How to Trick Your Mind to Achieve Everything You Want
A 16-minute solo talk arguing that your identity is a story built from repetition, so you may as well rewrite it on purpose.
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Big Idea
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Your identity is belief plus action plus repetition, so you can install a better self-story on purpose by repeating it, acting it out, and collecting small wins as proof.
Who This Is For
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TL;DR
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The host says people already lie to themselves every day with scripts like 'I am lazy' or 'I am bad with money', and the brain accepts whatever it hears repeatedly because it filters reality through belief. Using the reticular activating system, confirmation bias and Hebb's law as the explanation, he proposes replacing old scripts on purpose. His formula is to choose a detailed new identity, say it out loud daily, anchor it with movement and emotion, and reinforce it with small wins. He closes with a seven-day challenge: pick one belief, repeat it, and act as if it is true.
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Opens by naming the everyday lies people tell themselves and promises a way to lie in the direction of who you want to become.
00:38 – 03:26
02 · How your brain shapes your reality
Explains the reticular activating system, confirmation bias and Hebb's law as the mechanism behind self-belief.
03:26 – 04:17
03 · Event ad break
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04:17 – 06:01
04 · You believe the wrong lie
Argues the problem is not lying but believing limiting scripts, and offers examples of empowering replacements.
06:01 – 08:04
05 · Identity is a story, not a fact
Acting from your past self versus your future self, cell turnover, and the placebo effect.
08:04 – 09:29
06 · Visualization
Visualizing an action activates similar motor-cortex activity to doing it, so rehearsal installs the new identity.
09:29 – 11:56
07 · The identity formula
Belief plus action plus repetition: choose a detailed identity, say it aloud, anchor it with emotion and movement, reinforce with small wins.
11:56 – 14:49
08 · Name the old lie, write the new one
Write the disempowering lie, write its empowering opposite, speak it daily, act it out, and overwrite the old script when it returns.
14:49 – 16:29
09 · The seven-day challenge
Pick one core belief, repeat it and act as if it is true for seven days, then watch evidence accumulate.
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The brain believes repetition, not reality, so whatever you repeat most becomes your default story about who you are.
The problem is not that you lie to yourself, it is that you already believe the wrong lie.
Identity is belief plus action plus repetition, which means each of the three is something you can change directly.
Vague identities like 'a successful person' do nothing; a detailed identity gives your brain something specific to scan for.
Saying a new belief out loud matters because you hear it as well as think it, and your beliefs tend to catch up to what you say.
Small wins such as showing up two minutes early turn confirmation bias in your favor instead of against you.
To replace a limiting belief, write the old line on paper, then write its empowering opposite as the new line.
You will slide back into old scripts; the move is to catch yourself mid-script and overwrite it with 'not yet, but I am becoming that person'.
Visualizing an action activates much of the same motor-cortex activity as doing it, so rehearsal counts as installation.
Acting from your future self instead of your past self lets a version of you that does not exist yet shape today's behavior.
A new belief will feel fake on day one, and the instruction is to keep going especially when it feels fake.
Small children keep trying to climb a couch because they have not yet learned the belief 'I can't do this', which shows limiting beliefs are learned.
Takeaway
Choose the story you repeat on purpose.
WHAT TO LEARN
Because the brain accepts whatever it hears repeatedly, rewriting your identity comes down to choosing a specific new belief and then repeating, acting and proving it daily.
Limiting beliefs like 'I can't focus' are learned scripts, not facts, which means they can be unlearned the same way they were picked up.
Write your old lie on paper, then write its empowering opposite, and say the new line out loud every day rather than only thinking it.
Be specific about the identity you want; 'a person who follows through' gives your brain a target, while 'a successful person' does not.
Anchor the new belief with action: walk, work, journal and introduce yourself the way that person would.
Count small wins like arriving two minutes early as proof, which turns confirmation bias into a tool that works for you.
Expect old scripts to return and answer them with 'not yet, but I'm becoming that person' instead of treating the slip as failure.
Run a seven-day test with one core belief, keep going through the days it feels fake, and judge it by the evidence you notice after 7, 10 and 30 days.
Glossary
Terms worth knowing.
Reticular activating system
A network in the brainstem that the host describes as a bouncer, filtering the flood of sensory input down to the small amount that matches what you already believe.
Confirmation bias
The tendency to notice and remember evidence that supports what you already believe while overlooking evidence that does not.
Hebb's law
The principle that neurons that fire together wire together, so thoughts repeated often form stronger default pathways in the brain.
Placebo effect
Improvement that happens because a person believes they are being treated, even when the treatment is inert, such as a sugar pill.
Future self
The version of you that you want to become, used here as a model whose behavior you borrow in the present to shape who you act like today.
“Your brain does not believe reality. It believes repetition.”
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“The problem is not the lie. The problem is that you believe the wrong lie.”
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“You're not the story that you've been telling yourself. You are the storyteller.”
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You already lied to yourself every single day. You lie when you say that you're not good enough. You lie when you call yourself lazy or stuck or unworthy or not worthy of love.
Right now, you're living inside of a mental script and you didn't even write that mental script. You just unconsciously downloaded it throughout your childhood, teenage years, adolescence, all of that. The only difference between that is that those lies are actually holding you back.
So today, I'm going to teach you how to lie to yourself in the direction of who you want to become. And I want it to happen fast, and I want to make it as real as we possibly can. Because your brain believes repetition and repetition only, not reality.
And the identity that you have of yourself is not based in any truth. It's based in habit. And so let's change your internal script, not by being fake, but by being intentional of who you want to be.
So let's dive into it. The thing I really want you to understand is that your brain does not believe reality. It believes repetition.
And so the science behind this, if you've listened to this podcast for a while, there's a part of your brain that's called the reticular activating system. And it filters out almost your entire world and everything that happens to you and your five senses. based off of what you believe is true.
So if you've never heard me talk about it, real quick science behind it. At any moment in your five senses, your brain could take in about 11 million bits of information per second. And your brain filters out all of those 11 million bits of information, except for 40 bits of information.
It's basically the bouncer at the door. In the bouncer, will filter out everything that you do not believe and only let in the things that you believe.
So if you think to yourself, I always mess up, your brain will look for evidence to prove yourself right. If you believe I'm learning faster than I ever have and I'm becoming better, your brain will also start scanning for proof of that as well. If you believe, oh, well, I'm just not a disciplined person, then your brain will highlight.
Every single time that you haven't been disciplined, every time that you've skipped a workout and hit your snooze alarm, it's going to pay attention and highlight those moments. But if you believe I'm becoming the type of person that follows through, your brain will start to pay attention to every single tiny win in stacking them.
If you believe I can't stay focused. then your brain is going to pay attention to every moment where you start drifting in your focus and calling it failure and then saying, oh, I must be ADHD. But if you believe I'm training my focus every day, I'm becoming more focused every single day, you'll start seeing every minute of concentration as progress.
Do you see what I'm talking about here? Whatever you focus on, because there's a trillion things in your reality to focus on, Whatever you focus on in your brain and believe to be true, your brain will search for evidence to prove that true.
In psychology, it's called the confirmation bias. You're always looking for ways to prove yourself right. And there's a thing in neurology that's called Hebb's Law.
And Hebb's Law says that neurons that fire together wire together. And we will be right back. Hey, if you're ready for your next breakthrough.
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And now back to the show, which means if you start thinking something over and over and over and over and over again, that thought will strengthen itself. Your repeated thoughts become your default neural pathways. Now, the problem with that is that up until this moment, if you've never known this before.
You've just unconsciously started downloading the world from other people, from your parents, from society, from everything. And you started to build unconsciously who you think you are. And from that, you have created a reality based off of who you think you are.
From this moment forward, it's like you 2 .0, where you need to start paying attention to what you want to believe and actually start lying to yourself because you're already lying to yourself. So you need to start lying to yourself into becoming the person that you want to become. Because the truth is, most of us are already running lies on repeat all day long.
Oh, I'm just not good with money. I can't focus. I'm not creative.
I'll never be successful. I have troubles with saving money. I don't know anything about this.
I'm not good at math. I'm not good at English. I'm stupid.
I'm not pretty. Whatever you're saying to yourself. So I want you to understand this.
The problem here is not the lie. I don't want you to stop lying to yourself. The problem is not the lie.
The problem is that you believe the wrong lie. You're not bad with money. It's not that you can't focus.
You're not good enough. You're not not creative. All of those things are not true, but you believe them.
That's the problem. You're believing the wrong lie. I want you to start lying to yourself to build yourself into who you want to become because what you believe is going to change your reality.
And so what if you ran a new script so often in your head that you actually just started accepting it as normal? Because beliefs are not reality. Beliefs are just thoughts that you've been thinking for so long that you believe that it's actually true.
Well, if that's the case, what if I started thinking something different over and over and over and over again so much that I actually started to make myself believe that it's true. So I want you to install new lies into your brain.
If you want to be somebody who follows through, start saying to yourself, I am somebody who follows through. Now, is your BS meter going to go off? Yes.
You just keep lying to yourself and you start firing those neurons. They start wiring and you actually start to believe over the next 30 days, 60 days, 90 days. Oh, maybe I'm someone who actually follows through.
I'm somebody who follows through. That's a really good lie. I get clearer and clearer every day with what I want.
I am unstoppable. I always figure it out. I show up with confidence even when I'm scared.
I'm becoming somebody that people can count on. You're already lying to yourself about who you think you are. That identity that you have yourself is a figment of your imagination.
Start lying to yourself at least to become the person that you want to be and change your reality in that way. Because your identity is a story.
It's not a fact. Most people act from the past. Um, this is who I've always been, so this is just who I am.
But you could flip it if you want to. Instead of acting from your past self, which is a version of you that doesn't exist anymore, it's kind of like they say you never walk through the same river twice because it's not the same river and you're not the same person. Every seven years, every single of the 40 trillion cells in your body are recycled, which means that you're not even the same person that you were seven years ago at all, except for that you think that you are.
And so if you can act from your past self, like many of us have for so long, you could also act from the future self and let that shape your behavior in the present moment. And this isn't like some weird. woo -woo -wee, fake it till you make it type stuff.
This is actually based in science. When you look at the placebo effect, over 33 % of people in drug trials are given sugar pills and they heal themselves because they believed that they were being healed. If somebody can heal themselves inside of their body because they believe that they're healing themselves, you could probably believe that you're the type of person that follows through.
And so you have to understand that your brain responds to belief as if it's reality. And your brain is not just noticing the reality that's happening around you at all point in times, it's shaping and bending your reality to meet your beliefs. Think about that for a second.
And so another piece of this, besides just believing, is visualizing exactly what you want. There's been many studies in academic performance, athletic performance that shows that if you just visualize yourself doing something like going for a run or playing the piano, the same motor cortex activity occurs in your brain as if you're actually doing that thing just by visualizing yourself doing it.
So by changing what you believe and by visualizing what you want, you're not really faking it. What you're doing is you're installing it. which is what you really need to do is install the new program within yourself.
And so when you look at it, let's talk about like how the lies of your life become your reality. Your identity is basically your belief plus action plus repetition. That's it.
Belief plus action plus repetition. You're not born believing that you're incapable or not good enough or not smart enough. You learn that at some point in time.
Like my son, when I was watching him learn how to walk or try to get onto a couch, the amount of frustration that he would have, he'd be like, oh, you could see he's getting so close and he would get mad, he'd get pissed, he'd yell, but he wouldn't give up because he didn't think to himself, I can't do this. He hasn't learned that yet at that point in time.
So let's use the same process where we learn something. But kind of work it backwards. And so here's what I want you to do.
The formula is this. I want you to choose the new identity. Who do you want to be?
Figure it out. Be very detailed about it. Don't say, oh, I want to be a successful person.
That's stupid. That's not good. Be very detailed of exactly what it is that you want.
Then speak it out loud to yourself. Speak it out loud to yourself as often as you possibly can. I am somebody who follows through.
I am somebody who follows through. I am somebody who follows through. And then anchor it with emotion, which is like how you feel in movement in some sort of way.
Walk around your house like the type of person who follows through. Journal as if you're the type of person who follows through. Speak as if you're the type of person who follows through.
Take action as if you're the type of person who follows through. And then what you do is you reinforce this with small wins. You're using confirmation bias in your favor.
So if you say, I'm the type of person who follows through, and then you show up to a Zoom call two minutes early and not late like you normally do, guess what? I'm reinforcing that with a small win.
See, I am the type of person who follows through. I was early to this damn meeting and I'm normally late to it. If you say, oh, I'm going to work out today and you work out today, you're like, see, I am the type of person who follows through.
What you're doing is you're figuring out who you want to be. You're speaking into existence. You're taking action from it.
And then you are reinforcing the small wins by looking for proof that who you want to be is who you're becoming right now. And this was actually done by Carol Dweck, who wrote a book called Mindset.
She's a PhD at Stanford. She found out that for her students that she was working with, if they just believed that they were intelligent, they became more intelligent. Students who believe that they are intelligent, they told themselves they were, they visualize themselves being intelligent, improve their performance without any new teaching methods at all.
They simply just became smarter by thinking that they're smart. So if they can do that and people can heal themselves because they think that they're healed, I bet you could be the type of person that just follows through. So let's figure out how to start lying to yourself in an empowering way.
The first thing you want to do is you want to start to name your old lie. Like find the lies that you're telling yourself, the disempowering old lies. Oh, I'm just not consistent or I always mess things up or I'm just never going to be successful or I'm too distracted to focus and write them down with pen and paper.
Then what I want you to do, that's the disempowering thing that you say to yourself. I want you to find the empowering opposite of that thing. Write the opposite of that lie as the new lie, the empowering one.
I am deeply focused when it matters. I am the type of person that follows through. I keep promises to myself.
I am becoming known for following through. I am the type of person that people can rely on. And so you identify the old lie, which is the disempowering lie.
Then you find the empowering opposite of that. You write it down and then you start to speak it out loud to yourself so that you're not only thinking it, you're also saying it and you're hearing it. You have to say it before you believe it in your brain and your beliefs will eventually catch up.
The more that you say it, the more that you'll actually start to believe it over time. So you say it out loud to yourself every single day.
Then you need to start to actually act it out. Walk differently, work differently, introduce yourself differently, shake somebody's hand differently. What you're doing is basically looking at your future self and you're saying, that's who I'm becoming and I'm going to borrow the behavior of my future self.
And you start becoming that person. You start acting like that person. So now you're thinking it, you're saying it, You're acting as it.
Guess what's going to start to happen? You're going to start believing it. And not to say that you won't go back into your old lives.
You definitely will go back to your old lives because those neurons have been firing together for a very long time. So catch your brain in the old script and then overwrite it. And your voice is going to say to yourself, well, you're not really that person.
Shut up. You've always been this type of person. You're not that type of person.
And you can say to yourself out loud, no, not yet, but I'm becoming that type of person. Watch me. And so you can actually do this in your life because here's the truth.
You've already been hypnotized. You've already been lying to yourself. You've been hypnotized by your past.
You've been hypnotized by your parents. You've been hypnotized by your old relationships that you were in, by your old mistakes. You've already believed stories that weren't true.
You took behaviors and turned them into an identity. You've believed stories that were not true. So the question is, if you're going to lie to yourself, Why not lie in the direction of who you want to be versus lying to yourself for who you don't want to be?
You're not the story that you've been telling yourself. You are the storyteller. Tell yourself a better story until it actually starts to become fact.
And so here is my challenge for you. I want you to find one belief that you need to install, like the one belief that is the biggest belief out of all of them. I want you to write it down, get very clear on the exact belief it is.
And I want you to speak it. over and over and over again for the next seven days. The first day you're going to be like, this is complete bullshit.
Cool. Keep doing it. Keep showing up.
Keep doing it. Keep showing up. And then I want you to start to speak it and speak it and speak it and move as if it's already true.
Do it for seven days, even when it feels like fake, especially when it feels fake. And then I want you to watch how your brain after seven days, after 10 days, after 30 days actually starts to believe it. starts to find evidence for it and starts to actually move towards it.
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The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
The pitch is a reframe: you are already lying to yourself every day, so the only choice is which lie you repeat. The host builds that case with brain-science shorthand and ends on a seven-day experiment.
Frameworks
Named ideas worth stealing.
09:30model
Identity = belief + action + repetition
Belief
Action
Repetition
The host's core model: who you are is the product of what you believe, what you do about it, and how often you repeat both.
10:20list
The four-step identity formula
Choose a detailed new identity
Speak it out loud often
Anchor it with emotion and movement
Reinforce it with small wins
A sequence for installing a new identity by working the learning process backwards.
12:40list
Old lie to new lie rewrite
Name the old disempowering lie
Write it on paper
Write its empowering opposite
Say it aloud daily
Act it out
A written exercise for replacing a limiting belief with a specific empowering one.
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