Brain Fact Friday on ”What Does Acting Have to Do With Self-Belief and Our Identity?”

<p>“Reading is not for play. It is to gain knowledge” Stella Adler <em>The Art of Acting</em><a href='#_edn1'><em>[i]</em></a> and she adds that “I, for instance, am very strict about what I eat and I’m equally strict about what I read.”</p> <p></p> <p> </p> <p>In keeping with our season theme of going back to the basics, and building the strongest 2.0 version of ourselves, I’m skipping to episode #199<a href='#_edn2'>[ii]</a> on “The Neuroscience of Self-Belief and Our Identity”<a href='#_edn3'>[iii]</a> from Feb 2022.</p> <p>For those who are returning guests, welcome back to The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, where we cover the science-based evidence behind social and emotional learning (for schools) and emotional intelligence training (in the workplace) with tools, ideas and strategies that we can all use for immediate results, with our brain in mind.  For those who haven’t met me yet, I’m Andrea Samadi, an author, and an educator with a passion for learning and launched this podcast to share how the understanding of our complex brain transfers into our everyday life and results.</p> <p>On this episode #288 we will cover:</p> <p>✔ A review of The Neuroscience of Self-Belief and Our Identity</p> <p>✔ How Belief in Ourselves Develops and Changes Over Time</p> <p>✔ Top 5 Lessons Learned from Stella Adler’s “The Art of Acting”</p> <p>✔ Why Continual Study is Important</p> <p>When I looked back to EP 199 on “The Neuroscience of Self-Belief and Our Identity” I noticed that we opened with a quote from the late Bob Proctor, and a meeting with my friend Patti, who worked closely with Bob’s seminars over the years. Patti and I met a few weeks after Bob moved from what he would say was the physical plane, to the spiritual, and we talked about some of the important lesson learned, and knowledge gained from those days working in the seminar industry, and how they’ve impacted our daily life since then.</p> <p>Concepts based on our beliefs like:</p> <p>“All things are possible if you