Self Help Program

The Beginning of Control. Most people spend their lives trying to control their thoughts; they fight them, argue with them, suppress them, but that rarely works, because thoughts behave more like signals than commands. The real power comes from understanding how the signal is tuned, and that brings us to the next discovery. Your mind isn’t just a receiver; it’s also an algorithm, and the algorithm is trained by one thing above all else: your attention. Let us explore something that most people have never realized. Your mind is learning from you every second.

Oscar Award-winning producer Brian Grazer (A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13) talks about "Disrupting My Comfort Zone" in both his professional and personal life in his contribution to NPR's This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the...