If You’re Tired of Feeling Lazy - Try This | Tom Bilyeu EP 327

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1:15I won't say that I'm not always sort of updating my way of thinking, but the big model of my life is pretty stable now. So I would say that how well the things that I have cobbled together work in high pressure situations. You mean like your values, your principles, your frameworks for life? How to deal with your emotions. That's probably the most important one. Like when things are really going haywire, like how do you center yourself? And I learned very early in my business career that the thing that, because I looked back, there was a bunch of us at awareness technologies that were given the same spiel.

1:50Don't think of yourself as an employee. Think of yourself as a partner. If you act like a partner and achieve certain results, we'll actually make you a partner. And nobody did it. And so I'm just like, why am I the only one that's doing this? And I realized that my ability to self-soothe was a huge part of that. So other people would get upset. They would derail. They would take their eye off what they wanted to achieve because they were frustrated or whatever. and I could just bring myself back to center. Now, those are pretty small tests. And obviously as things have gone on, you start dealing with big numbers.

2:25You start to realize, is this real? Like, is this, can I actually center myself when, you know, say hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake? And then it's like, okay, this still works. And that was very encouraging, very encouraging. Because when you get a test that's sort of way beyond where you've been tested before, you're like, how's this going to work? So that was pretty extraordinary. How do you soothe under chaos? The big thing for me was recognizing that I'm having a biological experience and that I need to understand the brain, like the brain, not just the mind, which is incredibly important, but the brain.

3:03What is the brain doing? How does it hijack me? What is neurochemistry? What triggers it? Like, what are all the things that evolution has sort of primed me to do? It's what I call the physics of being human. So if you are a human, sort of regardless of intellect or experience or upbringing, there are a certain number of things that are true. They're as universal as universal is going to get. And look, nothing is perfectly universal, but some things are really close, like an internal dialogue and an internal dialogue that skews negative, right? Which is where most people start. Once you know, okay, cool, this is a trick of evolution.

3:37and my brain, this, so a guy named David Eagleman gave me this insight. He's a neuroscientist. It's so powerful. Lewis, I hope it hits you the way it hit me. And he goes, think about this. Your brain is enclosed in a dark box. Light never touches your brain. Sound never reaches your brain. And everything you experience as being in the world out there beyond you is all happening in your brain. It is a virtual reality that your brain creates for you. Even though I don't think we're actually living in a simulation, your brain is creating a simulation of the real world. And so your brain is not making any attempt to represent reality.

4:13Your brain is making an attempt to keep you alive and help you navigate the world. So knowing the heuristics that my brain is using, the rules of thumb, the shorthand, it's not true, but it has this massive influence on my life. So something bad happens and you take it on as negative. It makes you feel badly about yourself. And so I just put in all these rules of like, well, that's not objectively true. true so if i'm not worried about objective truth what should be sort of the the north star and for me the north star became utility what's useful so once i shifted away from trying to like be objectively true about myself realizing i'm probably not gonna ever nail that but i can get to something that's very very useful and so then i wrote my my beliefs down and sort of started thinking about value system and recognizing that brain plasticity is real.

5:05And so much of who we are, let's say it's roughly science says it's roughly 50%. It's not me making it up. That 50 % is hardwired and you're not going to be able to do anything about it. But 50 % is insanely malleable. And, um, I love this quote so great that you can't make a racehorse out of a pig, but you can make a really fast pig. And I thought, okay, cool. So maybe I'll never be a racehorse, but I can be a really fast pig. And so whenever I'm feeling badly about myself or something knocks me off center, I just come back to that idea of what's useful. How do you move forward? Like, even if you're not going to be the greatest of all time, does it benefit you to act as if you could become the greatest of all time if you pour yourself into it?

5:45And so I don't know that I'll ever end up being the greatest anything, but dude, acting like I can and like really practicing and moving through the world like I can become the greatest has propelled me forward.

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