Avoid The Dream Killing Mismatch

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Hey just released the 67 steps to finding health, wealth, love, and happiness. There is one thing sure to kill your hopes and dreams. It's the "mismatch." And there is one thing sure to bring you the "Good Life: Health, Wealth, Love, Happiness." It's avoiding the "mismatch." What do I mean by this concept of the mismatch? I was reading for today's Book-Of-The-Day, Daniel Lieberman's "The Story Of The Human Body." The book covers much of this mismatch and explains how the hardwiring of your brain is adapted to be really good at living in a small village of about 150 people. A village where you go to bed around 730 pm, sleep 8 hours, eat tons of vegetables and a little meat, and where you fall in love and have kids with an old friend you have known since childhood. In that village you have 2 or 3 career choices but not more than that. It's a village where you are encouraged to save and not spend everything you earn. But guess what? That world's long gone. The world that the hard wiring of you brain works best with has been replaced with a modern, crazy world. I live in Hollywood. I'm looking out my window right now at 13,000,000 people. That's a lot more than the 150 that Robin Dunbar, the Oxford anthropologist, said is the optimal number for my brain. I see the billboards selling me things I probably don't need. My brain is designed to trust people. These advertisements are trying to take advantage of that trust. My house has lights that let me stay up all night and not get enough sleep. I would feel a hell of a lot better if I went to bed like the Amish do, when the sun sets... I have the option to pursue 1000 career choices and invest money into 10,000 different stocks. My brain isn't good at weeding out so many options. So I am left thinking that maybe I am missing out on some big business opportunity. I can press one button on my phone and have Chinese, pizza, or fast food delivered in 30 minutes. My body is not designed to always have that many calories on demand. Like the Nobel Prize winner Christian Lous Lange said, "Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master." The modern world is a blitz of options. You have been taught that having all these options are the final culmination of man conquering nature using technology. Unfortunately almost all of those options are the "mismatch." Joel Salatin once told me, "Tai humans can now create technology faster than they can anticipate the consequences of using the technology." For example, last year the modern world's agricultural technology produced about 1300 million metric tons of sugar! That's enough to make half the world fat and diabetic. I was on a plane to Sweden and I bought a Sprite (it helps with my motion sickness). I read the label. There was like 40 grams of sugar. That's double of what I should have in a whole day! We humans have gotten really good at making technology that tempts us into doing the wrong thing. Psychology Today wrote out a top 10 countdown list of all the evolutionary mismatches we face each day.....

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This talk hits sooooo many truths! Great audio, thank you.

thank you Tai, very informative, you helped me alot, as I was trying to do lots of stuff and didn't know what to do

The biggest area of my life that i believe is killing my happiness through mismatch is with my career and social life. I have a desk job that averages 40hrs a week and i do not get to interact or work with others as much as i could or influence others the way i believe would fulfill my hearts desires. Thus it influences and restricts my social outings and skills. I feel like the mismatch is where i am yearning to make my heart happy and my brain flourish. However, i have already been on this self journey for a while now, but everything you stated seems to be true and touch on the pin point. i am currently trying to be an entrepreneur, and can feel how much more i can succeed and socialize. I plan to stick with it for the long hall to reap it's benefits. I can't wait to read the two books that you have mentioned and work on this journey consistently.

Love listening to you

love these older long videos

I need to change the huge physical aspects of my life

My biggest "mismatch" hands down is information-overload, trying to do too many things at once and being indecisive in what I want to commit myself to. That said, I feel I'm on a good track on changing that and learning and focusing in on what I need to do to achieve the good life. Thank you for the insights, Tai

Thanks a lot of info appreciate it

what if monogamy was a mismatch ?

man... im 22 now, and ive been reading thise kinds of books he's talking about since, i mean i read the psycology for dummies book at 11, and really havent stopped, ive just switched over to videos like this cause i personally get more value from hearing and seeing things like this and its a time thing. but over all ive been going thru life going this doesnt make sense, that doesnt make sense and correcting the mismatch. and it can be really hard cause society, family, friends, teachers, don't like it, theyre the other crabs in the tank constantly pulling me down. i want to be a real estate investor, ive know that since about 16, its just my thing. and try this any of you do this. start talking about something that will make you more successful than the person your talking to, pick anything, any Avenue that will make you more successful than the person your talking to. almost inevitably they will make a remark as to why you cant do it, or it cant be done and 9 out of ten times they have no knowledge of what you will have brought up. they just magically know it will be unlikely for you to achieve your goal, and they will even sound certain too. even if its just one remark, thats how you know your not even talking to that person, you are at that point talking to their ego. it literally isnt even the person its their ego. you know the good wolf and the bad wolf inside, know which wolf is speaking through that person, and in this typical case im talking about, your talking to the bad wolf. see people think there is only one of them but thats simply not true. if there was only one of you, you wouldnt be able to get mad at yourself. im not saying i dont take advice, but if you dont have in life what i want, your opinions simply dont apply to me. even the experts thatll tell you what they think about this or that, what do they say, well this is my expert OPINION, dont take people seriously. take yourself seriously, trust yourself to get the knowledge to make a strategy and to experiment and execute lean start up style. i could go on but really just try taking yourself more seriously than you take your parents, teachers, siblings, friends, opinions and start incorporating the opinions of people that have what you want into your life. peace

I have two areas where I'm unhappy. First, I'm a senior in college studying Electrical Engineering. I like math alright, but I'll never be good at it. And I hate engineering, straight up. The second area is my social circle is incredibly small, and the lack of romance is a glaring issue for me. I think the second problem will be rectified by solving the first mismatch. I'm very talented at learning languages, enough that I used to be fluent in Spanish and French as an American. I've decided that language is the area I'm focusing on, because I like it and I like travelling. So I'm applying to go abroad and teach English in Japan this coming summer. I was thinking it would be a short couple year jaunt, because the teaching part isn't something I really care about so much as the learning a new language and culture.

I don't think it's one thing, need to be honest with myself here, I think its 3 things. And without going into a lot of detail, just by starting with Health - quit smoking - a person never really knows how hard it is to NOT do something - until they don't want to do it anymore. Crazy. Sugar-bad bad bad - too much - and 3rd - not enough knowledge - it's a taught/ learned behaviour where we get stuck in a rut, lack of, but don't know we are stuck until someone on the outside tells us! Embrace what is hard!

The biggest area in my life that's mismatched is my career. All my life I've been foolishly told that I was good at everything I did. Partially because of that, I find myself good at NOTHING. I've jumped around from industry to industry and haven't actually mastered anything. I've recently began narrowing down a few industries that I have a genuine curiosity about and that align with my skills. Now I am reaching out to people in these industries and working towards making the transition. Thanks for this, Tai.

awesome talk..... what about the way we save money through banks .....where banks make more gains through loans and other investments.... mismatch?

The truck you see in my picture was built with my hands and nobody else. That truck to me is more impressive than any super car can ever be.

The median wage in the US per person is $26,695. This tells us a lot since the median household income is at $50,500. Since the Census data looks at households, this data hones in on individual wage earners. 66 percent of Americans earn less than $41,212.

So Tai, what steps can I take towards finding my skill, my IT, the one thing that I am good at?

Thank you for this. Thanks for being so honest and brilliant and sharing what you've learned. I think the biggest mismatch for me is probably with not sleeping properly and eating too much junk food. I also think I spend too much time by myself and in my own head. I've been trying to remove all the mismatches in my thoughts between what I've been brought to believe about the world and what the realities are.