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Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

How to Leverage the Negative Voice In Your Head | Tom Bilyeu AMA

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

Impact Theory

Business, News Commentary, News

4.75.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Tom answers questions from the community. If you want your question answered by Tom in an AMA, Please submit your questions in advance to connect@impacttheory.com, with the subject line “AMA Question”. Impact Theory is proudly sponsored by: PrepDish: Go to PrepDish.com/impact to get two weeks completely free. Sanebox. Visit sanebox.com/IMPACT to sign up for your 14-day free trial and receive a $25 credit. SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what's important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. ButcherBox. Use the discount code: "IMPACT" at butcherbox.com to get 20$ off and FREE BACON Skillshare. Start learning on Skillshare today at skillshare.com/impact QUESTION TOPICS Tom offers advice if the voice in your head is mainly negative [3:50] How to work hard in the face of ambiguous success [6:23] How to support your family as wells yourself when a family member is struggling [9:17] Tom explains how he is able to be nice and authentic without getting walked all over [12:28] Goal oriented thinkers vs. task oriented thinkers, can you switch between the two? [19:23] Why other people succeed with similar business ideas as yours. [21:20] Is it better to wait and perfect, or get something out there that is sub-par? [24:11] Tom dispels the myth that isolation comes with entrepreneurship [26:10]

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of AMA.

0:03.4

I'm your host, Tom Billu, and I'm going to be answering your questions.

0:06.6

And by the way, if you ever want to get a question answered,

0:09.4

all you have to do is submit it to connect at impacttheory.com and put AMA question

0:15.2

in the subject line.

0:16.6

That way, my man, Shaws can quickly find you guys.

0:19.9

So that's it.

0:21.3

All right, and if you want to remain anonymous, by the way,

0:23.3

just put that you want to remain anonymous.

0:25.0

And we will make that happen.

0:26.1

All right, first question is from Adam Gray.

0:28.6

You say that mindset is important and the way you think about yourself and talk to

0:32.1

yourself is super important.

0:33.4

But what advice do you have with the way you talk or think can mainly be negative?

0:38.1

What advice do you have to change from a negative to a positive mindset?

0:42.2

What thing should you practice and learn?

0:44.3

Okay, this really simply breaks down into cognitive behavioral therapy techniques.

0:49.6

One of the best examples of that comes from a man named Dr. Daniel Aiman and he has a very

0:54.8

simple process that he calls ants.

0:57.6

He's got a very basic negative thoughts and he says you need to squish the ants.

1:01.1

So that's going to be the first thing that you're going to want to do is really start to

1:05.0

practice squishing those automatic negative thoughts.

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