Develop a high-performance mindset

SPEAKER_1 (0:05)

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Adam Stachowiak (0:21)

From ChangeLog Media, this is Brain Science, a podcast for the curious. We're exploring the inner workings of the human brain to understand behavior change, habit formation, mental health, and what it means to be human. It's brain science applied, not just how does the brain work, but how do we apply what we know about the brain to transform our lives.

I'm Adam Stokowiak.

Mireille Reese (0:41)

And I'm Dr. Marielle Reese.

Adam Stachowiak (0:47)

So we're back, this is Brain Science Marielle. And it's good to see you again.

Mireille Reese (0:53)

It's great to see you too. It's been a while.

Adam Stachowiak (0:55)

It's been a short minute. And I think like anything in life, whenever one of you make commitments, whenever you create something new, you have to think, can I sustain this thing? Can I keep the clip that I'm going at? Is what I'm doing today sustainable for tomorrow? And sometimes you have to ask those questions and make hard choices. And for us, things in your life and things in my life and our business have gotten complex over the last couple of years. An apology to the listeners, but we had to push pause.

But it was an actual pause button, not a quit button. It wasn't command Q, it was just simply pause, which is a good thing. What do you think?

Mireille Reese (1:30)

Yeah, yes, indeed. I mean, having worked with a lot of people over a number of years, decisions are a thing. And I've often said, like, when you don't know, you don't go. And so that really gets at pause. We had a number of things for you and for me that, you know, complicated what we were doing. And so just taking sort of like a long breath.

Because, you know, the desire hasn't waned.

Adam Stachowiak (1:58)

No, no, I think the desire has been there for the listenership, and I think the desire has been there for us.

And I got to give a shout out to many people over the last months and years who have, like, just reached out about the show, saying, hey, when's it coming back? I love this show. Like, it's changed my mindset. It's changed how I think about decisions. It's changed, you know, that show. Your Choice is Your Superpower. Like, to me, that is a perfect show to share with people who don't understand the power of their choice and just helps people think differently. There's a lot of different shows we can reference. And that was actually the challenge for me was because I was, like, referencing our podcast when helping people, essentially, like, hey, you would love this show, and I'm sad that it's on a hiatus. However, the catalog that is there is so fruitful, so please go listen. But telling people to go listen to a podcast that's on hiatus is kind of challenging because you kind of feel embarrassed as the maker and creator of it, you know?

It's different if you're just a fan, but like, I just found myself referencing the show often.

Mireille Reese (2:52)

Yeah, no, I couldn't agree more. Like, a huge shout out and thank you to all the listeners because, you know, I've repeatedly been asked, like, are you gonna do more? Like, are you gonna come back? And, you know, just really important.

I love being able to create and share so that other people have these tools and skills. Like, I think I've shared in other shows about, like, working with people clinically.

You know, my goal is always to work myself out of a job, that much of where people get stuck is simply running out of a knowledge base to work from. And they think that there's only two options. And so I would hope that we can continue that journey, that people, you know, have more tools and skills and ways to think about things throughout their lives, to evaluate where they wanna go, what's important to them, and really cultivate the life that they want to live.

Adam Stachowiak (3:49)

I can barely count the amount of times I've said, be your own scientist, things like that that we have said on this podcast. Several times I've just have referenced several things we've said. And it's good, but it's also quite sad because it hasn't been here. But part of our conversation today is on a high performance mindset, not just simply habits, not just simply the way you think, but some sort of framework, some sort of lessons in that. I think one of the things of being a high performer or having a high performing mind or mindset is knowing what you can control. And I think for us, when it came to the show, we knew we couldn't control the cadence that was going on and things like that. And so just as a trait, maybe a somewhat segue to the actual topic that we plan to talk about today is just that, is knowing what you control and operating around that. And just knowing what you can and can't do within a certain boundary. I think that's awareness, right? That's grounding, that's being present in your choice. It's a lot of different components, but in a larger lesson. But knowing what you can control is a huge key for high performance.