Take Control of Your Brain, Take Control of Your Life With John Assaraf
The Mike Dillard Show
Mike Dillard
4.8 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
If there is one thing that I’ve learned over the past year from dealing with my health crisis, it’s that your thoughts literally create and control your destiny.
You can use your thoughts to heal your body, to calm your mind, and to rapidly change your life for the better…
I think Napoleon Hill nailed it when he titled his book, “Think and Grow Rich”...
But if it was just that easy, why isn’t everyone walking around fit, happy, healthy, and rich?
Why are the vast majority of people dealing with disease and stress, instead of living in their highest state of being?
Well one of the reasons is that our brains process and create new mental circuits about a fearful or negative event, 10,000 times faster, than they do for a positive event.
Our brains are wired to look for danger, and remember it.
They are not naturally wired to focus on abundance, safety, and happiness.
Once you’re aware of this, you’ll start to realize that retraining your brain takes a conscious effort. But once you learn how to control and direct your thoughts, you will start to create the life you truly want.
Forget marketing, forget social media, and business strategies.
Yes, those things are important, but mastering your brain first is THE secret ensuring those efforts are effective.
If you have read the books on Phil Knight of Nike, Steve Jobs, or Richard Branson, you know that all of them have one thing in common…
Each of them credit their success in life to adopting a daily mental training practice. and today you’re going to learn how to do the same from our guest, John Assaraf.
John is an incredible entrepreneur who’s built 5 multimillion dollar companies, written 2 New York Times Bestselling books and featured in 8 movies, including “The Secret” and “Quest For Success” with Richard Branson and the Dalai Lama.
Today, he is the founder and CEO of NeuroGym, a company dedicated to using the most advanced technologies and evidence based brain training methods to help you unleash your fullest potential and maximize your results.
I’ll just say this…
Buy John’s book, use what you learn for the next 100 days, and you will absolutely change your life forever.
Resources:
IgniteMyBrain.com
NeuroGym.com
Having It All: Achieving Your Life's Goals and Dreams
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Mike Dillard podcast where we help entrepreneurs like you gain the knowledge and skills that you need to bring your dreams to life. |
| 0:12.8 | Well, gang, if there's one thing that I have learned over the past year from dealing with my health crisis and everything in between, it is that your thoughts literally create and |
| 0:22.1 | control your destiny. You can use your thoughts to heal your body, to calm your mind, and to rapidly |
| 0:27.4 | change your life for the better. I think Napoleon Hill nailed it when he named his book, |
| 0:32.0 | think and grow rich. But if it was just that easy, why isn't everybody walking around fit, happy, healthy, and rich? |
| 0:40.2 | Why are the vast majority of people dealing with disease and stress instead of living in their |
| 0:44.5 | highest state of being? |
| 0:46.1 | Well, one of the reasons is that our brains process and create new mental circuits about a fearful |
| 0:51.9 | or negative event 10,000 times faster than they do for a positive one. |
| 0:57.7 | Our brains are literally wired to look for danger and to remember it. They are not naturally |
| 1:02.8 | wired to focus on abundance, safety, and happiness. Once you're aware of this, you'll start to |
| 1:07.8 | realize that retraining your brain takes a conscious effort. But once you learn how to control and direct your thoughts, you will start to realize that retraining your brain takes a conscious effort. |
| 1:11.5 | But once you learn how to control and direct your thoughts, you will start to create the |
| 1:15.5 | life that you truly want. Forget marketing, forget social media, forget business strategies. |
| 1:20.3 | Yes, all of those things are important. But mastering your brain first is the secret to ensuring |
| 1:25.9 | that those efforts are effective. So if you've read |
| 1:29.3 | books from people like Phil Knight of Nike or Steve Jobs or Richard Branson, you know that all of |
| 1:35.7 | them have one thing in common. Every single one of them credits their success in life to adopting |
| 1:40.9 | a daily mental training practice. And today, you're going to learn how to do that from |
| 1:45.1 | our guest, John Asirath. So John's an amazing guy. I've known of him for over a decade now. He's an |
| 1:50.8 | incredible entrepreneur who's built, at least as far as I know, five multi-million dollar |
| 1:55.3 | companies. He's written two New York Times bestselling books. He's been featured in eight movies, |
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