[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Self-understanding]] - People: [[Joey Schweitzer]] (Better Ideas) - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32DdBf_j7Pg --- ## Summary - [[Your mind is constantly attempting to craft your story - your character and your role within the universe of world.]] - [[Every small success and bitter failure is woven into the story you tell yourself about yourself]]. - [[Objectivity is subjectively skewed by the colour of our emotions]]. - Your self story serves as your fundamental framework - the lens in which you view the world. - [[Craft a narrative that will serve you]]. - [[Tell your story to yourself. Tell your story to the world.]] ## Notes - Throughout your life, your brain may be telling you a story about you; a perceived a version of you that contains doubt and fear. - These negative stories are you attempting to process your feelings. These negative stories are what you must overcome. - [[Prove yourself wrong by enduring, overcoming, and becoming better]]. - Your mind is attempting to rationalize the irrational, which results in irrationality. - Your mind often presents examples of past events for which you are to be judged. Events that are often just part of the story and showcase struggle or failure rather than triumph. Events that happened as part of learning and becoming better. Events that are part of being human. - These are events that, if burdened, must be let go of. - [[Truth is realized by action]]. - Your mind is just working on processing and understanding. [[The chaos of mind is the unfiltered conversations of a billion neurons]]. - Within the noise resides the truth. It will just take some effort to find it. - [[Your mind is constantly attempting to craft your story - your character and your role within the universe of world.]] - "Over 90% of our mental function is subconscious". - [[Every small success and bitter failure is woven into the story you tell yourself about yourself]]. - Often what we think happened may not have actually happened. [[Objectivity is subjectively skewed by the colour of our emotions]]. - Patterns are how we rationalize and bring control to chaos. To make sense out of the senseless. It is often that we create patterns from imperfect data, which then compounds into the imperfect story we tell ourselves. - [[To unpack ourselves is to subject the details of our self story to objective truth]]. - [[You get to decide who you are - the details of your character]]. The attributes that seem so innate, are merely imperfect details that have been woven into your subconscious self story. - Your self story serves as your fundamental framework - the lens in which you view the world. - We often reject new information if it doesn't align with our story. - We seek confirmation in order to feel worthy. To feel understood as we strive to understand the world and our place within it. - [[We desperately seek confirmation as a means of feeling understood]]. - Your brain is always adapting both physically and in processing. So should your self story. - [[Craft a narrative that will serve you]]. - [[Redesign your brain to better serve you]]. - It's going to feel unnatural and uncomfortable to behave in a way that is different. But different is needed for better. - If you're feeling uncomfortable, you must do the uncomfortable thing and change - Naturalness is effect of consistency. - [[Live your best in the present to create a past of which you can be proud of]] - Who are you, according to you? ## Original ![[How your brain is working against you-1.jpg]] ![[How your brain is working against you-2.jpg]] ![[How your brain is working against you-3.jpg]]