I am Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

You're listening to the Mind Valley Podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and

thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for mind, body, spirit and work.

I'm going to give you today a crash course in how to run your brain for phenomenal success. I have been extraordinarily lucky,

not in my early life, but certainly in my adult life, because I am an unusual therapist.

I never want to be a conventional therapist.

And I've always been fascinated by how the mind works.

You know, I spent all my adult life studying human behavior,

studying how the mind works.

And when you work with people like that,

you really see something extraordinary,

often very good, but sometimes really

how their mind works is actually to their detriment.

So when I was in therapy school, I was taught what all therapists are taught.

Oh my God, the mind is so complicated.

It takes a lifetime to even understand it, let alone master it.

And when I started working, I thought, you know what,

I'm just not going to believe that.

Because I was so privileged in working

with extraordinary people, I worked out very quickly that you need to know

three things about your brain and if you know what these three things are and here

they are and if you understand them and put them into practice you can have pretty much

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