Lewis Howes discusses how thoughts grow based on what you feed them, drawing on neuroscience concepts like 'neurons that fire together wire together.' The conversation covers habit formation and intentionally cultivating desired thought patterns by planting seeds in your mind like a garden.
Whatever we feed in the mind grows. We don't control it, but we choose what we feed and we choose what we don't feed. We get to control action. We get to control the way we respond, but we don't even get to control what thought comes next.
You hope that when you're nurturing and watering a thought, that thought will continue to expand and develop and grow more frequently and will pop up in your mind.
That's what we get to control, right? So that— there's tons of neuroscience evidence for that. The neurons that fire together wire together. We have habitual patterns. Of thinking, and then we can wire our brain to generate thoughts. And literally, the goal of my job is to help someone wire their brain so that their brain generates the right thoughts. But I want to be precise here. That doesn't mean you get to control what you think. You can simply plant your garden in a certain way.
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