Nir Eyal

It has to be catered to by other people.

It can't do anything.

It has zero agency other than its bodily functions.

It needs help.

And so what we do as human beings is that we always will retreat to what we know, to what has been safe in the past.

whether or not it helps us grow in the future.

Because frankly, evolution is not concerned with your greatness.

Evolution does not care if you meet your full potential.

What evolution cares about is that you stay alive so that you can procreate.

that's it and so we are constantly being pulled into helplessness we are constantly being pulled into victimization we are constantly psychologically dragged into doing things looking at things feeling things exactly the same way we have seen felt and done them before in the past all because of what's called these limiting beliefs these beliefs that reduce our motivation and increase our suffering

I think it's a perfect demonstration of a limiting belief, because if you think about it, give me an example.

Can you give me like a case study or a person or let's back it up with maybe a real scenario might make it more.

That's an example.

So I could see how had she not had that transformational experience, and even probably today, she still, as you say, she slides back into those old limiting beliefs, that those limiting beliefs wouldn't do.

They cause you to, by definition, lose that motivation, that she must have gotten some kind of signals in the past

from some kind of operant conditioning that taught her that sticking your neck out or being a tall poppy or drawing too much attention to yourself had negative consequences in some way.

That's her default position.

And if she didn't learn it, that's something that we all, I think, inherit.

And so it was only when she pushed beyond her comfort zones that she learned agency, not learned hopelessness, but in fact, learned agency.

That's a perfect example of limiting belief.