Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick

We were all born to BE who we were meant to be. So we go on a run towards that person. Somewhere along the way we got the idea that we were supposed to become someone and something else other than ourselves. Lets Makes Sense of the difference between SELF DEVELOPMENT and SELF DISCOVERY and have a look to see if we already are who we are trying to become? Welcome to MAKES SENSE MONDAYS with Dr. JC Doornick "Dragon" where we makes sense of the things that make you go Hmmm? Start your week off the right way by reclaiming control of your Great Morning. LIVE STREAMED on Facebook, Linkedin, and Youtube MAKES SENSE PODCAST SUBSCRIBE/RATE/REVIEW & SHARE our new podcast. FOLLOW the NEW Podcast - You will find a "Follow" button top right. This will enable the podcast software to alert you when a new episode launches each week https://podcasts.apple.com/.../makes-sense.../id1730954168 Click this link to SUBSCRIBE/RATE/REVIEW - https://ratethispodcast.com/makessensepodcast Thank you for your support a we look to remove the blindfolds from the sleepwalking masses and help place people back in the drivers seat of their lives. OUR SPONSOR: Enjoy the show and consider joining our psychological safe haven and environment where you can begin to thrive. The Makes Sense Academy. https://www.riseupwithdragon.com/makes-sense-academy Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Are you feeling the curious calling to learn more about or experience working with plant medicine? Have you been researching Psilocybin or Ayahuasca and wondering what they are and if they are right for you? DISCLAIMER: I in no way shape or form make any recommendations that anyone work with plant medicine. My purpose on this show is to remove the blindfolds from the programmed mind and provide access to facts and alternative methods of thinking outside the box we live in. This is a very popular topic these days and one mostly misunderstood. I can assure you, it’s not what you think. MY EXPERIENCE: I’ve just returned from the Amazon Jungle in Peru and experienced the most powerful transformation of my life. I’m excited to have the owner and chief Dharma officer Jose Saenz as my guest on the Rise Up with Dragon Podcast on Wednesday, December 14th to unveil the facts of what Ayahuasca is in its purest form and help assist people to better understand the value in plant medicine and determine if it’s a good fit for you. This will be one for the vault. Watch It On Yourtube: https://youtu.be/a6kCR1VlIGY ***** Contact Jose : Arkana Spiritual Center: www.arkanaspiritualcenter.com Connect With Dr. JC: https://zez.am/makessense Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/makessensepodcast LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcdoornick Instagram: @drjcdoornick 06:18 - How do you know its the right time to try ayahuasca? 09:28 - What is plant medicine? 17:12 - How does Ayahuasca work? WHat happens when I consume it? 21:22 - What can I expect at the retreat? 25:22 - What is the role of the Shaman? 27:49 - What can ayahuasca do for various traumas and disorders? 31:43 - Is it safe for women to travel to the Amazon? 33:59 - What if i am taking antidepressants or similar meds? 38:03 - Whats it like to be on Ayahuasca and Sapo 46:24 - How do you choose the right facility? Why Arkana? 48:04 - What is the future for Plant Medicine? #RISEUPWITHDRAGON #PERSONALGROWTH #SELFDISCOVERY Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to another episode of the Makes Sense Podcast with Dr. JC Doornick and a very special guest in Jodi Wellman. In this episode we will be Making Sense of Mortality and whether death is your friend or foe? Our guest is none other than Jodi Wellman, positive psychologist, TED Talk Speaker and author of soon to be best selling book, You Only Die Once , “How to make it to the end with no regrets". Connect With Jodi Wellman Website: https://fourthousandmondays.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/fourthousandmondays Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fourthousandmondays/ Her book - You Only Die Once - https://amzn.to/4dovzNU HIGHLIGHTS: 08:21 - Why do we need to almost die to live? 09:08 - Boundary Situations? 10:26 - Temporal Scarcity - Embrace the scarcity of your time left. 14:12 - Memento Mori 19:08 - Moving from dreaming and wanting to taking action 23:09 - The Three Main Regrets 31:36 - How many Mondays do you have left? 36:32 - How to live an astonishingly successful life? (Wider and Deeper) 41:43 - Would you recommend your life to someone? Sponsor: Makes Sense Academy: https://www.skool.com/makes-sense-academy/about Connect With Dr. JC Doornick: https://zez.am/makessense #makessense #makesensepodcast #makessenseacademy #riseupwithdragon #fourthousandmondays # #grimreaper #mortalitymentality #adamgrant #tedtalk Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Lets make sense of this whole Manifestation thing. Ever since the book the Secret Came out, the world bought into the idea that you can manifest everythig you desire by focusing and AFFIRMING your desires into existence. If this were all there was to it i think we'd see more results no? Lets make sense of the hidden secret behind the secret and start getting those results. Welcome to MAKES SENSE MONDAYS with Dr. JC Doornick "Dragon" where we makes sense of the things that make you go Hmmm? Start your week off the right way by reclaiming control of your Great Morning. Resources: LIVE UNCUT Youtube Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoWocJTpKGA Connect With Dr. JC Doornick: https://zez.am/makessense Our Sponsor: Makes Sense Academy: https://www.riseupwithdragon.com/makes-sense-academy - Try Risk Free for $24 / Month - Money Back Guarantee #makesenseacademy #makessense #makessensemondays #riseupwithdragon #makessensepodcast #drjcdoornick Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode of RISE UP WITH DRAGON, we have a very special interview in my opinion one of the most intelligent and intreaguing speakers and educators of our time. Professor Donald Hoffman, Author of A Case Against Reality and cognitive psychologist at UC Irvine. In this episode, Dragon and Donald dive deep into the case against reality, what our purpose iss as humans, if any. As well as some thought provoking conversations regarding how evolution and natural selection in no way has positioned us to be capable of perceiving reality in its true form. WATCH EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/live/ZqIo6cG6Bts?feature=shared **** Connect With Donald Hoffman, Professor of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine @donalddhoffman [email protected] OUR SPONSOR: The Makes Sense Academy: https://www.skool.com/makes-sense-academy/about Tune in to Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/makessensepodcast Instagram: @drjcdoornick 06:19 - Has Natural Selection enabled humans to objectively see reality as it truly is? 07:11 - The Red Pill - Space, Time and Matter are not the way to describe reality 09:52 - Why would it be advantageous for Natural Selection to hide the truth from us? 12:30 - What are Fitness points and how do they correlate with natural selection 15:33 - How do you explain obesity? 19:30 - Is our species trying to kill itself? 25:30 - Is what we see what is or just what we see? 29:58 - Object Permanence 36:47 - Are science and mathematics valid methods to validate reality? 41:53 - Where does consciousness live? 44:19 - What happens when we die? 48:04 - What is our purpose on this planet? #DONALDOFFMAN #ACASEAGAINSTREALITY #CONSCIOUSNESS #PODCAST #BETTERBRAIN #TRAINYOURBRAIN Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

I JUST NEED TO GET OUT OF MY OWN WAY? Sound familiar? What does it mean to be in your own way and why are you insistent on being there? We've all been programmed to believe we need to grow into someone different than we are. All the while failing to recognize that who we are is perfect and needs only to be improved upon. Welcome to MAKES SENSE MONDAYS with Dr. JC Doornick "Dragon" where we makes sense of the things that make you go Hmmm? Start your week off the right way by reclaiming control of your Great Morning. Resources: Makes Sense Mondays Youtube Episode: Podcast Interview with Dr. Steven G: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast... Connect With Dr. JC Doornick: https://zez.am/makessense Our Sponsor: Makes Sense Academy: https://www.riseupwithdragon.com/makes-sense-academy - Try Risk Free for $24 / Month - Money Back Guarantee #makesenseacademy #makessense #makessensemondays #riseupwithdragon #makessensepodcast #drjcdoornick Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to another episode of the Makes Sense Podcast with Dr. JC Doornick and a very special guest Karen Conti. In this episode we will be Making Sense of The Death Penalty as well as the idea of defending someone that the world perceives as a monster? Our guest is none other than Karen Conti, defense attorney for John Wayne Gacy and author of the best selling book, “Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy.. Connect with Karen Conti: Instagram: @karenconti23 Websites: www.karenconti.com New Book “Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy” - https://amzn.to/3xRG4sW Sponsor: Makes Sense Academy: https://www.skool.com/makes-sense-academy/about Connect With Dr. JC Doornick: https://zez.am/makessense Highlights: 19:20 - Gacy had co-conspirators that went free? 27:01 - Does anyone deserve the death penalty? 30:46 - Why did Gacy do what he did? 34:08 - Did you build a relationship with him? 36:43 - What were his final words before his death? 40:59 - What happened to your name and career in the aftermath? #makessense #makesensepodcast #makessenseacademy #riseupwithdragon #karenconti #johnwaynegacy #deathpenalty Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode of RISE UP WITH DRAGON, we have a very special interview with a man that is impacting the world and teaching us all a Time tested system to LEARN. Imagine if you could learn how to read faster, retain and remember things at a much higher level. Essentially become #LIMITLESS with the amazing Jim Kwik! Jim is an old friend who has risen up to become a New York Times best selling author and the BRAIN 🧠 COACH of some of the most influential people of the world. This is part 2 of another conversation we had and it’s sure to be powerful. WATCH EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/live/ZqIo6cG6Bts?feature=shared **** Connect With Jim Kwik Website: www.kwiklearning.com IG: @JimKwik OUR SPONSOR: The Makes Sense Academy: https://www.skool.com/makes-sense-academy/about Tune in to Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/makessensepodcast Instagram: @drjcdoornick #BECOMELIMITLESS #LIMITLESS #JIMKWIK #PODCAST #BETTERBRAIN #TRAINYOURBRAIN Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to another episode of the Makes Sense Podcast with Dr. JC Doornick and a very special guest. Making Sense of Optimal Health with Dr. Steven Geanopulos. What a great conversation about a topic that proves to be mostly confusing and for the most part made up to suit the needs of the individual when asked "What does it mean to be healthy?" Dr. Steven Geanopolus is a licensed Doctor of Chiropractic as well as a diplomat in Chiropractic Neurology. As the CEO of Cyrene Labs, a full scale optimal health diagnotic company, brings a facinating and eye opening vantage point to the mystery surrounding the topic of health in America and the world. Connect with Dr. Steven Geanopulos: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drsteveng Websites: Dr. Steven G: https://drsteveng.com Cyrene Labs: https://www.cyrenelabs.com Sponsor: Makes Sense Academy: https://www.skool.com/makes-sense-academy/about Connect With Dr. JC Doornick: https://zez.am/makessense Highlights: 01:00 - Intro Dr. Steve G 04:00 - What is Dr. Steve Working On and Excited about? 06:40 - Why are people showing interest in learning but lacking in taking action? 12:34 - Is the range of what MD's call normal health changing as the world gets sicker? 23:32 - Sponsor Break - The Makes Sense Academy 27:40 - Are health professionals not equipped to measure health? 30:53 - How do you define what it means to be "Healthy"? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to One from the Vault Thursdays, where the Makes Sense Podcast Pulls the most classic Rise Up With Dragon podcast episodes from the past. INDISTRACTABLE: Nir Eyal is an Israeli-born American author, lecturer and investor known for his bestselling books: HOOKED: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and INDISTRACTABLE: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. Nir Ayal's Website: https://www.nirandfar.com Indistractable Book: https://amzn.to/3Q4MuLA Sponsored By: Makes Sense Academy - https://www.riseupwithdragon.com/makes-sense-academy Connect With Dr. JC Doornick "Dragon" - https://zez.am/makessense Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Observe the three words. Interface - Response - System? Steps one through three have been acknowledging the Interface between you and the things you come across in life. Now armed and aware of your unconscious and automatic response system we are ready to receive an upgrade to your new, improved one that better suits your goals and dreams. Your old system had its perks and got you to this place. However, it was often inefficient and glitchy in terms of forward progress towards bigger and better things. Now, let's look at creating a more efficient and rational response. Enjoy Thank you to our sponsors Makes Sense Academy: https://www.riseupwithdragon.com/makes-sense-academy ResourcesConnect With Dr. JC Doornick- https://zez.am/makessense - Website: https://www.riseupwithdragon Resources: Quanta Magazine Article: - https://tinyurl.com/Yasemin-Saplakoglu Herbert A Simon - Design Thinking: https://tinyurl.com/Design-Thinking-Article Dr. A's Habits of Health - https://amzn.to/3TWG9CQ Science of Flow - https://amzn.to/3Jjto0j The Art of the Impossible - Steven Kotlar - https://amzn.to/3vIa89H Timestamps(00:00:00) Introduction (00:01:25) Response - ABILITY - Steven Covey (00:2:45) Who decides what a Healthy Response is? (00:3:58) If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there. (00:6:02) Collective Illusion - Todd Rose (00:8:48) The Madella Affect (00:11:16) The Reality Threshold (00:15:57) The Makes Sense Academy. (00:18:25) More or Less (00:19:37) Design Thinking - Herbert A Simon (00:22:00) What does it take to reprogram our response system? (00:26:31) Habit Formation (00:25:41) The four stages of conscious transformation (00:27:50) Emotional Resiliance (00:29:18) Accountability and Support (00:34:45) Look Out for Flow Burglars (00:35:57) The Science of FLOW Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The goal is to change the way we look at things, so that the things we look at can begin to change. Welcome to Stpe Three of the Interface Response System - ASSESS - In this episode we learn how to execute on this arduous task of assessing the scene of the interface from a different vantage point. Along with three powerful tools to add to your belt, this episode will play a major role in the rewiring of your assessment making machine. My favorite step of the 4 step process. Enjoy Thank you to our sponsors Makes Sense Academy: https://www.riseupwithdragon.com/makes-sense-academy ResourcesConnect With Dr. JC Doornick- https://zez.am/makessense - Website: https://www.riseupwithdragon Resources: Donald Hoffman Interview - https://www.youtube.com/live/1O0l9ynXY1g?feature=shared Case Against Reality Book - https://amzn.to/3U6O7dU Rizwan Virk Interview - https://youtu.be/x0iqxkdBplw?feature=shared Simulation Hypothesis Book - https://amzn.to/3J9IsxC The Holographic Universe - Michael Talbot - https://amzn.to/3J6aCcL The Elephant Parable by John Godfrey Saxe - https://allpoetry.com/The-Blind-Man-And-The-Elephant Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman - https://amzn.to/3xqPwDe Influence - The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini - https://amzn.to/3J8g0Mn The Arkana Spiritual Center - https://www.arkanaspiritualcenter.com Free Will by Sam Harris - https://amzn.to/4ancWrz Timestamps(00:00:00) Introduction (00:00:37) Change the way you look at things so that the things you look at begine to change. (00:3:19) What we see is what we get but is what we get what actually is or just what we see? (00:5:37) Looking at things from a different vantage point. (00:6:47) A case against reality with Donald Hoffman (00:8:01) The Simulation Hypothesis with Rizwan Virk (00:13:20) Life as a video game?(00:15:46) The Eye of the Storm (00:14:37) Your old programmed mind is impatient and doesn't like to wait too long. (00:18:27) Cognitive Disputation (00:20:21) What is the efficacy of Free Will with Sam Harris (00:22:04) THe Elephant Parable (00:26:21) Survey the Scene (00:28:10) Thinking Fast and Slow with Daniel Kahneman (00:29:04) Makes Sense Academy Sponsor Break (00:29:00) The Bouncer Revised (00:32:30) Whole-O-graphic Vision Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Moving right along. Welcome to STEP TWO of the 4 step Interface Response System called PAUSE. This powerful tool teaches us how to place our often problematic, knee jerk perception and response on a temporary pause in order to allow ourselves to step into the space between tthe stimulus and our response, to evaluate the situation with an untainted, open and clear mind. Welcome to the eye of the storm. Thank you to our sponsors Makes Sense Academy: https://www.riseupwithdragon.com/makes-sense-academy ResourcesConnect With Dr. JC Doornick- https://zez.am/makessense - Website: https://www.riseupwithdragon - Talking To Yourself is not crazy - Larry Markson -https://amzn.to/3PIGffX - Viktor Rankl's A Man's Search for Meaning Book - https://amzn.to/3J6liYB - Brandi Carlysle Song "The Eye" - https://open.spotify.com/track/0Plf9mewMoYkwEvncCjfxS?si=57680f6b9c89440f - Jim Kwik Online Courses - www.kwiklearning.com Timestamps(00:00:00) Introduction (00:02:15) Recap of Step One Brain Awareness Perception (00:8:45) Its you that has the idea to change your program, not your subconscious mind. (00:10:25) Cognitive Dissonance, Cognitive Bias, Cognitive Distancing (00:13:36) Sponsor - Makes Sense Academy (00:15:00) The Illusion Of Agency and Paul Conti (00:14:40) The Space Between the Stimulus and Response - Viktor Frankl (00:15:46) The Eye of the Storm (00:19:08) The Disentanglement of Consciousness (00:23:22) HMMM? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

I am very excited to present to you STEP ONE of the 4 step Interface Response System called PERCEPTION. This crucial step unveils the very reason we’d validate working on our perception and responses in acknowledging the vast capabilities your brain possesses to run the show as the sense maker and decision maker without any help from you. Thank you to our sponsors Makes Sense Academy: https://www.riseupwithdragon.com/makes-sense-academy ResourcesConnect With Dr. JC Doornick- https://zez.am/makessense Website: https://www.riseupwithdragon Huberman Lab Interview With Paul Conti: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLRCS48Ens4 PBS Special - Your Brain, Who is in control: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ6VOOd73MA Timestamps(00:00:00) Introduction (00:04:02) Intro to the IRS (Interface Response System) (00:6:50) If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. (00:7:49) Brain Awareness Perception? (00:10:18) Sponsor - Makes Sense Academy (00:15:00) The Illusion Of Agency and Paul Conti (00:42:18) Mazarin Banaji - How much Control over Agency do we have (00:16:07) Uri Maoz - The perception of agency (00:18:23) Icahn School of Medicine Sleep Center at Mount Sinai, Emmanuel During Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to the MAKES SENSE podcast, where we apply the science, art and philosophy of sense making to the things that make you go Hmmm? Those most pressing thoughts and discussions going on in our minds today. The Makes Sense Podcast is an expense free service with the intention of helping you execute on the concept of changing the way you look at things, so that the things you look at begin to change. Connect With Dr. JC - https://zez.am/makessense Today we’ll MAKE SENSE of a process i call SORTING - A technique from step three (Assess) of the Interface Response System that assists us in making better Decisions that are in support of the life you desire Let’s consciously take this moment and begin the process of reclaiming control of our reality. How do we reclaim control of our reality and life? We must first identify what it means and feel like it is out of control? How does the feeling of being out of control show up in your life? For me, it shows up in many ways. When I participate with my thoughts and feelings of worry and concern for example. I can find myself either overeating or easily agitated and irritated by people. Even loved ones. I find it hard for me to multitask and stay on track with the things I had planned to do that day. Sometimes I find my confidence is down as well as my general outlook on life. In fact I have created a general name for all these symptoms and feelings associated with me being out of control. I call it FUNKY TOWN. Where I find myself in a FUNK. Have you been there? Only challenge is that while I am feeling these downstream symptoms I am unaware or unconscious that I am out of control. I just feel crappy in general. Yet I am unaware that I am trying to control the uncontrollables in my life. See, that is my definition of being out of control. Being out of the state of controlling the things we control and in the state of trying to build an airplane in the sky or teach a goldfish to climb a tree. Both are impossible. Just like you trying to control the uncontrollables in your life and feeling, OUT OF CONTROL. One of my favorite quotes came from the amazing Ekhart Tolle, author of one of my top favorite reads, The Power of Now. Tolle speaks a lot about suffering and says that the first step to end suffering is the acknowledgment that you are in fact suffering. This is why I introduced the concept of first being able to make the distinction that you are in fact out of control and that your lack of control is showing up in your ineffectiveness at responding to adversity with grace. As we discussed in the last episode. Why is this important? Well, it would be the reason and catalist for you wanting to make some changes in your life. Specifically in taking control of what you decide to do with your time, as well as who and what gets into your schedule and mind and who and what does not? So let's start with unveiling why we’d want to learn how to sort through the things that matter vs don’t? It begins with your current reality and what your perception is about your life. Are you genuinely happy with your life? How would you go about determining if you were genuinely happy? Paul Conti interview on Huberman Lab. When asked how we define a “Healthy Self”? What is the healthy version of self? What should we all be aspiring to? Paul Conti replied that a healthy self presents its life through the lens of agency and gratitude. He explains that if a human has those two things, Agency and Gratitude, you almost never see things go wrong. Agency refers to an individual's capacity to make choices, set goals, and take intentional actions to influence their life circumstances. Gratitude: involves recognizing and appreciating the positive aspects of life, acknowledging the goodness in oneself and others, and expressing thankfulness. So, if someone is genuinely happy with themselves, they are someone that is experiencing agency and gratitude (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLRCS48Ens4) My question to Paul Conti should I ever be graced with his presence on the show would be this. Can a human being create and self fabricate the illusion that they are in a state of agency and gratitude through the practices of mindfulness and repetition of things like daily affirmations and controlling what they consume from the world each day? And, is that the same as the genuine agency and gratitude that I am hearing you speak of? In other words, can we decide any day to practice and manifest agency and gratitude even in the absence of things like basic physical, mental and financial well being due to a lack of motivation and consistency in our daily lives? Can we fabricate it and make it up? OUR SPONSOR: Makes Sense Academy - https://www.riseupwithdragon.com/makes-sense-academy Why am I fascinated by this idea of possessing the ability to look at life through the lens of Agency and Gratitude? Because it is the foundation for why someone would take their lives serious enough to consider practicing some of the

Welcome to the MAKES SENSE podcast, where we apply the science, art and philosophy of sense making to the things that make you go Hmmm? Those most pressing thoughts and discussions going on in our minds today. The Makes Sense Podcast is an expense free service with the intention of helping you execute on the concept of changing the way you look at things, so that the things you look at begin to change. Today we’ll MAKE SENSE of ADVERSITY Handling Adversity with grace and how to become that version of yourself that is impeccable to your word and follows through with your commitments. No matter what. CONNECT WITH Dr. JC Doornick - https://zez.am/makessense SHOW RESOURCES and REFERENCES: Joe Rogan Podcast with David Sinclair - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUwd-D94pzE A Man's Search For Meaning Book Victor Frankl - https://amzn.to/3SzrE7s SHOW NOTES: My intention of this episode is to arm and equip you with a shift in perspective about your relationship with adversity. When I say adversity I am referring to your adversity not necessarily mine. This is a healthy place to begin this discussion as it uncovers the first step towards handling adversity. To recognize that adversity is both defined and in existence due to your own observation of it. Think that one through. Would adversity exist in the absence of you taking note of it? I mean, an event is just an event until you label it as adversity, yes? Why is this important? Well what if your sense making machine is faulty or glitched? And there is a high chance it is, due to your programming right? Remember that virtual reality suit, and your sense making machine is what you’re using to label these events. Its responsibility is perceiving and processing everything? Is it safe to acknowledge that adversity only exists due to our perception and labeling of it? See, handling adversity is not just learning how to cope with it and move through or past it..Those can be valuable skills to adopt yet until you understand where adversity comes from and what it represents FOR YOU rather than TO YOU, you will always be fighting an endless war. Lets learn what adversity is, where it comes from and how it both harms and helps you. First, I want to share an interesting distinction that might help.I was listening to an episode of the Joe Rogan podcast with guest David Sinclair, a 53 year-old Harvard Biologist who claims to possess a biological age that is a decade younger as a result of practicing a plant based intermittent fasting regiment. Although I am fascinated with the concept of fasting, I heard him make mention of an observation that motivated me to create this episode on Making Sense of adversity. When Rogan asked him how he justifies eating a 2,000 calorie meal once a day for dinner then fasting for 24 hours after as being more beneficial than spreading that 2,000 calories out over small 50 calorie meals, Sinclair had this response “Because going back 6 million years, our bodies were designed or evolved to respond to adversity. And we’ve removed that from our lives because it feels good. But we need adversity to be resilient and fight disease.” Isn’t that fascinating? To embrace adversity as something we were not only designed to handle but something we actually require to thrive and be our best? Does that help? Yes, this means that without adversity, we are at a disadvantage. I believe the challenge we face with adversity is in how we have been programmed to look at and define it. So if you are struggling with adversity, it's not your fault and there is hope. The Webster Dictionary defines adversity as a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune showing courage in the face of adversity. This is where the struggle with adversity begins. Its very definition paints it as a difficulty or misfortune. In our society, we take our kids and lock them in a box called the classroom, handing their education over to institutions, teachers and textbooks generated by who? We just assume that this is the right thing for them. Why do we accept this? Because we, as parents, have our own lives and responsibilities to provide for the family. A roof over their heads, beds to sleep in, have a little fun here and there and then pay for those schools. At varying degrees of acceptance with this system, we are forced to trust this system and hope that it sets them up for success and does little harm to our kids. Meanwhile, their vulnerable and susceptible brains continue to develop and begin to hardwire all these lessons about science, mathematics, history, language and how to perceive and survive in life. When it comes to adversity, they learn to avoid it and if they have a teacher that goes the extra mile, learn how to persevere and grow through it. We refrain from doing too much investigation into all this as we haven’t got the time nor energy with all we have on our plates. So we trust the system, pull our cars up, drop them off for the day, then pick them up hop

Welcome to the MAKES SENSE podcast, where we apply the science, art and philosophy of sense making to the things that make you go Hmmm? Those most pressing thoughts and discussions going on in our minds today. The Makes Sense Podcast is an expense free service with the intention of helping you execute on the concept of changing the way you look at things, so that the things you look at begin to change. Today we’ll MAKE SENSE of THE PROGRAM- That way you think, feel and act? It’s not your fault, its your program. Contact - Dr. JC Doornick - https://zez.am/makessense SHOW NOTES: As we move further into this new Makes Sense podcast, it's important that I continue to provide you with the base constructs, concepts and language that we will be using in later episodes. This podcast is about you transforming into a more conscious version of yourself so you can begin to see the previously unseen. My intention in this episode is to expose something to your conscious mind. What makes this challenging is that this thing I want to show you is invisible to you. In fact it often cloaks itself as you. No it's not your ego. In fact, your ego works for it. “I woke up to realize that my perception of reality was not my own but one I assumed, as a result of the information I had been consuming.” - Dragon Stop for a moment and ask yourself this question. Is your interpretation of reality, including the way you look at and respond to things, your own? Or can you acknowledge the outside forces that have played a role in it? Before you say no, can you prove that it's not possible? That the way you perceive, believe and respond are a manifestation of what you have been taught and continue to reinforce everyday with the things you consume with regularity? Welcome to the program. An excerpt from my new book MAKES SENSE, Solving the mystery of why shit happens. After a life of misfortune and suffering, French artist, Paul Gauguin painted a masterpiece in his dying days while living in exile in Tahiti. Viewed from right to left, it demonstrates the circle of life from birth to death. This powerful piece unveils the deepest mysteries of the human race and is appropriately named. Where do we come from? Where are we? And where are we going? These questions are the premises upon which we all roam this planet in search of answers as sense-making machines. When we seek the answers to unanswerable questions, we are forced to do our best to fill in the gaps and make sense of things.. In other words, we make shit up. In fact, this is the birthplace of religion, psychology, theories, and science. All representing man's attempt to make sense of things. Think about that for a second. Whatever it is that represents your foundation for your reality. What’s good or bad. Right or Wrong? Just or injust? Did you come up with that? Well if you came up with it, you are pretty special as most humans are born into this world without knowing these things until they are taught to them. Why is this important? To recognize that our sense making machines have been programmed and that program is the backbone software that is controlling your hardware and virtual reality suit? Well, for starters, what if it's not accurate? I know you’ve been sold into the idea that it was. But what if it is not? Here you are doing your best to make the right decisions in life, choose the right path as well as stay on track and follow through with your physical, mental and financial goals. And now we are for the first time noticing a red, check engine light that’s been on yet had black tape over it for years. That light, now illuminated, is suggesting that we take a look under the hood at an engine that was built by others with their own intentions for you. Perhaps different than the ones that are actually FOR YOU. It’s important here to shift into a curious state of possibility thinking. Why? If you can’t justify a reason to rethink or re-evaluate something due to the mere possibility that there may be another truth or better way? The idea of making changes to your regularly scheduled program will seem nonsensical. So in order to experience growth we must be willing to challenge this programming that we have received and become open to a better way. Otherwise, you will find yourself hell bent on protecting and justifying your position on things and that is the life of the herd. The majority. The popular masses that are ok with trying to get into town in a rocking chair. Because they believe in that rocking chair and that rocking chair is part of their core values etc.. This of-course gives rise to the definition of insanity. To add some color to this, it's interesting to look at the characteristics and strategies of scientists. There is no group of humans more open and curious than scientists. Why? Scientists seek the truth and seek facts. The idea of coming across something that improves or debunks their own theories excites them. Because it is the truth they seek and will let no

Welcome to the MAKES SENSE podcast, where we apply the science, art and philosophy of sense making to the things that make you go Hmmm? Those most pressing thoughts and discussions going on in our minds today. The Makes Sense Podcast is an expense free service with the intention of helping you execute on the concept of changing the way you look at things, so that the things you look at begin to change. Today we’ll MAKE SENSE of THE JACUZZI EXPERIENCE- How to Shift from the Jacuzzi experience to a pivotal experience where your 2024 dreams become your reality. Contact - Dr. JC Doornick - https://zez.am/makessense SHOW NOTES: My intention in this episode is to help you flip that switch in your sense making machine so the unknown becomes known. This conversation is about breaking free from the comfortable Jacuzzi Experience and moving into that of a radical high leveraging pivotal experience where you win. However this process is a partnership between the both of us. We’re gonna first need you to move that switch on the side of your head from write protection to write open. You know, that little switch on the side of an SD Card? When it is closed, the SD card is not open to any new information. When open, it becomes once again vulnerable to new information. We need to do something abnormal and EXTRAORDINARY here. Open ourselves to something new and this means open ourselves to the fact that what we refer to as normal or our comfort zone, may not be an accurate or efficient system? Make Sense? As we move along this journey together, it becomes increasingly important to establish some language and ground rules so that we can be on the same page. Why is this important? It is my greatest desire that you do not just learn some more bitchin breakthrough concepts, get all hopped up on motivation and belief and the idea of shifting into action and then do nothing about it. See, I have let go of the need to be right and I no longer get off on the validation that my concepts and lessons are cool. In fact, I don’t care much about how you get to your dream life and whether or not I assist you. I only care about results. I am also not concerned with the pace in which you move. That is based on your willingness to be open and curious about changing your old ways and the urgency you have to make them now. There is a gas pedal at your feet that will accelerate your speed and velocity towards your dream life. But it requires you to push your foot down on it. If for whatever reason you are either not ready to push that pedal, or fear crashing, or not being able to handle the speed? The value and urgency you place on the destination is what will make you push it anyway. No matter what. So that's on you. Make Sense? My job is to show you the pedal and offer you the opportunity to remove some of the made up excuses you’ve been using not to push it and keep the pedal to the medal. But remember, that's not your fault and if you still pull out those excuses? I get it. It's that program running inside your head that is controlling your sense making machine. But it aint gonna get you there so consider your options here. Let's talk about some common concepts that come with that programming you have received. If you are like most people today, chances are, you experience what I refer to as the “program prompted” Illusion that things like motivation, self belief and timing are prerequisite and precursors to following through? Sound familiar? I contend that concepts that tell us that things like belief in self, motivation and timing are nothing more than a contingency plan or escape route that is put in place to prevent us from things like failure and overwhelm. If you think about it. When we say we don’t believe in ourselves, or lack motivation or deem that this is the wrong time to run at our goals? We are validating and justifying our decision to retreat from the responsibilities associated with forward progress. This is why I call them a contingency or back up plan. Perhaps an escape route? Do you have these concepts written in your programming? Do you find yourself saying that you will wait for a certain date to begin going after a certain goal? Perhaps January 1st? Or after things settle down? Maybe you excuse yourself from the work involved in reaching your goals by saying there is just too much going on right now? Or perhaps you shame yourself and claim you are just not cut out for the job or maybe even place the blame on another. Saying “I would totally do it but I have too many responsibilities with my mom or kids right now.” I will go after this once those things settle down. There are many powerful factors at work in the science of your belief system and it goes way further than you think. In fact right now, you may very well be taking a stand and protecting your particular scenario, justifying it as a unique situation that truly does hold you back. Excuses are incredibly powerful especially when you believe them to be valid wit

Welcome to the MAKES SENSE podcast, where we apply the science, art and philosophy of sense making to the things that make you go Hmmm? Those most pressing thoughts and discussions going on in our minds today. The Makes Sense Podcast is an expense free service with the intention of helping you execute on the concept of changing the way you look at things, so that the things you look at begin to change. Today we’ll MAKE SENSE of GROWTH - To seek or not to seek? That is the question. The intention of this episode is to arm and equip you with the basic understanding of the challenges we face as humans to grow and acquire our goals and dreams. We will also provide easy to follow action steps and strategies to begin leveraging a better life experience for you and those you love. Contact: Dr. JC Doornick - https://zez.am/makessense SHOW NOTES: A great next discussion and next step after last week’s episode on brain awareness perception and learning about our amazing sense making machines. Why is this topic relevant as a logical next step? Well, once we awaken to how our sense making machine works and begin to identify the things that hold us back? We can decide at any time that we will begin the process of reclaiming control as the shot callers in our lives? There is a crucial next step. This being making a quality decision to go after something, no matter what? No matter what? Why is this important? To characterize and label your decisions to do something or go somewhere no matter what? Because it's not an easy thing to take a made up mind and request it move in a different way. I like to use an analogy of an oil tanker. An oil tanker ship weighs somewhere between 80,000 and 120,000 deadweight tons and steam ahead at a clip of about 20-25 mph. Imagine what it would take to turn that sucker around in the other direction? It would take some time, no? Lets just say that would be an easy and doable task compared to that of turning the oil tanker in your cranial vault. Why? Well imagine if you go to the captain of the ship and make a request to change course and he says “No!” and further explains that the course he has selected is the course that he has taken successfully for the past 30 years. It is the safest and most effective course and he refuses to allow anything else. Now you have another step before you even begin the process of the course correction. You now have to somehow convince the captain to even consider the change against his will. He's very dedicated to his job and takes pride in his 30 year record of getting his ship there on time. Who is the captain in your mind? Your ego, and it has every intention of staying the course. Your ego is not your enemy. It’s your employee and it is extremely dedicated to you and what you’ve taught it to do over all these years. Not to mention the fact that you have also taught your ego to not listen to you when you come up with a new idea that contradicts one of the core principles it has been trained to protect. So when you do make a request for change, your ego knows you are just kidding. Silly Rabbit, Trix are for kids. Remember that commercial where the rabbit tries to cross the word Kids out on the Trix cereal box and replace it with Rabbit? The kids represent your ego and laugh at the rabbit saying. Silly Rabbit, trix are for kids. Let's talk about this for a bit. What does it mean to make a decision to move in a different direction? Well for one thing it involves risk. What’s the risk? When we set our eyes on something we desire that sits in a new place, different from our day to day schedule or regularly scheduled program, it comes with the risk that we may be making the wrong decision. Or that we might fail? Or perhaps that we might succeed and not be able to handle it? However, due to the fact that as humans, we possess one quality that makes us unique amongst most other life forms. As a species, we have been both blessed and cursed with the fact that we know we are gonna die. This brings up a whole different discussion that we will unpack and make sense of in episode six of this podcast where we discuss death and dying. It is actually a fun concept to have and will help you resolve a lot of concepts most people have and allow them to get on with living rather than worry about dying. However, for the case of this episode, because we know we have a limited and unknown resource of time here, it makes the decision to take risks, well lets say risky. But then we somehow shift. We all have the potential to flip the script and reframe any narrative to validate taking that risk. Why is this important? To learn how to move into a place where you are up for the challenge if taking risks? Well first. Risk, discomfort and inconveniently hard work is required for growth. If that's what you seek. Second, there is potentially an even greater risk on the other side of this risk we are contemplating. That being the decision to not take risks. What's the risk of not pushing

Welcome to the MAKES SENSE podcast, where we apply the science, art and philosophy of sense making to the things that make you go Hmmm? Those most pressing thoughts and discussions going on in our minds today. With a combination of solo conversations as well as intriguing interviews with some of the leading experts in the field, the Makes Sense Podcast offers cost free content with the intention of helping you execute on the concept of changing the way you look at things, so that the things you look at begin to change. Today we’ll Make Sense of the Science, Art and Philosophy of Making Sense. The intention of this episode is to arm and equip you with the basic language and understanding of your Sense Making Machine, that is operating 24 hours a day and seven days a week. We will also become aware of the fact that this sense making machine has been programmed in large part by outside sources, forces and people. Not necessarily by you. Sponsor: The Makes Sense Podcast is sponsored by the Makes Sense Academy. Co-Created by wife Mieke (aka The Chicken) and I, the Makes Sense academy is a Live interactive community, where like minded, solution focused, curious seekers of expansion, gather daily in a mastermind setting with both Chicken and Dragon, where they have access to premium content, online courses and powerful collaboration and networking. All for $24 a month. The Makes Sense Academy and its members are solely responsible for funding the Makes Sense podcast so feel free to reach out to us at https://zez.am/makessense and check out the Makes Sense Academy, Risk Free with a money back guarantee. Resources: What Happened To You: Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey https://amzn.to/42yEUh5 Case Against Reality: Professor Donald Hoffman CONNECT WITH Dr. JC Doornick "The Dragon" ://zez.am/makessense Show Notes: BRAIN AWARENESS PERCEPTION: Lets begin with a brief understanding of how our sense making machines (the brain) works and embrace what leading expert on childhood trauma Dr. Bruce Perry refers to as Brain Awareness Perception. Dr. Perry recently co-authored a fantastic book with Oprah Winfrey called What Happened to you. A book that unpacks unresolved childhood trauma and its impact on childhood development and thus, your programmed Sense Making Machine. Or perception of reality. The idea behind it is simple in principle yet complex in application. Perry speaks about the vast network of immeasurable functions occurring all at once in the human brain that manifest in your conscious mind as thoughts, feelings and an all around awareness of what you call reality. In fact, that brain of yours has the ability to process between 40-70,000 thoughts a day. Of course they don’t all get absorbed and manifest as the thoughts and feelings you actually perceive. Your sense making machine somehow selects a few of those thoughts and tethers to them in its creation of a baseline determination of what you call your reality. Good day, bad day. Happy, sad. Depressed vs confident. All subconsciously chosen by this all and powerful OZ that ironically sits comfortably in the only place in the human body that is completely protected by bone. Must be important eh? YOUR VIRTUAL REALITY SUIT: So as we move about our day, our brain is working with our 5 primary senses to perceive and process all we interface with. The end product is a highly effective description of what's going on. It helps us stay away from harm, move towards pleasure, and determine good from evil. All in conjunction with things like natural selection. Our eyes do the seeing. Our nose does the smelling. Ears do the listening. Mouth does the tasting. Skin does the touching etc.. I like to refer to the 5 receptacles as our Virtual Reality Suit. Named after the realization that these five senses operate the same way a pair of virtual reality glasses work. Almost like a VR Haptic Suit. In the VR world we recognize that the Goggles and Haptic suit are giving us an Artificially Generated virtual experience. Almost like a suggested experience that's just for the sake of experiencing. So this sense making machine consists of your brain which we can call “Mission Control” and your 5 senses and receptacle aka your “Virtual Reality Suit”. It runs on auto pilot and is working its ass off as we speak and helping you make sense of this podcast episode. Does all of this make sense? WHERE THINGS GET STICKY? Where things get sticky is when we notice a glitch or wrinkle in this sense making system. Sometimes we hit a wall where we can’t figure something out. It doesn’t make sense. When this happens, our sense making system moves from Defcon One to Defcon 2. It experiences the thoughts and feelings associated with confusion which are correlated with other feelings like frustration. Things get a little sticky when you become aware of this sense making process taking place and become conscious of two things. Your Sense Making Machine is calling all the shots. It's not only interfacing, anal

Welcome to the MAKES SENSE podcast, where we apply the science, art and philosophy of sense making to the things that make you go Hmmm? Those most pressing thoughts and discussions going on in our minds today. With a combination of solo conversations as well as intriguing interviews with some of the leading experts in the field, the Makes Sense Podcast offers cost free content with the intention of helping you execute on the concept of changing the way you look at things, so that the things you look at begin to change. OUR SPONSOR: The Makes Sense Podcast is sponsored by the Makes Sense Academy. Co-Created by wife Mieke (aka The Chicken) and I, the Makes Sense academy is a Live interactive community, where like minded, solution focused, curious seekers of expansion, gather daily in a mastermind setting with both Chicken and Dragon, where they have access to premium content, online courses and powerful collaboration and networking. All for $24 a month. The Makes Sense Academy and its members are solely responsible for funding the Makes Sense podcast so feel free to check out the Makes Sense Academy, Risk Free with a money back guarantee at https://www.riseupwithdragon.com/makes-sense-academy Get in touch with Dr. JC Doornick "The Dragon" https://zez.am/makessense Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.