Self-Brainwashing Techniques:
- Self-brainwashing techniques have been used throughout history, from Alexander the Great, all the way to legendary generals like Napoleon. To exploit these techniques yourself, commit to the following:
- Logos: harness logic to identify and challenge your own limiting beliefs.
- For example, consider Hamza's limiting belief regarding how he thought his audience would dislike him if he marketed his products to them.
- The goal is to eliminate your deeply encoded limiting beliefs. To do this, isolate your most fundamental beliefs, scrutinize them, and employ logic to transform your baseline thoughts, which will in turn influence your actions, character, and destiny.
- Mental Rehearsal: Engage in “autistic-level” detailed visualizations of events you wish to excel in, whether it's sports for athletes, public speaking for live calls such as the one you just attended, or excelling in the realms of music, or even mathematics.
- Picture whatever skill you’re trying to master in the utmost detail, as if you were there right now. Try your best to convince your nervous system that you are indeed swinging that baseball bat to hit a home run, or closing your first business deal, etc.
- Consistent practice of these mental rehearsals is key.
- Future sight: Focus intensely on the person you aspire to become, bringing that vision into reality before it even exists.
- To do so, embody an older version of yourself.
- This is how I go about practicing future sight: I imagine myself at 30 years of age (although for you, this’ll differ). I go out in the morning sunlight, and begin to closely examine the calluses on my hands which are to manifest in due time from the rigorous training sessions that I will engage in throughout the coming year, I imagine having a luscious beard, possessing a deep and sonorous voice, and having the power to command the attention of everyone in a room when I open my mouth to speak.
- Lucid dreaming: Take control of your dreams, guiding scenarios and practicing skills while in the comfort of your sleep.
- E.g., Tim Ferriss (the guy who wrote The 4-Hour Workweek) used to practice wrestling in his sleep and would actually experience gains in his wrestling ability while awake.
- Tomorrow's lecture will delve into lucid dreaming, but it's important to be aware that lucid dreaming can be misused and carries certain risks which will be disclosed tomorrow.
- Challenge: Choose one of the first three prescribed techniques and engage with them. Afterward, share your insights from the exercise.
- For example, if you opt for logos, explain which limiting beliefs you identified and successfully dismantled.
- If you chose mental rehearsal, describe the skill/event that you rehearsed.
- If you select future sight, describe in great detail what the older version of yourself is like.