You check your phone’s battery a dozen times a day. You’ve probably never once checked your own.
In this clip, David Ko and Jay Shetty talk about the question a friend asked her kids that changed how David thinks about mental health entirely: not "how are you doing", but "how’s your battery?"
David breaks down the four zones between 0 and 100, what to actually say when someone tells you they’re at five, and why he spent years turning to smoking and late-night eating instead of anything that helped. Jay opens up about the dinner he cancelled the night before this conversation, and the stat that 61% of people feel they’re just expected to get over stress.
Learn about the difference between powering through and powering up, why the right amount of stress makes people work better while the wrong amount just makes them work harder, and how being fully present with someone charges you up at the same time it charges them.
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Chapters
0:00 — 72 gigabytes of information every day
0:46 — The question that started the battery idea
2:46 — Why we only ever feel zero or 100
4:08 — The four battery zones, explained
6:40 — Rest makes you feel guilty, recharging doesn’t
7:00 — What your car battery says about you
8:01 — What to say when someone tells you they’re at five
9:42 — Finding the apps that drain you
13:46 — Why most CEOs won’t be vulnerable
15:05 — Stress that makes you work harder vs. better
19:03 — Smoking in the stairwell at Salomon Brothers
22:06 — Why sitting still makes you faster
23:07 — 61% feel expected to just get over it
25:36 — The symptoms nobody could name
34:21 — Sleep, food, people: know your charger
37:00 — The Friday weekly win
41:36 — Three ways to power down
44:14 — The one law he’d give the world
46:55 — "You never asked me how my battery is"
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