Yo, today's QOD is you have to feel it rather than think it. Here we go

Welcome back to the Quoted the Day Show. I'm your host Sean Croxton, a

Sean Croxton.com. We got Dr. Srikumar Rao back on the show. It has been way too

long. He's going to talk about two things that are holding lots of influence

over your life. Your mental chatter, what you say to yourself and your mental

models. We talk about this in Money, Monarchatomy, quite a bit. The models that

recreate of the world, the beliefs that we have about the world and what we do is

we run what I call a belief confirmation loop. So you see the world through the

lens of your beliefs and then the world becomes that to kind of prove yourself

right. And then it reinforces the loop. In order to change your world, you have

to change your models. You have to change your beliefs about yourself as well as

the world. Another thing he's going to talk about is the power, the intense power

of gratitude, but only when you really, really feel it. Here's Dr. Rao. So given the

truth that you never have control, you never had it. How can you eliminate stress

and cultivate resilience? Well, I want to share some concepts with you. Concept

number one is mental chatter, which is the internal monologue that you have going

on in your head all the time. It begins when you get up in the morning, is with

you right through the day, is with you now, when you should be listening to my

chatter instead of yours. But in the short time I've been speaking, how many if

you've already gone someplace else? What am I going to have for lunch? Who do I

have to call? Right? I rest my case. Mental chatter has always been with you. It's

like an unwelcome relative who's shown up in your house and you can't throw him

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