You Change a Belief You Change Your Mindset

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I spent the last five years studying surprise and how surprise works. I looked at those from a hypnosis point of view what was present when those things happened. And then one day I had my little epiphany you know what's really common with all these stories they were moments of surprise. Those are the kinds of things that drove me to where I am now.

In this episode, Micheal Rousell, author of The Power of Surprise, explains the science of surprise at the level of neurons and brain structures, and then talk about how surprises often lead to the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, the different personal narratives that guide our behaviors and motivations and goals, and, perhaps most importantly, our willingness to be surprised again so that we can change and grow.

In the show, you will how we can use the current understanding of how surprise leads to learning, and how learning depends on interpretation, to improve our lives, and the lives of others