Friday Five #10

Hey, good afternoon!

Sorry I’ve been MIA, I’ve been tied-up with work and things, but now I’m back! Here is your Friday 5 roundup of this week’s facts, fun and f’ups…

😃 What are 8 simple things the world’s top freedivers do to stay motivated:

• I spent quite a bit of time working on the latest Freediving Podcast episode which is about motivation for freediving (part 2). And while the topic of motivation for sports and extreme sports is a massive one – there are 8 simple “rules of thumb” regarding motivation for freediving (which can apply to almost anything else that you’re up to!) and which I cover in detail in the podcast: 
   
  • #1: Love the grind (or at least accept the grind!)
  • #2: Be positive! (negativity easily leads to over training and burn-out!)
  • #3: Pick a freediving competition! (it puts some fire under your butt!)
  • #4: Use selt talk and rational thinking to sort through the problems
  • #5: Try to stay in the moment
  • #6: Have a good coach or training buddy
  • #7: Try just being curious
  • #8: Use motivational cues (pictures, watch videos, quotes)
     
• If you’re a freediver, athlete, creator or entrepreneur, I think you’ll take home some gems in this podcast. (Apple / Spotify / others)

🧠 Your second brain AKA your ‘little brain’ / not so little brain!

• Did you know that you have a second brain in your body, known as the ‘little brain’ which is hidden in the walls of your digestive system?
  
  Scientists call this brain the enteric nervous system (ENS), and it’s actually not so little (!), it’s two thin layers of over 100 million nerve cells lining your gastrointestinal tract from esophagus to rectum. These cells use the vagus nerve to send information to the brain, faster than could be done via the bloodstream!
    
• In the last 10 years, scientists have discovered that the gut has a massive effect on the way your brain functions. The intestines absorbs the nutrients we take in and that’s what fuels our brains. Even though our brains are very little of our total body weight, they use 20% of the energy you take in, so nutrients make a huge different in the way our brains function day-to-day!
   
• So if you’ve ever had that “gut feeling” now you know why!
  
  Source: Limitless by Jim Kwik

🗳️ Did you vote in my poll?

• I’m running a poll on the Freediving Podcast Community Group, on if you had to pick ONE THING that helps build your confidence for freediving, what would it be? Here are the results (so far!):

• I agree with the majority so far, but I think ‘Getting coached / having a coach’ might eventually supersede or tie with ‘Experience and performance accomplishments’ because no matter how experienced someone is doesn’t mean they are 100% confident in their abilities, especially being that: 
  
  “Some people who claim to have twenty years of experience have one year of experience that they’ve repeated twenty times” (-Jim Kwik)

💬 What quote I’ve been thinking about –

“Remember that your mind is like a parachute – it only works when it’s open“

-Jim Kwik – Limitless

🙋 What I learned from listening to a True Crime Podcast about a self help sex cult?

• I listened to NXIVM: Inside the “Self-Help” Sex Cult on Not Another True Crime Podcast, which told the story of Nxivm, a multi-level marketing company where the main product was a 5 day personal development course for $3,000. The course was pretty legit for a while, but things went bad at the point where the guy had a 15 women harem and some financial mis-deeds…
   
• The podcast spoke about how Nxivm would have these multi-level marketing meetings where they try to pitch to people to attend this 5 day personal development seminar. So people would show up to this group meeting, seated alongside like 30 other people and there’s this person talking up front who says:
  
  “Ok, I want you to raise your hands as high as possible”
  
  So everyone in the room raises their hands up. Then the person in the front of the room says:
  
  “No, I want you to raise your hands even higher, as as as you can!”
  
  So people are straining in their seats, sticking their hands up as high as they can, and then the person says:
  
  “Ok, you can put your hands down”
  
  All the hands go down. And the person says;
  
  “Ok, I wanna ask you a simple question… Why didn’t you just stand up?”
   
• I think this is a simple analogy in life that there’s all these things we’re held up by, either the norms that we’re surrounded by or our personal beliefs. 1 out of 100 people realize on their own that they can stand up to raise their hand higher. There was an account of one guy who stood up on his chair and was sticking his hand through the ceiling tiles!
  
  In your life and with what’s going on in the world right now, are you one of the 100 who stands on your chair with your hands pushing through the ceiling – no matter what obstacles you’re facing? Sometimes the best most efficient solutions are the ones that are so simple 😉

It’s a pleasure and honor getting to spend some time with you, I hope you have a great weekend!

Renee