Neuroscientist: How To Reinvent Yourself Today - Live Longer, Healthier & Happier | Tara Swart

Swart says images prime selective attention and value tagging so you notice relevant opportunities, and she stresses you must do things daily to make the goals real. She keeps the board visible near bed to use the Tetris effect.

Swart says repeated bad news and comparison-inducing social media can harm mental health, and images amplify this effect. She curates her feeds and rarely watches the news, while Chatterjee has removed the news app from his phone.

Swart explains that fear and other survival emotions are hardwired and stronger than positive ones. She suggests choosing based on what you want to build, and trying new things so change feels more manageable.

Swart says high cortisol routes blood away from the prefrontal cortex, weakening emotional regulation and complex decisions, and promotes abdominal fat even when people diet and exercise. She says trust and fear can't coexist because cortisol and oxytocin work against each other.

Swart says reading back old entries lets you question your thoughts, and writing down what logic and intuition each say lets you test them in low-risk decisions. She says this convinced her that her intuition was more accurate than her logic.