Your brain doesn't know the difference between what's real and imaginary. By strengthening your neural pathways that are helpful to you and weakening the neural pathways that aren't serving you, you have the ability to rewire your brain so you can be extraordinary and do the extraordinary.
In this profound discussion with Mindset Coach Adelaide Goodeve who works with elite athletes, including world record holders to world champions and multi-times race winners to rewire their brains to achieve peak performance, we discuss how patterns in our unconscious state affect our neural pathways, how to recognize these unhelpful thoughts and what we can do to choose neural pathways we want to trigger that affect better performance.
We learn:
2:05: Adelaide's miracle-like story on how she rewired her brain.
7:05: How your brain doesn't know the difference between what's real and what's imaginary.
8:08: How to recognize when you're having unhelpful thoughts and how to choose neural pathways you want to trigger.
13:00: What does the mindset of an elite athlete look like?
18:40: How do we dissociate our brain from bad experiences/thoughts?
22:50: The technique of Anchoring to connect to a 3rd person to see yourself objectively when challenging your disempowering thoughts.
25:28: This one simple technique to help trigger new healthy neural pathways when negative/unhealthy thoughts appear.
32:03: Understanding why your brain needs to think about something in order to not think about that something.
39:00: Examples of cognitive drills via SOMA NPT app for brain endurance training and understanding what is happening to your brain.
43:07: Determining how much you need to fatigue your brain to have the most optimal effect on building your resilience.
47:00: The importance of introducing novelty to increase neuroplasticity.
50:43: Adelaide's one piece of advice to her younger self to live fully in the present and always on her own terms.
To learn more about Adelaide's incredible work in mindset training for extraordinary performance (and you don't have to be an athlete!), visit https://www.adelaidegoodeve.com or listen to her podcast here https://www.adelaidegoodeve.com/podcast. And, you can find her on IG here https://www.instagram.com/adelaidegoodeve.
Learn more about P.S. Younger Self here.
And, you can connect with host Chris Oh on Instagram here.