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Brains and How to Get Them

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Who This Is For

You'll get the most from this if…

✓You believe your intelligence or cognitive capacity is fixed and want a framework for challenging that assumption
✓You want to understand the relationship between concentration, attention, and the physical development of mental capability
✓You are interested in talent development and want to know what the early self-help movement understood about how expertise is built
✓You struggle with mental fatigue, scattered attention, or cognitive burnout and want both a framework and practical recovery tools
✓You are a high performer who wants to extend mental longevity and protect cognitive sharpness over decades
✓You want the intellectual history behind growth mindset and neuroplasticity - the pre-scientific version that intuited the mechanism before the studies existed

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Quick-Start Cheat Sheets

The core principles across multiple printable pages.

30-Day Challenge Workbook

Build the teaching into 30 days of structured daily practice.

Habit Tracker & Goal Planner

Track the micro-habits that compound into lasting change.

52-Week Daily Affirmation Calendar

52 weeks of daily affirmations - one for every day from May 2026 to April 2027.

Affirmation Card Deck

52 cards to carry the teaching into every part of your day.

Annotated Edition

Christie L. Russell's annotated edition with neuroscience and NLP commentary.

About the Work

Brains and How to Get Them - New Thought, 1866-1954

Larson's guide to developing intelligence, mental acuity, and cognitive capacity - arguing that 'brains' are not fixed at birth but cultivated through specific mental habits.

The Science Behind It

Larson's prolific optimism-based approach is the closest New Thought comes to positive psychology as a formal discipline. His emphasis on the 'promise yourself' principle maps to self-compassion research - treating yourself as you would a good friend is one of the most evidence-backed interventions for sustained positive change. His insistence on consistency over intensity anticipates what we now know about neuroplasticity: small repeated actions create stronger and more durable neural pathways than occasional dramatic ones.