Like Amazon’s Alexa, Google’s Home, and seemingly every internet-connected device around us, “your brain is always listening”. Listening, that is, to your thoughts and self-talk. While your brain is the most advanced supercomputer in the universe, like all computers, it requires some programming. Even more importantly, just like AI (artificial intelligence), your brain is always learning – and then reinforcing what it has learned. When you repeat negative thoughts, your brain “hears” those thoughts and it learns to think those negative thoughts more easily in the future. Similarly, when you think or say positive things, your brain likewise listens and learns – and makes it automatically easier to think and talk more positively in the future. Dr. Daniel Amen refers to those automatic negative thoughts as ANTs – and this book will teach you strategies to recognize them, cut them off, and reframe them in a more positive direction. Over time, this practice will not only make it easier to think positive thoughts and experience the positive emotions associated with them, it will actually become more difficult for you to think negative thoughts and experience the negative emotions that go with them. Your brain is amazing! It’s up to you to decide what you let it hear in each moment.