Mike Carruthers

Hi Nir, welcome back to Something You Should Know.

Hi Mike, great to be here.

So to kick off this conversation, let me just ask you to state your case, state your premise of what it is you're trying to get across to people.

Great.

Well said.

So give me some examples of limiting beliefs that many of us may have.

that we don't necessarily realize are limiting, but they just are beliefs.

So these beliefs that we have, well, wait a minute.

If somebody says some of those things that you just said, like, you know, I have this diagnosis or, you know, it's too late because I'm 85 years old and I don't think I can make the Olympic team.

You know, those aren't beliefs.

Those are truths.

But you also have to be realistic, too.

So I can feel like I can grow at any age, but if I go down to the high school track and run 10 laps, I'm going to fall over and die from a heart attack, most likely, because I'm not 85, but somebody that old, you see, I mean, you still have, there are some limits to this, it would seem.

So I realize I just did something in this conversation right now.

I took an extreme example, a ridiculous example of you can't be 85 and join the Olympic team, and so therefore I'm trying to negate everything you've said, which I think a lot of people do.

Well, you know, here's an extreme example.

See, it's not true, and so nothing that you say is true.

And people who do that...

Well, I would have normally said another five minutes.

But as you just said, it's going to be some amazing number.