Welcome to Lessons episodes of Success Story, part of the HubSpot Podcast Network.

These Lessons Episodes will be shorter conversations with past guests,

valued members of the Success Story community, and myself. They'll be focused on teaching you

actionable insightful takeaways that you can use to upskill your personal and

professional life. Imagine this. You're right about everything right now. Your beliefs in this moment, they are all true. This is such a powerful

concept. I'm going to teach you why neuroscience shows us that what our brain believes is real will make real.

And there's a lot of science behind this and why it's so important, so stay with me.

We're going to learn to forget about external approval. We're going to learn to forget about external approval.

We're going to learn why conviction is so important,

why you have to trust your inner voice.

We're going to pull in some stoicism

so that you understand how to focus on your own energy versus the energy of outside forces.

We're going to focus on how to grow as an individual, why it basically requires being certain

at everything you do,

how to stay curious but stay grounded in the right now.

And also we're gonna talk about neuroplasticity,

how it allows to consciously reshape your neural patterns over time so that what you actually

believe becomes your reality. It's basically all the self-help stuff but actually turned into science and I think this is very important because there's a lot of value in believing in yourself and believing in what you can do but I find that the self-help

gurus get it wrong. They don't tell you why having this kind of

mindset can actually change your life in a very scientific way. A lot of self-help I find comes across as arrogant or delusional or out of touch

But I'm gonna break down some science as to why mindset and believing in yourself and

believing that what you believe is true and what you're trying to accomplish is true

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