Brain Bulletin 128 - Even Just One Can Shape Our Behaviour.
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Brain Bulletin Brain Bulletin 128 - Even Just One Can Shape Our Behaviour.
Words can change the brain.
"I'm sorry Mr. Kipling, but you just don't understand how to use the English language."
~ Publisher's letter to Rudyard Kipling, rejecting his Jungle Book, 1889
"It's impossible to sell animal stories in the U.S.A."
~ Rejection letter from publisher to George Orwell's, Animal Farm, 1945
"A dead pull from start to finish."
~ Book review of Charles Dicken's, A Tale of Two Cities, Century Magazine, 1897
"The girl doesn't, it seems to me, have a special perception,
or feeling which would lift the book above the curiosity level."
~ Publisher's rejection letter of Anne Frank's Diary, 1952
"This is a book of the season only."
~ New York Tribune review of Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
Sometimes what others say is important. But, what you say about what they say is more important. Words shape the reality you perceive.
Your brain has given you the potential to use words in extraordinary ways.
And, the way you choose to use words can change the wiring in your brain,
and improve your neural functioning.
It's worth remembering, success is never certain, failure is never permanent.
"A single word has the power to influence the expression of genes that regulate physical and emotional stress." ~ Andrew Newberg, MD
When someone gives you feedback (And as a public speaker, I get a lot of it!), consider it as a learning experience. Between stimulus and response there is a gap. Mind the gap.
Choose your words intentionally.
Here's a bit more on self-directed neuro-sculpting :
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