Music Makes You Smarter; Love Tastes Sweet; Retirement Warning

In this episode we discuss:

The power of anticipation.

The Price and Profit of Pet Food.

Clean Up your mood.

And many more topics.

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Gib Gerard: Instagram: @GibGerard facebook.com/GibGerard X: @GibGerard

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Gib, hello and welcome to another episode of the podcast. I'm Gib Gerard, here with one of my favorite things that we do. I call it intelligence to go that's where we take pieces that we've done on the radio this week, and we hand pick them, mix them up, and we give them to you, for you to put your pocket and take with you wherever you go. We got some great ones for you today. So here, without further ado, is me, Gib, Gerard and John Tesh. All right, Gib, just to prove that we study everything or we have friends who do this. The latest thing is about, about love, and we now know that, well, we have, I mean, we've, there's been, there's been research out there, right? That that we hear birds chirping and stuff, and we fall now, apparently, when you fall in love, your next sip of water is gonna taste like 80% sweeter. Oh, I mean sweet water. Look, look, this is sweet water. This is great if you, you know, if you have a sweet tooth, you just fall in love and drink more water. But I love that we're learning to be expensive. Just have the water. Tap Water, please. So sweet. But we, this is that thing where the scientists are figuring out what the poets have known for decades, for millennia, right? We the poets have already told us that when we're in love, everything is brighter. The moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie. Okay, you know all of that is better when you're in love. Now we know why. Well, let me, let me, let me know if the poets know this, we now know that one in three women say love handles on a man are very attractive lies. They're saying that by men. They're saying that to lull you into a false sense of security. Good next time there's a new magic. Mike, out find out. How much next is it gonna be a next time I pray there's not a next time for magic. Mike, oh, well, thank you. John Tesh, here again with Gib Gerard, the father of three kids, 13. What are we at now? 1311, and almost nine. Yeah, almost nine. There we go, hands away. And on Wednesdays, they come here and they study piano, not from me, but from a bona fide teacher. And it's pretty amazing to me that kids this age were just watching that, how quickly they pick up stuff, so not only reading, but just the ear training and stuff like that. And now my daughter's ears better than mine now, oh yeah, yes. Now we know that preschoolers have higher intelligence and better study skills. They score higher on tests if they're just given music education, oh, I mean, you've talked about this for so many you had a you had a foundation that put music into schools for this exact reason, the it is so good for you. Look, not only is music beautiful, not only does this is it intrinsically fine on its own and a valuable thing for us to learn to be able to understand and play music. But it does. It supports your math scores are better when you are good at music, because you are practicing and practically employing the laws of mathematics in music. Everything about it, studying all of it, all of the skills you learn in music translate to all of these other things. That's why there are so many, you know, people that have accomplished great stuff, and you find out later on, oh, they actually play, you know, concert level piano. They just don't. They don't lead with that. Yeah, was it? Who is the? Was Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, yeah, it's a classically trained concert. Yeah, apparently a figure skater. Isn't that, right? Yeah, exactly. There you go. Love it, Gib, you and I do not have a hard time believing this next statistic, only because, gosh, your mom, my wife has has been this. We know so many of these people because your grandma was sick for so many years I got sick. According to a new survey, nearly one in every four Americans is a care get giver, either professionally or because of a family. So what? How many people in America now? Three, 50 million. Yeah, like that, yeah. So one, so that'd be, it'd be like 80, 70 million, 70 million people. And that's the toughest job ever. Yeah, it's actually close to, if you say 360 is 90 million people, that is yes. And look, we are able to keep people alive longer than at any point in human history, right? Every year we add to it, but the quality of life does not necessarily match, and this is why it's so important. If you you know it's so important for us as individuals to do the things in our life that make our longevity not just a number that we achieve, but a lifestyle that we achieve. So you've got to do the things that we talk about on our coaching calls, where you you're keeping your you're keeping your your lower body strong, your grip strength is high. You're doing the things that keep your brain intact. So that, you know, we can, we can lower that number of caregivers. Because right now we need those caregivers. Right now we need them because of the way that we're aging. If you're a. Caregiver, I just say, blessing son, yeah, God bless you for what you're doing. Thank you. So somebody asked me, because anyway, did we did intelligence for your life, Gib. They said, Hey, what do you think the most profitable food item sold in North America is? And I said, Gosh, if Gib was here, he would know. But now we looked it up, and I checked with Gib, and he knows too. And I know this because I pay for it a lot. The most profitable food item sold in North America is pet food. Oh, well, look, because it doesn't matter if we're starving to death as humans will buy the pet food when you when, when, when you have to tighten your belt. And I've seen this. We've it's in the studies when that when we're headed to recession when we are, when things are, when things are bad, when people lose their jobs, the one place they don't cut is, is the pet food. We have uncle Vinnie, who, no matter what his his life situation is, he's always, and it's been dire. It's been dire. He will always buy the premium pet food for his dogs. We have Leroy. We always, it's, you know, whatever, whatever works for him. We're sticking with. I may switch to spam and rice and, you know, and stuff like that, but he's still getting the, the premium, you know, made in a in a kitchen somewhere, by Michelin star chefs for dogs, dude. Do you remember when Vinnie caught, like, like, the terrible, like, rash, or what, like, Parasite or something. Oh yes, yes, I kept sorry. Should not be laughing. And before he bought himself anti parasitic drugs, he went out and bought the good pet food we're gonna give Vinny on this show. We really do. You guys would love him, all right. Gib John, teshu, Gib Gerard here, the master of disaster and other really fun stuff, research has confirmed the obvious. It's not just the pain of a dentist drill, but the fear of it. Oh yeah, that hurts as well. Oh yeah. Scientists at Oxford University found the anticipation of a dentist drilling your teeth heightens the sensation. The same is true for your first kiss. The anticipation alone can make your heart pound and your knees buckle. When I was on the way, when I was sick with cancer and I was on my way to you, remember this to MD Anderson, Houston, from Los Angeles, right? Plane trip, three hours, three and a half hours on the plane trip, I would get chemo sick before I had even had anything in my in my bloodstream, because of the anticipation. And I used to think I was control my mind, not so absolutely. Look, if you know you're going to have a really good meal later in the day, you're thinking about that meal, the anticipation, and then when you finally sit down to it, everything is a heightened experience because you've been you've been planning for it. This is the same this is use this to your advantage in everything that you do, whether it's your business, always try to create that anticipation with your clients and your customers. Try to make that seem special and exciting. Whatever it is that you do in your relationships. Plan those date nights, plan for those little bit mini vacations. Think about those things that you can do together as a couple. If you spend time anticipating it, it's going to make it all that much sweeter. Would it actually happen? Yeah, you can even do this just for weekends. Oh, just like, like a brunch on Sunday with all your friends. Yeah, yes, absolutely. You're listening to intelligence for your life. John tesher, Gib Gerard, here's a great tip. We always have great tips, of course, but I'm not sure I'm doing gonna do this, but I think it's a good tip for you. Gib, if you need a quick boost, tidy up your home for just one minute. Oh, yeah. So experts say a quick cleanup from fluffing pillows to straightening papers increases levels of the feel good hormone oxytocin by 45% in just 60 seconds. Clinical Psychologist Dr Alicia Clark wrote, hack your anxiety. She says, We want to be able to do something when we get anxious, because we really what we really want is to be in control and take action. So I like this, everything from fluffing pillows to straightening papers. Have you seen how many pillows are on my bed. I just had this whole argument with my wife too. Is Too many pillows? Pillow person? They don't live on our bed, because only when she makes the bed, every once in a while do all of them and get there, and then the rest of the time they're on the floor around the bed. I'm like, What are we doing here? Why? Why am I trying not to step on pillows all the time? I actually put him back on, but the wrong order. It's, I mean, I don't know how, yeah, you know, there I saw three comedy routines, all based on throw pillows. The throw pillow, I hate throw pillows, but look throw pillows aside so it doesn't boost my mood. The throw pillows, okay, tidy up something else. The speed cleaning does. I have noticed, and I hate to admit this forgot what the top my wife, my wife likes, like she, she gets very anxious if the room is just a little bit messy. And so we recently, like, cleaned the whole house deeply, but, but just, just getting rid of the clutter, all of a sudden you're sitting in the room and everything just feels better. And I hate that she's right, yeah, there you go. Giant tester, Gib, Gerard. Gib and I have a and our families, and even prima, our daughter, she, we have a family dog. He's amazing. He, he, he switches from family to family. It's pretty cool. He's got to get the life of Riley, as we say. I just discovered. Heard from this study and and now I do act on this from evolutionary biologist Dr Mark be cough at University of Colorado, that that you've got to let your dog when you take your dog out. I was just letting the dog out to go to the bathroom, and I was pulling him back in, and he's fighting me. But I had other stuff to do. And they say, if you don't let a dog sniff, it's like not letting them read a book. There are experiments conducted that said the dogs are much more optimistic animals if you just let them read a little bit. We don't have an analog in our brain for how much information a dog is able to get from sniffing, and they because they can smell how long something's been, obviously, obviously, we, you know, we use bloodhounds, when, when somebody's trying to escape. We know that. But like just, just your little terrier gets a lot of information, we do not have any equivalent in our sensory system of what they experience or factually with their nose. We don't have that, that equivalent. And I noticed that when, when, when Leroy staying with us, I just let him in the backyard. Yeah, he loves that. And he explores. He smells the possum that lives under our deck. He smells all the stuff around the house, the cat that sneaks into our backyard every night. He smells that he goes crazy. Loves it. You gotta, Gib, let your dog have a chance to use their nose. So Gib, I was talking to one of our cousins who came to stay over, and this person decided they were gonna retire early. Okay? And I said, I said, Hey, listen, you know, there's data on this. And she goes, Yeah, I'm starting to feel this. She didn't retire for like, a How long do you think a couple of years, been retired for a couple of years? She's this. Years. She's an economics professor, right? Oh, no, you're not even gonna out her. Okay? So anyway, according to according to a massive new study, voluntarily giving up your job may not be the best thing for your brain health. There was a study on millions of adults aged 50 to 75 and they found that people retired early were more likely to suffer from delayed recall, which is an important predictor of dementia. So you need to keep your brain stimulated. And here's the thing, if you're one of those fire people you know, financially independent, retire early fire. My My brother in law, is one of these guys, and I'll tell you this, it's not about not working, it's about not having to work to live, and that should be the focus for your retirement. You need a project. You need, even if it's taking strokes off your golf game, you need something that keeps you that gets you out of bed every day. Otherwise, your body quits. If your brain is not activated, your body quits, and your brain begins to deteriorate faster. I saw this happen with my grandmother, when all of her friends moved away and she didn't have people to talk to anymore, she got worse a lot faster, and it stopped when we when we moved her in with us, so that she could, she could start to be around people again. That's really good advice. Do the research before you decide to retire. So Gib, you know some of us baby boomers, you know we, we, we come, we come down hard on the millennials and the Gen Zers. Oh, noticed, oh, that one of those people, not anymore. I used to be, but they're smart, and the way they're being smart is, if they have a problem, they're not holding it inside. They're going to therapy. Yeah. And I think this really started in earnest during during covid, where these, these psychological, American Psychological Association is talking about the the the popularity of online help, like talk space and better health, and their usage rates have quadrupled in last year, not even just the services that you're talking about, which are, which are great ways of connecting you to therapists, but even therapists who are just private practice, therapists are doing their sessions on Zoom now, and opening up, you know, opening up all kinds of new parts of their business, people who, you know, couldn't drive to an office and then, and then drive back to their job, they can just pop on a zoom call. This kind of work is so good, and it's so great that we're making it more accessible, that you don't need to, you know, park your car, go into a you don't have to deal with all of the other trappings of going to a therapist office. Now, if you can do that, still do that, but for the rest of us, it's, it's really nice to be able to open up in a context that is that we can control. Yeah, so check them out. Actually, better help. Used to be one of our they may still be one of our advertisers and one of our family members even use them. It's it's easy to get help now, and you can even do it online. Gib, you know, I love Christopher winter. I even talked to him personally about some sleep problems that I was having. He's a sleep sleep specialist, neuroscientist, Dr Christopher winter. He He recommends that if we're just too wound up, what a lot of his patients do is they, they've, they always have somewhere on their bookcase a very boring and he says, he says, He tells us, remember how you had to fight to keep your keep your eyes open during reading assignments in school. So. Name, impulse can help you fall asleep, because the repetition page after page is going to distract you from thoughts that keep you awake, and you read the most boring thing you can find and put you right to sleep. I have one of those books on my Kindle, and I use it for exactly this. It just it makes. What kind of a book is it? It's actually a fantasy book, okay, so it's fiction, yeah, it's just and it's very wordy nonfiction, very over descriptive, over descriptive. And it's not descriptions that I'm into. I just I fall asleep so fast with it. This is a great time to remind everybody that John has two books that are available wherever you really want to fall asleep quickly. Is that what you're saying? You know, you could have just left that out. Okay, all right. There it is, yeah. You look at my book on Amazon, it's called relentless. It could throw out all your sleep drugs and just Just kidding and just pass great books. All right. So don't forget, get yourself a boring book and have at it. That's it for the show today. Thank you guys so much for listening. If you like the show, please rate comment and subscribe on Apple podcast. Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts. It helps us out a lot. When you do that, we also try to respond to every mention the show, every DM about the show. You can tell us what you think about it, because ultimately, we do the show for you guys. So thank you so much for listening. You Gib.