Episode Details

Can you think positive when your brain is built with a negative bias? Just think positive is the worst advice I ever gave, and I gave it for twenty years.

Information hits three minds. The instinctual one asks if you are about to die. The subconscious one checks what you did last time and repeats it. Only then does the human mind get a look in, and by then the decision is often made. Your subconscious is not being negative on purpose. It is repeating patterns because they kept you alive. It is why the person who takes the threat seriously survives the forest and the one who shrugs does not.

One thing to try: Treat thoughts like trains at a station. You do not have to board every one. It takes about ten refusals before the mind gets it.

In this episode

• (2:57) Two types of electricity, and why that matters here
• (4:07) Fight, flight, freeze, or make a mess of it
• (5:20) Ask me the capital of England and watch the relay
• (6:48) When the subconscious gives up and passes it on
• (9:04) The unique thing in the shop that three people are wearing
• (10:09) Focus on a negative thought and it repeats the pattern
• (11:45) The one with the machete comes before the doughnuts
• (14:13) Thoughts as trains, and choosing not to board
• (15:17) About ten times, like training a puppy

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