How to quiet your mind, in twelve minutes, with a rep you can run in your truck. High performance coach Steve Barton, creator of The Game of Ten, hands Chris Anderson six sentences and makes him say them on air. This is the most valuable stretch of the conversation, released as its own episode.

Steve Barton ran his father's floral business in Maine for about thirty years before he started coaching. He is seventy, and he says his job is to help a man stop punishing himself.

Chris opens with the question every man in our audience is carrying. There is a voice in my head that never stops. How do I quiet it? You cannot quiet it by trying harder. We were trained from childhood to think our way out of every problem, and that training is the reason the voice runs all day. Eighty percent of what it says is negative, and most of it is from the past.

Then he gives Chris the rep. Six phrases. About thirty seconds. Chris repeats each one on air, and by the end of it he says out loud that it worked. That is the moment this episode was built for.

In this episode:

- Why trying to stifle the voice makes it louder
- Why we were trained to think, and what that costs us
- Let go of control to be in control. The only control you have is inside you.
- Respond versus react, and what that has to do with a football sideline
- The six phrases, done live, with Chris repeating each one

Questions this episode answers

How do I quiet the voice in my head?
Steve Barton says stop fighting it. Say six short phrases out loud, starting with "I am enough," and the mind runs out of questions to ask.

Why does trying to stop overthinking make it worse?
Steve Barton says the more you try to stifle a thought, the louder it gets. Thinking your way out of thinking is rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Do the six phrases actually work?
Chris Anderson did them on air and said so. He noticed the difference before the rep was over.

Find Steve Barton at stevebartoncoaching.com. Download The Father, the Son, and the Aha Moment free at thegameof10.com. He posts every week on LinkedIn as Coach Steve Barton.

The Upgraded Man is hosted by Chris Anderson. Full episode with Steve is out now. Send this one to the friend who says he cannot shut his brain off.

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