André Duqum

Hey everyone, welcome back to the Know Thyself podcast.

Our guest today is a best-selling author who teaches and sits at the intersection of psychology, technology, and unlocking human potential.

He is somebody that is a really eloquent teacher, exploring habit building, the distracted mind, beliefs, and the invisible forces that are shaping our life, often unbeknownst to us near y'all.

Thank you for being here.

What is the difference between fact, faith, and belief?

How important is it for us to understand the distinction between those three and how it changes how we live our life?

To me, this is one of the most important topics to explore because we have these strongly held assumptions about what life is, who we are, how we should engage with life and reality, so much of which has been embedded in our minds without us having conscious awareness of it.

These millions of bits that we have access to in every given moment that we're only actually perceiving consciously a small percentage of then go on to shape our perception in so many ways.

You know, the person wearing yellow sunglasses doesn't actually see yellow snow.

It's become the way in which they view the world.

So congrats on writing your new book, Beyond Belief.

One thing you say is that what you believe shapes what you see.

What you see shapes what you do.

So can you walk us back through the thread of causality?

And do you believe belief then is the origin or is there something deeper that is really at the core of how we're shaping our perception?

Yeah.

How do expectations come into this?

I saw you refer to it in your book, The Wine Study.

There's many different examples of this.

I'm curious how what we are expecting to experience colors how we feel about the experience.