Mark Manson

And one way to look at Freud's theory of the unconscious is that

It's a bunch of old adaptation layers that we have forgotten that we developed in childhood.

And then we grew up and forgot that we created them.

And so they've just been running on autopilot beneath the surface of consciousness.

Yeah, I'm just this is just how I am.

I can't handle these situations or like the world is just an upsetting place or, you know, whatever, whatever baked in beliefs you have, you've carried over from your your childhood trauma.

Those are adaptations you developed at an early age and then just forgot they were there.

So throughout the rest of this episode, we're going to go through these three layers one by one.

We're gonna be spending quite a bit of time on each one so that listeners can really understand what they're working with and really understand themselves at each of these three layers.

And then we're gonna talk about the most evidence-based ways of approaching how to change each of those layers and how much each of those layers can change.

What we're gonna find is that

The bottom layer, traits, do not change very much.

You can change them a little, but not a whole lot.

The middle layer, the adaptations, you can change, but it's a lot of work and it takes a lot of time.

The top layer, behaviors, you can change tomorrow.

And it's just really about understanding and strategizing correctly how to approach it.

Now, as we go through this, we're going to take some pretty fascinating twists and turns.

We're going to talk about everything from horoscope readings to morning routines and

why you should always leave your gym shoes by the door.

And towards the end of the episode, we're actually going to talk about the one way that we know of, that the research knows of, to actually completely change your life extremely quickly, like even overnight.