Emily McDonald

And so expecting, you know, we can say we want certain things.

Like we want to be more grateful.

We want to experience more blessings.

We want to experience more good in life.

But you got to train your brain to see that, right?

Like through neuroplasticity, you can activate those pathways in your brain.

And now when you're moving through the rest of your day, your brain can actively be filtering for those things.

And so mindset is a beautiful place to do that.

It's a beautiful place to do affirmations or, you know, set intentions for the day.

I'm a big fan of intention setting.

It's something that

I have always done, even before I really knew what I was doing.

I remember when I was in my PhD and I was struggling to focus in my two-hour neuroscience lectures, I kind of unlocked this, like, let me see if I can use the doorway effect, which I don't know if you've heard of the doorway effect before, but...

The doorway effect, and it actually connects to something that I studied when I was an undergrad.

I studied learning, memory, and the perception of time, which was very interesting.

But kind of, you know, one of the foundational things in that lab was just that, you know, when you shift environments, your brain shifts modes.

And that shifts, like, that's why if you are, you know, basically kind of the research project.

Like, we actually won awards for this when I presented it.

It was cool.

But, for example, if you are walking down the street,