Jake Burhans explains that negative thoughts are just your nervous system's threat response, not the truth about you. When you face high-stakes moments like presentations or important meetings, your brain amplifies fear to keep you safe. Recognizing you're not your thoughts lets you act from confidence instead.
In order to perform at a high level, we need to understand we're not our negative thoughts. So when you're about to do the run of your life, the ski run of your life, you're about to have the biggest presentation of your life, or you're about to have a big business meeting, or you have to have a difficult conversation, guess what you're not gonna listen to? The negative limiting beliefs of, oh, this is gonna go wrong. What if you can't do it? All this stuff. That is just mental noise. It is your physiology trying to protect you. That's all it is. It's your nervous system. Encountering an unfamiliar situation, recognizing it as a threat and trying to bring you back to safety. It's trying to use fear to keep you on the spot, to keep you safe. It doesn't know that you're growing. It doesn't know that it's in your best interest. It doesn't know that. It's primitive. It's your physiology. So you are not your thoughts.
