You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey.

Today's cool fact of the day affirms the power of affirmations.

A study published in social cognitive and effective neuroscience was able to capture

the effect of affirmations using an MRI machine.

Patients who gave positive self-affirmations had increased activity in different parts of

the prefrontal cortex and in other parts of their brains.

Participants with greater stimulation in those sections of the brain,

which control processing and valuation, had less sedentary behavior afterwards than participants

who didn't have self-affirmations.

In other words, when your self-talk was good, you moved more.

And when your self-talk was bad, you sat on your ass all the time, which is kind of interesting,

but they could see it in the brain.

And that research indicates that future behavior and even your thoughts can be improved just by

affirmations. And all of this goes back to prove that the little engine that could, could because

of neuroscience, right? If you liked that cool fact of the day, you are going to love my new book

Game Changers. One of the people that I learned from and that I mention in Game Changers

is a profoundly interesting and cool and well-known human being, who has done a lot more than just

write a little book about chicken soup. That would be chicken soup for the soul.

We've gotten none other than Jack Canfield, back on Bullproof Radio. Jack, thank you for being here.

My pleasure Dave, I'd always do anything you ask.

I genuinely appreciate our friendship and the chance to have had dinner with you a couple

times at your events and just getting to understand that when I first read chicken soup for the soul,

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