PART I

An Introduction to Mindset

How the Brain Works and Why We Think and Feel the Way We Do

Before we go into some of the specifics about mindset and how by changing your mindset you can foster a career for success, let’s start with a bit more of the science behind some of this.

Let’s start by understanding how the brain works. How we create feelings of doubt, fear, stress, anxiety, lack of confidence, and phobic responses that can hold us back from taking the next step in our career progression. How the interference comes and goes and what we can do about it to ensure we create a mindset for career success.

If we imagine our brain in the shape of a rugby ball, the very tip at the front of the ball is called the prefrontal cortex—this is the ...

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