...and your brain says "OK!
Whatever you say, whatever you think, whatever occupies your mind, will manifest in your life, according to Steven Campbell, noted professor, lecturer and author. Your brain automatically accepts these words and thoughts to be absolutely true. As a result, you will make these things a reality in your life! This is the simple essence of Steven Campbell's lecture about a method that will build your self image and change your life for the better.
Campbell discusses the mystery of phantom limbs that have been severed that are still being experienced in the brain. He also reviews generations of time-tested psychological theories including Freudianism, behaviorism and environmentalism, validating all. And then he encapsulates all of them in the "Magnificent Mind Concept" that everything you do is based on what you are saying to yourself... now... today.
Examples that validate this theory are taken from real life experiences of students who feel they are not good at math (and who does not feel this way?), getting an A in a math test and refusing to believe it was real, because their brains were so tightly wired in the opposite direction. Campbell also illustrates how the brain can skim over a word and read it even though it is grossly misspelled. The brain records the properly spelled word automatically, no matter what the reality is. The brain is in charge of everything and will make it so.
And when someone says that you are really great and you are embarrassed and do not think it is true. Guess what? It will not be true. But if you accept sincere praise with grace, you will become the great person that you are. So, when praise comes your way, be sure to wallow in it and savor it like a pig in mud!

The primary element that holds us back from learning, growing and changing, is what we say to ourselves.