Harness the Power of Your UNCONSCIOUS MIND | Dr. Daniel Z. Lieberman EP 432

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:11What is the unconscious mind versus the conscious mind? A lot of people have seen these pictures of the mind as an iceberg, right? Where there's this little teeny part above the surface and a huge mass is below the surface. That's the unconscious mind. The unconscious mind is responsible for everything that goes on inside our heads that we don't have control over. emotions, excitement, enthusiasm, interest. Most people don't think about this. You don't control what you're interested in. Do somebody like football? Okay. I personally don't like football, but there's nothing I can do to make myself passionate about football.

0:47Here's the thing. I'm going to challenge you on this and tell me if I'm wrong. I never liked soccer. I played it growing up and then I stopped playing it when I was a sophomore in high school when I started playing football. The only time I was interested in soccer was during the World Cup when I was I was like, okay, I can get behind everyone going out and watching a game and supporting the USA. But I never wanted to watch until a few years ago. I was just telling one of our producers here, Mike, that I went to a couple of LAFC games. They're LA football club soccer team, right? Yeah. And I was like, this is incredible.

1:14The energy, the experience. I got to know the players and I was like, became interested in the sport of soccer. And I was like, I want to go to more games. Yeah. So how does that, like, what does that mean then? If I'm not interested, but then I become interested in something. We talked about this pastor. A month off. And boom, the idea hit him. Yes. That came from his unconscious mind. He didn't dig it up, right? Right. It came to him. You went to the soccer game and you were given a gift. Uh-huh. You were given the gift of excitement. Yes. You didn't work for that. It was far the exciting, yeah.

1:47Right. That was a gift for your unconscious mind. And that's why trust is so important, that we have to trust that these gifts will come. If we try to squeeze our unconscious mind and force it to give us things, it's going to rebel. We've got to kind of go through saying, look, I've got a co-pilot. Maybe I'm the co-pilot. Maybe the other guy's the pilot and in charge. It's a realization that you cannot control everything, that you have to be open to gifts that come from the unconscious mind. So it's kind of like being curious about life. I'm going to try this thing. I'm going to check this out and see how it makes me feel.

2:22Yeah. So I did this TEDx talk, right? Yes. That's a big deal. Yeah. When I went to work, first thing I did, first thing in the morning, is I ran through that speech. Wow. All right, so I get there. We do a dress rehearsal. Get up there, and I'm giving my speech. I draw a blank halfway through. Nothing. I'm sweating. Dress rehearsal. Dress rehearsal. I got nothing. And I'm terrified. And there's a dinner that evening, and I skip the dinner. I go back to my hotel room, and I'm memorizing memorizing. So now it's the day of the thing and I'm about to go out and I realized, I said, look, I didn't shirk.

3:00I wasn't lazy. I did everything I could and it wasn't enough. Wow. And so I said to my unconscious mind, we're all in this together. Be a pal and help me out. You know, I acknowledged that I didn't have control. And I was happy with that when my unconscious mind came through for me. That was great. But it came through for me as a friend, not as a servant. I didn't order it. I asked it. So what happens to people who are extremely controlling in their life versus people that are more in surrender? Yeah, those controlling people don't do well. Really? And a lot of times, you know, the unconscious mind has a sense of humor.

3:44You know about the Freudian slip, right? Yes. A lot of times the Freudian slip will reveal a truth that you were trying to hide, but the unconscious mind says, stop luck. You said this. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so people are always trying to be in control. Their unconscious mind is constantly sabotaging them. So the unconscious mind is in control? We share control. It's a partnership. If you try to be the tyrant, like the people who are very much in control, the unconscious mind is going to mess with you.

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