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

Once someone's had a traumatic brain injury and I mean, your dad went through one.

That's it pretty much that's, you know, we've written off and we were trained, as I said, to compensate. So I said,

okay, well, there's hardly any research in the 80s on brain injury and on how to treat it. And so I thought, okay, well, I'm going to start there. And so I worked with people that had been in comers for like longer than two weeks. And at that stage, if you were in a coma for longer than eight hours, the brain damage was considered irreversible. Now in this day and age, we know

that's not the case, but in the 80s, And at that stage, if you were in a coma for longer than eight hours, the brain damage was considered irreversible.

Now, in this day and age, we know that's not the case.

But in the 80s, that was the going philosophy.

So I was completely swimming upstream when it came to this concept.

Anyway, I showed with my subjects that with using your mind and not in any weird way, just a very a very systematic deliberate intentional mind management in different ways and different brain building and dealing with emotions and just different ways same sort of process um that you can actually change this and so some of my my first my very case study was a girl who was 16 at the time of accident accident and she had lost a whole year of school, written off as a vegetable.

I mean, that's what the doctors used to say in those days, which is a terrible thing to say to someone.

Anyway, long story short, after eight months, not only did she, she came around, I started working with her when she was conscious and functioning sort of at a second grade level. And she wanted to her goal was to get, her goal of greatness was to get back to finish 12th grade and with her peer group. Now that was an impossible task. All the doctors said don't even go down that road. Not even worth it. So I said, well, I was a new scientist then, very young, totally into this. Well, you know, go with me. Let's do this. And within eight months, she caught up to a 12th grade level, finished school with her peers, and went on to get a university degree. And one of the coolest things was that she was actually a really average student and not even good at math. After the accident, using her mind to change your brain, she became like a math genius. You know, I mean, this was like, and I can tell you a story after story, and that really motivated me to work across the board with, now I really have to understand what's going on. And I happened to be living in South Africa where I grew up at the time. I was born in Zimbabwe and grew up in South Africa

and in the apartheid era. I mean, this is like, it really ages me, doesn't it? Go back into those, I work through the apartheid era, the transition and the post-aparid era. So I was seeing all the socioeconomic trauma, the racism trauma, and I worked in that three days a week in those environments with terrible poverty and whatever,

and I worked in Water in Rwanda,

and I worked with the three days a week in those environments with terrible poverty and whatever.

And I worked in War II and Rwanda.

And I worked with the wealthiest of the wealthy heads of CEOs of corporations, schools everywhere that my laboratory was the world to try and understand humans and mind and get away from this scientific concept that consciousness is the hard question and no one is really

doing anything. We're just talking about it as being as this elusive philosophical thing that we

will push aside and one day promissory science will do it one day. And I thought, I can't do this

because I am mine, you are mine. So if I don't manage it, I mean, you can go three weeks without

food, three days without water, three minutes without oxygen, but you don't even go three seconds without using your mind. So if I don't manage it, I mean, you can go three weeks without food, three days without water, three minutes without oxygen, but you don't even go three seconds without using your mind. So my underlying premise was, okay, well, if that's the case, what is it? And how do we manage it? And if I don't manage it, what I did from my research, you can learn to manage it. Mind is malleable. You can direct

the neuroplasticity of your brain. I did some of the first neuroplasticity research in my field

in the late 80s, early 90s. Before it was accepted by the mid-90s neuroplasticity was, well, that's it.

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