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Thank you. live a purposeful and fulfilling life. Let's go. All right. Welcome to Episode 785.

Hello, my friend. Welcome to a fresh new episode of New Mindset Who Discs. As always, thank you so much for listening. Thank you for supporting me. And today, I want to talk about another specific word structure that we can use in life to be more optimistic. This is my passion. And the research is so fascinating on this topic. There's so many ways for us to hack our brains and our emotions using simple, simple words. And it's particularly interesting, right?

Because again, when we think about emotions, we usually assume like it's the big idea that

matters most. It's the belief you have. It's the narrative you have. It's the

identity you've adopted. And those, of course, are very important. But we have to remember,

those are built on the back of smaller words. And some of the most fascinating insights from psychology

and behavioral science come from the usage of single words that then shape our beliefs and our narratives and our

identities. And one of the really coolest examples that I've come across recently is from

two psychologists, Ethan Cross, Ariana, or Vell, who explored something so simple, so simple

of what happens when you shift from using the word I to using the

word you when you describe a painful, difficult experience that you went through. And you'll notice this.

You'll see other people doing this. And I think it'll really make you want to try it, right?

You'll notice this pattern pop up. Maybe someone is

talking about a breakup. And they might say something like, well, you know, when you go through

something like that, it really forces you to rethink what you want. Or someone's reflecting on a

failure in their life. They say, well, you know, you realize that sometimes you have to lose

something before you

understand what really matters. Or even someone reflecting on grief or loss, they might say,

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