Hi, this is the Big Deal podcast and I'm Cody Sanchez.

For those of you who don't want to just be rich but free and do what it takes to actually get there.

Okay, today we got a man who's all about how do you steal the methods and madness that leads to being a top 1%?

How do you get out of your own way if right now you're feeling stuck in your life in some way or another?

What can we learn from cognitive behavioral therapy? What can we learn from thousands of studies on how the brain works and how motivation and mindset works in order to get things done?

This is Rob Dial. After working with thousands of clients, after 600 podcast episodes,

we're going to steal Rob's homework for you today.

So without further ado, Rob Dial.

You have worked with hundreds, if not thousands, of people on mindset.

Lots of high performers. In your studies, what if you notice, like, data-wise? Are there studies that

have changed the way that you thought about how humans think or how top performers think?

How so. Give me a little more context and go into it. Like, what are you thinking?

Like, are you, are there, is there surprising data or data pieces that you've found about mindset and the human

brain or studies that you've found interesting lately that you think are worth sharing?

I think the biggest thing is like, I like to go into, like, the main thing that I work

off is like cognitive behavioral therapy, right?

And the thing that I think I've been teaching the most recently that's been like hitting the home the most for people is that is just basically this idea of like negativity bias, which is like we are wired to be negative.

Like that is the way that it works.

And so like I don't know any specific data around, you know, like successful people, unsuccessful people.

But what I do know is that people inherently are negative.

And there's a reason why that exists. The reason why it exists is because, you know, 10,000

years ago, 100,000 years ago, when we were going to be attacked by something, we had to be

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