2270 | Marisa Peer: “Your Mind Does What it Thinks You Want, So Tell it Clearly.”

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Sean Croxton

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🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Marisa Peer reveals the secrets to reprogramming your mind for confidence and success. She explains how the brain responds only to the pictures you make and the words you say — and why you must tell it what you want with clarity.

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0:00.0	Tell your brain what you want. Make the familiar unfamiliar, unfamiliar, the familiar, unfamiliar if it's negative. Change the pictures and words in your head and finally, use these words all the time. I have chosen to do this. I've chosen to feel great about it.
0:41.3	Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host Sean Croxton and Sean Croxton.com. We got Marissa here on the show today. Today she is going to encourage us to work with our brains, to work with our minds.
0:48.8	Like there are specific ingredients that our minds need in order to help us create whatever it is that we want to
0:56.7	create. So you're going to talk about feeding your brain and your mind the right pictures,
1:01.3	the right words, and most importantly, because we tend to forget this one, the right feelings.
1:08.6	Maris the peers coming up. So you've got to tell your brain what you want.
1:14.6	So what happens when you say, oh God, I'm working so hard.
1:19.6	I really want to have a day off.
1:21.6	I'd love a week off lying in bed.
1:23.6	Your brain's like, so this is you.
1:24.6	I've got to work all weekend.
1:26.6	I want a week. I just want some time to myself. Your brain's like, you this is you. I've got to work all weekends, I want a week, I just want some time to
1:28.1	myself. Your brain's like, you want time to yourself. Leave that with me. There you go. I've given
1:33.9	you the flu. How cool is that? Now, no one's coming near you. Because this is not communicating with
1:39.5	your brain. So if you have your own business, you just do a little differently. Okay, I'm working all weekend. It's kind of hard, but hey, I want my own business. I want success. I'm choosing to do this. These two words, I'm choosing to do this. And I'm choosing to feel great about it will change your life. So you go, I'm choosing to do this. I'm choosing to work nights. I want
2:01.5	this. I want to write my book through the night. I feel good and your brain's like, really?
2:05.2	Oh, really. And let me use even more important words. I'm elated writing my book all night.
2:10.8	I'm delighted to spend weekends working. Your brain's like, yeah, I'm getting that with the words.
2:16.3	Nothing for me to do except I can set you on fire.
2:20.5	You're going to write through the night now because you love this stuff.
2:23.6	Your brain doesn't care.
2:25.0	So you've got to be very careful how you communicate with your brain.
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