Dr. Tara Swart

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Most Shared Moment: Neuroscientist Reveals 4 Hacks to Rewire Your Brain For Growth & Success! - Dr Tara Swart · 21 Mar 2025 podcast

Yeah.

Yeah, I think there's an element of reality to it. So there's a few things there, which is those particular things that you said are very shallow. They are not really the things that people should need to be saying to themselves. What I find, and I picked this up from the podcast with Lewis, is he said that sometimes he would just say to himself, I'm safe, I'm safe, I'm okay.

And actually just sometimes saying to myself, I'm safe. is that's what I need to hear, not I'm beautiful and I'm amazing. That does feel like, A, it's the kind of thing that everybody probably wants to say, B,

Yeah, it's not addressing. And I'm going to be rich. I mean, that's the worst one because you actually have to do stuff to make that happen. You know, you can't just say that. So I think finding the stuff that you need to say to yourself that is not to do with social expectation or parental expectation or, you know, social group.

um what everybody else is doing like what you really want to know for yourself that's going to set you up to be able to go out into the real world and do the stuff that you need to do to get the other things that you want there you said you can't just say it you have to go out and do it now when people hear this term manifestation

Mm-hmm. So I believe in manifestation based on your brain. So your thoughts, your beliefs, your actions. So where I've called my book, The Source, I have said your brain is the source of you being able to attract everything that you want into your life.

So I sat down one summer and I researched the laws of attraction and just looked at whether I could explain them through cognitive science, which is psychology and neuroscience, and I could. So I was kind of like, oh, I'm onto something here.

And the first stage for me was understanding that it is absolutely to do with the way that you think, but then it's not magically like attracting something in the atmosphere. It's to do with the changes that you make based on your thought process.

I do believe in vision boards, but I call them action boards because I see them as a representation of what I want, but I still have to go out there and make those things happen. I think it's also much more empowering to believe that it's your brain that's making that stuff happen and not some external force that you're not really sure what it is.

Yeah, so actually there's a really fascinating study. It's one of my favorite ones to talk about, which was three groups of octogenarians.

People in their 80s. Okay. And one group was the control group. So they just lived like normal for a week. One group had to reminisce about being in their 60s for most of the week whenever they had an opportunity to. And one group were actually driven to retrofitted versions of their homes that looked like what their house looked like 20 years ago.

They were given newspapers dated from 20 years ago. They had photos of themselves in that house when they were in their 60s. And one of the things was they got there and they were sort of like, okay, you know, who's going to carry our suitcase up to the bedroom or whatever? And they were like, no, you're 60 now. You carry your own suitcase.

So it literally started from the minute they got there and these little old ladies had to, and gentlemen had to carry their cases up. After one week... The people in that group were taller because their posture improved. They had better musculoskeletal coordination than they had a week before.

In before and after photos that were shown to people that didn't know them, they were rated as younger in the one week after photos than the photos from arriving at that place. And the reminiscing group also had some improvements, but not as much as the group that lived like they were in their 60s.

Yeah.

Well, my optician told me. So he's of Indian origin, same age as me. And he said, oh, I think, you know, you're probably gonna need reading glasses next year. And I was like, no, I do not want reading glasses. That makes you look really old. And he was like- Yeah, I know we both look younger than we are, but your eyes are going to age just like anybody else's. And I was like, no, they are not.

So I left, came back a year later. He said, how's it going with the reading? So it's fine. And he sort of went, okay, Tara. So he's doing my eye test. He spins around on his little chair halfway through and says, your eyes haven't got worse. They haven't even stayed the same. They've got better. And I said, I know. And he said, what have you been doing?

And I said, well, I just said no to you when you said I'm going to have to get reading glasses. And when I'm like looking at my phone or a book and it feels like it would be a bit easier if I moved it further away, I just don't.

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