Label Yourself - Unleash Your Potential | Wouter van den Berg | TEDxHilversum

Labeling yourself limits your potential and still you are doing all the time. Neuroscientist Wouter van den Berg knows how to peel of these labels in order to grow to full potential. He starts with our DNA and proceeds through 4 stages to end with our labeling habits in adult life. So explore how you can free yourself from limiting labels to unveil your talents.


He was a talented professional soccer player. Made it even into the Dutch national team. Talent was clearly in his genes, but that wasn’t enough to make it to the top. Why not, was his primary questions. And it made Wouter van den Berg decide to study economics and neuro sciences and even become a professor in the latter. How do you unleash your talent? How do you get rid of the caged version of yourself? What keeps you from having access to your greater self?

Wouter is convinced – and as a scientist has seen the data and the proof – that DNA is absolutely part of the ingredients one can work with in his or her life. The genes your father and mother gave you, determine partly your talents. But as a small baby you draw conclusions early in life: ‘can I trust people?’ ‘Am I worthy to be loved and cared for?’ Later when your personality is shaped you start yourself questions like, ‘Who am I?’ These unconscious and conscious processes determine your self image. The answers to these ques

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