Yo, today's QOT is Everything is all in your mind.

Here we go. Welcome back to the quarter of the day show. I'm your host, Sean Croxton,

and Sean Croxton.com. We got CW. Matt Calf back on the day show. I'm your host, Sean Croxton, and Sean Croxton.com. We got C.W. Metcalfe back on this show today. I think the last time we had CW.

on was like maybe 2016. 9 years ago. That's crazy. And he is a motivational humorist. He's got some really good content on YouTube. Old content. I think he's passed away, but some old

content that you can check out. It's good stuff if you want to be motivated and also laugh at the same

time. Today he's going to talk about the biology, that the science around how we perceive

threats, how sometimes we can confuse or mash together, we'll say, a threat to

your ego with a threat to your survival, right? And there are two very different things,

but we tend to feel them the same way. We fear them the same way as well. And it kind of reminds

me of like pain. You know, one thing I used to teach in my

Money Mind Academy program was how, you know, people don't like being rejected because being rejected

hurts. It's painful. And the reason why it's painful is because the very same area of your brain

that feels physical pain, feels emotional pain as well. And so it hurts, right?

So whenever we encounter any kind of threat and change itself can be a threat, the brain

tends to process it as a threat to our survival. And we have to be consciously aware enough

to know that it's not c w metcalf's coming

up fear of embarrassment and failure everyone in this room has said at some point in your life or time

i'm so embarrassed i wish i were dead I'm so embarrassed I could just die.

Pretty severe reaction to embarrassment, don't you think?

I want to take you back to the health implications of this for just a moment on a personal level.

Why would we associate fear of failing and embarrassment and foolishness with death and dying. There is a field of medical

study called psycho neuroimmunology. Psychoneuroimmunology is a field of medical study that

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