How To Lose Your Mind And Master Anything

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So on today's show, we're diving into something that might actually sound a little bit crazy at first, and that's how losing your mind is actually the secret to mastering anything you want now. I'm not actually talking about going insane. I'm talking about something that is maybe even more radical than that. And that's letting go of the mental programming that's been running your life on autopilot. And at the same time, being able to consciously create a new mind that's designed and wired for mastery. Neuroscience, and these are things that I've incorporated into my own life and into my own business to help myself out. And quite frankly, this may be the missing piece to just help you get over the hump or finally break through that thing you're trying to accomplish, right? So most people, they keep trying to achieve like new results or new things with the same old mind they have, and then they get stuck wondering why things don't change. So hopefully today I can play my part in breaking that cycle. And actually at the end of this episode, I'm gonna give you a powerful exercise that I've used to help me with this that you can actually start using immediately. All right, so let's get into it. So here's what most people don't realize, that by the time you're in your mid thirties, about 95% of who you are is completely automatic. So you're running on programs. Subconscious patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that you've repeated so many times are actually hardwired into who you are. So if you think about it, you wake up on the same side of the bed, you think the same thoughts about your life when you wake up, you feel the same emotions even before you check your phone in the morning and you react to situations the exact same way as you did. Maybe last week, yesterday, last year, It's like your mind has almost just become a recording of who you are. And here's the problem. You can't master anything new with an old recording. So think about it. If you want to master, public speaking as an example, but your subconscious program says. I'm awkward. People are gonna judge me. I'm terrible. I always mess up. you're fighting a battle that's already rigged against you. if you want to build, a successful business, but your mental software, is programmed with nothing but scarcity thoughts, fearful thoughts and doubt, guess what's gonna win in the long run? The old program, every single time. So your conscious mind, the part that wants to change is powerful, but your subconscious mind runs the show and until you reprogram it, it's like you're trying to drive a car with the emergency brake on, right? It's two things fighting against each other, the gas pedal and the brake, and it doesn't work. So when I say lose your mind, lose the automated conditioned, repetitive mind that's been keeping you in the same loop, right? Like we need to interrupt that signal and almost get your brain to broadcast something new to yourself. So let's talk about what actually determines your results, because most people get this completely wrong. They think mastery is about information, more information, more stuff, more credentials, more certificates. They think get the right strategy, learn the right techniques, follow the right steps. But here's the reality information in today's age in 2026 is everywhere. The bottleneck is actually your state, right? And if you think about what your state is really just the combination of, your mental focus, your emotional energy, and your physical physiology at any given moment in time. That's. Who you are and those things make it up. And the reality is your state determines more of your performance than your strategy every will. So think about the last time you were in like an ideal like flow state, for example. Like maybe you were energized, confident, focused, you felt locked in or dialed in the zone, right? And if you think about it, it's like everything felt easy. It's like you were, you have this like natural burst of creativity. You were just executing, you were knocking things out nonstop. You performed, way beyond what you thought you were capable of. Now do the opposite. For example, think about a time where you were in like the opposite of flow state. So think about when you were in a shitty state, right? Stressed, anxious, tired, overwhelmed, whatever that is. you still have the same brain, you're still the same person, but you're getting completely different results simply based on the state you were in. And this is something I think that a lot of top performers and people who really master things, understand You can't just wait for, an accidental flow state or a good state of being to happen. You almost have to engineer it. you have to condition it and train it, and you have to practice it like a skill until that peak state becomes your baseline. I see this in my own life all the time, that, your current state of mind determines what you're capable of more than anything else. This is actually, the neuroscience part of it is that your brain, doesn't know the difference between what's happening in your external reality and what you're imagining and emotionally feeling in your internal reality, your brain sees them as all the same. So when you mentally rehearse something. With enough detail and emotion, your brain is literally laying down the same neural pathways as if you were actually doing it. So you have to emotionally become the person who's already living that reality. And you have to think those thoughts. You have to feel those feelings and carry that energy before it even actually shows up. So if you think about it, mastery doesn't start with your circumstances. It starts with your internal state. So when you can master your state, you can start to change your brain. And when you start to change your brain, you can start to change your outcomes. And when your outcomes change in life, guess what happens? Your whole entire life starts to change. the reality in a way, we are all. Chemically addicted to being ourselves. So you are chemically addicted to being who you are. Is that strange? Yes. But think about it. Every time you have a thought, your brain releases some kind of chemical signals, right? And these things are called neuropeptides that make your body feel a certain way. So think about it. When you think stressful thoughts, your body, you're literally injecting your body with a dose of cortisol and adrenaline. And when you think angry thoughts, you get a chemical cocktail that matches anger. And if you do this enough and like you've done it like thousands of times, your body actually becomes addicted to those chemicals. Those feelings and thoughts create, and your cells literally develop receptor sites that crave those specific peptides. So even if you consciously want to change, but your body is craving chemistry of your old self, this is why change feels so hard or it feels so strange or uncomfortable because you're not just breaking a mental habit. You're literally breaking a chemical addiction that your own thoughts and beliefs and emotions have trained your body to release within yourself. And this is the exact same reason by the way that people stay in toxic relationships. They get stuck in like dead end jobs or any kind of like. Self-destructive patterns. Even when they will say to themselves I know better. It's like their body has literally become so addicted to the emotional chemistry of that reality. They can't help it. So to master anything new, you almost have to go through like a withdrawal from your old self. And just like any withdrawal from anything, there's a gap, right? there's a big gap or a bridge, and there's a period where you're not. Who you were, but you're not yet. The person that you want to be. So that whole time in that gap period or that bridge while you're crossing the bridge, your body is screaming for the same familiar chemicals that it knows Its very best to pull you back to what it's familiar with. Like everything in you have to remember this is that. This is why change is so hard is everything in you always wants to return to what is comfortable, what is predictable, what is known, what is automatic. That's where your body wants to go. So the this gap, like this uncomfortable in-between space is when most people quit, right? It's like crossing a bridge and you go halfway and you realize it just looks too far. So you head back in the other direction. And there's a lot of people like this. Like they try something new for a few days and nothing happens. They change their routine, they change their diet, whatever that is for a week. And it just feels weird and strange. And then they just, they go back to their old ways. And they may even think I'm trying to be this new person, but it just feels fake. And then the first initial thought in your mind is probably something like, this isn't me. I should just accept who I am. But what they don't realize is that the discomfort that you're feeling is actually a sign that what you're doing is working, right? It's like the moment you feel uncomfortable, that's the moment where literally the old self is dying and the new one is being born, right? So the new person. Being born is actually born in uncertainty and born in being uncomfortable. But you have to think that's something you have to realize when you're going through it. And once you've gone through that fire, it's a lot easier to look back and say, oh yeah, that was it the whole time. So in a way it's like the uncomfortable being uncomfortable not as the signal to run, but as the signal to keep going, right? you have to fall in love with being uncertain, right? The unknown, and that's the secret behind mastering things, is mastery doesn't thrive in your comfort zone. It's on the other side of that. It's when you can stretch the rubber band, so to speak, and break through it. Now, the real question is are you willing to feel uncomfortable? Are you willing to feel a little awkward or not like yourself long enough to become someone new? Because like ultimately, if you think about it, that's the price and it's really not that big of a price. It's like feeling uncomfortable. Great, we can all do that. But when you're going through it, it feels like a huge price. But the reality is when you can get to the other side, only then once you're there, can you see that it's actually worth it? Alright. so you've heard all this theory, you're probably wondering yourself like Brian, so how can I actually put this into practice? So what I'm gonna do is I'm actually gonna give you one specific exercise. that you can actually start using like today, like right now, and to see how this puts into play. So this is something I've been in the habit of doing for years, but you can try it and you can start to see how it gradually starts to change who you are. All right. So if you want, you can grab something to write with and you can take notes or you can just listen or you can go back and go through the transcript. And this, by the way, is something you can use throughout your entire day, every single day for the rest of your life. And this is how you start to break that addiction to your old self in real time. So if you think about it, your old self has automatic reactions. Someone criticizes you. Automatically, you're defensive. Something goes wrong, automatically you're frustrated, right? You face a difficulty or a challenge, and automatically your first thought is self-doubt, right? Or a good opportunity in your life appears and automatically, instead of embracing it, you're fearful, right? You're fearful that it's not real, and these reactions happen so fast you don't even notice them. But what you can do actually starting right now, or whenever you're listening to this, is you can start to catch yourself before those automatic reactions take over. So these reactions happen so fast, you don't even notice them. But starting today, you're gonna catch yourself before those automatic reactions take over. So here's what you do. Okay? So step one. Is the catch. So the moment you notice you're about to react the same way that you do, literally just stop. Just hit the pause button or just, physically freeze yourself if you have to. You can even as crazy as this sound, the way I learned it was just say stop out loud. That's how you learn to pattern interrupt yourself when your reactions are on autopilot. You have to do something to stop yourself in that moment, because if you can't, then all of a sudden your automatic reactions are gonna take over, So that's step one. Then step two is actually two. Pause and breathe, right? if you just take, if you just freeze and take deep, like intentional breaths, all of a sudden like this interrupts that chemical cascade in your body and what you're doing if you just stop and breathe, as simple as that sounds, is you're literally stopping those neuropeptides we talked about from flooding your system. And pulling you back into like your old automatic self, like that old program, right? And then, step three is actually the choice. So you have to ask yourself this question now that you've caught yourself, you've interrupted yourself, you've taken the time to breathe. You just have to ask yourself the question. How would the version of me who's already mastered this respond to the situation right? Okay, so step three is the choice. So ask yourself this question. So how would the version of me who's already mastered this respond or better put, how would the person that I want to be respond to this? And then you just respond that way, right? Even if it feels awkward, even if it feels strange or fake or weird. Or even if every cell in your body is literally like screaming to go back to what it knows. Respond that way anyway, force yourself to go through it. Like it's gonna feel weird. That's the point. You're going to want to go back to your. Automatic programming, the way you're conditioned to respond, the way you've been responding for years or decades. But that's literally the addiction to your old self, and you have to do your best to just fight it, right? Don't listen to it. And then when you do this every single time, you start to choose differently. What you're doing is you're literally weakening the old neural pathways and strengthening the new ones, right? You're literally rewiring your brain. In real time, and the real challenge is can you be aware enough? Can you do this five times per day? Just start with five, right? Literally try it with five. And if you can just catch yourself five times before you react automatically or like the autopilot reaction and choose a different response. Like just do that five times today, five times tomorrow, and the next day. And then the next day. And then what you'll start to notice is even with just in a week, something will start to shift in you and then all of a sudden those automatic reactions. Will slow down a little bit and you'll have more, you'll have more time to actually feel like you're in control of your reactions instead of the other way around being controlled by it. And this is, that's literally the definition of becoming conscious. That's how you take back control of yourself. And this is how you quote, unquote, lose the mind. You have. You know that's been running your life and you're literally like putting in a new one. It's like you're installing a new program, right? So the more you can do that, the better off you're gonna be. And this is actually one of the easiest and simplest things you can do to start to master something new in your life is start by putting in a new program in your brain that allows you to get there. All right, so I hope that was helpful. That's, this is called the pattern interrupt practice. You can do it, it's very simple, but it's a very powerful exercise to start to bridge the gap between who you are and mastery, right? You may be listening to this and you may just actually forget about, you may listen. It may just go in one ear and out the other. We see so many things where so many short videos like tiktoks reels, short things like in one ear and out the other. But actually try and do this, like seriously, if you've listened this long, actually try the exercise for the next week. Just try it for a week. And if you can do this, you'll really start to see, things change. the more you do this, it actually will consistently become a habit. even bigger and bigger things will start to, change in your life. the crazy thing about this is that even just doing this for a week, the person that you are now at the end of next week will actually start to feel a little bit foreign your old reactions will start to feel almost like automatic and unconscious in a way that you can finally see and you'll catch yourself thinking thoughts and feeling feelings that. It may sound weird hearing all this, but that's literally the definition of transformation. And transformation starts with changing the way your brain operates on a very basic level, right? So that's actually how to lose your mind and reprogram it with a better one. If your brain isn't wired for mastery, you're not going to reach mastery. So if you rewire your brain for mastery, all of a sudden the thing you want to come that you want to accomplish becomes a lot more achievable. Okay, so that's all I've got from today's show. If you got any value with this, you can take some time to share it with someone who needs to hear this or can benefit from it. And again, put this into practice. You will definitely see the difference. Alright, talk to you guys later.