Jonny Miller

Managing nerves, anxiety, and burnout | Jonny Miller (Nervous System Mastery)

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Opening
Jonny Miller (00:00:00): I have this idea that I call the feather brick dump truck phenomenon, and basically what that means is when we are showing early signs of burnout, our body will give us feedback usually in subtle ways in the beginning. So the feather might be waking up in the morning and feeling a little bit tired, maybe a little bit exhausted....

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Low-ego framing
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Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
Lenny (01:13:32): All right, I'm going to use all these things. Jonny, thank you so much for being here. You're awesome. I am excited for the show notes we're going to have to give people actual...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Carry memory
(00:52:49): Yeah, so NSDR was a practice coined by Andrew Huberman, who you mentioned earlier. And it basically, it's a more scientific lens on the practice of yoga nidra, which is an ancient yoga practice. But...

Returns to something said earlier, proving the conversation has memory.

Ending
my email and I would just love it if you experiment with this stuff. I love this idea of just being a scientist of life. So if anything that we've talked about resonates or any of the practices you want to try, just go out and try it and see how it feels and then tell me about it. That would be the greatest gift I think. Lenny (01:13:23): And the best way to tell you about it is tweet at you or is there something else? Jonny Miller (01:13:26): Tweet at me or my email is jonny@curioushumans.com....

The ending reorients from guest intimacy to listener usefulness.