Brain Fact Friday on ”The Neuroscience Behind Self-Belief and Our Identity”

<p>“All things are possible if you believe.”<a href='#_edn1'>[i]</a></p> <p>“Our results are all based on our beliefs”</p> <p>“If we don’t like what’s going on outside, we’ve got to go inside, and change our beliefs.”<a href='#_edn2'>[ii]</a></p> <p>--Bob Proctor</p> <p>Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning podcast, for episode #199 on “The Neuroscience Behind Self-Belief” that I want to dive into instead of the episode I was planning on writing this week, (a deep dive into David A. Sousa’s NEW Edition of <em>How the Brain Learns)</em>, that I will release next week instead.</p> <p>For those new, welcome, I'm Andrea Samadi, author, and educator from Toronto, Canada, now in Arizona, and like many of you listening, have been fascinated with learning and understanding the science behind high performance strategies that we can use to improve our productivity in our schools, our sports, and workplace environments. My vision is to bring the experts to you, share their books, resources, and ideas to help you to implement their proven strategies, whether you are a teacher working in the classroom or in the corporate environment.</p> <p>Sometimes we must listen to what’s going on around us, and I got the message loud and clear this week, that made me pivot towards this topic of self-belief. This week I met my good friend, Patti Knoles, for coffee. We used to work together years ago when we both worked for Bob Proctor in the seminar industry, and although we live in the same state, it’s been a few years since we met up in person, but after the news earlier this month, we decided to meet and share some memories.</p> <p></p> <p>Patti Knoles with her daughter, Jessica Knoles</p> <p>NOTE-- For those who follow this podcast and tuned into our final episode of our <em>Think and Grow Rich Book Study</em><a href='#_edn3'>[iii]</a>, you will know that my mentor, Bob Proctor sadly passed away earlier this month and I dedicated that final episode to him. After I released that episo