Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast.

I'm your host, Rob Dial.

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be talking about how your thoughts and your words shape your reality.

But today's episode, I'm actually going to show you an example, actually a couple of examples

that show you how the way that you speak to yourself, the way that you think about yourself

actually shows the results that you're going to get in your life.

And there's a one of my favorite studies about this is a study that's called the Batman

Effect. And so the Batman Effect was a study that they did on children a few years ago that

were between four years old and six years old. And they took these children and they put them into three

different groups. One of the group, all they did was they just walked into a room and they did puzzles.

And just so you know, these puzzles were unsolvable. So they put, it's poor children, right?

They put these children into a room. They gave them puzzles. They were completely unsolvable.

That's group one. Group two, they put them into the room to do puzzles, but what they said to them

is try to see yourself doing them from outside of yourself. So they taught them basically about what it

was look, what it would look like to look at yourself from a third person. So basically,

looking at yourself with more self-awareness is what

they were teaching the children. So that was group number two. And then group number three,

they had them do the puzzles. But before they did the puzzles, they had to pick a costume of their

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