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The power of positive affirmations. @tobi explains ... "You lay down a lot of grooves in the bedrock of your mind over time. Just your own behavior. You cultivate some excellent habits like where you feel like you want to cultivate new habits, you invest willpower to- until it becomes a habit. I think doing the same thing with the mind is totally possible, and affirmations are the easiest way to do it." "My example [is] public speaking. I've never spoke in front of people really. Even school, that was not really a thing. Then I needed to after starting Shopify and doing some interesting things with tech and wanted to go conferences and saw other people do this, and I was like, "This seems worth doing, but I'm completely terrified." So I just started writing out like I think it was as simple as 'I love public speaking about things that are interesting to me.' And I think a week of spending five minutes writing this line after line like Bart Simpson on a whiteboard in the beginning of a Simpson every episode just does the thing. I love it today. Was this the reason? I think so- yeah. I still don't like preparing talks. That's really a lot of work. But I actually get so much energy from being in front of people talking about something that's interesting." This applies to so much more than public speaking. "I wonder if we should start every math class with that, 'I love math.' Every student writes that down." "Think about the counter. How many times have you heard people affirm, "I'm not good at math"? Yeah. You know they're probably wrong, right? It's like they're pro- compared to every human who's ever lived, they are in the top 0.1 percentile of math- mathematicians." "We have a bad way, especially around math of negative affirmation that I'm bad at math, therefore I can't do this thing that people need to stop doing. Don't say that. Say the opposite. To yourself, write it a couple of times. " "Get one of those stupid apps and just do some reps. In fact, you don't even need an app. Open ChatGPT, say, "Make me an app. Make me an artifact, or make me a site where I can just do math reps." What do you tell your kids when they say "I'm no good at this ..." "My kids are not allowed to say that word without appending "yet" behind it, or the others will correct the one who said it. "I'm not good at this." Three people in the room say, "Yet."