In this video, we're going to talk about another block to growth mindset, and it is called negative self-talk. I'm going to implement a rule for this course that I hope you can continue long after you finished taking this course, and it is called the no negative self-talk rule. I'd love for you to implement this for yourself, and for those that you work with, your team, your staff members, your coworkers, and maybe some family and friends, because we can all benefit from it. Scientists have studied this, and neuroscientists believe that we all have about 60,000 thoughts per day. That's about a thought per second. Then out of those 60,000 thoughts per day, 95 percent of them, which is a large amount of them, are the same thoughts that you've had day in and day out. They become your habitual thoughts. Out of those habitual thoughts, the average person, 80 percent of those habitual thoughts are negative. Now let's do the math. That means that every day, the average person has about 45,000 negative thoughts. That's a lot of negativity that's going on. I like to tell my clients not to let the biggest enemy you have live between your own ears. The no negative self-talk rule means that you need to take all of the negative self-talk that you're giving yourself, either internally or even out loud, and you need to flip it and make it more positive because words are very powerful. If we're going to have all of these habitual thoughts that are looping through our brains every day, why not let some of them be more positive? Let's do a positive rephrasing exercise. We're going to bring back Thomas and Priya, our personas, and then you're also going to do some re-framing exercises for yourself. The first one is Thomas. One of the habitual thoughts that he has, and he often says it out loud to his co-workers is, "I'm never going to get that promotion." Rephrase that. How could he change that? "I'm never going to get that promotion," how could he rephrase that so that it's more positive? What would be the no negative self-talk rule version of that? Priya will often say, "I should just keep quiet at meetings." Because remember, Priya's fixed mindset is that she cannot improve her public speaking and communication skills. Her translation of that turns into a phrase, "I should just keep quiet at meetings." Rephrase that for Priya. Now for yourself, I want you to now take statements that you do say on a habitual basis, those little statements that come out that just creep up and pop out of your mouth, or at least that you think, and I want you to take the ones that are the most common, the most negative, and I want you to rephrase those. You can share the reframed version with some colleagues, or friends, or you can post them here in the course if you feel comfortable for others.