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The Playbook With David Meltzer

How Visualization Shapes Reality

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with John Assaraf, a two-time New York Times bestselling author known for teaching people how to strengthen the brain’s “neuro muscles” through his concept of Innercise. John shares his personal transformation from a troubled teen to a committed student of personal growth after one life-changing question from a mentor. We explore how small, consistent actions can rewire thought patterns, build empowering habits, and unlock greater potential. John explains why visualization works, how habits form in the brain, and why reducing goals to the smallest possible steps creates lasting change. His story shows what’s possible when commitment replaces mere interest.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to office hours. I'm David Meltzer. Welcome to the Sirius XM Studios in the

0:04.0

wind in Las Vegas. And man, we have an incredible guest. But before we get to our guest,

0:09.6

let's talk about our co-host today. We have the Hall of Famer himself, a dear friend,

0:14.4

Marshall Falk. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. And of course,

0:17.6

our friend Dennis Postum, thank you so much for joining us. Incredible content

0:22.5

provider, publisher, media expert, an extraordinary asset to the show. Thanks for coming as well.

0:29.0

Super excited to be here. Thank you. And our newest anchor man, very rare, we get a rookie in the anchor spot,

0:34.1

but he was like me, a uh appointed below average college football player

0:40.3

way below average i used to say i was average and then my football coach later on in life

0:46.9

was on one of my shows he goes let me just clear the record you were below average i'm good with that

0:53.1

you know i'm okay but you are an incredible anchor man. He is healing our health system, the King of Healthcare. Great podcast, by the way, called Boom Bostick Health. Thank you for joining me, Bradley Bost. So fun to be part of the office hours community. It is. And it is a community in a neighborhood. And one of our greatest neighbors is a man named

1:11.8

John Ascroft. He has graced the presence by being a two-time New York bestselling author.

1:17.2

That's a big difference, by the way, humbling as an author. You may be an Amazon best-selling

1:23.1

author, but you can't cheat the code when it comes to a New York time bestselling author. That's a real honor in my opinion. And I don't want that lost with authors. But he's also been on huge show, Anderson Cooper, Ellen Gigenerous, Larry King. He's done it all. He's done it all. Almost all. No, what's more to go. No, by me is the brain whisperer.

1:44.3

Yeah.

1:44.8

He knows more about the brain and how to utilize the brain to create what we want inside,

1:50.6

to provide what we want outside.

1:52.8

He has a book called inner size to exercise that muscle in order to effectuate what

1:58.1

he started in the secret with his vision boards and manifesting everything

2:02.1

in life and business that you desire the incredible john asseroff welcome back to office hours

2:06.7

it is so good no let me start up it is so good to be here and god is good as well god is good um you know

2:14.1

understanding this idea of intersize for the common person, you have sophisticated

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