Okay, so being the boss of your brain means that you don't accept every thought or feeling or impulse that you have.

So for example, let's start with a simple example is, you know, let's say you got, you feel rejected about something and you and then you start to kind of

spiral down downwards and you're not getting the results that you want and you think oh maybe I should just give up or you think

this is so much harder than I thought well when you with ADHD you know you tend not to to be the boss of your brain and you kind of you let you run

with that or you don't challenge it so by being the boss of your brain you could

say well I have myself a lot of credit because I took a

risk I was brave I was rejected or I didn't get what I wanted but look at all that

that I had and you began to say this is not helpful to think that way and I'm going to you know take my brain forcefully

Have it think about something else and I also call that kind of changing the channel. So if you were watching cable TV,

and if you're scrolling through the channels

and you see golf and you don't really like golf,

you're not gonna sit there and watch a golf game. You're going to just change a channel.

And being the boss of your brain means you can change a channel on your brain.

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