June 14, 2026
EP 056 Why Your Brain Sabotages Success | Productivity Habits Neuroscience Decoded
Your brain runs a prediction machine that locks you into failure before you even try. In this episode, Tracy breaks down neuroscience research from Wendy Suzuki and Eric Kandel to reveal how basal ganglia habit loops keep you trapped in default patterns—and the exact neurological switch points where you can interrupt this script. Discover the productivity habits and mindset shifts that rewire your success blueprint. https://YourSuccessDNA.com Tracy breaks down the real neuroscience behind why personal development feels so hard — and why that difficulty has nothing to do with your discipline, your motivation, or your character. Drawing on peer-reviewed research from NYU neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki, Nobel laureate Eric Kandel, and psychiatrist Norman Doidge, Ace reveals how your brain's built-in prediction machine keeps you locked in the default version of yourself — and the precise biological mechanism that makes lasting change not just possible, but inevitable. From the basal ganglia's habit loops to CREB protein activation, dopamine as a learning signal, and the power of the five-second choice point, this episode delivers a science-backed roadmap for becoming the person your future requires.
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The neuroscience of personal development
says that you have already failed today.
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Not metaphorically, literally.
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Your brain has already
rejected the version of you
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that you're trying to become.
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It happened this morning.
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It happened this afternoon.
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It happened yesterday evening.
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It's probably even happening right
now while you're listening to me.
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Personal development, my
friends, is not about emotion.
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It's about biology.
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It's about what actually happens in your
brain when you try to change your life.
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Today, we're gonna be breaking down the
neuroscience behind self-improvement,
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giving you the ultimate science-backed
guide to unlocking your mind.
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Your Success DNA Podcast.
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Your success-
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What is up, what is up, what the hell
is up, my fellow success seekers?
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Welcome back to another episode
of Your Success DNA, the podcast
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for my aspiring entrepreneurs, my
nine-to-five escapees, and you know what?
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It's really for anyone who wants to
level up their game in any part of
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their life because each episode delivers
mindset shifts, habit upgrades, all
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mixed with a little dose of rebellion so
that you can break free from convention
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to not just build a, a relationship
or a business, but ultimately a life
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aligned with your version of success.
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And if you know someone who dreams of
ditching the grind and wants to level
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themselves up and keeps making time
for some personal development and some
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self-help there, go ahead and forward
this episode to them, would you?
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Okay, so let's go ahead and get stuck
right in 'cause here's what no one is
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telling you about rewiring your brain.
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The person you want to be is
not waiting for you at some
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far-off distant finish line.
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That person, I'm afraid to
tell you, doesn't exist.
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But the neural pathways that could create
them, yeah, they're being carved out
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in your head right this very minute,
in this very moment, but not through
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motivation, not through discipline,
through something far more precise and,
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at the same time, far more fragile.
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Most people think personal development
is a willpower problem, that you have
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to wake up earlier, that you have to
read more, that you want to build a
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business, so you white-knuckle it out.
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You download an app.
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You set the alarm for 5:00 AM.
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And for 17 days, or maybe a
few more, a few less, it works.
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Then your brain, that same three pounds of
tissue that's kept our species alive for
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200,000 years, decides to make a decision.
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It decides that the old you is much
safer, and it begins to fight back.
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Neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki spent
years studying why this happens.
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Her research at NYU focuses
specifically on the hippocampus.
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That's the brain's memory and
learning center, and what she found,
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I think, is a little unsettling.
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Your brain is not lazy.
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It's just conservative.
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I'm sorry.
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Stick with me here.
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It's running on a prediction machine
that has been trained by every single
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day that you have lived to this
point, even up to a few minutes ago.
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When you try to change, you're not
just fighting those bad habits.
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You are fighting your own neurology.
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You're asking your brain to accept
more risk, more energy expenditure, and
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more uncertainty, all for a payoff that
won't come for months, maybe even years.
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Your primitive brain sees that trade
and says, "Nope, not gonna do it."
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And here's, here's where I think
it gets a little bit interesting.
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There's a window, a specific moment when
your brain is almost plastic, right?
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When the old pathways are weak enough to
rewire and the new ones are strong enough
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to start to take hold, and you've probably
been missing that moment your entire life.
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The process starts with something
called pattern recognition.
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Your brain is constantly
running prediction models.
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It sees a trigger, could be a time
of day, a location, an emotion,
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a smell, and it automatically
pulls up That default response.
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The default you.
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Yeah, you know the one I'm talking about.
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Some of you are going, "Yeah, you're
right, Tracy, I know." I had a family
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member way back when whose father
passed away, and there was this
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amazing array of lilies at his funeral.
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To this day, he cannot
stand the smell of lilies.
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That was his default you.
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You sit down at your desk, and your brain
might say something like, "Distracted
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scrolling." You walk into a meeting,
and your brain could say something
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like, "People pleaser energy." You
lie in bed, and your brain says, "Five
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more minutes." Those aren't choices.
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They're predictions running on
autopilot, and the engine running that
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autopilot, that is your basal ganglia.
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Yeah, that's that cluster of structures
deep in your brain that encodes habitual
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behavior into near automatic loops.
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The neural pathways for these
behaviors are thick, and they're
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well-insulated by myelin.
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Yeah, a fatty sheath that wraps around
frequently fired neurons, making them
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faster and making them more efficient.
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They fire fast because they
have fired a thousand times
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downrange that specific target.
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Now, most development
coaches will tell you to just
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re-replace the behavior, right?
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Old habit out, new habit in.
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We've all heard it.
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Go ahead and raise your hand and nod yes.
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I totally get you.
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But they're skipping a crucial step.
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Before you can wire in a new pattern,
you have to destabilize the old one,
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and you do that by making automatic
conscious, by catching yourself
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in the middle of a prediction,
catching yourself mid-prediction.
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Here's the mechanism I'm talking about.
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Every time you notice yourself about to
run that default pattern, right before
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you reach for the phone or right before
you self-sabotage or right before you
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choose safety over growth, that moment
of awareness is a micro-disruption.
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Your brain has been forced
out of autopilot mode.
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Now it has a choice.
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The choice point?
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That's where your rewiring actually
begins, not the struggle to change, not
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in the decisions you made yesterday.
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In the stillness of noticing.
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This is exactly why mindfulness meditation
works as a cognitive tool, not because
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it's relaxing, but because it trains the
brain to catch itself mid-prediction.
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Regular meditation practices literally
thicken the prefrontal cortex, the
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region responsible for deliberate
decision-making, giving you more
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leverage against the ba-basal ganglia's
automatic pull into the habit, right?
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The moment of deliberate observation
is not laziness, ladies and gentlemen.
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I don't care who tells you this.
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It's actually neuroscience.
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And this is where most people
are gonna get it wrong.
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They think rewiring means forcing
yourself to do the opposite thing.
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Run when you want to rest.
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Speak up when you want to hide.
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But that's still autopilot.
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It's just flipping the car into reverse.
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Real rewiring requires A pause, a
moment of deliberate observation.
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Again, that is not laziness,
that's neuroscience.
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Psychiatrist Norm- Norman Doidge
documented cases where stroke patients
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completely rewired their brains,
regaining speech, regaining movement,
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regaining s- sensation, by practicing
new neural pathways with obsessive
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attention and tiny little repetitions.
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Not in weeks, not in months, over years.
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But here's what's remarkable about this.
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The rewiring only stuck when
there was a genuine uncertainty
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in their nervous system.
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When the old pathway was broken and the
new one hadn't quite solidified yet.
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You could actually see on the brain
imaging where the function migrated.
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The old area went dark and the
new area began to light up.
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You could say you're in
that state right now.
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Most of you.
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You feel it.
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The old path, you know, the, the career
that doesn't fit, the relationship
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patterns that tend to repeat, the
identity that used to work for you.
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That path is crumbling.
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It's unstable, right?
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It's a, it's a rocky road and
you're almost gonna roll your
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ankle at times as you step forward.
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And your nervous system
is in genuine uncertainty.
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Maybe even you're terrified.
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But that terror is also opportunity.
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Your brain is plastic right now in
ways that it has not been in years.
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You're not stuck, you're between.
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And here's where the
trap kind of gets set.
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In that between space, most
people do one of two things.
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They either panic and sprint back
to the old familiar path, right?
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The familiar trodden path
that we've all traveled.
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I get it.
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I know it.
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I know where I'm going.
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I can see my footsteps.
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It's all good.
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Or they thrash around crazy like a
fish out of water, trying the 17th new
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thing, and they try them all at once,
never giving any single rewiring enough
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repetition to actually take hold.
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Both approaches fail because they
misunderstand the actual mechanism.
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Nobel laureate Eric Kandel spent
decades uncovering how the brain
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actually codes new skills and
memories at a molecular level.
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Now, I'm not gonna give you
all the, the molecular details,
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but let me share this with you.
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What he found is that every time you
repeat a new behavior with focused
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attention, a protein called CREB
gets activated inside your neurons.
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The CREB is the messenger that
actually triggers the growth of new
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synaptic connections, and it's the
foundation of what neuroscientists
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call long-term potentiation, or LTP.
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That is the process by which repeated
activation of a neural pathway
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literally strengthens over time.
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But, and this is crucial, CREB
only activates when there's a
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spontaneous challenge and attention.
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Mindless repetition?
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Yeah, that's not gonna work.
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Forced repetition?
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Nope, that's not gonna work either.
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The brain has to be engaged in that micro
decision of whether or not to continue.
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Dopamine?
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Well, dopamine also plays
a crucial role here, too.
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It's not just the reward chemical,
it's the brain's learning signal.
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Every time you make a choice that
deviates from the default pattern,
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and it doesn't kill you, dopamine
reinforces that new pathway.
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It tells your nervous system, "This was
worth the energy you spent on doing it,
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so do it again." That's not motivation.
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That's synaptic plasticity in real time.
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Might explain why we keep doing
that doom scrolling, right?
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Okay.
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Go ahead and nod.
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I get it.
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Okay.
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We all been there.
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This is why meditation works for
some people and not others, why one
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person's morning routine transforms
their life, and for another person, it
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just becomes another form of anxiety.
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The magic ingredient is
not in the routine itself.
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Please stop asking everybody
about their morning routine.
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It's whether your brain is
generally uncertain about it
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Whether you're choosing it in
real time or whether it's become
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yet another autopilot program.
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Here, let me give you a practical
application of this principle.
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Uh, the Pomodoro Technique, which we
talked about a couple of episodes back.
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If I remember, I'll go ahead and
drop a link to that down in the show
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notes, so you can just click over and
listen to it when you're done here.
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The Pomodoro Technique, working
in focused 25-minute intervals
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separated by short breaks.
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It's not a productivity hack.
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It's a deliberate attention
training protocol.
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Each interval forces your prefrontal
cortex to re-engage with the task
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rather than letting your basal ganglia
drift off into distraction autopilot.
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Every session is a micro
repetition of focused choice.
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Stack enough of them together and
you're not just getting work done,
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you're literally reconstructing
how your brain allocates attention.
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Maybe you want to rewire for success,
and maybe you want to become a
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version of yourself that's three years
ahead of where you are right now.
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But most people are trying to
grow in the same direction their
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nervous system is already wired.
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Same industry, same social circle,
same feedback loops, same identity.
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That, my friend, is not rewiring.
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That's just upgrading,
and upgrades have limits.
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Real rewiring means introducing
information that contradicts your current
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model of who you are, of yourself.
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It means getting feedback from contexts
where your old identity does not work.
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It means repeatedly exposing yourself
to situations where your old predictions
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that your mind is creating fail.
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And it's, you don't do
this to shame yourself.
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You do this to genuinely
confuse your prediction machine.
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And in that confusion,
the plasticity happens.
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And here's the part I think for some
of you is gonna be hard to hear.
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But you know me, I'm not pulling
any punches around here, right?
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This is that dose of rebellion.
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Most people will not do this.
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There it is, plain and simple.
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They just won't.
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Why?
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Because it's uncomfortable.
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It's not motivational.
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It requires vulnerability,
and it requires being wrong.
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And a lot of people just
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It requires being incompetent in public.
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We can all be incompetent in private
Being incompetent in public, that's
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a different level of uncomfortable.
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And your nervous system, you know,
the one that's trying to keep
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you safe, your nervous system is
gonna wage war against all that.
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You'll feel unmotivated.
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You'll feel like you're
regressing, and you'll feel like
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this reproach is not working.
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It is working, but you can't
see it because the rewiring
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happens in the invisible space
between stimulus and response.
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And in the moment you notice the
automatic thought and didn't act, in
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the conversation where you say something
you've never said before and yours nervous
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system did not collapse, in that small
failure where you realized you survived.
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And here's the paradox I think that's
gonna break most of you listeners and
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most of your friends out there The moment
you stop measuring progress, the moment
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you stop waiting for reward, that you
stop checking to see if you're successful
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yet, or you stop comparing yourself to
people you expected to be by now, that, my
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friends, is when the rewiring accelerates
because you stopped asking your nervous
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system to predict whether it's worth your
time and energy, and you just started
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doing it over and over and over again
until one day it's not a choice anymore.
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It's not a prediction.
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It's who you are.
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But, yeah, you knew
this was coming, right?
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There's a cost to this because the
person you become isn't always the
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person you thought you wanted to be.
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Sometimes rewiring yourself for success
in your career means becoming someone your
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friends don't recognize anymore, someone
they don't want to hang out with maybe.
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Sometimes it means making choices
that look selfish from the outside.
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Sometimes it means being
willing to disappoint people who
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were invested in the old you.
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Sometimes it means building something
alone because everyone you know
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is still living in the version
of the world that you're leaving
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behind or that you left behind.
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You know this already.
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Some of you are going, "Yeah, it's,
it's true." Somewhere in your body, you
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know that becoming successful, he says
with air quotes, whatever that means to
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you, requires becoming someone slightly
different than you are right now.
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Maybe even radically different,
and you're terrified, not just
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of failure, but of success.
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Because success rewires you.
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It changes your nervous system.
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It introduces you to new problems,
new fears, new versions of yourself
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that cr- contradict who you used to
be or maybe who you are right now.
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Look, the brain science is clear.
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Rewiring is possible.
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Neuroplasticity is real.
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But it's not a journey toward yourself.
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It's a journey away from your current
self, and the cost of getting there is
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the person you were or you are right now.
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The gap between who you are and who you
want to become, that's not distance.
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That's death, and it's
the death of who you were.
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Look- If this episode is hitting
you somewhere real, and if you're
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feeling that gap between who you
are and who you're supposed to
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become, I, I, I wanna give you more.
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Every single week, I send out the
Unleash Your Success DNA newsletter,
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and it's built for exactly the
person you are right now and helping
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you become who you want to be.
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Aspiring entrepreneurs, nine-to-five
escapees, whatever it is you wanna become.
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People who are done with the default
life and ready to rewire from the inside.
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Each issue delivers more mindset shifts
and habit upgrades and doses of rebellion,
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all designed to help you break free s-
from convention so that you can build a
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life aligned with your version of success.
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Look, you don't need more m- motivation.
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No, you need a map, and that's what
this newsletter is designed to be.
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Head on over to yoursuccessdna.com
and subscribe right now.
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It's free, it's sharp, and it might be
the most important thing you do today.
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Not because I said so, but
because the version of who you
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wanna be in three years, that
person is gonna start somewhere.
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Let this be your somewhere.
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Yoursuccessdna.com, go get it now.
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Okay, now, let's, let's zoom
out for a second, shall we?
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Because what we've been talking
about today isn't just neuroscience.
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It's not just a productivity framework
or some woo-woo self-help concept.
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What we've been talking about
is a fundamental architecture
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of your human transformation, of
human transformation in general.
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But here's the bigger picture.
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Every civilization, every movement,
every revolution in history has
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all been built on one thing: people
who were willing to become someone
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their environment did not recognize.
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The Wright brothers,
they weren't inventors.
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They were people whose nervous systems had
been wired to believe flight was possible
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when the entire world's prediction
machine said, "Nope, it's not possible."
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Every founder who built something
from nothing, every person who
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walked away from a comfortable lie
to chase an uncomfortable truth,
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they weren't more motivated than you.
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They weren't more talented than you.
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They weren't more anything than you.
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They were just further along
in their rewiring process.
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So here's what this means for you
right now in this moment of your life.
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That restlessness you feel,
that's not a character flaw.
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That n- that's, that, my friend,
is neuroplasticity knocking
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at the door in your head.
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Your⦠I- it's your brain.
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It, it's signaling that the old
model of you no longer fits the
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life you've been called towards.
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Whoever's calling it to you, Allah,
Buddha, God, whoever you believe in,
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the discomfort you feel when you think
about making that leap, that leap could
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be starting a business or leaving a
job or starting a new relationship.
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Ultimately, it's all
about betting on yourself.
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That is not fear of failure.
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That's the friction between the
two neural identities competing
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inside the same nervous system.
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It's the old you and the
emerging you fighting for
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control of the steering wheel.
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Look, my friends, you're not broken.
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You're between, and between is
exactly where transformation lives.
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The paradigm shift here is this.
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Stop treating personal development
like a self-improvement project.
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It's not about adding skills
to the person you already are.
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It's about becoming someone new
enough that the old problems,
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they just don't apply anymore.
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That's not a motivational line.
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That's a literal mechanism
of neurological change.
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The entrepreneurs, the founders,
the freedom builders who actually
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make it, they don't succeed because
they found the right strategy.
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They succeed because they became
the kind of person for whom
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that strategy was inevitable.
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The rewiring came first.
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The results followed after.
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That's the game, and now you
know how it's actually played.
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So all that said, here's your
whiskered wisdom for today.
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The brain doesn't change
through intention.
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It changes through interruption.
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You can read every single book that's
ever been published on neuroplasticity.
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You can journal about the
person you want to become.
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You can vision board your future
self onto every wall of your home,
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and none of it will rewire a single
neuron in your head until you interrupt
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the automatic pattern in real time
Here's your one action for today.
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Not tomorrow, not after you finish your
coffee, right after this episode ends.
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I want you to identify one automatic
behavior, one default pattern
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that you run on autopilot that
belongs to the old version of you.
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Maybe it's reaching for your phone
the moment you start feeling bored.
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Maybe it's shrinking back in a
conversation when you actually
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have something worth saying.
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Maybe it's saying yes to things
that drain you because saying no
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just feels too damn dangerous.
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Pick one, j- just one, and write
down⦠Literally, go ahead, grab
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your phone, open up your notes app,
grab your journal, grab your pen,
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and write, "My pattern is," blank.
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Whatever, you fill in the blank.
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"The next time I feel the trigger, I will
pause for five seconds before I respond."
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That's it.
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Five seconds.
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That, my friends, is
your micro disruption.
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That is your pivot point,
your choice point, as it were.
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That is where the rewiring begins.
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You don't need a new morning routine.
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You don't need a new productivity system.
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You don't need some $1900 course.
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You need one moment of conscious
interruption repeated enough times
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that your brain starts to build a
new prediction model, and that moment
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starts the second this episode ends.
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The gap between who you are and
who you're becoming, it closes
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one five-second pause at a time.
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Okay, so here's what we covered today.
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Your brain isn't your enemy.
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It's just conservative.
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It's running predictions based on the
person you used to be, and the only way to
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change those predictions is to interrupt
them consciously, repeatedly, with
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focused attention and genuine uncertainty.
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Neuroplasticity is real.
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The window is open, and you, yeah,
you, the person listening to me right
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this very second, the one who's been
sitting in that restless feeling, the
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quiet knowing that there's more for you,
you're exactly in the right place at the
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right time for this rewiring to happen.
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Now you know about it.
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So don't sprint back to the familiar.
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Don't thrash around like a fish out of
water trying to do everything at once.
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Pick your one pattern, make your one
interruption, and trust the process
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that science has already proven works.
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The person you're becoming
doesn't need your belief yet.
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They just need your five
seconds of interruption.
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Look, i- if this episode moved you just
a little bit, go ahead and share it.
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Send it to a person in your life
who's been talking about change
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but hasn't been able to do it yet.
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They might need to hear this,
and honestly, so did you.
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And with that, I'm gonna
leave you as I always do.
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Think successfully and take action.
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The neuroscience of personal development
says that you have already failed today.
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Not metaphorically, literally.
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Your brain has already
rejected the version of you
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that you're trying to become.
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It happened this morning.
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It happened this afternoon.
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It happened yesterday evening.
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It's probably even happening right
now while you're listening to me.
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Personal development, my
friends, is not about emotion.
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It's about biology.
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It's about what actually happens in your
brain when you try to change your life.
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Today, we're gonna be breaking down the
neuroscience behind self-improvement,
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giving you the ultimate science-backed
guide to unlocking your mind.
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Your Success DNA Podcast.
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Your success-
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What is up, what is up, what the hell
is up, my fellow success seekers?
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Welcome back to another episode
of Your Success DNA, the podcast
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for my aspiring entrepreneurs, my
nine-to-five escapees, and you know what?
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It's really for anyone who wants to
level up their game in any part of
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their life because each episode delivers
mindset shifts, habit upgrades, all
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mixed with a little dose of rebellion so
that you can break free from convention
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to not just build a, a relationship
or a business, but ultimately a life
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aligned with your version of success.
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And if you know someone who dreams of
ditching the grind and wants to level
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themselves up and keeps making time
for some personal development and some
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self-help there, go ahead and forward
this episode to them, would you?
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Okay, so let's go ahead and get stuck
right in 'cause here's what no one is
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telling you about rewiring your brain.
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The person you want to be is
not waiting for you at some
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far-off distant finish line.
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That person, I'm afraid to
tell you, doesn't exist.
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But the neural pathways that could create
them, yeah, they're being carved out
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in your head right this very minute,
in this very moment, but not through
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motivation, not through discipline,
through something far more precise and,
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at the same time, far more fragile.
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Most people think personal development
is a willpower problem, that you have
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to wake up earlier, that you have to
read more, that you want to build a
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business, so you white-knuckle it out.
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You download an app.
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You set the alarm for 5:00 AM.
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And for 17 days, or maybe a
few more, a few less, it works.
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Then your brain, that same three pounds of
tissue that's kept our species alive for
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200,000 years, decides to make a decision.
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It decides that the old you is much
safer, and it begins to fight back.
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Neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki spent
years studying why this happens.
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Her research at NYU focuses
specifically on the hippocampus.
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That's the brain's memory and
learning center, and what she found,
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I think, is a little unsettling.
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Your brain is not lazy.
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It's just conservative.
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I'm sorry.
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Stick with me here.
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It's running on a prediction machine
that has been trained by every single
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day that you have lived to this
point, even up to a few minutes ago.
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When you try to change, you're not
just fighting those bad habits.
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You are fighting your own neurology.
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You're asking your brain to accept
more risk, more energy expenditure, and
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more uncertainty, all for a payoff that
won't come for months, maybe even years.
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Your primitive brain sees that trade
and says, "Nope, not gonna do it."
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And here's, here's where I think
it gets a little bit interesting.
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There's a window, a specific moment when
your brain is almost plastic, right?
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When the old pathways are weak enough to
rewire and the new ones are strong enough
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to start to take hold, and you've probably
been missing that moment your entire life.
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The process starts with something
called pattern recognition.
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Your brain is constantly
running prediction models.
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It sees a trigger, could be a time
of day, a location, an emotion,
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a smell, and it automatically
pulls up That default response.
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The default you.
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Yeah, you know the one I'm talking about.
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Some of you are going, "Yeah, you're
right, Tracy, I know." I had a family
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member way back when whose father
passed away, and there was this
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amazing array of lilies at his funeral.
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To this day, he cannot
stand the smell of lilies.
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That was his default you.
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You sit down at your desk, and your brain
might say something like, "Distracted
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scrolling." You walk into a meeting,
and your brain could say something
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like, "People pleaser energy." You
lie in bed, and your brain says, "Five
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more minutes." Those aren't choices.
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They're predictions running on
autopilot, and the engine running that
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autopilot, that is your basal ganglia.
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Yeah, that's that cluster of structures
deep in your brain that encodes habitual
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behavior into near automatic loops.
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The neural pathways for these
behaviors are thick, and they're
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well-insulated by myelin.
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Yeah, a fatty sheath that wraps around
frequently fired neurons, making them
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faster and making them more efficient.
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They fire fast because they
have fired a thousand times
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downrange that specific target.
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Now, most development
coaches will tell you to just
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re-replace the behavior, right?
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Old habit out, new habit in.
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We've all heard it.
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Go ahead and raise your hand and nod yes.
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I totally get you.
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But they're skipping a crucial step.
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Before you can wire in a new pattern,
you have to destabilize the old one,
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and you do that by making automatic
conscious, by catching yourself
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in the middle of a prediction,
catching yourself mid-prediction.
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Here's the mechanism I'm talking about.
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Every time you notice yourself about to
run that default pattern, right before
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you reach for the phone or right before
you self-sabotage or right before you
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choose safety over growth, that moment
of awareness is a micro-disruption.
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Your brain has been forced
out of autopilot mode.
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Now it has a choice.
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The choice point?
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That's where your rewiring actually
begins, not the struggle to change, not
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in the decisions you made yesterday.
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In the stillness of noticing.
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This is exactly why mindfulness meditation
works as a cognitive tool, not because
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it's relaxing, but because it trains the
brain to catch itself mid-prediction.
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Regular meditation practices literally
thicken the prefrontal cortex, the
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region responsible for deliberate
decision-making, giving you more
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leverage against the ba-basal ganglia's
automatic pull into the habit, right?
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The moment of deliberate observation
is not laziness, ladies and gentlemen.
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I don't care who tells you this.
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It's actually neuroscience.
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And this is where most people
are gonna get it wrong.
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They think rewiring means forcing
yourself to do the opposite thing.
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Run when you want to rest.
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Speak up when you want to hide.
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But that's still autopilot.
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It's just flipping the car into reverse.
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Real rewiring requires A pause, a
moment of deliberate observation.
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Again, that is not laziness,
that's neuroscience.
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Psychiatrist Norm- Norman Doidge
documented cases where stroke patients
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completely rewired their brains,
regaining speech, regaining movement,
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regaining s- sensation, by practicing
new neural pathways with obsessive
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attention and tiny little repetitions.
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Not in weeks, not in months, over years.
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But here's what's remarkable about this.
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The rewiring only stuck when
there was a genuine uncertainty
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in their nervous system.
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When the old pathway was broken and the
new one hadn't quite solidified yet.
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You could actually see on the brain
imaging where the function migrated.
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The old area went dark and the
new area began to light up.
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You could say you're in
that state right now.
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Most of you.
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You feel it.
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The old path, you know, the, the career
that doesn't fit, the relationship
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patterns that tend to repeat, the
identity that used to work for you.
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That path is crumbling.
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It's unstable, right?
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It's a, it's a rocky road and
you're almost gonna roll your
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ankle at times as you step forward.
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And your nervous system
is in genuine uncertainty.
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Maybe even you're terrified.
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But that terror is also opportunity.
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Your brain is plastic right now in
ways that it has not been in years.
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You're not stuck, you're between.
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And here's where the
trap kind of gets set.
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In that between space, most
people do one of two things.
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They either panic and sprint back
to the old familiar path, right?
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The familiar trodden path
that we've all traveled.
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I get it.
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I know it.
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I know where I'm going.
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I can see my footsteps.
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It's all good.
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Or they thrash around crazy like a
fish out of water, trying the 17th new
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thing, and they try them all at once,
never giving any single rewiring enough
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repetition to actually take hold.
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Both approaches fail because they
misunderstand the actual mechanism.
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Nobel laureate Eric Kandel spent
decades uncovering how the brain
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actually codes new skills and
memories at a molecular level.
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Now, I'm not gonna give you
all the, the molecular details,
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but let me share this with you.
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What he found is that every time you
repeat a new behavior with focused
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attention, a protein called CREB
gets activated inside your neurons.
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The CREB is the messenger that
actually triggers the growth of new
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synaptic connections, and it's the
foundation of what neuroscientists
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call long-term potentiation, or LTP.
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That is the process by which repeated
activation of a neural pathway
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literally strengthens over time.
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But, and this is crucial, CREB
only activates when there's a
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spontaneous challenge and attention.
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Mindless repetition?
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Yeah, that's not gonna work.
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Forced repetition?
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Nope, that's not gonna work either.
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The brain has to be engaged in that micro
decision of whether or not to continue.
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Dopamine?
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Well, dopamine also plays
a crucial role here, too.
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It's not just the reward chemical,
it's the brain's learning signal.
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Every time you make a choice that
deviates from the default pattern,
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and it doesn't kill you, dopamine
reinforces that new pathway.
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It tells your nervous system, "This was
worth the energy you spent on doing it,
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so do it again." That's not motivation.
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That's synaptic plasticity in real time.
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Might explain why we keep doing
that doom scrolling, right?
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Go ahead and nod.
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I get it.
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We all been there.
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This is why meditation works for
some people and not others, why one
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person's morning routine transforms
their life, and for another person, it
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just becomes another form of anxiety.
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The magic ingredient is
not in the routine itself.
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Please stop asking everybody
about their morning routine.
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It's whether your brain is
generally uncertain about it
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Whether you're choosing it in
real time or whether it's become
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yet another autopilot program.
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Here, let me give you a practical
application of this principle.
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Uh, the Pomodoro Technique, which we
talked about a couple of episodes back.
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If I remember, I'll go ahead and
drop a link to that down in the show
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notes, so you can just click over and
listen to it when you're done here.
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The Pomodoro Technique, working
in focused 25-minute intervals
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separated by short breaks.
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It's not a productivity hack.
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It's a deliberate attention
training protocol.
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Each interval forces your prefrontal
cortex to re-engage with the task
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rather than letting your basal ganglia
drift off into distraction autopilot.
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Every session is a micro
repetition of focused choice.
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Stack enough of them together and
you're not just getting work done,
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you're literally reconstructing
how your brain allocates attention.
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Maybe you want to rewire for success,
and maybe you want to become a
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version of yourself that's three years
ahead of where you are right now.
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But most people are trying to
grow in the same direction their
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nervous system is already wired.
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Same industry, same social circle,
same feedback loops, same identity.
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That, my friend, is not rewiring.
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That's just upgrading,
and upgrades have limits.
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Real rewiring means introducing
information that contradicts your current
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model of who you are, of yourself.
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It means getting feedback from contexts
where your old identity does not work.
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It means repeatedly exposing yourself
to situations where your old predictions
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that your mind is creating fail.
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And it's, you don't do
this to shame yourself.
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You do this to genuinely
confuse your prediction machine.
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And in that confusion,
the plasticity happens.
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And here's the part I think for some
of you is gonna be hard to hear.
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But you know me, I'm not pulling
any punches around here, right?
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This is that dose of rebellion.
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Most people will not do this.
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There it is, plain and simple.
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They just won't.
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Why?
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Because it's uncomfortable.
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It's not motivational.
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It requires vulnerability,
and it requires being wrong.
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And a lot of people just
can't handle being wrong.
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It requires being incompetent in public.
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We can all be incompetent in private
Being incompetent in public, that's
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a different level of uncomfortable.
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And your nervous system, you know,
the one that's trying to keep
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you safe, your nervous system is
gonna wage war against all that.
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You'll feel unmotivated.
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You'll feel like you're
regressing, and you'll feel like
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this reproach is not working.
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It is working, but you can't
see it because the rewiring
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happens in the invisible space
between stimulus and response.
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And in the moment you notice the
automatic thought and didn't act, in
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the conversation where you say something
you've never said before and yours nervous
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system did not collapse, in that small
failure where you realized you survived.
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And here's the paradox I think that's
gonna break most of you listeners and
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most of your friends out there The moment
you stop measuring progress, the moment
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you stop waiting for reward, that you
stop checking to see if you're successful
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yet, or you stop comparing yourself to
people you expected to be by now, that, my
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friends, is when the rewiring accelerates
because you stopped asking your nervous
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system to predict whether it's worth your
time and energy, and you just started
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doing it over and over and over again
until one day it's not a choice anymore.
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It's not a prediction.
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It's who you are.
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But, yeah, you knew
this was coming, right?
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There's a cost to this because the
person you become isn't always the
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person you thought you wanted to be.
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Sometimes rewiring yourself for success
in your career means becoming someone your
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friends don't recognize anymore, someone
they don't want to hang out with maybe.
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Sometimes it means making choices
that look selfish from the outside.
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Sometimes it means being
willing to disappoint people who
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were invested in the old you.
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Sometimes it means building something
alone because everyone you know
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is still living in the version
of the world that you're leaving
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behind or that you left behind.
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You know this already.
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Some of you are going, "Yeah, it's,
it's true." Somewhere in your body, you
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know that becoming successful, he says
with air quotes, whatever that means to
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you, requires becoming someone slightly
different than you are right now.
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Maybe even radically different,
and you're terrified, not just
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of failure, but of success.
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Because success rewires you.
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It changes your nervous system.
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It introduces you to new problems,
new fears, new versions of yourself
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that cr- contradict who you used to
be or maybe who you are right now.
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Look, the brain science is clear.
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Rewiring is possible.
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Neuroplasticity is real.
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But it's not a journey toward yourself.
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It's a journey away from your current
self, and the cost of getting there is
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the person you were or you are right now.
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The gap between who you are and who you
want to become, that's not distance.
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That's death, and it's
the death of who you were.
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Look- If this episode is hitting
you somewhere real, and if you're
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feeling that gap between who you
are and who you're supposed to
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become, I, I, I wanna give you more.
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Every single week, I send out the
Unleash Your Success DNA newsletter,
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and it's built for exactly the
person you are right now and helping
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you become who you want to be.
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Aspiring entrepreneurs, nine-to-five
escapees, whatever it is you wanna become.
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People who are done with the default
life and ready to rewire from the inside.
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Each issue delivers more mindset shifts
and habit upgrades and doses of rebellion,
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all designed to help you break free s-
from convention so that you can build a
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life aligned with your version of success.
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Look, you don't need more m- motivation.
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No, you need a map, and that's what
this newsletter is designed to be.
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Head on over to yoursuccessdna.com
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It's free, it's sharp, and it might be
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Not because I said so, but
because the version of who you
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wanna be in three years, that
person is gonna start somewhere.
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Let this be your somewhere.
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Yoursuccessdna.com, go get it now.
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Okay, now, let's, let's zoom
out for a second, shall we?
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Because what we've been talking
about today isn't just neuroscience.
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It's not just a productivity framework
or some woo-woo self-help concept.
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What we've been talking about
is a fundamental architecture
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of your human transformation, of
human transformation in general.
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But here's the bigger picture.
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Every civilization, every movement,
every revolution in history has
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all been built on one thing: people
who were willing to become someone
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their environment did not recognize.
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The Wright brothers,
they weren't inventors.
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They were people whose nervous systems had
been wired to believe flight was possible
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when the entire world's prediction
machine said, "Nope, it's not possible."
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Every founder who built something
from nothing, every person who
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walked away from a comfortable lie
to chase an uncomfortable truth,
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they weren't more motivated than you.
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They weren't more talented than you.
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They weren't more anything than you.
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They were just further along
in their rewiring process.
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So here's what this means for you
right now in this moment of your life.
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That restlessness you feel,
that's not a character flaw.
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That n- that's, that, my friend,
is neuroplasticity knocking
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at the door in your head.
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Your⦠I- it's your brain.
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It, it's signaling that the old
model of you no longer fits the
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life you've been called towards.
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Whoever's calling it to you, Allah,
Buddha, God, whoever you believe in,
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the discomfort you feel when you think
about making that leap, that leap could
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be starting a business or leaving a
job or starting a new relationship.
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Ultimately, it's all
about betting on yourself.
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That is not fear of failure.
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That's the friction between the
two neural identities competing
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inside the same nervous system.
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It's the old you and the
emerging you fighting for
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control of the steering wheel.
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Look, my friends, you're not broken.
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You're between, and between is
exactly where transformation lives.
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The paradigm shift here is this.
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Stop treating personal development
like a self-improvement project.
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It's not about adding skills
to the person you already are.
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It's about becoming someone new
enough that the old problems,
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they just don't apply anymore.
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That's not a motivational line.
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That's a literal mechanism
of neurological change.
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The entrepreneurs, the founders,
the freedom builders who actually
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make it, they don't succeed because
they found the right strategy.
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They succeed because they became
the kind of person for whom
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that strategy was inevitable.
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The rewiring came first.
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The results followed after.
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That's the game, and now you
know how it's actually played.
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So all that said, here's your
whiskered wisdom for today.
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The brain doesn't change
through intention.
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It changes through interruption.
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You can read every single book that's
ever been published on neuroplasticity.
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You can journal about the
person you want to become.
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You can vision board your future
self onto every wall of your home,
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and none of it will rewire a single
neuron in your head until you interrupt
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the automatic pattern in real time
Here's your one action for today.
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Not tomorrow, not after you finish your
coffee, right after this episode ends.
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I want you to identify one automatic
behavior, one default pattern
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that you run on autopilot that
belongs to the old version of you.
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Maybe it's reaching for your phone
the moment you start feeling bored.
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Maybe it's shrinking back in a
conversation when you actually
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have something worth saying.
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Maybe it's saying yes to things
that drain you because saying no
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just feels too damn dangerous.
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Pick one, j- just one, and write
down⦠Literally, go ahead, grab
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your phone, open up your notes app,
grab your journal, grab your pen,
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and write, "My pattern is," blank.
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Whatever, you fill in the blank.
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"The next time I feel the trigger, I will
pause for five seconds before I respond."
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That's it.
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Five seconds.
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That, my friends, is
your micro disruption.
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That is your pivot point,
your choice point, as it were.
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That is where the rewiring begins.
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You don't need a new morning routine.
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You don't need a new productivity system.
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You don't need some $1900 course.
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You need one moment of conscious
interruption repeated enough times
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that your brain starts to build a
new prediction model, and that moment
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starts the second this episode ends.
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The gap between who you are and
who you're becoming, it closes
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one five-second pause at a time.
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Okay, so here's what we covered today.
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Your brain isn't your enemy.
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It's just conservative.
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It's running predictions based on the
person you used to be, and the only way to
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change those predictions is to interrupt
them consciously, repeatedly, with
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focused attention and genuine uncertainty.
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Neuroplasticity is real.
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The window is open, and you, yeah,
you, the person listening to me right
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this very second, the one who's been
sitting in that restless feeling, the
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quiet knowing that there's more for you,
you're exactly in the right place at the
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right time for this rewiring to happen.
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Now you know about it.
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So don't sprint back to the familiar.
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Don't thrash around like a fish out of
water trying to do everything at once.
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Pick your one pattern, make your one
interruption, and trust the process
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that science has already proven works.
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The person you're becoming
doesn't need your belief yet.
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They just need your five
seconds of interruption.
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Look, i- if this episode moved you just
a little bit, go ahead and share it.
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Send it to a person in your life
who's been talking about change
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but hasn't been able to do it yet.
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They might need to hear this,
and honestly, so did you.
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And with that, I'm gonna
leave you as I always do.
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Think successfully and take action.
