Nir Eyal

Growth is possible at any age.

What are you more likely to do than someone who says, ah, I'm getting old, my back hurts, this hurts, that hurts, all these complaints.

You're focusing attention and anticipating what you're gonna get more of.

And so the secret is not that having a positive view about aging miraculously changes your mitochondria or vibrations or any of that.

It's that having positive view about aging changes your behavior.

The people who have a positive view about aging are more likely to go out there and garden for the day and get a little bit of exercise that way or go volunteer in their community and establish relationships and friendships that way.

So it turns out that beliefs really do become your biology, but because they change your behavior.

Now, the nice thing is it's in our control.

We can stop telling ourselves this nonsense of I'm having a senior moment, even if you are.

Why would we reinforce it?

It's literally making us die sooner.

This was an area that really did affect my life.

And we're coming full circle with the beginning of the conversation where I told you that this is a book that

was very personal for me.

And I stopped praying at about seven years old.

And I remember when I was around six years old, my family was going through a really hard time.

They were only three years in this country and they got scammed out of almost every dollar they had.

Some unscrupulous con man had taken basically all their money.

And I remember my parents had a really tough time.

They were constantly fighting.