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The Playbook With David Meltzer

What to Do When Your Brain Tries to Stop You

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with my high performance coach and longtime friend John Assaraf to talk about how to train the brain for sustainable success. John explains how our thoughts activate specific neural circuits and how to interrupt the negative ones before they take over. He walks through his signature “innercise” method and shares a simple morning practice that rewires the brain with repetition, not willpower. We talk about the neuroscience of fear, motivation, and identity, and the real reason most people do not trust their training when it counts. From visualization to blueprinting goals, this conversation covers the mental fitness needed to perform at the highest level.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to office hours. We're changing the brain and changing the game.

0:03.9

We are blessed to have our next guest. He's a dear friend as well. He's one of the smartest

0:08.3

individuals that I know. He's the CEO of Neuro Gym. He's an intersizer, kind of like Jane Fonda,

0:14.7

but even better looking, I guess, two-time New York Times bestselling author, keynote speaker,

0:19.6

and my high performance coach, people ask me,

0:22.6

how the hell looking like you look? Do you have so much energy? I tell him, look to the brain

0:26.7

whisperer himself. John Asserop, welcome to office hours.

0:32.4

Hello, Mr. David. I see you have some extremely special guests in the house there.

0:37.4

Yes, we're missing you in person, but we're blessed to have you as a guest.

0:42.6

So many people don't understand the power of our brain.

0:46.8

And you have studied the brain, the neuroscience of the brain, and how it equates to better

0:53.3

performance in life. What are some of the key indicators how it equates to better performance in life.

0:55.0

What are some of the key indicators that people that may just be curious right now

1:00.1

about what does he mean by neurogym, inner size, exercising our brain?

1:06.4

Well, listen, just like we can exercise to strengthen our bicep muscle, strengthen our cardiovascular

1:14.6

capacity by doing exercise, we can strengthen what I call are the brain's neuro muscles

1:21.4

through space repetition.

1:24.6

I know you've talked before.

1:26.3

We've talked before on, you know, visualization is a

1:29.3

simulation when we repeat anything, whether it's a constructive, good pattern or a destructive

1:37.1

bad pattern, our brain reinforces it just like a muscle. And so I coined this term called

1:43.7

inner size because we're either reinforcing

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