Dr. John Delony
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And that extra edge of peace sends me into the next business meeting.
And the guy who I'm negotiating with says, I want this.
And I can smile and go, I don't need that because I don't have a house payment.
And then they go, all right, we'll make this deal, right?
It changes every fiber of your being.
So yeah, for me and my family, I don't solve for ROI anymore.
I solve for peace.
And I work more now than I have ever worked, ever.
And I'm busier than I've ever been.
But the return on that is infinitely greater.
Yeah.
I mean, I was really taking all the neuroscience and all the nerd stuff and then my own experience.
I mean, walking alongside people for two decades and my own experience and saying, if I could distill this all down and make it very simple, what are the six places I would start to build a non-anxious life?
The biology is if you are constantly cranking through adrenaline all day, every day, right?
And we don't have to get too nerdy, but if you are constantly in fight or flight, onto the next deal, onto the next thing, gotta get up, crush it, go.
Your body can do that for a while.
Those chemicals were designed for very tiny short bursts to keep you from not dying.
They were not designed to keep you alive.
Here's the best example I can give you.
If you pour Drano down your sink because there's a clog,