068: Upgrade Your Life with Personality Assessments

This episode focuses on the concept of Human Design, a system that combines elements of astrology, the I Ching, and other frameworks to describe how individuals operate energetically and how they can optimize their lives. The hosts discuss their personal experiences with Human Design, specifically how it helps them understand their own energy patterns and decision-making processes. They talk about different types within Human Design—such as Generators, Manifestors, and Manifesting Generators—and explore how these types interact with their environments and other people. The conversation also touches on the importance of energy dynamics, focus, and creating the right environment to support personal productivity and motivation. Overall, the episode emphasizes using Human Design as a tool for self-awareness and self-improvement. 

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Transcript

Mike: [00:00:00] I, I'm not an expert at human design or any astrology stuff. There are people that know so much more. I was never interested about being an expert on it. You know, what I really wanted to do is I just wanted to know how I worked, how I tick, how I function, just enough so I can make things easier for myself.

And then we're talking about like generators, you know, and I'm a generator. So I feel people that aren't as familiar, human design it's like astrology, but it's a little bit different, but the same concept, right? Here's who you are based on your, time of birth. And I think name and time of birth.

I think that's it. 

Stephen: Uh, name , time of birth, date, of course, and location. 

Mike: So the idea is that based on these parameters, You were at a [00:01:00] certain place on the planet at a certain time, and all of the planets and the sun and everything was all aligned at a certain specific point when you were conceived.

And because all of these different planets have a lot of energy, they have a lot of frequency, and so they're all affecting you or affecting us, affecting this person when they were born. And so by doing so the effects of it, they were able to calculate what the effects are, and that's where a lot of these systems came from, from astrology, horoscope, numerology, yi qing, into the newer like gene key and human design.

And, there's probably some more. 

Stephen: Let me ask you something about this because I'm both open and I'm also a skeptic. Yep. So whenever I hear stuff like this, I'm like, ah, shit, another one of these. But I'm also open to try it and see what's inside. So I, [00:02:00] I've gotten my own results and it seems relatively accurate for me as well.

But like, let's say for just the general people out there, like how is it that this person figured out by the alignments of these different stars and planets, That he's able to pinpoint, okay, this means that, how are people able to do that?

Mike: If you ask somebody who has no idea about quantum physics, and then somebody wants to say that this is the way energy molecules work, the person would be like, how the heck do they figure it out?

To somebody who doesn't know, it's like so crazy. It's like, I don't know where to start. And like I said, I didn't dive in deep enough on that. I don't know how they figure it out.

Stephen: But it works for you. Well, the results work for you. 

Mike: You know what you mentioned? Like, Oh man, not another one of these things.

You know, I think when people are saying [00:03:00] that what they're really against is. Somebody telling me how I am, how I should act, how I should be, all of these things. And they know nothing about me. They have no idea. They're just simply looking at some charts, looking at some stuff, some internet said this and this.

And suddenly they are basically telling me that I should just neglect everything that I know about myself and just blindly follow these things. I think that's kind of the premise. 

Stephen: I mean, there's that, there's also like, it's just someone who's delusional who made this all up or another perspective is, it's just snake oil.

He's just trying to sell something, you know, all of these different things. 

Mike: So I get it. And I think, my personally, I don't really care to try to convince anybody , to follow any of it. I think for me being interested in was just for [00:04:00] my personal benefit. It was just for me to go and figure out more about myself and people have different ways of figuring out how they are.

I looked at a lot of different ways and astrology type of, approach was one of them that I spent some time in. I can't say I'm an expert at it, but I spent a long time in it, dabbling and. And coming back all the way to our conversation about generators or manifestors, you know, we're basically talking about human design 

and 

the idea that a generator person, and again, I think somebody who is, who really understands human design can probably poke a lot of holes and.

And what I'm about to share, because it's so beginner ish, you know. 

Stephen: But at the same time, a lot of people still don't, don't even know about it. They just have no idea.

Mike: But the idea of a generator is that you respond to things, which is why you ask me, Hey, well, you're a generator. How are you deciding to create this and come up with [00:05:00] this and come up with this?

Right. Because it's, it's known that manifestors come up with things. Generators are the workhorse people, the responding people. They respond to things. They don't come up with things. It's like. I think that's a very rough way of summarizing it, but in reality, when we really look at it, even though generators have this tendency to respond to things, but they can respond to currently what's happening in the moment, they can respond to things that they have created.

and I often find that if I do nothing and there's nothing around me, then it's tough for me to just come up with an idea. But all I need to do is be around things that are happening. And from there, I will start to respond. It will come to me what needs to happen, what I should do based on what's around me. Or somebody asked me to do something and then I do it, then based on what I created, I can then [00:06:00] respond to that with the next thing.

So, it looks like I'm creating from thin air or something, but in reality, I'm just responding to things. That, I found to be very, very true for myself. Now, manifestors on the other end, they're like just, pulling rabbits out of a hat, just constantly with ideas, ideas, ideas, ideas, and I know so many manifestors, right?

Natalia, right, is a manifester and they just have ideas, constant ideas. But unlike generators, they're not always the best with constantly sustaining, on an ongoing basis, uh, what it needs to keep up or maintain this idea, maintain this project. They'll come up with it. They'll come up with creative things, but their energy isn't the same like generators.

They will run out of energy. Because they don't have their own energy source. And again, I think for people who don't understand that and whole L own energy source is like a wholly different, different language, you know. 

Stephen: [00:07:00] But it's, it's also very fascinating because it's like, when I take a look at it and, there are certain aspects where it makes a lot of sense for me.

So one, one of them is I'm a generator as well, but also there's this thing about like response, how you respond. And usually it's by like a certain noise for me where I could hear something, and it's not that I'm thinking about it, but it's more of a physiological, Hmm, it sounds good. Or like a, or like a, and your body.

Yep. And so that's kind of my makeup of where I should be following. It's not thinking through a process or anything like that, but just, just feeling in the body to see how it responds to. What people are, are kind of coming up with. 

Mike: How have you used that throughout your life? 

Stephen: I should probably pay more [00:08:00] attention to it.

But it did help me in some ways, cause I, I did notice that when I tried to make a decision with my mind, meaning like think through it, usually it's very challenging and it's very frustrating and generally it's not really leading anywhere. And usually when I just follow that kind of gut response and it seems like everybody has kind of different ways, life , tends to flow better.

Mike: Well, I think no matter what signs we are, I think thinking about it versus feeling it out , I feel like that's pretty universal. 

Stephen: Supposedly there's a difference. 

Mike: Well, there's a difference. Yes. 

Stephen: Or supposedly each, each one has a difference.

Mike: I don't know if I feel like that's almost applying to all signs.

But with these two generator and manifester, like for example, have you ever noticed in your life that if you're not, out doing things, if you're not [00:09:00] around people, you feel like you're just in a slump? Like you just, you don't have any motivation to do anything. You just feel uninspired, unmotivated, almost like depressed.

In some ways, yes. Yeah. What are in some ways? What are the ways of not? 

Stephen: I'm trying to, I'm trying to think back cause it's, I think, I feel like it's been a while. So I gotta look back at, 

Mike: in our life, it's like, and it's completely opposite. 

Stephen: So I'm trying to figure out, uh, when was that time? For sure. If I'm not around anyone that I jive with, I for sure get into a slump.

And then that's kind of my, one of my main priorities during that time is to find the right people to be around. It's my, my brain is working in an interesting way right now, because one part is I feel like that's for everybody. But then I'm also thinking there's probably other [00:10:00] people who's like, no, I don't want to be any around anybody.

I just want to lock in and just do my thing. And there are people like that as well. 

Mike: Yeah. So, , when we're doing work, a lot of times we will need to have some quiet space and so we can focus, but if our lifestyle is spending more time by ourselves, how would that, feel like, as a, Like I know for me, if I spend a lot of time by myself, my energy goes down.

There's just, I'm lacking motivation. There's no motivational energy to do things. Now I have all the reasons to why I need to do it and even how to do it and what I need to do all of these things besides the energy to actually do it. Interesting. I've noticed that for so many years and I always [00:11:00] wondered, because, , when we think about doing things, well, you got to stay focused and you can't just go and buy people and have fun all the time.

That's great. Don't get nothing done. So then that was always a confusion thing for me. If I'm around these people, it's great. I have a good time. Nothing gets done. 

Stephen: I'm 

Mike: alone. I can get things done, but I don't feel like doing nothing. 

Stephen: And then eventually kind of burn out if you do it for too long. 

Mike: Yeah.

Yeah. And very quickly. Yeah. So. So then there was, so it's almost like, okay, so what do you do, you know, it was, it was that line, uh, rock in a hard place. So then I, I started to think, okay, well, what do I really need to support my lifestyle? So this way I support my energy so I can feel good and feel motivated to do things.

Stephen: And 

Mike: I realized, well, it's being around people and, and, But still being able to focus on the things that I need to do, but have people around. So then if I look at bases that support that, [00:12:00] co working spaces, right here in Bali is a gazillion of them, everybody's there. Nobody's, most people aren't sitting there talking to each other, hang out.

Right. They're just, they're plugged into their laptops, get work done all in one place. 

Stephen: That's very true. The most productive I've ever been was in coworking spaces. I got the most done. And like you said, most people are doing the work. Who knows? Maybe it's just the energy and the vibe that you just lock in where I can, I can definitely see that.

Mike: Well, cause like being in a coworking space, you're not doing anything with anybody else besides If we talk about the need to respond, everybody's working. So how do we respond to this event of everybody's working? Well, if everybody's working, I'm going to respond by working.

Stephen: Yeah. Yeah. 

Mike: So I respond by working.

Okay. Then now let me work on two things I need to do. So if I'm here for [00:13:00] five hours, it's like the idea was just like sitting there and just working. Randomly going off and all this stuff and just wasting my time. So what else is everybody doing? They're not just like working, but they're also focused.

You see them, you look around in there and you don't see people. People are just look like they're focused in their screen. Now you're not sitting there eavesdropping to see exactly what they're doing, but they look focused. So then when people are all focused around me, I respond to that by feeling like, okay, I feel focused.

Because everybody else is focused now, I think people can say, well, that is, , just being in the right environment to support what you want to do. If you want to do this, be around other people that are doing this. If you want to do that, be around other people doing that. Yes, yes, that is true.

However, if I was to go and try to do that alone in my room, my energy runs will get really low, really fast. 

Stephen: I might be feeling that [00:14:00] because I got my office down here, but I think after some time I can see that I'm not being so productive inside of there work wise, but when I work out, I can do that all alone, fine.

So I'm, I'm very curious about that. 

Mike: Well, here's another thing that I noticed when you work out, how often are you working out without any music or video or anything? 

Stephen: Oh, that's true. 

Mike: Versus. So if you have a video that's playing, you have energy to respond and you can respond by working out, but if there was no video playing, but there are people around, Hey, let's all go train.

You don't need to go. Oh, okay. Let's all go train, but then we go and play this thing. You'll never do that. But when you're by yourself, you'll play this thing. So then this way you have something to respond to. You see? 

Stephen: Could be. [00:15:00] Yeah. Yeah. I think it's a, because I, I genuinely like to just get in the zone and, and yeah.

'cause it's almost like I'm, I'm creating a certain environment there where there are, 

Mike: you feel energized when you're in, when you're, yeah. And you're not even paying, really paying attention to this screen, to the thing. Such little attention is there, but you're training, I see you train all the time.

You're training. It's playing and such little attention. It's not like you're sitting there and suddenly you're sitting there and just watching and not doing anything anymore. You're sitting there, you're training, but there's still that background that's running because it gives you something to respond to.

See, like somebody may go, well, it's distracting. Yeah. We can call it distraction, but without that distraction, You don't have the same energy. Yeah. So it's not actually distraction. We see it as a negative thing. We'd see it as it takes away our attention. [00:16:00] Yes. But a little bit of attention that's put into that thing that we can call distraction is in turn, actually creating more overall attention, more overall energy.

So it's worth it. It's like, I have 50 units of attention right now. So then let's play this music and now it's going to distract me. It's going to take 15 units of my attention. But. By having this music, my overall amount of energy unit increased to 75. So it takes a 15 units for music, but because I increased to 75, I have 60 units of energy available 

now 

versus without the music, I'm at 50.

Stephen: So let me ask you then, how do you plug it into one of your main principles, which is the total focus? 

Mike: So total focus is being able to have a very clear intention, a clear focus on an objective, on an action, on a moment. It's the ability to be able to [00:17:00] practice that, knowing that that allows our reality to be created.

If I focus on one idea hard enough or intensely enough, then everything around me start to disappear. They start to not exist, whatever's happening, they start to disappear. And in my reality. Is just the thing, the idea that I focus on, that's an example of total focus. So it's needed to be able to practice on it.

So we have that ability. So whatever we're doing, we're able to direct our focus. The issue is that people, they can't control their focus, their attention. So then they're easily distracted. But if I want to go and play music, because I know that music enhances my energy, well, then that means I need to be able to focus because if I can't focus, then the same scenario that we talked about, I have 50 years of energy.

Right now I play music. And usually if I can control my focus, I'll get 15. Units towards music. And then I enhanced my energy to 75 and now I have [00:18:00] 60 to work with, but let's say same scenario, but I can't. Control my focus. Well, turn on the music and 40 units of energy go towards the music. But my intention was to work out, but I can't focus on working out, Oh my God.

I love this song. Oh yeah. Yeah. Suddenly I'm just staying there and listening and suddenly I'm just thinking about the music and I'm looking for better, better music. And I'm just totally distracted because I can't control my focus. So the ability to be able to control focus is so important, whether in this scenario, we'll talk about any other, it's just the ability to control our attention, therefore control our energy because attention goes as energy flows.

And if we can control our energy and control our attention, then we control our action and then we control our life, right? This is, it's self mastery. But it starts off with the basis of the ability to control our attention, our focus. And that's why it's one of those principles. 

Stephen: So human design, we got the generators, we have the manifestors, I think there's something called the reflectors.

Mike: Reflectors, projectors, generators, [00:19:00] manifestors, and Manifesting generators. 

Stephen: Manifesting generators. Our kids are lucky. I think all of our kids are manifesting generators. Yeah. Yeah. They got the best of both worlds. Yeah. 

Mike: You come up with ideas and then you can actually, and you can sustain it. 

Stephen: How, how lucky is that?

Mike: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I, I don't think one is better than any other. Right. I think it's just, it's just. But that's just the way their energy is, right? Manifestors. And again, like manifestors don't have their own energy source. And so for somebody like, what do you mean? Like, if they don't have the energy source, they'd be like dead.

Stephen: It's 

Mike: like their energy. It's like their energy center. When we say energy center, we're talking about here at Don Tien, right? This is the space here. They don't, have their own energy here. So if they're around nothing, nobody, then this energy becomes very, very empty. Which means they have really, really low energy.

So they don't want to do anything when they're around other people, they have more [00:20:00] energy, but they're not, responding to other people. It's just that being around other people, they have energy to do things. The only difference is that because manifestors don't have their own energy. And like, let's say this person has a lot of energy and now I'm feeling their energy or I'm basically their energy is influencing mine because I don't have my own, so therefore.

I might go ahead and work really, really hard like this person. but I can't handle it like this person, right? And so I can only work 60 percent of what this person can do. This person is a generator with a lot of energy. I'm a manifester and I try to work like this person, I get burned out. I get burned out and I get sick and I get, , breakdowns.

So as a manifestor person needs to recognize that, well, because I don't have my own energy source, I need to be around generators, but I need to listen to my body and pay attention to when I've had enough, then I need to step away because if I'm around these people, I'll just keep going because I'm using their energies, but it's going to [00:21:00] break me down to the point where I will be too exhausted.

Generators, because they don't need to be around, they have their own energy source, which means. They could have energy by themselves, you see. So, that kind of goes, that almost contradicts what we were talking about earlier of the needing to respond, but see, needing to respond is different than having an energy source.

Needing to respond is like having a motivation to create, to do things. Energy source is just pure energy. We as generators have a lot of energy and we can just go, go, go, go. When we are by ourself and we don't have something to respond to, unless like at some point the energy, we don't feel motivated, we have energy, but we don't feel motivation to do things.

If we end up doing things, it's, it may not be the best thing for us. So it's a tricky thing. Yeah, I'd have to dive into it. It's been a while since I, really looked into [00:22:00] it , there was a time to where I spent a little more of my energy studying it. And now I just only remember a few highlights that, that just helps me.

And I think personally, unless somebody is really interested in this type of stuff, A person only needs to know enough to help them decide what to do to enhance their life. They don't need to be a master at it unless they're really, really interested. Like I'm not that interested. So I was just looking for ways to, how do I set up my life so I have the most energy?

How do I set up my life so I get the most things done? 

Stephen: What happened for you when you got your chart and, you know, you figured out these things based on human design? What was the before and after like? 

Mike: It helped me recognize times where I was low and why, and times where I was high and doing well and why, because I had both times, but I didn't know what were the contributing factors on the outside.

This is what it is, but [00:23:00] there's deeper layers and I didn't know what those layers were. So once I started to study, I go, Oh, so that's why during those times I was doing really well. And then during those times I wasn't, that makes sense. It's like, I knew it has something to do with it, to do with those people around, something to do with that environment, but I couldn't put my finger on specifically what it was.

And then once I started studying it, it started to make more sense. Then on the outside, it looks like I'm doing something that I've always done, but there is a clear intention now. It's like before it was just accident, 

you know? So I think that's what it is. And if somebody wasn't interested in horoscopes, fine.

But if you look at your life, you'll see that there are environments that you thrived in in the past, and there are also environments that you put yourself in that just didn't feel good. When you recognize that you can find out, what is it about the environments? What were the characteristics about the environments that you thrived in?

And same thing. What was the characteristics about environments that you didn't do [00:24:00] good in? that Brought you down. And once you understand these characteristics, then it's easy to Obviously you're going to create more, put yourself in situations where you're in the environment for success. When people talk about environment for success, they usually give a, it's so general, be around the people that you want to be like, that you want to thrive towards or has accomplished what you wanted, right?

It's like so general and some of these things are helpful, but not everybody is the same. They don't work the same. That's what I found. Because when I started learning about these things and I learned about a lot of general advice, it's like, how do I know which ones to follow? It's almost like, imagine there's 50 general advices that are all considered good.

But out of the 50, because everybody's so different , for me, 20 of them, it's good. And a 30 of them doesn't apply for you. 20 of them is good, right? So everybody is like that, but 50 of them are all, everybody will consider this to be good, [00:25:00] but out of 50, only a partial of it is good for certain people and the others is not, but if a person doesn't know which 20 out of 50 is good for them.

Then they'll do some things that enhance them and they'll do some things that hurt them, but they don't even know what it is. And I think that's why the need to be able to understand more about ourself and whether or not we look into horoscopes or we can do other things, but they need to know because all of the advices that are out there are all great, right?

Now, I say all great. I mean, like maybe let's say, for example, 50, they're all really solid. Almost everybody would agree. But how do you know that that's good for you? Because someone goes, well my friend tried it and, well, your friend's different than you. They're different design than you. 

Now someone goes, well, I don't believe in the design stuff. Okay, fine. Let's throw the word design out the window, throw the word horoscope out the window and just say, 

Stephen: say personality, character, traits, you know, extrovert, introvert. 

Mike: So then how do you know it's good for you? And someone goes, well, I don't know.

I guess I'll just try it. Okay. You would just try it. [00:26:00] Then go ahead. so then You need to try it, how long would it take for you to know the results? And how do you know that you isolated that variable that you tried? And that other variables wasn't influencing it, because if not, how can you tell that that new variable that you tried, your results are completely contributed towards that.

And if you can't tell, then you can't really make an educated decision on whether or not you should continue doing it that way. And I think that's where it gets really tough. How much time does a person have to go and test out all these different things and look at all these variables that could influence their results?

At the end, they come to the, I'm not really sure if this helped or not. All I know is the outcome. It's good. Great. It's not as good. Okay. But I can't track what contributed or what hurt it. Okay. Because there's so many variables in life. So then this becomes a really, really time intensive process. 

Stephen: Could be a [00:27:00] lifetime.

Mike: And for so many it is.

So then 

Stephen: that's even if you take the time to try and figure it out.

Mike: Everybody who's in personal development is ultimately doing this process. So then. Now, that's where these type of, horoscopes and things come in. Maybe it can help give you a shortcut, but there's general information about horoscopes, like we're talking about manifestor and generators, like as if that's like, you know, with five categories, as if the whole world fits in it and that's how you do it.

No, within each of those, then there are like all 64 different moving variables, something like that. Or when someone goes, I'm an Aries, I'm a Sagittarius, right? And then your sun sign, moon sign rising. And so then by time it's like you get so detailed, specific on it, and then you'd learn how to analyze all of that.

Then it gives you a very, very specific, clear, Output [00:28:00] of how we are, how we function. And then that becomes more accurate on how we should be. Usually people don't go that far and because they don't go that far and they are just at the top level doing just a general understanding. So they go, ah, it's like that for everybody.

Everybody, this is kind of like, this fits for everybody. Right. It does because you're at the general level. Okay. You never went deep enough to where you found out about you. So, so if we don't get, specific enough about horoscopes and it's like, if somebody wants to learn about it, they should go deep enough to gain the clarity, even if they're not really interested, but then once they gain the clarity, then they figure out what they to implement into their life.

And then after that, You don't need to keep diving into it and learning more. You can just understand that this is how you are. And this is how you would do [00:29:00] things, set up your life, set up your environments to be able to succeed. And again, that's just one outlet. A person can figure out other outlets, but no matter what, every person who wants to be more successful in life needs to figure out what is the setup that allowed me to thrive?

What type of lifestyle do I need to create? You know, we talked about this before. About the type of lifestyle That we created here being in this, community feel where you're easily able to be around other people, even though you can retreat into your own space as well. Yeah, the best of those two worlds, right?

And we purposely set up this lifestyle because. We both felt, well, that's a type of environment that I can thrive more in. And I think that there are many people that feel that they can thrive in that as well. And if that's the case, well then set up your life like that. It's like, find a way set up your life like that, find a way.

It's like, that can be created in every [00:30:00] scenario, but scenarios are different. So they have to see what can they do, like, coworking spots. Right. So we got a pretty large place here. Right. So. And let's say somebody has a smaller place that they can't have all these people combined, it's too crowded.

So then they spend more time being out there, out and about, and then they spend time in their coworking spots, but they don't like to just be in one coworking spot, so great. Then be in two, right? Go to a gym where there's another coworking spot. So now you got three, , it's like, and show up in this thing every single week.

So this way, because the type of people you like to collab with, or you like to, , be around, they show up in that place. So then they kind of pick their spots. So then they just. They have this consistent thing and that they show up to and they work at, and this environment helps them thrive.

I'm really sensitive to spaces. So when we bought our car, we went and got a car that gave us the extra room. Cause I know I'm going to be spending a lot of time in that car. So I've got the extra room. [00:31:00] So this way I can go and be productive in this car because I don't see the car as transportation. I see this car as an environment for me to function in.

And if I'm going to spend an hour in this car and in that day, Then how productive can I be in that hour based on what I'm wanting to do? It's one thing if my function was just to sit here, go from point A to point B. But it's another thing, if I want to go and be able to get some work done, if I want to go and play with Ryza.

So then what type of environment, what type of car will allow me to build a play with Ryza or engage with him? In a playful way, which is my intention. So then I think like, okay, so not only do I need to have the room, but I need to have a seating arrangement that can allow that to happen and how fast.

Can I create the seating arrangement? Do I have to take out and move a lot of things around every time, because then that is inconvenient. It puts a lot more efforts. So then the vehicle that we [00:32:00] got allow seats to fold down. And so this way it's kind of like this flat surface and we often leave it just like that.

We don't even put it up. We only put it up when there are other people riding, but if it's just like me and Natalia and Rhyza, we just leave it all flat. She likes to drive. Great. She drives. And I am bouncing between the back and the front, like while she's driving, and we don't have him seated to a chair because I want him to learn how to be able to move, and that's another thing, like people are like, Oh my God, what are you getting to actually got to fly out, blah, blah, blah.

Well, if you come to Bali, you'll see a lot of people living very differently, and so many people are sitting there, right there in someone's lap while they're driving. Kids, right, small kids. You see a, mother holding her baby, sitting in the back, holding her baby while her husband is in the front driving.

And the baby is like less than a year old. Not even strapped to her, holding the baby. Right, we live in Bali so we see it. That's a normal thing. Very, very normal [00:33:00] thing. 

And we don't hear all these deaths of all these babies. People have developed their awareness levels, their physical ability to do that, because that's very physical.

Like you have to balance, you have to hold this baby, you have to be around, you can't just be distracted and your baby falls out of your arm. Right. What happened if the baby falls out of your arm? Right. What happened when you're walking and you trip and fall on your face and break your nose? Could happen.

Mm hmm. Then don't trip. You know? How often? Technically, every time when we walk, imagine, right? You walk and then just face plant. Imagine you put your arms to the side and you face plant to the ground. You can break your nose. 

Stephen: Mm hmm. I mean, that's the most common thing for elderly people. 

Mike: It can happen.

But how come people aren't walking around breaking their noses every day, even though they're walking all the time? Mm hmm. Right. Right. Because they developed their awareness and their physical balance to not do that. 

Stephen: You [00:34:00] know, it's also very fascinating when you live in Asia, when you see dogs looking left and right before they cross the street.

They're not running wild. They're, they're actually almost like humans. Is it safe here? Is it safe here? 

Mike: Dogs know how to operate 

on streets almost better than humans. 

Stephen: Well, especially I got, friends in the States and , there are teenagers now where they're scared for them because they're not really looking at their environment anymore because they're so glued on, their phone.

So sometimes they're just walking around, walking on the street with their phones. And then they'll just walk and then sometimes my friend will have to say, Hey, pay attention. You almost got into an accident 

because they're not being conscious of

Mike: People here got phones. There's teenagers here that got phones, but they know better.

If they're walking on the street, they're not, they're glued like this because they walk one foot to the side and they get taken out by a truck. [00:35:00] 

Yeah. Well, it's, it's, it's more, uh, there's a consequence, right? But 

yeah, they all have phones and they're gaming. They're doing what teenagers do. But because there's a clear consequence, so then they don't do that.

They learned that if I'm going to be on the phone, I need to be standing here on the side. I can't be walking on the street. If I walk on the street, I'm still paying attention to where I'm doing, what I'm doing. I'm not just totally in it and oblivious to the world because if not, there's a heavy consequence for that.

And so they don't. And so that's why people aren't getting accidents all the time like that. But then if there's not a consequence, well, then. That could highly happen. Yeah. And that's what I mean, so when Natalia told me like, no, well, what happened? We, if we press the brakes and riser flies out, I go, well, that could easily happen with me as well.

And I've spent most of my life not being strapped to a seat when I'm in a car. 

Stephen: Mm-hmm . 

Mike: You know, and outta my entire [00:36:00] life. I've had one actual accident where I hit a steering wheel. 

Stephen: Mm. 

Mike: Because we literally got axed. Mm. I wasn't wearing a seatbelt. You know what I did? Covered my face. 

Stephen: Covered your face.

Mike: Now, so I'm not saying, so then people are like, Oh, so then that's so dangerous and so irresponsible telling people to, You know what? Everybody can make their own choice. Hmm. Some people go, let's say, um, I want to make sure I'm safe, so I wear this little thing around my neck, A necklace, I can press this button, so this way people can come and rescue me if I get injured.

Stephen: Mm hmm. 

Mike: Okay. You know what I would do, I would just train and make sure that if I get hurt, I can pick my butt up and, not have to depend on people. And then when I die, I die. I don't go through years and years of capable of taking care of myself. I would just do that. Then go ahead and find me a button.

Just hit first. So then now when it comes to the safety of the car, I'm going to be strong enough to [00:37:00] where if somebody wants to slam on the brakes and I couldn't hold on to things, then I would fly into something. I'm fine with flying into something. I'm fine with that, but I rather go and feel free and do what I want in this vehicle.

And if I was meant to fly into something, so be it. I'd rather do that than be strapped in feeling miserable. There can't do what I want in here because I'm afraid. that if we were going to hit something, I'm safe, it's a way of living. It's a mentality. I think there's people who go, well, I just want to play it safe.

And then there's people who goes, you know what? If it's meant to happen, it's meant to happen. Everybody that do some extreme stuff, they're on the end of not playing the safe. 

Stephen: Mhm 

Mike: right. And I don't do extreme stuff. But I understand what people are thinking when they're doing the extreme stuff. Right? We go, Oh, look, you're not in a seatbelt.

It's so dangerous. Well, how about somebody who is freaking free climbing? Uh, you're climbing very high. You have nothing strapped and you slip, you fall, you die. [00:38:00] Uh, how about somebody who's free diving? Um, you go very deep and you can just have a panic attack and then sub K and inhale a lot of water and nobody's gonna ever know, especially if you're doing it by yourself.

And, you know, Driving fast cars, driving a motorcycle and et cetera, et cetera. There's so many examples. We can use that example for all of those people. I mean, look at the people who's doing parkour. You see, I'm flying from here to here. So many people decide that they want to go and be free to do what they want.

And they are willing to take the risk, but their risk dramatically decreases because they train their body, they train their mind, they train their emotions. They don't freak out, you know, they are very present when they're doing things. Because of that, they're able to live the way they wanna live

if people want to live in fear, they can as well, and then they'll go in the other direction of, I want to be safe. I wanna be safe. I [00:39:00] wanna be safe. Okay. Then you'll live your life in a safe way while other people, or some people will live their lives feeling very free to do what they want. It's up to each person.

I tend to go in the direction of do what I want. And I've always have for my life. I never focused on safety. It's not that I'm oblivious to it. It's just that, how can I do what I want and make it the safest possible? You know, like when in the car, like rises there, she's not strapped in anything. You know, I had pillows around.

I had pillows around, I had some blankets around. So this way, if he trips, if he tries to follow me, I tell him sit down, don't walk around when the car's driving, but he sees me walking around. That's it because you need to learn how to have balance when we have balance. And I see you have balance. I don't see you flopping around.

You have balance. You know how to navigate. Then you can start to walk around like me until then, sit your butt there , when we're driving. Right. And so, but then every single day that we're in it. I can [00:40:00] see he's getting more comfortable. He's learning the environment. I did that when I was living out of a van and living out of a Honda Pilot.

In the beginning, it's like, I don't know how to work around the seat. I can't move. I'm so clumsy. Fast forward three months of living in that thing. I move like smoothing. I like getting there. I know exactly where to place my leg. How much, just how high to lift it to go from here to here, to here, to here.

Exactly what positions to relax and totally stretch out and working around all the stuff. I know the space because you spend so much time in it. It's like the principle of repetition creates mastery to be able to just go and practice and doing it over and over and over. And when he's in that car, learning how to move in that car around.

He's going to know how to have balance. He's going to know that if the car moves, what, what am I going to do? Am I going to put my head here and hit this? Or do I know to put my arm out here and move this? And what part of this can I hold on to? What part of this is okay to lean against? What part of it is going to hurt?

Like you start to develop space [00:41:00] awareness to these types of things. And then we dramatically decrease the risk of injury. So therefore, and we are able to have this sense of freedom. Okay. Again, it's not a recommendation for people. It's only the people that have the same, desire to want to be free, to live in that way to where they want to be free to do what they want versus.

My desire is just to be safe. 

Stephen: And it is for each on their own as well. And, and a large part of it is based on just people's innate personality. And this is kind of ties into, let's say human design and why just for funs and giggles, like it doesn't cost anything. To at least get the chart and get some of the basic information.

And I think it would be good for everyone to, let's just say, if you want, have fun, go explore that one. [00:42:00] You can go explore something else like the big five personality trades. You can explore all of these different ways to kind of pull data about yourself. And then you have the data to be able to see, Oh, that really makes sense.

That's how I can make my life better moving forward. And so 

Mike: And match it to their past history. Instead of just having to be this, this is the way I should do things blindly. No, match it to your past history. Someone says , you need to be around people all the time. 

Stephen: Is that true? 

Mike: What do I feel like?

Let me look at a time in my life where I'm all around people and how do they feel? If they say you need to be around people all the time, because when you do, you are energized and you love it and you're inspired and you feel alive. And then when you're not, you feel alone, depressed and et cetera. Okay.

So a person would look in their past history and see, is it true? Cause if this horoscope about them is true, then it should be true to their past [00:43:00] history, unless the person never done that, which will be slim. So then they can see. And if it was true, then if they were to not read the horoscope and they would just look at their life and they would come to the same conclusion of when I was around people, this happened.

And when I wasn't, this happened. But all they're doing is now is just getting another layer of reasoning on why that happened the way it really, , so it's not like they're blindly trusting. I don't think anybody can blindly trust because most people in reality probably isn't going to go deep enough into readings about themselves to get this.

Whole blueprint of them, they're going to go into the surface, dabble a little bit, and then based on these conclusions, they're going to try to implement, , which is fine, but don't implement blindly, look in your past history and see, if it's true, then it should have been true already, and what happened.

Stephen: Another thing I just thought of is if you do multiple different tests. We can do is you can pull all of those, put it [00:44:00] into chat, UBT and ask it, Hey, what are all the similarities between these? And what are all the differences? And then you can even dive in more from that. And I'll give you a pretty good self analysis to, to reflect on your past life, what's really worked.

And then that can help to navigate as you move forward. 

Mike: I'm a Sagittarius. We're, we're meant to be free spirited. 

Stephen: There you go. 

Mike: So if somebody goes, no way, this guy is too, is too crazy. That's irresponsible. I'm, I, we, we need to be safe. 

Stephen: All the Sagittarius out there like, yeah, we understand you.

Mike: And all the others are like, no, that's so wrong. I do not agree. Right. Cause everybody's different. Right. So, and, and that's the thing, you know, that's why. Know, I, when I talked about like the 50, that could be one of the 50, it's like, you need to be free, do what you want. And someone goes, right.[00:45:00] 

I want to be free to do what I want and what I want to say. You 

Stephen: know, 

Mike: I want to feel safe. I want to feel secure because to me, if I'm safe, then I'm comfortable. 

Stephen: That's the most important thing. Right. 

Mike: Okay, good. Then good. Then you should move towards that. But for me, . It's the opposite because that what's feels good for me.

Can that's now we can say that's my personality, but you know, I am a Sagittarius and they does say that in there. 

Stephen: All right, guys. Well, hope you enjoyed this episode of mind body mastery and we'll see you on the next episode.