#385: The Power of Neuroplasticity, How to Change Your Thought Patterns, Habits + Beliefs w. Neuroscientist Nicole Vignola
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Mimi Bouchard
4.4 • 953 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Nicole Vignola, a neuroscientist, brain performance coach, and organizational consultant, shares her wealth of knowledge about the remarkable power of the human brain to transform thought patterns, habits, and beliefs. As an expert in neuroplasticity, Nicole challenges the notion of feeling 'stuck' in life, emphasizing the brain’s inherent ability to forge new synaptic connections and reshape pathways. She explores the evolution of mindset, debunking age-related plasticity myths and empowering listeners to harness their brain’s full potential for change. Nicole provides actionable strategies to interrupt ingrained thought patterns, optimize mental states, and cultivate well-being, including practical steps such as hydration, mindful tech use, and specific supplements. Through tangible tips to align thoughts with future goals and insights into improving sleep and managing anxiety, Nicole offers an inspiring conversation that will reshape your perspective on personal-development. Tune into this transformative discussion and feel empowered to embrace the incredible potential of your own mind, stepping into your Future Self's reality with confidence.
Topics:
– Understanding brain plasticity, dispelling misconceptions, and learning how it allows us to create new connections and neural pathways at any point in life.
– How to become your ultimate self by harnessing the limitless potential of the brain’s plasticity.
– Why the concept of changing one’s life isn’t common knowledge and strategies for believing that transformation is possible.
– How to address feeling ‘stuck’ in life and why it is essential to challenge ingrained thought patterns and routines in order to move forward.
– Why it is important to break conditioned habits and biases for personal growth.
– Understanding the central executive and default networks in the brain, managing anxiety, and optimizing mental states for relaxation and productivity.
– Breaking down the influence of technology, dopamine, and phone usage on mental health and quality sleep.
– Nicole’s top wellness strategies for peak performance and well-being.
– How to harness the power of the Reticular Activating System (RAS) to align thoughts with future goals, interrupt negative thought patterns, and incorporate tangible strategies.
– Quick fire round of Nicole’s top brain hacks.
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| 0:00.0 | We're always going to be busy, but it's being able to switch between the two. |
| 0:05.0 | That's where the true sort of performance lies. |
| 0:09.0 | If you're constantly in essential executive network function by problem solving being at work stressing on your phone and then you go home to bed and that's only the time that you switch on the DMN default network all of those kind of thoughts, |
| 0:23.7 | they all come kind of crashing down. |
| 0:26.4 | You can snap that habit and go, |
| 0:27.8 | actually, yes, I can remember, yes, I'm doing something |
| 0:29.8 | really negative right now, but that's okay |
| 0:31.5 | because I can turn it into being positive I have |
| 0:33.1 | the choice. My name's Mimi Bouchard founder of Superhuman the |
| 0:37.2 | transformational app that helps you become your future self so that you can |
| 0:41.5 | finally start attracting more joy, abundance, health, wealth, and love into your life. |
| 0:47.5 | And that's also my mission on this podcast. |
| 0:50.5 | Meet people whose lives have been transformed in big and small ways, but always for the better. |
| 0:57.0 | They tell me how they did it so that you can too. |
| 1:00.0 | Today on the podcast, neuroscientist and performance coach Nicole Vignola on how to change your |
| 1:05.8 | brain so that you can change your life. |
| 1:10.0 | All right, Nicole, I want to start by saying how much I love your message. |
| 1:14.7 | Your work essentially says that you are not stuck in life. |
| 1:19.4 | First of all, how do so many people think they are stuck in life and how is this the program that that so many of us have |
| 1:28.8 | Oh tough question to answer but I think I think I'm starting strong. Yeah I know I love it. I think a lot of people don't realize that the brain is plastic so I don't know I think you know before I started studying neuroscience I think I also had that belief that once you reach a certain |
| 1:44.4 | age you just kind of are the way you are. But you know we gain a lot of knowledge on how |
| 1:49.4 | our parents behave through the world and then you know how our peers behave and sort of the |
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