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I recently watched a fascinating interview. On the show Impact Theory, Tom Bilyeu interviewed Trevor Moawad. A mental conditioning expert and strategic advisor to elite performers. In 2017, he was named ‘Sports World’s Best Brain Trainer’ by sports illustrated. In this interview, he highlights some compelling ideas. Ideas used to make elite performers better. Saying it out loud Trevor talks about the power of negative thinking. The human brain likes to think negatively (possibly a survival mechanism). A negative thought is 4-7 times stronger than a positive one. By saying the negative thought out loud increases its power by ten times. So saying a negative thought out loud is 40 to 70 times stronger than a single positive thought. You would need 40 to 70 separate positive thoughts to counteract it. That’s a lot of positive thoughts. He tells a story of a baseball player ‘Bill Bucker’ who made a massive mistake at the end of a World Series game. He let the game-winning run sc