Time to Unlock Your Nurture Power 🔍

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I am really excited to write today’s newsletter; it’s all about how you can change your brain to be & do more of the things you want and how that leads you to find the right people.

Let’s dive deeper 👇️ 

What I’m thinking about this week 💫 

I felt pretty introspective this week, which means I had many out-of-body moments. What I mean by this is that I would be having a conversation with someone, and while I’m talking in real time, I feel like I am out of my body watching myself having this conversation. 

Admittedly, I understand how odd this may sound, but honestly, this is the best way I can explain it.

Anyways, when I find myself hovering within this perspective, it makes me think, am I thinking or acting the way I am because it’s my nature or something I’ve nurtured? 

Nature vs nurture is the age-old question. It is one that feels impossible to answer at times and blatantly apparent at other times. Why am I thinking about it?

I was having a coffee with a friend, and maybe it was the two consecutive Americanos kicking in, but at a point, I stopped and asked him if the way he thinks is something he always did or if he’s nurtured it - both, he replied. But, whether he was right or not, he pointed out that it’s better to convince yourself it’s all nurture.

The truth is that, with nature, you have a natural excuse, but with nurture, you have to put in the work to be better at the things that matter to you, i.e., change your brain’s neuroplasticity.

Resources that helped me this week 👇️ 

As luck would have it, the following day, I was listening to this podcast, where the guest Andrew Roberts talks about great leaders, Napoleon and Churchill, and how they are perfect examples of nature vs nurture (and in this case, that nurture wins) take Churchill for example, he never attended university and was often bashed for his ideas, but he had this belief that fed his military and political career. A belief that he nurtured and ultimately got him to the places he wanted to go.

In my case, I threw out the old script that lets me believe that my nature is what it is, and I can’t change how I approach my current career. Instead, I’m rewiring my brain to build the next phase of my career how I want to, and Gary Mullen is really helping me with this — and this is why I feel like the right nurturing will lead you to the best of people.

Now, back to you, what’s one way you can nurture your brain to kick an excuse that’s been holding you back?

If you’ve read this far, thank you!

Until next Friday,

Mar X