Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

With neuroplasticity, it's psychological work, right? But it's actually not, it's actually physiological work.

I've had, you know, these people who are very, very successful genuinely be so frustrated. I don't understand, like, what am I supposed to do? People say I'm not nice to them, you know, what am I actually supposed to do?

So this is what I say to them.

Imagine a field of grass.

And on day one, you walk through the field and the grass is high and you're sort of flattening as you walk and then you walk there every day

until you've trodden a little path into the grass and then you keep walking there until it becomes like a muddy path.

Then you might lay some paving stones and then you build a proper path.

That's what you're doing in your brain when you change any behavior and I remember when I learned Danish which was super hard. mentioned to you that I prefer to eat healthily but I was literally taking like a can of

Coke or like a bag of Malteses to the Danish lessons and it was 90 minutes and by about an hour I would feel so tired and so hungry.

Exhusting isn't it?

Exhusting, yeah.

So I did eight weeks of lessons.

I then went to Denmark for summer holidays and I came back and had a lesson and at some point she said

okay great we're done for now see you next week and I was like was that 90 minutes

so basically the 90 minutes I haven't got

hungry I haven't got tired I've got through the lesson and I realized I've gone

past that

Tipping point of neuroplasticity.

Acknowledging that it's physical work

sometimes takes away that frustration that you think you should just be getting it and you're not.

Because I don't think you would blame yourself in the same way if it was like a sport.

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