Manage Your Mind Or Let It Control You: No Other Option | Dr. Caroline Leaf

管理你的思维,还是让它控制你:别无选择 | 卡罗琳·里夫博士

The Daily Motivation

2026-01-07

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Leave an Amazon Rating or Review for my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy! Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1870 Dr. Caroline Leaf was a young scientist in the 1980s when she decided to swim directly against everything the medical establishment believed about the brain. Back then, if you were in a coma for more than eight hours, doctors considered the brain damage irreversible. You were written off. Done. But she met a 16-year-old girl who'd lost an entire year of school, functioning at a second-grade level, labeled a "vegetable" by her doctors. Every expert said attempting to get her back to graduate with her peers was pointless, not even worth trying. Eight months later, that girl caught up to 12th grade, finished school with her class, earned a university degree, and became exceptional at math when she'd been average before the accident. This wasn't compensation or coping strategies. This was her brain actually rebuilding itself through systematic, intentional mind management. Here's what matters for your life: you don't go even three seconds without using your mind, which means every moment you're either directing it or letting it run wild. Dr. Leaf spent decades working everywhere from apartheid-torn South Africa to Rwanda war zones to CEO boardrooms, and what she discovered is that you can't control what happens to you, but you can absolutely learn to manage your mind. Real greatness isn't about millions in the bank or fame. It's about mental peace, actual growth, being satisfied with who you're becoming. Your brain isn't fixed. Your limitations aren't permanent. And the person you think you are right now? That's just the beginning of who you could become if you learn to direct your own neuroplasticity instead of letting life do it randomly. Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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  • Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

  • Once someone's had a traumatic brain injury and I'm your dad with 3-1, that's pretty much that's,

  • you know, we've written off and we were trained, as I said, to compensate.

  • So I said, okay, well, there's hardly any research in the 80s on brain injury and on how to...

  • treat it and so I thought okay well I'm gonna start there and so I worked with people that had been in comas for like longer than two weeks and at that stage

  • if you in a coma for longer than eight hours the brain damage was considered irreversible.

  • Now in this day and age we know that's not the case but in the 80s that was the going philosophy so it's completely resuming upstream when it came to this concept.

  • Anyway I showed with my subjects that with using your mind and not in any weird way.

  • It's a very systematic, deliberate,

  • intentional mind management in different ways and different brain building and dealing with emotions in just different ways.

  • Same sort of process that you can actually change this.

  • And so some of my first,

  • my very first case study was a girl who was 16 at the time of an accident and she had lost a whole year of school written off as a vegetable.

  • I mean, that's what the doctors used to say in those days,

  • which is a terrible thing to say to someone.

  • Anyway, long story short, after eight months, not only did she manage to She came around,

  • I started working with her when she was conscious and functioning sort of at a second grade level.

  • And she wanted to her goal was to get her goal of greatness,

  • was to get back to finish 12th grade and with her peer group.

  • Now that was an impossible task.