The Thoughts You’re Thinking Right Now Are DESTROYING Your Future | Ed Mylett
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What is the main theme of this episode?
This is The Ed Miler Show. Hey everyone, welcome to my weekend special. I hope you enjoy the show. Be sure to follow The Ed Milet Show on Apple and Spotify. Links are in the show notes. You'll never miss an episode that way. Now on with the show. Hey everybody, welcome back to the show. I'm so grateful to be with all of you today. And I think today could be one of these quantum type leaps for so many of you and the way that you view your life. And so what we're going to discuss today is the filter or prism in which the point of view of which you view your life. And there's really two ways that we look at our lives, the filter we see it through. And I wrote about this in The Power of One More in my book.
There are a certain percentage of people, a very small percentage of people, who operate out of their vision and imagination, their dreams. That's their frame of reference. They're almost like a child. They dream in their life. They operate out of vision and imagination. They allow that to be the dominant filter and prism at which they see life. The vast majority of people don't do that, however. Most people operate out of history and memory. And they wonder why they keep repeating the same life over and over again with a different set of people and maybe a different set of circumstances, but the same results, the same emotions. And so the first thing to ask yourself today is which one are you? And it's okay if you're the one that you wouldn't prefer to be.
But do you, for the most part, operate out of your history and your memory and you think a lot about those things? That's what most people do. Or are you one of the rare few people who operate out of imagination? Because if you can operate out of imagination, see, kids teach such a great lesson.
How does your perspective influence your life?
Why do most kids operate out of imagination? They're going to be an astronaut or Superman. They pretend. They play games. They have joy. That's what imagination gives us. That's what vision gives us. Memory doesn't do that for us. And so why do kids have that? Because they have no history. They have no memory. So they're forced almost to operate. But at some age, the crime of life, the tragedy is that we begin to operate out of a history and a memory. And oftentimes that history and memory. are the things that we least want to repeat. They're some of the most emotional or scarring times in our life. And so most human beings involuntarily go through their entire life operating out of this point of view, out of this filter, unknowingly, unconsciously.
They just don't know they're operating this way. And so I want to challenge you today, and I'm going to give you some keys to start to operate out of your imagination and your dreams and your vision. See, because that point of view allows you to be present. There's really three points of references in there. There's the past, there's the present, and there's the future. And I think the happiest people are present an awful lot of the time, and the rest of the time, most of that time, they operate out of their vision and their imagination and their dreams. Right? I'm not suggesting that evaluating your past can't teach you lessons. You can't heal some of it. But spending most of your time there is not something that's productive.
Deepak Chopra has this great quote where he says, I use memories, but I don't allow my memories to use me. And too many people are operating out of their memories or using them. It's okay to look back and to heal and to evaluate and to gain wisdom from our past. But that should be a small percentage of our time. We should be fully present and focusing on the future at the same time. And so how do you do that? We're going to talk about it today a little bit. I think I can give you some keys. First thing is this. There's a term that I want you to understand called cognitive immobility. And what that means is when you're really mentally trapped in a place from your past. Most people have some form of cognitive immobility where they just can't move out of it.
And what happens is everything they see currently, they reference to the past.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main theme of this episode?
0:04–1:38
2
How does your perspective influence your life?
1:38–12:35
3
What is cognitive immobility and how does it affect us?
12:35–36:32
4
How can you train your mind for better focus and presence?
36:32–51:33
5
What is the convergence of neuroscience, quantum physics, and epigenetics?
51:33–51:58
6
How does your personality shape your personal reality?
51:58–53:07
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What practical steps can you take to change your thinking?
53:07–55:26
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How can mindfulness practices enhance memory and attention?
55:26–1:49:56
Speakers
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