amount of time versus the carbs and sugars.
So grab some MCT oils.
It's coconut-based.
I'm sensitive to coconut.
And what I've found with Dave Asprey's brand is that
it doesn't actually have the coconut proteins in it.
So if you are sensitive to coconut, you should be fine,
as it's fine for me as well.
When you are selecting an MCT oil,
make sure that it doesn't have lauric acid in it.
Because lauric acid doesn't behave
the same as the MCTs itself.
Be sure to check out for that.
Tip two, now this is going on from the MCT oils.
To curb your cravings and make sure you don't fluctuate
energetically throughout the day, because as you'll notice,
as your energies peak, you gain that focus,
you gain that clarity, but as it declines,
all of a sudden you have to initiate willpower.
So you have to convince yourself to do
a task that you don't have the energy to do.
You may get it done, but what's your
cognitive state when you're trying to do it?
And that's where I turn to, what is a prebiotic?
So prebiotic is something that actually feeds the good,
healthy gut bacteria in your stomach.
In our Western society, we don't get enough of prebiotics.
This is a doctor-formulated one by Dr. David Perlmutter.
And he's been doing incredible research
around the microbiome and how the microbiome
affects our general mental wellbeing.
In fact some of the treatment that's currently
being done is helping individuals with anxiety
and depression and treating them with probiotics,
which is otherwise known as the new psychobiotic revolution.
Speaking to a major probiotic company here in the U.S.
who now do gut health tests in which they tell you what
the balance of your healthy gut bacteria is, it can then
proactively try and balance that bacteria around,
which can also potentially help with anxiety, depression,
as well as energy, which is vital for achieving focus.
Tip three, what about nicotine?
Using a nootropic, or a smart drug in this case.
Now some of you may be shocked by this,
but a nicotine spray, simple as spraying under the tongue
and keeping it under the tongue for 30 seconds,
will help rein in your focus and really
dial it in so you can get more done.
Now, I was first introduced to nicotine by Dave Asprey
when I visited him at his farm in Canada.
Dave, after giving me a bulletproof coffee,
decided to spray some of this under my tongue.
It pretty much instantly gave me the hiccups
and we had to pause the interview, and I'll be sharing
that interview with you later in a few months' time.
But what I've found in looking at the research
and hearing Dave's explanation and looking at the studies
is that nicotine is currently being researched
to help everything from depression, anxiety,
schizophrenia, as well as even bipolar.
Nicotine in its cigarette form is one chemical
out of over 5,000 other chemicals.
So when we take nicotine out of that mix,
we can look at it very strategically
and look at it based on medical research
and see that it has very real cognitive properties.
After suffering from serious fatigue and exhaustion
from the last few years and experiencing memory loss,
I decided to supplement with nicotine a few times a week
to help bring my cognitive abilities back.
I wanted to learn more, so I reached out to a doctor in
Victoria, Australia and asked her opinion on supplementing
with nicotine to help with cognitive function.
And in fact, she had actually been
using it to help with her medical exams.
Would she ever use it in surgery?
That's an absolute no,
because higher doses can cause tremors.
Now when you look at nicotine in this form,
this is one spray, or one milligram dose.
If you were to have a cigarette,
that's anywhere from eight milligrams to 30 milligrams,
a significant difference in dosage.
Now there are obviously side effects to using nicotine.
One study found that it can increase tumor growth in rats.
Now the question with this study and other studies
out there linking it to cancers and tumors is
how much nicotine was used in that particular study?
That's not always clear,
and further followup research does need to be done.
So when it comes to having a low dose of nicotine,
which some scientists are in fact saying that it could be
as benign as having a cup of coffee in the morning,
make sure that you research
the side effects before you try it.
Tip number four.
Do some brain training.
And I have a really cool device here
which looks like something totally out of Star Trek.
But this is called the Muse Meditation Device.
And you can check it out at ChooseMuse.com.
What this device does is it provides neural feedback
as well as auditory feedback to help you tune in
your focus and train yourself to be more focused.
So you plug in your headphones and you're gonna hear
some music and even a guided meditation initially.
And then, with the audio track in the background,
it's gonna fluctuate up and down based on how focused
you are and how calm you are, or how active your mind is.
And there's a setting that you
can hear the waves of the ocean.
So if your mind becomes far too overactive,
the sound of the ocean is gonna pick up
and the waves are gonna start crashing loudly,
at which point you train your brain to go, alright,
I need to calm down now and calm that ocean.
So when you calm down, the ocean calms down.
When you hit peak calm,
you'll start to hear little birds chirp.
And they've done a whole gamification
of the process on the app itself.
So you try and outdo yourself
and your state of calmness each time.
What I've found with this is, particularly with focus,
I have noticed that even in the gym,
I'm able to get into that state of calm
before I go into really heavy weight workouts.
And also when it comes to working on a project
such as writing a book, which is what I'm doing right now
for this project, it's helping me to calm my energy down
instead of letting my thoughts run away wild.
So this is a very proactive device and a proactive tool.
They've even just come out with a pair of sunglasses
that also picks up what the brain is doing
and helps to train focus in a slightly
different way versus the meditation.
They've even been using it to help PTSD sufferers.
There's some serious research behind these things.
Tip number five, check out another device.
And these are cool, they're touch points.
So you strap them on either wrist
and what happens is they actually vibrate,
but they vibrate out of sync with one another.
So this wrist vibrates and then this one,
and it goes back and forth constantly.
And you can speed it up, slow it down,
increase the intensity, or even decrease the intensity.
And what they've found with the research is this
really takes any anger or fear, if you're sitting
in the primal brain and you're unable to focus,
and it pushes you straight back into the logical mind.
It kind of shortcuts that circuit.
I was really skeptical when I first got these,
but reading the research papers,
they've done some incredible work on them.
One study found that up to 75% of people
had reduced stress within 30 seconds of wearing these.
Now I in fact tried it out on a couple
of my friends as guinea pigs.
And I put them on one of my good friends who suffers
from a severe phobia of open ocean and deep water.
We had her sit down, look at images on the computer,
at which in the first couple of minutes she quickly
whipped her head around, because even looking
at an image sends her into panic mode.
Going next to the ocean, if a partner has walked off
in the past, which has happened,
she has even ended up on her knees on the ground,
that's how real the fear is to her.
They're also being trialed in autistic children,
as well as PTSD sufferers.
There's a case study up on the website that talks
of one child now being able to go into the supermarket,
something that they couldn't do
before because of the overstimulation.
And that child is now wanting to go to Disneyland.
Now if you would love to learn more, and,
if you love the Information that I'm sharing right here,
please share with your friends, colleagues,
family members, that this information could help.
I'd love to know, have you experimented with MCT oil,
or even nicotine, or these devices?
And head over to theIdentityGap.co,
that's theIdentityGap.co, to take a quick survey
that will help shape this book, that will be out
in October of this year by Entrepreneur Press
and Entrepreneur Magazine in the U.S.
So be sure to head over to theIdentityGap.co,
and I look forward to sharing more information
with you next week, good luck.
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