It is astonishing that we do not spend any concentrated daily practice on a mental fitness.

Your mental fitness is a foundational to you optimizing both your well-being and performance and healthy

relationships. One 10-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 brain.

That's Shirezad 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 strengths can turn

into saboteurs. If you'd like a quick summary

write-up of some of these actual takeaways, I recommend you sign up for the free Gold Nugget

email newsletter found at Awesome at Your Job.com. I'm Pete McItis. This is How to Be Awesome at

your job. Now, here's Shurzad.

Shiazad, welcome.

Pleasure to be here.

I've been looking forward to this.

Well, I'm excited to be talking about your body of work with regard to positive intelligence.

Can you tell us, what do you mean by that? And what's a particularly fascinating discovery you've made about us humans as you've

delved into this research? Yeah, what we mean by that is that your mind is very often sabotaging you.

So you spend a lot of your time in self-sabotagement without realizing it. So positive intelligence

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