Rob Dial

And so you've got to just ask yourself, which future is it predicting?

Is it going into your default mode?

Because your default mode is not neutral.

You realize that?

Your default mode, which is when you look at the way that the brain works, 5% of our cognitive processing is our conscious mind, which is the part of your mind that wants to succeed and wants something different.

And 95% of it, which is your default mode, is your old patterns, old limiting beliefs, old identities.

Those are not neutral.

Like your default mode is your current life, your current fears and current excuses and current emotional addictions and your current patterns that you're stuck in, your current way of seeing yourself.

And so if you do not become obsessed with who you're becoming,

and become obsessed with what you're building in your life, then you will always fall back into who you've always been because that is your default mode because your brain is extremely efficient and it loves to fall back to what is familiar.

Your brain loves patterns and we are literally just a bunch of patterns is all that we are.

It loves a path that it already knows.

there's a thing that they found in psychology called goal shielding.

And it shows that when a person becomes like obsessed and deeply committed to like a focal goal, like just one goal, one North star of where they're moving their life to their brain can start to reject that.

all other competing goals and distractions.

So for people that are like, oh my gosh, I'm so ADD and I'm so unfocused, I'm so distracted.

When you become obsessed with one thing, it allows your brain to start quote unquote goal shielding, which is what it's called, which it allows it to stop focusing on other things, reject all the competing goals, reject all of the distractions so that the main goal becomes easier to pursue.

The translation of that, when your goal becomes important enough, your brain starts filtering your life through it.

This is what I mean by like you have to become obsessed.

This is what obsession does.