- I got good news and I got bad news.
The good news is, is your brain is you.
You are your brain.
Your brain controls every area of your life.
Your sleeping, your breathing,
there's a cow over there making noise, can you hear that?
Your breathing, your sleeping, your thoughts,
anxiety, depression, your personality,
everything, your mood, your happiness,
it's all your brain.
Your brain is you, you are your brain.
And that's the good news.
The even better news is,
the health of your brain is in your control.
Take care of your brain,
treat your brain like somebody you love.
Imagine you're in love with this girl,
or you in love with this guy, and you love them,
what do you wanna do?
You wanna tell them positive things,
you wanna protect them from harm.
You want to spend time with them.
Tell your brain positive things,
stop telling yourself, "I'm so stupid, I can't learn,
I'm no good at this."
Stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it.
Spend time with your brain.
What does it mean to spend time with your brain?
Means to relax, means to close your eyes.
Means to listen for the birds if they are.
Means to get a book and read a book.
Spend time with your brain, tell your brain positive things.
Protect it from injury.
That's injury through, bad foods or drugs or alcohol,
or you're riding a motorcycle without a helmet,
oh my God.
Protect your brain from energy,
as if you loved your brain, like you loved a person.
You control your brain.
Now hear me out here for just one second.
Maybe you are struggling to learn something
and you can't learn it.
You just can't learn it.
You're struggling, you're trying to pass a history test
or a science test or a bar exam,
or some type of certification exam,
or you're a business person, and you can't remember names.
You can't give speeches from memory.
And you are struggling to learn something.
And maybe you're struggling to learn something,
because you've had a brain injury,
or you have PTSD, or you have anxiety
or you have depression or you have brain fog,
or you're a slow learner.
Guess what?
People born with different abilities to learn.
Some people are smarter than other people.
There are, and I know how that feels.
I go to memory tournaments all the time,
and I'm like, "Dude, these guys are geniuses.
How do I compete?
How does an average-brained guy like me,
or just a normal dude, with normal brain,
average IQ, how do I compete with these geniuses,
in a memory tournament?"
And you may be saying, you know,
there's a lot of different ways that your brain...
Your brain is you.
And there's a lot of different aspects to your brain.
It's your IQ, your learning ability.
It is the, your thoughts.
You know, depression, anxiety, happiness, sadness,
the health of your brain,
it is the health of your body.
You are in control of all of these things to an extent.
I'm in control of my learning and my IQ,
to a certain extent.
I go to these memory tournaments,
and there are people smarter than me.
And there are people that have better IQs than me.
But first of all, IQ doesn't correlate always
to winning a memory tournament.
And in life, it doesn't.
I want you to remember this,
it doesn't matter how slow you go,
as long as you don't give up.
So here's what I'm saying as far as,
the part of your brain that you have a control over,
is learning.
Learn at a slow and steady pace.
Just learn at a slow and steady pace.
Feed your brain, new stuff every day.
You are in control of that.
You are in control of your thoughts.
You may say, "Ron, I have anxiety and depression."
Well, sometimes that's serotonin and dopamine and oxytocin,
or you've had a concussion.
And when you have a concussion,
you are fighting an uphill battle.
Concussions can lead to suicide.
So you are fighting an uphill battle.
And I am not minimizing that at all.
But I am saying, take control of what you can control.
Control your thoughts,
ask yourself, "Am I catastrophizing here?
Is this anxiety real?
How can I handle it?
Can I take a deep breath? Can I relax?"
Control your thoughts.
Control your learning, learn at a slow and steady pace,
but you can control that.
You don't have to stay uneducated.
And you don't have to go to a college to get educated.
You can improve your anxiety or depression or your thoughts,
with what's called, cognitive behavioral therapy.
Asking yourself questions.
Is this threat real?
Am I blowing it out of proportion?
How do I really know this is what is happening?
Am I trying in my mind reading people here?
And then thirdly, the health of your brain,
it's in your control in large part.
Drink plenty of water.
Are you drinking enough water every day?
A dehydrated brain can't focus.
Are you eating healthy?
Spinach, blueberries, omega-3s,
apples, pumpkin seeds.
Are you eating healthy?
Here's the bad news.
Your brain is you.
That's also the good news.
If your brain is not working properly,
the quality of your life is gonna decrease.
Here's the good news.
If your brain is working properly,
the quality of your life is going to improve.
So work on improving the quality of your brain,
and work on your nutrition.
Good nutrition and exercise,
spinach and blueberries,
surrounding yourself with positive people,
who aren't gonna tear you down.
So that's a lot to do with your thoughts.
Work on your nutrition and just relax a little bit.
Take some deep breaths.
My name is Ron white.
I'm a two-time USA Memory Champion.
I've held the record for the fastest
to memorize a deck of cards in the United States.
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I think you'll be impressed
with the amounts and the consistency of the content,
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And I have a course called Black Belt Memory.
It's all about improving your memory,
when you finish it, you get a black belt in memory,
and it's really cool.
I'll put the link to that down in the description below.
Do you love your brain?
If you do, and you liked this video,
give me a thumbs up.
I will see you guys on the next video.
Tell me about your brain,
tell me what you struggle with the most,
in regard to your brain.
And if I can help you, maybe I can create a video on it.
I'll see you on the next video.