243 Emma McAdam: Stop Trying to Feel Better and Get Better at Feeling
Disrupt Yourself Podcast with Whitney Johnson
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The Thing You Think You Can't Do, You Must Do
Every little thing we do is like paving these neural pathways in our brain and making them a little bit thicker. So if you face something scary, like talking to an advisor and you do that and you survive, then that's like running that neural pathway one time and it's like, okay, I can do that. And the same thing works with gratitude. If something good happens to you and you don't even notice it, it really doesn't impact your brain. But when you practice intentional gratitude later, it's like re-experiencing those good things over again - wiring the brain differently.
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