1107: How to Confront Your Inner Saboteurs with Shirzad Chamine

It is astonishing that we do not spend any concentrated daily practice on mental fitness. Your mental fitness is foundational to you optimizing both your well-being and performance and healthy relationships. One ten second thing doesn't change your life, but what if you did a lot of it? And what Harvard affiliated neuroscientists have shown is that within eight weeks of practice, you will have rewired your brain so much that in MRI imaging you can see decreased gray matter in the saboteur region of your brain, increased gray matter in the sage region of

the bright. That's Shirzad Shamin. He's the former CEO of the world's largest coaching organization and the man behind the concept of positive intelligence, which is a measure of our ability to shift to positive responses in the face of challenges. He writes more about this in his New York Times best-selling book, Positive Intelligence, why only 20% of teams and individuals achieve their true potential and how you can achieve yours.

So you'll learn one, why we can't think our way out of stress. Two, how to take command of your mind in just 10 seconds. And three, how How strengths can turn into saboteurs. If you'd like a quick summary write-up of some of these actionable takeaways, I recommend you sign up for the free gold nugget email newsletter found at awesomeatyourjob.com.

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