Emily McDonald

And so the things that feel delusional a lot of the time, maybe they're not delusional to someone like you.

Me five years ago would have thought the things that you're doing were delusional, right?

But it just depends on the person.

But it's only quote unquote delusional until it works.

And I always say I have this kind of mindset of, you know, being delusional really is just living outside of the illusion, which is the reality of the norm.

I personally knew that I wanted to live a reality of the unimaginable, a reality that no one around me that I had ever seen around me was doing.

And in order to believe in that, it did feel delusional.

It absolutely felt like what like what are you doing?

That's crazy.

And I had people around me.

Tell me that's illogical.

That's crazy.

Like how are you gonna do that?

I'm in my PhD having you know neuroscientists like you're making the wrong decision What are you doing and people in my personal life as well being like who told you you could do that?

And all of those were honestly motivators for me to prove them wrong but but yeah, I think you know being delusional was kind of a requirement for me because everything that I wanted was something that I had never seen done before and

And then from just kind of like the neuroscience standpoint, right?

Like doubt is a dopamine destroyer.

Doubt is a dopamine destroyer.

And so if you have doubt in your dreams, I mean, you're not going to have the dopamine to go and motivate you to do the thing that you know you need to do.

When I...