I have always been fascinated by the power of the mind to help you accomplish more and effectively change your reality.

It’s something I’ve leveraged in nearly every aspect of my life, from relationships to health and fitness, challenges and my business.

When I read Dave Robson’s book ‘The Expectation Effect’ I made pages of notes and got some big takeaways that I’ve since gone on to apply.

David is a science writer and his book was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and won a British Psychological Society Book Award in the popular science category.

The Expectation Effect is the power of our beliefs or expectations to not only bring us more motivation, but potentially bring about physical changes to our brains and bodies.

The book covers a whole range of different areas where this has an effect, and details a number of fascinating studies that demonstrate just how important our beliefs and mindset really are.

I spoke to Dave for today’s episode of the podcast and we got into some of the areas that I’m particular interested in around health, wellbeing and performance.

Dave talks about how the brain is a ‘prediction machine’, and how reappraisal techniques can help us view discomfort in different ways.

We get into the application to fitness, diet, stress and will power, and what the science tells us about how we can take advantage of this inbuilt expectation effect.

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You can find out more about Dave via his website:

https://davidrobson.me/

LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-robson-5761791b/)

Twitter: https://twitter.com/d_a_robson

And the book is available on Amazon and good book shops:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Expectation-Effect-Your-Mindset-Transform/dp/183885326X

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