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Why Good People Drain You
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You've blamed your mood. You've blamed the wine. You've blamed the long week.
In 1978, an aikido master named George Leonard found the actual reason — and it's older than language.
The Silent Pulse is Leonard's quiet 1978 book about why some people light you up and others drain you, even when they love you, even when nothing on the surface explains it. Drawing on pendulum-clock physics, conversation micro-synchrony research, and Manfred Clynes's discovery that every composer has a measurable "inner pulse," Leonard argued that you carry a signature rhythm — and the people, rooms, and conversations in your life are either locked to it or fighting it. This video walks through the mechanism and ends with a one-week diagnostic you can run on your own life.
Book: The Silent Pulse — George Leonard (1978)
00:00 - The Exhaustion Mystery
01:12 - George Leonard & The Silent Pulse
03:12 - The 1665 Clock Experiment
04:15 - What is Entrainment?
05:50 - Synchronizing Heart Cells
07:51 - William Condon’s Human Dance
09:49 - We are Born Tuned
12:03 - The Inner Pulse of Composers
14:10 - Your Own Unique Rhythm
16:33 - Why "Good People" Drain You
18:23 - The Rhythms of Family & Life
19:29 - Pushing vs. Numbing Your Pulse
21:18 - Mass Entrainment & The Power of Crowds
24:07 - The Energy Cost of Mismatched Pulses
25:55 - A One-Week Diagnostic Challenge
28:07 - Who Tunes You Up?
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