Chapter 1: What are the signs that indicate you need to reclaim your brain?
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Because if you feel stuck right now, if you feel anxious all the time, if you find yourself overthinking and procrastinating and doubting yourself and falling back into the same old patterns over and over again, the problem is most likely inside of your own head.
So today we're gonna talk about how to reclaim your brain, how to finally become conscious of the patterns that are controlling your mind and your entire life. And I'm gonna teach you how to stop letting your mind be the one that runs your life and how you can actually master your own mind.
And we're gonna talk about the two systems that are running in your brain every single day, all day long, whether you realize it or not. And once you understand how these two systems work, by themselves, but also how they work together, everything changes. It changes your anxiety, your habits, your reactions, your confidence, your overthinking, your self-talk, your ability to take action.
Because the truth is that most people are not consciously living. They are unconsciously reacting to life based off of an old set of programs. And there's a huge difference between those two things. So let's dive in. There's a psychologist named David Kahneman who wrote a book called Thinking Fast and Slow.
And it's a great book, but let me just summarize what I think is the most important part of it, okay? In the book, he explains that your brain operates through two separate systems. So there's system one and there's system two. And I spoke about this about a month ago, real quick on a podcast episode, but I was like, you know what?
I need to probably dedicate an entire episode to really diving into this. So let's talk about system one first. And I want you to think about this as this. There's two separate parts of your brain that are basically operating. It's not like there's, yes, there is one brain, but it's kind of like there's two brains inside of your brain. Okay, so system one is fast. It comes in immediately.
It's basically become automatic for you and you don't even notice it. It is usually emotional, it is reactive, it is instinctive, and it's usually based in fear. And it's the part of your brain that jumps to conclusions immediately when something happens. It reacts emotionally. It assumes. It judges. It overthinks. It catastrophizes.
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Chapter 2: How do the two systems in our brain operate differently?
through system one, but you're honestly not your thoughts. You are the awareness behind your thoughts. You are the observer that's behind all of your programming. You are the awareness that's behind both systems, right? So there's system one and system two, both of those are part of your brain, to be honest with you, you're the consciousnesses behind all of those thoughts.
And once you realize that, like truly get it into your bones, everything will start to change, okay? So let's dive a little bit into it a little bit more and then we'll talk about how to actually use it, okay? Your first thought, as we said, is usually conditioning. You've heard me say this so many times on the podcast.
You cannot control your first thought, but you can always control your second thought. What that means is you cannot control system one, but you can always control system two. Why? Because, like I said, your first thought is usually system one. It's your conditioning. It's your patterning. It's your programming. Like, let's say somebody doesn't text you back, right?
System one will go to, they must be mad at me, or they don't care about me, or I'm not important, or I must have done something wrong. And we will be right back. And now, back to the show. You ever had that happen before? Or am I the only one, right? Oh my God, I must have done something wrong. Did I say something and I start thinking about the things I did before, right? It's usually automatic.
It comes in, it's instant. There's no real conscious thought that is behind it that's involved. Let me give you another example, right? Lots of people who listen to this podcast are either business owners or they want to start a business, right? System one will come in. You say, I want to start a business. System one will come in and say, no, you're going to fail. You're not smart enough.
Who do you think that you are? What if people judge you, right? All of it. It'll just bring it all up. That's not truth. That's just programming. That is old conditioning that is just trying to keep you safe. Once you realize that everything that's holding you back is just your brain trying to keep you safe, you can start to look at it through a different lens.
Because your brain's number one job is not happiness, it's survival. And your brain would rather keep you familiar than happy or fulfilled. Even if that familiar thing is making you miserable. And so that's why people stay in toxic relationships, or they stay in jobs that they hate, or they stay in patterns that destroy them, or they stay in self-doubt for years.
Because familiar feels safe to the nervous system, even if it's chaos, even if it's painful. Familiar feels safe. even if it's not making your life head in the right direction, okay? And this is the reason why anxiety feels automatic. Like if we think about anxiety for a second, most anxiety is system one, trying to predict danger. That's it.
Your brain scanning the future and saying, what could go wrong? What if this fails? What if they reject me? What if I embarrass myself? Protection, protection, protection, protection. And your body responds like the danger is happening right now, even though it's all imaginary. It's all in your mind.
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Chapter 3: What is the role of System One in our daily reactions?
You have to understand, your body did not move anywhere. It was in the same spot, but your mind was so vividly imagining something that you started to sweat, that your heart started racing, that your breath changed, that you woke up full of fear and anxiety. Isn't that crazy?
Like we are low level doing that almost all day long a lot of us by just imagining these fake futures and then our body is just getting beat up because of it. And the scary part is that most people never pause long enough to question those thoughts. They just believe them because they've thought them for so long. You know, like you might have a thought that's like, I'm not good enough.
And they go, yeah, yep, that's true. Or you might have a thought that's like, I'll probably fail. And you're like, yep, that's probably true. I probably will fail. Or you have a thought like, oh yeah, nobody likes me. Yep, must be true, right? We just never question them. Thoughts are not facts.
Thoughts are electrical patterns running in the same way that they were when you got them installed as a child. That's it. Like for instance, I live in a house that's 20 years old, right? It's built in the early 2000s. And we have electricity throughout this entire house. If I don't do anything about those electrical systems, it's all gonna be exactly the same.
You know, we got a sauna installed and we had to have an electrician come in and run from the panel a brand new wire directly to it. That is the equivalent of what we have to do in our minds if we're trying to change it. Because thoughts are just electrical signals going from one place to another inside of your brain. So most people are like, you know, my house is 20 years old.
So they have 20 years of programming and it's running the same electrical signals over and over and over again. And they're like, I don't know why my life isn't different. And I'm like, cause you've got to stop some of the electrical signals and you've got to start installing new ones. Your life will just not change for the hell of it.
You have to consciously be the person to change those thoughts. Right? Because you've repeated those thoughts so many times, your brain thinks that they're reality. And you actually believe them. You actually believe what goes on in your head and you think that it's truth. And this is why people can spend 20 years reinforcing an identity that they don't even consciously want anymore.
The truth is, your mind will keep producing the same thoughts until you consciously interrupt them and install new wiring. That's what we need to dive into next. And so what most people don't realize, and if you don't do this, System 2 is not just going to automatically challenge System 1. Most of the time, System 2 agrees with Number 1, which makes you actually hardwire Number 1 and even more.
Like, I'll give you an example, right? System one will create a fear. Then system two will start building a case for why that fear must be true automatically. So your system one says, I'm not good enough. And your system two goes, yeah, remember when you failed before? Remember when they rejected you? Remember when you embarrassed yourself?
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Chapter 4: How does System Two help us in decision-making?
For some of you guys, 200 times a day. But what are we doing? We're the electrician. We're going in and we're rewiring is what we're doing. Okay? That's the third thing. The fourth thing, and what's really important in all of this, is to start trying to reduce your overstimulation, which seems like it's not related, but let me show you how it is.
You cannot hear conscious thoughts and unconscious thoughts clearly if your brain is drowning in noise.
So if you're constantly on your phone or constantly checking your emails or constantly thinking about work or constantly doing something else, trying to keep yourself busy, playing video games, watching porn, whatever the hell you do with yourself, if you're always doing that, you'll never really be able to hear your thoughts to be able to work through them.
Spend more time walking, journaling, meditating, sitting in silence, being without stimulation. So you can start to hear those fears. Like if your life is too loud, you'll only hear all of your fears and all of your worries. But if you can get more silent, if you can have more boredom in your life, if you can have more space, you'll find more of your deep wisdom that lives inside of you.
That can come out and that's where your inspiration is. Your fears will scream at you. Your inspiration will whisper. Your wisdom is that silent little voice you can barely hear. Make some silent space so you can find it. right? You're a human. You're patterned. You're conditioned. The beautiful thing about patterns is that patterns can change. Your brain can change. Your identity can change.
Your reactions can change. You can be the electrician and go in and rewire the situation, but it starts with your awareness. It starts by understanding what's going on in your brain, system one and system two. It starts with noticing them. It starts with realizing like, I don't have to believe every thought that comes into my mind. That right there is
might be one of the most freeing realizations a human can ever have. I don't have to believe every thought that I have. That way you can reclaim your brain. You can interrupt the pattern. You can pause long enough to see system two kicking in and start to choose differently because your life is not built from your first thought.
Your life that you want is built from the thoughts that you continue to believe. And hopefully, if you want to change your life, you start to change your thoughts and change your beliefs. So that's what I got for you for today's episode. If you love this episode, please share it on Instagram stories. Tag me in it. Rob Dial Jr. R-O-B-D-I-A-L-J-R.
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