Humans are so powerful that they become powerless if they truly believe it

Humans are so powerful they become

powerless if they truly believe it.

Belief is a self-imposed ceiling. Humans

don't lose power because it's taken from

them. They lose it the moment that they

internalize limits as facts instead of

stories.

It's the paradox of life. Everything you

believe is true. Whether you believe

you're capable or incapable,

our experience tells us this. I know I'm

not the only one. You clicked on this

video because you believed the title of

the video to be true. I've made a video

in the past where I said everything in

your life is limited by what you believe

about yourself. Same idea here. You

know, it's the paradox of potential. The

more capacity that you have to shape

your life, the more dangerous it becomes

by proxy because you're convinced that

you can't.

That is what we all struggle with. When

you actually know that you become that

you are the architect of your life, it

becomes scary because now you actually

have to chisel the granite. You have to

sculpt that life and you understand that

you can mess it up because the the

chisel's in your hand.

I said this story before, but when I was

in high school, I used to play on the

basketball team and I was a big because

I'm a I'm 6'5, so I was I was a big and

normally bigs don't shoot threes, but I

love to shoot threes in practice and I

was really good at it in practice. in

the games. However, I never I never made

a single three. Okay. Then what happened

was me and my friends, we worked at the

park district, so we had access to the

facilities and we used to do this thing

where we would in the middle of the

night we'd go there because we knew how

to disarm the alarm and we had the keys

and everything. So we'd go there and we

would play um basketball up until like

3:00 4 in the morning like religiously.

We do this all the time back in high

school. I know it sounds like a crazy

story, but there was one night where we

went to go

shoot hoops and I wanted to test how

many shots I could make out of a 100.

So, I shot 100. My boys were rebounding

for me

and I made, no, no exaggeration, I made

63 shots out of 100. 63% which is like

really good. I didn't make one the

entire season. Granted, I didn't attempt

many, but the entire

change was my belief. Like, I believe

that I could perform well and then that

naturally happened.

You have to understand that power, it

doesn't disappear. It just becomes

dormant. Belief doesn't erase ability,

it suppresses it. And so, you can always

gain it back, which is

in some way comforting. The same force

that could build a life gets redirected

into avoidance,

right? It gets re redirected into

self-sabotage, distraction.

Once you are fully aware of esoteric

knowledge and you understand how your

own beliefs shape everything, it it's

almost like a all or nothing situation.

Like you either are all in and you

believe you can do it or you're you're

not. Cuz the second that you let an

ounce of of self-doubt come in, it's a

wraps. Like you can't you can't go

anywhere with it. That's that's what's

so crazy.

External control thrives

on internal surrender.

Okay. Systems, expectations, authority.

These things only become absolute when

individuals

stop believing that they can resist.

They stop believing that they can choose

differently or endure discomfort.

It's hard for us to imagine

where we could go in the future and us

actually being able to achieve the

things that we want. And so by by

default, it's almost like a defense

mechanism where we're like, "Okay, yeah,

that's just not a reality. That's not

possible."

I think that humans are naturally

narcissistic.

I think that the when people call

someone a narcissist, they're they're

not understanding that it's not binary.

I I think every human is a narcissist.

So, it's a spectrum. So, on this end of

the spectrum, you're going to have it.

This end of the spectrum is like the

healthy amount where you know you you

have to like take care of yourself and

stuff like that. So, that's why you're a

narcissist. And then this end is the

extreme end where you're doing unhealthy

things. you are, you think you're

intrinsically more valuable than other

people. You um harm others. You sort of

believe that others are simply a means

to an end for you. Stuff like that. But

when people say, "Oh, a narcissist,"

they're talking about this end of the

spectrum. They're not because they think

it's binary. And so, the reason that I'm

relating it to this is because it gets

scary where you have to find that line

between like super confident and then

narciss narcissistic. Some of you guys

might have seen that movie Marty Supreme

recently. I made a video on that um in

on like my social on my short form

content.

People loved it. I basically said like

if you look at the greats, they all had

egos. They all like just had a

delusional sense of self-belief. I'm

from Chicago, you guys know, so I've

always looked up to Kanye. Kanye is

the epitome of of using self-belief to

propel the life that you want. And this

is something that like everyone

understands and knows.

It's sometimes hard for us to put it

into words though.

And it's scary because you don't want to

jump off that ledge. You don't want to

cross the line

because like once you cross that line,

everyone's going to look at you crazy.

You're going to start making bad moves.

It's going to get unhealthy. But at this

like you just you really do need to like

believe that you're like [ __ ] it I'm

better than everyone and it's not once

again it's not about value like every

human being is the same. I believe that

but if you really want to succeed in

whatever industry you're pursuing if you

want to reach the top echelon you cannot

just

be one of these modest people that's

like oh yeah like I'm average

you know the all these like humble

people. Let me tell you guys something.

the even the people that you think are

humble, you know, when the actors or the

singers, they win these awards and they

go up on stage and they're like, "Oh

man, I'm so humble and grateful and all

this." I'm telling you guys right now

for a fact. They still believe they're

the best. You don't get to the top

without without believing that you're

capable of doing more than others. It it

does not exist. It doesn't. And I don't

have a single statistic or fact to prove

it, but I just know it's true.

It's identity over ability at the end of

the day. People don't fail because they

lack skill or intelligence. They fail

because they adopt an identity of, you

know, self-doubt of, you know, they're

they're someone who can't. Oh, I'm not

someone that can do that. And then they

behave faithfully to that belief like

their actions follow in in step with

what they believe. And that's been my

experience in life. There was a guy when

I went to college,

this guy might have like being generous,

two out of 10 on the appearance scale.

He had bagged more beautiful women than

any other guy that I saw. And it was

because like he fully believed that like

he could just attract any girl. And it

just like turned into real. It's crazy.

And like genuinely crazy. I knew another

guy who he had a stutter and we and me

and him did it sales together. This guy

had a stutter and he sold like I think

he made like $80,000 in a summer. Just

killed it. It was because he believed he

can do it. In life, there is a transfer

of like when you believe something,

you're operating at a frequency and

that's transferred to others around you.

I I know it sounds crazy, but it's it's

like how it works. Once again, I don't

have proof of this, but in my life

experience, that's just how it works.

Reclaiming your power, it starts with

refusing the story.

The first act of strength, it's not

actually action. It's doubt,

right?

Doubting this sort of narrative of

helplessness. It's not like self-doubt,

but you're doubting

things in life that affect your effort,

your risk, your responsibility. And this

allows you to realign

and re-enter into the picture.

You you can't believe what the

what you've been conditioned to. You

can't believe what societyy's telling

you because all of that stuff is just

bred. It is designed to breed you into

mediocrity is what it is. The bottom

line, you can't believe what other

people are saying and doing because what

are what are these other people that are

saying and doing these things? What are

they accomplishing? They're not getting

anywhere. There's a reason why,

you know, you grew up where you did.

Most of us didn't grow up in some like

really elite area. I know I sure as hell

didn't. And so, yeah, why would I follow

what everyone else was saying when my

friends and peers and everybody,

they were mediocre, my friend's parents,

like it's it's a cancer. You have to

just isolate yourself and just become

fully delusional about who you are

because the power fully resides in your

own mind. Your thoughts become your

actions.

I I'm convinced that anybody who has any

experience in life knows this to be

true. And if you're watching this still

watching this video, you probably do,

too. Anyways, thanks you. Thank you guys

for watching.