Hello and welcome to the new mindset hootis podcast. My name is Case Kenney at case.kens.k on

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you become the person you're meant to be, leave your comfort zone and live a purposeful and

fulfilling life. Let's go.

Thank you. live a purposeful and fulfilling life. Let's go. All right. Welcome to episode 779. Hello, my friend. Welcome to a fresh new episode of new mindset who this. As always, thank you so much for listening. Thank you for supporting me. And today, I know I just did an episode on words and language,

but I want to do another one because not only does this topic absolutely fascinate me,

but it really has genuinely changed my life. Changing my internal and external vocabulary has changed my

life. And it's the coolest thing because it's not just me saying it. This is backed by a lot of

great research that really, I think, can add some science to the heart of this thing that can't

change your mind and your life.

The idea, words are spells truly.

And, you know, I do a lot of these keynotes all across the U.S.

called the Language of Optimism, where I basically teach these things in a live session.

And I found a lot of common patterns amongst how people speak to themselves,

particularly within the context of

how do we speak to ourselves when we're trying to amp ourselves up to do something, to do something

big, bold, courageous, to do something that we don't want to do, but we know we need to do it.

How do we do that? Well, I have found, and the research supports this in such a cool way,

that the most powerful thing you can say to yourself before making a big, bold move, it isn't an

affirmation. It's a question. And this is probably the opposite of what we think. Most of us

don't amp ourselves up to take audacious

action in the right way. And it's not because we're not believing in ourselves. It's not because

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