Episode•July 26, 2022•25 min

Using Your Brain for Success with Liam Naden | Ep. 126

In this episode, Liam Naden breaks down how to use your brain the 'right' way when it comes to overcoming problems and creating a life of success for yourself. About Our Guest Speaker, teacher, writer and researcher Liam Naden helps you understand the process for creating true success in your life by understanding how to use your brain the right way - overcoming your problems, achieving your goals and ending frustrations. He is the host of the podcast: "Using Your Brain for Success" and creator of Neuro-State Rebalancing (NSR), a process which automatically gets the four parts of your brain working the right way to bring you the life you want. Liam is also an experienced marriage and relationships coach, host of the "Growing in Love for Life" podcast, author of more than 20 books and creator of 4 relationships coaching programs. Connect with Liam Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/liamnadenfan Connect with Tiffany on Social Media Facebook: Money Talk With Tiff Twitter: @moneytalkwitht Instagram: @moneytalkwitht LinkedIn: Tiffany Grant This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy

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Key Takeaways

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Your brain is a biological machine designed to help you survive and thrive, but most people don't know how to 'drive' it properly.
The brain is vastly more powerful than any computer system, trillions of times more powerful.
Like a car, the brain needs to be learned how to operate; you can't just figure it out by pushing it harder.
Understanding how the brain works allows you to let it do its job of giving you a great life without constant struggle.
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There are four parts of the brain, and success comes from operating in your 'creative natural state.'
Thinking brain: stores knowledge and experience like a database.
Feeling brain: handles emotions, both positive and negative.
Survival brain: manages fight-flight-freeze response to immediate threats.
Creative brain: source of intuition, imagination, good decisions, and bringing opportunities (luck/synchronicity).
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Living in survival mode blocks your creative brain and prevents you from making good decisions or solving problems effectively.
When survival brain is activated, it blocks the creative brain to focus on immediate danger.
Most people live with survival brain activated most of the time, feeling stressed, anxious, and worried.
This is why people struggle: they're using the wrong part of the brain to build their ideal life.
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Avoid negativity because anything that makes you feel afraid activates the wrong brain state and blocks success.
Watching the news, negative people, or toxic situations all activate survival mode.
Your brain cannot distinguish between real immediate threats and perceived future dangers.
Protecting your mental environment is as critical as avoiding physical toxins.
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Trust your brain to work once you understand how to use it; stop over-controlling and checking constantly.
Like driving a car with one foot on the accelerator and one on the brake, overthinking and worry prevent smooth operation.
When you use your brain the right way, you don't need to make too many plans; trust it to take you where you're supposed to go.
The key is removing the 'handbrake' by allowing the creative brain to drive your life.

Intro

Liam Naden joins Tiffany to explain how understanding and properly using your brain's four parts can transform your ability to overcome problems, achieve goals, and create a successful life.
Liam Naden is a speaker, teacher, writer, and researcher who helps people understand how to use their brain the right way. He is the host of 'Using Your Brain for Success' podcast, creator of Neuro-State Rebalancing (NSR), an experienced marriage and relationships coach, author of more than 20 books, and has been living on a boat in Europe for seven years.

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– Living on a Boat: Freedom and Possibility

Liam explains how living on a boat for seven years became possible due to modern technology allowing location-independent work. He emphasizes that there's never been a better time in history to reject the traditional house-and-mortgage path if it doesn't align with your desires.

Why do we want to be anywhere? Why don't we just be nowhere and just travel around?
– Liam Naden

– The Car Analogy: Learning to Drive Your Brain

Liam uses the analogy of a car to explain that the brain is a machine designed to take you from where you are to where you want to go. Most people try to 'push' their brain through effort and struggle instead of learning how to properly operate it.

Nobody's ever taught us how to drive our brain... Your brain is designed to give you a great life, to make sure you stay out of trouble, you avoid problems, you avoid danger, and you do things that really make you happy.
– Liam Naden

– The Four Parts of the Brain Explained

Liam breaks down the four brain components:

Thinking brain: stores all knowledge and experience
Feeling brain: manages emotions from love to fear
Survival brain: handles fight-flight-freeze for immediate threats
Creative brain: source of intuition, imagination, good decisions, and opportunities

– Creative State vs. Survival Mode

The creative brain is your natural state where you're happy, make good decisions, and attract the right opportunities. The survival brain is only meant to activate during immediate threats, but most people live with it activated constantly, blocking their creative brain and causing struggle.

Most people are living with their survival brain activated most of the time... they're trying to use a part of their brain that is not designed to solve problems.
– Liam Naden

– Protecting Your Brain from Negativity

Liam emphasizes that anything making you feel afraid blocks your creative brain. He compares allowing negativity into your mind to drinking hydrochloric acid—you wouldn't do it for any amount of money because it damages you. This includes news, negative people, and toxic situations.

If you put that some toxicity into your brain mentally, it's the same thing... I don't care what it is. I know that if it makes me feel bad, I'm finished.
– Liam Naden

– Trusting Your Brain to Work

Liam explains that because we don't understand how the brain works, we don't trust it. He compares over-controlling and worrying to driving with one foot on the accelerator and one on the brake simultaneously. When you use your brain the right way, you trust it to take you where you're supposed to go.

When you use your brain the right way, you trust it to take you where you're supposed to go. You don't need to make too many plans.
– Liam Naden

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