The Business Diet

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Have you ever noticed, especially as an entrepreneur, a go-getter, a driven person, that when you have had to pull something off, you did? You crammed for a test, maybe you aced it, you had to raise money to start a project, you had to sell something to pay your bills. Isn’t it kind of funny that you can go back in your life, and I know you can because if you’re listening to this, you’re what’s called a blue vaser, you’re a go-getter. If you haven’t read those books, go get them.

So I know, you know in your heart, when it really counts, you can get it done. So I want to kind of explain one of the nuggets or one of the reasons of why this happens and why do entrepreneurs and highly successful people time and time again pull things off. And to a degree, although I believe in creation, I do believe in evolution, and evolution has proved that the only time we can create a new brain cell is during a period of starvation.

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So let me say it again. The only time, period, end of story, that new brain cells can get created is during a period the body and the mind are physically starving. There is no energy.

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The brain runs on what’s called ATP, and when ATP is completely 100% depleted, and there is no other calories to come in to generate energy to then create ATP, the mind goes back into evolution times and says, hey, we’re starving. We better get smarter and figure out a way to find food. So you can thank Dr. I believe it’s Dr. Fuhrman on a PBS special where he explained that very eloquently in about a half an hour.

It’s pretty powerful. So here’s what’s really cool about this. The human brain, when it’s physically starving, gets smarter.

I’m here to tell you that all highly successful people and entrepreneurs, when they’re starving,