Dr. K

Because if you think about it, your whole life you've been giving in to certain impulses.

You've allowed weeds to grow out of control.

Let's say you're a blank canvas when you were born then.

And the beautiful thing is that when you start doing this, you cultivate your mind.

Life becomes easy.

Yes.

Even when it's hard, it's easy.

Absolutely.

So we struggle with motivation, but think about it.

That's because your mind has this impulse over here, and you're trying to wrench it over here, right?

Whereas once you start to do the right kind of reinforcing stuff, once you start reinforcing the right behaviors, once you stop giving in to certain thoughts—

So, for example, my ego is like really like it's really messed up because for years I got bullied.

For years I was, you know, I struggled and then I got into Harvard and then I had an ego about that for a while.

And it's still there.

So what I do is I laugh at my ego.

I'm like, there's that ego again.

Sometimes I'll have fantasies.

Yeah.

So, you know, on the car ride over here, I was thinking about how to make this podcast great.

That was one of the questions you asked me.