The Power of Affirmations in Personal Growth

Literally affirmations work, right?

Like, affirmations work, which is the dumbest trick that, uh, that,

that works

I'm so glad you're saying this, 'cause people from the outside are like,

"This

guy's, like, very logical, engineering."

No, it's like-

And but you're all about intuition.

No, I-

Now you're talking about affirmations.

You're speaking to the choir, just so you know.

I'm a toolmaker.

What's the affirmation part, though?

The affirmation that, like, you are...

If, if you s- tell yourself or, or write down 100 times

something about yourself, um,

that writes it into the

neurofrontal cortex at such a deep level that your brain will start reconciling

you to that. Uh, it just works.

Um, I, I've used that very often to, uh...

Like, I, you know, like I, I was terrified of public speaking until I

just sat down

for, uh, like a week, and every day I spent like 10 minutes just

writing that I

like public speaking. I love public speaking.

You s- you wrote that down?

Like, I, I now... Yes.

And now you, you love it.

Yeah. Like, and a week later, and I knew...

It's not this works when you know what you're doing, right?

Like, you don't even...

It's like, it's not like a placebo.

It's like, it's actually like you just actively

change your

neurofrontal cortex in this moment. So, um, I, I, I use this often.

It sounded to me before, like I started doing all,

reading all these

biographies, I was like, "This is some willy foofoo-

Yeah

... nonsense."

Yeah.

And then you see very smart, analytical-

Yeah

... logical, many case inventors and engineers, and it appears over

and over again.

Yeah.

People didn't know each other. They didn't...

They worked in different industries, different times-

Yeah

... lived on different parts of the planet,

and they all talk about doing this.

And it's parallel construction. They all come to the same conclusions in

different

words.