?? How Your Brain Tricks You ????

Someone messaged me a while back and told me how they didn’t like XXX (some famous influencer; specific person is irrelevant).?

This famous person’s message and my message have a lot of alignment, I replied. So, what about me? Why do you like me but not the other guy?

They said they like my message because I had positive intentions. But this other person, their intentions were not positive — thus the dislike.?

That’s a bullshit rationalization, I said in my reply.?

I asked the messenger how much they really knew about me, as compared to how much they knew about the famous influencer they disliked.?

In reality, they know the same amount about both me AND that other guy: Zero.?

You watch and read the famous person online.?

You watch and read me online.?

You know neither of us in real life.?

You don’t like the famous person’s approach — so you see everything they do through a negative lens.?

You like my approach — so you see me and my actions through a positive lens.?

Neither is actually true, I told the messenger. Because you don’t know shit about me, nor the famous person. You consume content, make judgments, then project your personal feelings onto people who you don’t even know.?

And then call it “truth.”?

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We all do this.

Our brains lie to us and tell us that our perceptions are objective reality.?

Your perceptions are YOUR reality. They’re not REALITY-reality.?

What you WANT reality to be, and what reality actually IS, are rarely the same.?

Your ability to hold your perceptions accountable to truth is called “objectivity.”

Your ability to shape objective truth (of which there is only one, by the way) to match your desires is called force of will, or determination.?

It requires effort. Vision. Persistence. Discipline. Mental Toughness.?

You are calling your desires into existence via your behavior.?

What most of us do, most of the time, is not that.?

We allow our brains to lie to us.?

Here’s a common one: Your perception of reality IS the truth.?

LIE.?

Another: You’re on the right track; you just need to stick to the same plan that has already not worked for the last five years.?

LIE.

One more: Your lack of achievement, focus and clarity on your goals is not a reflection of you. It’s the circumstances, people and systems that are conspiring against you.?

Bullshit LIE.?

Your brain is your personal assistant.?

If you've ever had people working for you, especially someone who feel obligated to follow your instructions and never push back, you must be vigilant. Because that type of employee will never point out to you that you’re lying to yourself.?

As a matter of fact, it will HELP you lie to yourself.?

Your brain is this type of employee.?

It does exactly what you told it to do, all the time, with no delay or hesitation. It offers no pushback, even when you’re telling yourself some bullshit. It always follows your orders to T, even when you are driving yourself off a cliff mentally.

Mental Toughness is not about doggedly sticking to a plan just because it’s your plan, or just because you feel uncomfortable changing your plans. Mental toughness is about telling yourself the objective truth about you, your actions, and your outcomes, even when – especially when – those objective truths slap you in the face.

It helps when you have people around you who will help you uncover and acknowledge these objective truths.?

The next step after that is having the discipline to listen to that objectivity, and the confidence to know that you can deal with it, even though it may be uncomfortable in the moment.

From there, we can install any needed changes.?

Without this process, your brain will literally trick you to death.?

This is why the first part of Work On Your Game University is Bulletproof Mindset 2.0.?

It’s all about getting your mind in the right space to deal objectively with the inevitable challenges that come with ambition and big goals.?

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