February 23rd, 2026 (Continued): “You can. Just to add something as an Asian eldest daughter, I don't think our emotion will be like, how do you say, recognized? Our parents take the emotion for us, you, emotion is nothing. So I don't know what this emotion to life inAmerica. But for being a woman, I think our brain is always thinking. Even though we want to stop, when we 5 second later, it’s thinking again. So good thing I don't drive. I don't. I don't drive, being a passenger princess I don't. I don't. I don't hear it sometimes when my husband is talking. I was going and I was thinking something else, this week or this week or something. And also, as September 10th birthday mentioned. When I was stressed, I work more competitively, because stress motivates me, ‘Oh, I have to finish this, I have to do this, I don't do that.’ So until I don't finish, my stress level increas. As I mentioned, in the stress time, for example, if someone is talking to me beside me, I don't hear. I'm listening, I'm not there. So I mean my focus always why I'm stressed and what. So until it's finished, I don't know.” - Threes
“Doing the task?” - Doctor Roberts
“Yes.” - Threes
“I love the vision you were making about culture.” - Doctor Roberts
“Yeah.” - Threes
“Gender. Never cultures, don't encourage being a lot to our emotions. In fact, they discourage acknowledging or showing emotion. When the truth is real life that did not happen like that. And so, we are learning, we learn continuously that the American culture is forcing us to be a lot of emotions by labeling them, understanding them, understanding how they manifest in control of us, and most importantly, how they environment around us responds to the emotions. Now, there are some gender differences as well. You're right, as women, in most cultures, we know that you work more, you work hard, and you always want to you as a multitasking. because of the different tasks. So you may be here at work, but you’re also thinking about work, how do I want to go? Who is being taken care of? If you have the parents, I need to get attention on how all of that is organized so you’re constantly, under demand to perform well, multitasks, and yet are you only one person, one mind. But thankfully because we're in a new culture, being aware of what she can do, even a the woman or the man for that matter, as couples communicate with each other, they can help each other. So this goes to the role then many of you who are made parents, or in relationships, where you're running, how many, you're no longer alone. You're managing other people while at the same time, being a leader in your household can become an interesting task indeed. Let me go to sleep. How many of you last night were lucky to be in bed by 9 or 10 o'clock and slept until 6 o'clock this morning?” - Doctor Roberts
“ I want to bed at midnight and woke up at 7:30am.” - Edgar
“Ooh!” - me
“Midnight, 7:30?” – Doctor Roberts
“Yeah! 7 hours. I really rushed to get here, I didn’t get a lot of sleep.” - Edgar
“Typically, how many are able to get eight hours of sleep, meaning that at 9 o'clock in the evening, when in bed until 6? How about five hours? Meaning midnight, and by 6 o'clock, you're up?” - Doctor Roberts
“Somewhere around here!” - the younger Ukrainian lady
“It is Ramadan right now.” - Mauer
[laughter]
“Some of you are fasting and are up at three, four?” - Doctor Roberts
“4:30am.” - the Afghani man
“And then you try to go back to sleep or not.” - Doctor Roberts
“No.” - Mauer
“That's it. Some people, yeah, if they want, they can go back to sleep at least one and a half hours or two But yeah, we have to go to mosque and then pray and recite holy Qu’ran and then take care ourselves for work.” - the Afghani man
“So maybe that's just to minds question is to be qualified. Because right now because of Ramadan, all those of you who are fasting under lent, things are a bit different. It's not known, but still the plan should still be thought through. Understanding the role of fasting, how that changes the brain, especially in this fast first week. So come come this week Wednesday will be the first full week of fasting. So the body is now remembering how to act for the next three weeks, but for normal life , it's a little bit of still, the gift of good sleep, eight hour, seven hours is important. For all the right reasons, because we know very well, for example, for me, If I don’t sleep my eight hours a day, and the tend to run very long days, and run typically 14 hours a, 14 hours an hour. I schedule. I need my good sleep. I still practice, and my staff allow me to do this. If I’m feeling very tired, I would take a 20 minute nap. Let's close my office door, take 20 minutes and sleep well. But that means that my brain has to be able to shut down, shut the Indian door. Make sure that there are no other Indians that are working, programs in the background, like a computer, because if you try to shut it off and any other programs running, guess what? The machine is still busy. So we need to be kind with our brains, then how we think, but most importantly how we engage in meaningful rest. How many over you are a young parent or how many have kids at home.” - Doctor Roberts
[Elon, the Ukrainian woman, Mrauku, Threes, Edgar, the Afghani man, September 10th birthday, the Polish woman, Zarith C, website guy, and the Latinx lady raise their hands]
“What's a young parent?” - website guy
“We can be parents, but we're not young” - the Polish lady
[laughner\
“In fairness, all of you have some responsibility back home.” - Doctor Roberts
“Correct.” - the Afghani man
“Taking care of funds, taking care of your loved one, taking care of a child, taking care of a neighbor. Constantantly, with this make a responsibility that we have, which make our life very meaningful, are the pain, the challenges that drain our batteries. So how do we encourage our house forces to have a moment in the day or in the evening sorry, when the household shuts down? So for example, if you are organized that you have dinner, 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock, if you're, if you're breaking the fast around 6 o'clock, and you go into the evening. At what point exactly do you turn the TVs off, you turn your phones of the phones, especially if you have young people and children, the phones go to another room to sleep. so the kids can also sleep. So we have to have a creature in our house, when we things shut down, and allow the things to be able to rest. Yes, sir!” - Doctor Roberts
“Like a meditation of sorts? Like, just like, just turn everything off and just sit or like have conversation or just…” - Edgar
Those are the different routines that people have. Some people, when they come home, normally it is 6 o'clock or 7 o'clock, they take your dinner, they do some house chores, they take they change, change into comfortable clothes. Either end up watching some news or a comedy or a program that makes you relax again which is what I would recommend. You want to have your mind relaxing in a very comfortable way. Or engaging in prayer. So meditation, reading scriptures, reading a book that you like, intention and allowing your brain to stand off to stand down from being super alert, being much more comfortable. Yes, for you, those of you are mothers and fathers. You're going to say: ‘I have a lot of things I need to prepare.’ If I go to bed, I want to make sure that it is safe, and then at the table, I know how the day is going to go. All of that becomes part of your routine. but name a time when you share off, it's nine o'clock or 10 oclock, you until then you wake up in the morning at six or seven o'clock. My homework from you, what I need to keep thinking through my next time around? I'll reinforce someone with sharing that we have done now.” - Doctor Roberts
“Can you repeat that last part? What's that a question? I'm sorry?” - September 10th birthday
“I am asking you what homework. Do you want to give me what I need to think about? To help you, help your minds help your person be and take care of yourselves, Number one, even as you may leave in a chaotic world around us you want to have for me to think about.” - Doctor Roberts
“Convince our higher ups to have 20 minutes naps.” - September 10th birthday
[laughter]
“The problem is not having it. They won't wake up after their 20 minutes.” - the Latinx lady
“How to prevent the new generation, they're stopping their engine to shut down with the Red Bulls. Our generation, when they have a lot of works or they are whelming, they're drinking a Red Bull, you know. So they boosted their energy with Red Bull. So how we can stop those heavens. red. Energy rain.” - the Afghani man
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