The Neuroscience of Identity: Why You Keep Repeating the Same Patterns | Emily McDonald
The School of Greatness
Lewis Howes
4.8 • 22K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | How important is it to make sure your nervous system is in alignment with what you think and believe in order to manifest what you want in life? |
| 0:09.0 | You wouldn't really be able to trust somebody that was always saying one thing and doing another. |
| 0:14.0 | You'd probably have your head on a swivel around those people. |
| 0:18.0 | When you're always saying you're going to do one thing and you're not doing it, your brain is on a swivel with you. And that's dysregulating. And then when your nervous system is dysregulated, well, then that's the energy flowing through you and that's the energy you're putting out. She's a neuroscientist and mindset expert who's been featured in the New York Times and has reached millions of people across social media. |
| 0:37.5 | Today she's gonna break down the neuroscience-backed methods |
| 0:40.7 | to help you rewire your brain. |
| 0:42.4 | Emily McDonnell in the house. |
| 0:43.8 | Your brain is always filtering your reality |
| 0:45.9 | to confirm the beliefs you already have. |
| 0:47.7 | You actually get dopamine too |
| 0:50.1 | when your brain confirms the belief you hold. |
| 0:52.8 | Even if it's negative. |
| 0:53.7 | Even if it's negative. Even if it's negative. |
| 0:55.0 | So if we are constantly doubting ourselves |
| 0:57.0 | and having this negative mindset, |
| 0:58.0 | then our amygdala is going to hijack our perception |
| 1:01.0 | and we're not even going to be able to notice the opportunities |
| 1:04.0 | or the things that we want. |
| 1:05.0 | What is the thing then that keeps people falling back |
| 1:08.0 | into their familiar patterns and way of being, |
| 1:11.6 | rather than fully shifting into the newer, greater identity. |
| 1:14.6 | So I think there are kind of two components to this, which is... |
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