Dr. Noah St John explains why saying "I am rich" backfires: your brain responds with "yeah, right." Instead, ask yourself questions like "Why am I so rich?" to trigger your brain's natural drive to find answers.
If the human brain is automatically searching for answers to questions, why are we going around making statements we don't believe? Why don't we just cut out the middleman? Right. And I said, what would that look like? And I said, well, let's see. You got the statement or affirmation, I am rich, to which your brain goes, yeah, right. Right? I mean, that's what it does. It really does. I call it the yeah, right response. Yeah. Because you don't believe it. And so, I said, now, remember, The motivational speaker said, just repeat it a thousand million billion kajillion times until you believe it someday. Well, for some people that works, but for most of us that doesn't work at all, and we end up more frustrated than before. So I said, well, if that's the statement, what would the question be? And then I said, why am I so rich? Why am I so rich? Now when you form a question like that in your brain, what instantly happens? You start to search for the answer.
