This Is Why You’re Always Tired (And Don’t Know Why)

I think probably coming up against my own constraints, you know, and realizing that I didn't know what I didn't know. And I was walking around oblivious to my own deep fears and concerns and all of which were totally, you know, to be understood from parents dying when I was young and being orphaned by 17 and

things that no one would begrudge me for like the fear of loss, you know. Um, >> both of your parents. >> Both parents. Yeah. My mom when I was seven and my dad when I was 17. Um, so I think you know once I saw my own patterns and I think more than anything

the way that it had impacted my life um to the detriment not like I lived a horrible life but it just it's exhausting. It's exhausting when you're walking around trying to constantly protect yourself or avoid worst case scenarios or as I say most people are trying to avoid a bad future that hasn't happened

yet, you know. And so if you just understand the dynamics of that, it's you start to see why people need to drink or they need to smoke weed or they need some sort of medication because the same human brain is projecting a worst case scenario typically of a future. And then the brain that created that,

imagined it is now trying to do everything to avoid it, forgetting that it made it up. >> Say it again because that will like say exactly what what are people trying to avoid. >> So it's all unconscious, but the brain designed to predict and protect is projecting typically as a reflection of past hurt. So again, I say past hurt

informs future fear. So we've all been through trials and tribulation, disappointments, failures, heartbreak. And so the brain then amasses all of this, accumulates the evidence for why you should be concerned about a future that might replicate that. Right? So you're imagining >> typically worst case scenarios which we call the future which is completely