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How to Build Delusional Self-Belief

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0:00You could have all of the best traits in

0:02the world, be extremely hard working,

0:03hyper intelligent, have great

0:05communication skills, anything,

0:08and none of that matters if you don't

0:10have self-belief.

0:12Right? Everything else is contingent

0:13upon you having self-belief. It's the

0:15foundation of which you build your life,

0:18in which you build whatever it is that

0:20you want to pursue. And so this begs the

0:22question, how does one develop

0:24self-belief

0:25against all reason? Right? The odds are

0:28not in your favor. How could you

0:29actually convince your mind that you're

0:30capable of doing something that no one

0:32in your family, no one from your

0:33hometown, has ever done?

0:36And I'm not going to give you some, you

0:37know, cliché Mr. Beast, "Oh, you're

0:40you're it's crazy until it works." I'm

0:42not going to do any of that. I'm going

0:45to tell you the actual way that you

0:47start to build up your own mentality to

0:50believe in yourself, and it all starts

0:52with this. Your brain needs a story to

0:55operate, okay? And if you don't choose

0:57your own narrative, your environment is

0:59going to choose it for you.

1:01And when I was young, I always remember

1:04thinking about the like my friends'

1:06parents, like all the adults in my

1:07community,

1:09and they were nice people, but they were

1:12pretty much unremarkable in every way. I

1:14don't mean that to sound harsh, it's

1:16just a reality. There was nothing

1:18special about these people, they seemed

1:19to all be copy and paste, my parents

1:21included. There was nothing exceptional,

1:23nothing would jump off the page, right?

1:25And it was because they all had more or

1:27less the exact same life achievements.

1:30You know, they hadn't strived for

1:32greatness, or who knows, maybe they did,

1:34but they just sort of, you know,

1:35eventually gave up on their dreams.

1:38But the entire reason was because they

1:40all let their environment shape their

1:43narrative. Most people, they're

1:46unconsciously delusional, which is, you

1:48know, a negative thing.

1:50They're automatically assuming that

1:52they're going to fail.

1:53What you're trying to do is you're

1:55trying to flip the direction of the

1:56delusion. So, they're delusional,

1:59you want to be delusional, but the

2:01difference is you're going to be

2:02delusional in a positive light. And it

2:04takes the exact same amount of effort to

2:06be delusional negatively as it does

2:09positively. Now, it's more difficult to

2:11have positive delusional thoughts.

2:14However, it it it literally requires the

2:16same amount of mental effort. Now,

2:19how you do this is you have to create

2:22your own narrative. And to do that, you

2:24just simply can't walk the path that

2:27everybody else is doing. Think about

2:28this in the metaphorical sense. If you

2:31walk the same path as everyone else,

2:32you're only going to see the same views

2:34as them. But you don't want to see the

2:35same views as them. You want to see the

2:36more beautiful views as them. So, you

2:38have to take the path that hasn't been

2:40traveled before. You have to create your

2:42own path. You have to, you know, take on

2:44the danger that comes with that. But at

2:46the end of it, you might have the most

2:48beautiful view of the waterfall in the

2:50world because you took that path that

2:52other people simply weren't willing to

2:54do.

2:55And how you do this

2:57is literally number one in the biggest

3:00thing is you have to protect your

3:01energy. And how you protect your energy

3:03is by limiting other people's access to

3:05you.

3:06It is very real the transfer of energy

3:11amongst people. There's a frequency that

3:13there's brain waves that are

3:14communicated amongst others. This is a

3:16very real thing.

3:18If you're looking for a video that's

3:19going to give you all the, you know, the

3:21neuroscience and this and that, you

3:22you've come to the wrong one. I'm I'm

3:24literally just speaking in

3:27from what I've recognized to be

3:29absolutely true, which is that you end

3:33up being like the people that you hang

3:34around. And if nobody is

3:38ambitious or has achieved anything

3:41whatsoever, then they're probably not

3:44worth your time.

3:46To a large extent, you don't you don't

3:47want to be the douchebag that like

3:49thinks they're, you know, is pretentious

3:50and thinks they're

3:51they're better than everyone. Excuse me.

3:53You don't hang out with them. I'm just

3:54saying most of your time, if you can't

3:57find good people to hang out with, needs

3:59to be isolated and needs to be alone.

4:00You need to be consuming content. You

4:04Everything you consume should be

4:05positive and it should be real for

4:07reinforcing your delusional self-belief.

4:10Listening to somebody like Kanye West.

4:12All the the music that you listen to.

4:14I'm not kidding when I say this, but

4:16music vibrates at a certain frequency

4:18and a lot of it is super negative and

4:20it's designed to make you depressed.

4:21It's designed to make you think that the

4:23world is against you.

4:24So, there's Everybody knows what

4:26paranoia is. It's when you think that

4:27the world and everybody is conspiring

4:28against you. There's a thing called

4:30pronoya. Pronoya is the exact opposite.

4:33You think that everybody in the world is

4:34conspiring to help you.

4:36And this is You need to be pronoya

4:39maxing at any type of maxing. You need

4:41to just start thinking optimistically

4:43about the world that you live in. And

4:44it's not going to happen if you're

4:46reading sad books, you're listening to

4:47sad music, you're watching sad sad

4:49movies, you're watching content of

4:51people complain about their life and

4:52play the victim mentality, and you're

4:54hanging around a bunch of friends who

4:55are really just lazy bombs, but then

4:57they blame it on the fact that the world

4:58isn't fair. You need to eliminate all of

5:01these things because it subconsciously

5:04re-

5:06programs your brain.

5:08This is very real. You can ask

5:09neuroscientists like they'll they'll

5:11have a you know, they can give you the

5:12science behind it. I'm just telling you

5:13what I know.

5:14And so, what happens is you you

5:16literally need to start building a

5:20foundation subconsciously where you

5:23start to

5:25think more positively about the world

5:26because that's really what will make you

5:28believe that something is possible,

5:30okay? But that's only the first step.

5:31So, create your own narrative. Protect

5:33your peace. You need to make sure that

5:36you're not just falling into the trap

5:38that everyone else did from where you're

5:40from.

5:42What you need to do is you need to then

5:45detach from current evidence.

5:48Your current reality is basically a

5:50lagging indicator of past actions. If

5:54you rely on evidence, you'll always feel

5:58behind because evidence always exists in

6:00the past. And you need belief that

6:03exists ahead of these results. Now,

6:05evidence is still important. I'll get

6:07into that a little bit later in the

6:08video. But you need

6:11you know, belief is all about the future

6:14and evidence is all about the past and

6:16you can only live in the present moving

6:19forward into the future. So, you know,

6:22you shouldn't over concern yourself with

6:24the past. Once again, I don't want to

6:26this video to say things that you guys

6:27have heard on a million different other

6:28videos.

6:29But the reason that I say that is

6:31because once again, you have to think

6:33about what thoughts are consuming your

6:35mind. You want your mind to be positive,

6:38positive, positive looking toward the

6:40future, right? You don't want it to be

6:43negative, negative, negative and

6:44dwelling on the past. That's That's

6:47never It's never going to work. And

6:49ultimately, it's on you. It's on you to

6:51dictate

6:53what you're putting your energy towards

6:55and what you're thinking about. To a To

6:58some extent, obviously, you can't

6:59control everything, but you get what I'm

7:00saying.

7:02Stop asking for permission. Most people

7:05that you look up to are guessing as

7:07well.

7:08The difference is they move anyway.

7:10Certainty is often just practice

7:14confidence. So, literally last night, I

7:17was on a phone call with a creator.

7:21I'm not going to say his name, but he

7:22has over 4 million followers. Huge, huge

7:25creator in the space. You guys Most of

7:26you guys probably know who this guy is.

7:28And I had about a 45-minute conversation

7:30with him because I'm currently in the

7:32process I am A lot of people have been

7:34asking me to start like a mentorship and

7:36I'm and I want to help people out. And

7:38so, it's a little bit overwhelming and

7:39I've been doing this stuff on, you know,

7:41and to start this business and

7:44he was telling me he does something very

7:46similar to what I want to do and he was

7:47like,

7:48"Nobody knows what they're doing, okay?

7:51There's a There's a quote that I've

7:52heard that says, 'It's idiots all the

7:54way up' and it's completely true. I've

7:57talked to many, many creators that have

8:00millions and millions of followers that

8:01are multi-millionaires before the age of

8:0325.

8:04I'm not just making this up. Like, I

8:06actually have I just never asked for

8:08their permission to to name-drop them,

8:10so I don't feel comfortable doing that,

8:11but

8:13these people are not much different than

8:16me or you. I promise you you are not

8:18different than them. The only difference

8:20is they just took action regardless of

8:21how they felt. So, if they were unsure,

8:23they just tried.

8:25And that's what you'll see. The world is

8:26made up of about 95% 98%

8:30spectators and, you know, 1 to 5%

8:34people that

8:36are in the arena, that are actually

8:38trying, that are doing something with

8:39their life. If you've ever seen the

8:40movie The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,

8:42highly recommend it. I think it's a

8:43great movie about, you know, you need to

8:46experience life and stuff like that, but

8:48there is a quote in this movie that says

8:51there are two types of people in the

8:52world, the amazing and the amazed.

8:56The amazing walk The amazing go out and

8:59and carve their own path and the amazed

9:01watch from afar the amazing

9:05do whatever it is that they do. And then

9:07they wish that they were that person

9:08when in reality they are that person,

9:10they just haven't self-actualized.

9:13They haven't done the work. So,

9:15you just need to go and start.

9:17Right?

9:20Certainty is, as I was saying before,

9:23it's often just practice confidence.

9:27So, it's like I want to appear like I'm

9:28doing this thing, so I'm just going to

9:29do it and then I'll see how it goes and

9:31then to everyone else they're like, "Oh

9:32my gosh,

9:33he was so confident the whole time." No,

9:35no, no.

9:36He wasn't, but he just did it regardless

9:38of how he felt. And then what what

9:40begins to happen, and this is where you

9:42get into sort of the the the confidence

9:45I think matters is

9:47one thing is your brain can't operate

9:49100% off of delusion all the time. It

9:52will start to pull in personal

9:53experiences. This is This all happens

9:56subconsciously. You can't even control

9:57it. But to sort of

10:00it's a defense mechanism of your mind.

10:02You Your mind is trying to learn from

10:04your own mistakes to prevent you from

10:06facing danger. So, it pulls from certain

10:09evidence in your life

10:11to figure out what reality is. Now, you

10:14might be thinking, "Well, all the

10:16evidence in my life has not been

10:19would not give me

10:22more confidence moving forward." Well,

10:24that's completely fine. What you have to

10:25do is you take so many different shots,

10:28kind of like what I was just saying, you

10:29just go out there and you just try. But

10:31you do that over and over and over

10:32again. And yeah, you're going to fail

10:34like maybe you fail 99% of the time. I

10:36used to knock doors for a living.

10:39I was trying to pay for my college. I

10:40was like a

10:41for for a year and a half, I literally

10:43would knock doors

10:45and sell solar or, you know, smart home

10:48what whatever company I was working for

10:49at the time.

10:51And

10:52I would get rejected I think like I

10:54would get rejected by like 200 doors

10:56straight. So, I would have to knock and

10:57talk to around 200 people before I'd get

11:00one deal.

11:01And what I realized is if I started to

11:04if I I could knock 400 doors in a day,

11:06that would be two deals, and that was

11:08well above average what anyone in the

11:09office was doing. And so, I would be

11:11seen as a success. When in reality, I

11:13mean, I'm failing 99% of the time, but

11:16it starts to convince your brain cuz

11:18your brain doesn't just sit there and

11:20dwell on all the shortcomings. What it

11:23it If you choose to, it will do that,

11:25but it can also establish a belief from

11:29a very small hit percentage that just

11:32starts to be repeated over time. It's

11:34like I do social media. It's like yeah,

11:35I can do 100 videos and they might all

11:37flop, but 101st, if that goes viral, and

11:40then I speed speed run my way to the

11:42next like in record 300 more videos. Oh,

11:44I just did four viral videos. All of a

11:46sudden I've convinced myself that I'm

11:47somebody that can record multiple viral

11:49videos. You see how that works?

11:52And so you're going to try over and over

11:53and over again, and it's going to start

11:56landing. And you're going to learn from

11:58your mistakes, and it's going to start

12:00landing at a higher rate. It's going to

12:01be very slow. It's going to take a lot

12:03of time, and you have to get over the

12:05fear of rejection, but if you are truly

12:07relentless with it, it will work, and

12:09you will start to build confidence. And

12:10this this becomes like a a multiplier in

12:13a video game.

12:14Like you just start hitting more often.

12:16And that's when it that's when it gets

12:18fun.

12:19Have you guys ever seen that scene in

12:21Marty Supreme where they ask Marty the

12:24lady ask Marty, she's like, "What are

12:26you going to do if you don't make it?"

12:27He's like, "That doesn't even enter my

12:28consciousness." There's also a scene in

12:32uh what's that? Cars with Lightning

12:34McQueen where

12:36he gets interviewed, "Oh, how did you

12:38know like you could win the Piston Cup?"

12:40Piston Cup, excuse me, my gosh. And he

12:43was like, "Um

12:44I just never thought I couldn't."

12:48And so what you have there is the

12:50absence of doubt. Now, the absence of

12:53doubt can happen one of two ways. Either

12:55one, you got extremely lucky during

12:57childhood and you never got humbled. You

12:59never had a really difficult or

13:00traumatic experience that you went

13:02through that caused you to have some

13:05type of doubt.

13:07Or two,

13:09you

13:11got to a point where you realize that

13:13the

13:15that in order to overcome

13:18the doubt, you just have to try over and

13:21over and over again, build some type of

13:24confidence, and then almost like live on

13:26the island of your confidence. Yeah, you

13:28have a sea of failures, but you can just

13:30you can just live on the island. And so

13:32that will also create get rid of the

13:35doubt if you just choose to live on the

13:36island.

13:37And

13:39if you clicked on this video, I'm going

13:40to assume that you're not in in the

13:41first, you're in the latter.

13:44And

13:45that's like the reality of 99% of us.

13:47Like a very small percentage of people

13:49just go through life without have It's

13:50like the Dunning-Kruger effect. You're

13:52you're almost It's like the paradoxical

13:54truth that the smartest people are the

13:56dumbest people cuz they never have

13:57anything that holds them back. And so

14:00yeah, that's really the reality of it.

14:02You're probably somebody that

14:04experienced a lot of hardships in life.

14:05I'm assuming if you clicked on this

14:07video and if you're still

14:09you know, watching.

14:10And so once again, you have to basically

14:12just start to try a bunch of things and

14:15then once the things start to land, you

14:17clump those things up together and

14:19you're creating a belief in your mind.

14:22And even though you fail a bunch, you

14:24just

14:25focus on the times where things hit. And

14:27you start And then the longer that you

14:29do it, the more you realize that okay,

14:31if I consistently can hit, it's going to

14:33be rare when I hit, but it's still

14:35consistent. Like I can consistently find

14:37the rare moments.

14:39Then all of a sudden, the self-belief is

14:41there

14:42because you've built up that confidence.

14:46But you have to The biggest thing here

14:47is you have to back up what this this

14:50belief that you'll build with action or

14:52it becomes cope. Delusion without work

14:55is just fantasy. Delusion and

14:57consistency is a you know,

14:59self-fulfilling prophecy.

15:03You'll need proof eventually, just not

15:05at the start.

15:07At the start, you're going to do it. You

15:08you just face it with doubt and then you

15:10just wait to get lucky a few times and

15:12then all of a sudden that, you know,

15:13that's when it starts to build.

15:18You don't need to consume every opinion

15:21or possibility, especially from people

15:23who are

15:25you know, who they haven't

15:26done anything with their life. You don't

15:28need to do that. So, build I would call

15:31it selective ignorance. Protect your

15:33belief like it's fragile, especially in

15:36the early stages, because that's the

15:37foundation you're trying to build.

15:39You want to just limit other people's

15:41access. You If you know somebody's a

15:42negative person,

15:44if you know that they lack self-belief

15:47and that they tend to be pessimistic and

15:49not believe just because it's sort of

15:51projection for their own shortcomings,

15:53cut them off. Stay away from them. I

15:55don't care if it's your best friend from

15:56childhood, you need to cut them off.

15:58With family, I'm not going to lie, it's

15:59a little bit harder. My whole family,

16:02I'm not even kidding you guys. I asked

16:04my family this weekend like what their

16:05dreams were and all of them said they

16:07don't have a dream.

16:08I mean, we're not even in the same

16:10stratosphere of mentality.

16:12If you don't have a dream, what do you

16:13have nothing. So, yeah, like I I'm I

16:17empathize with all of you guys that

16:20you know, don't have

16:22these sort of role models around you or

16:24people that you're like, I spend all my

16:25time in this basement alone and I try to

16:27strictly consume content that's going to

16:29reinforce my self-delusional beliefs.

16:32I've said this before, but

16:34you know, if you are not viewed as some

16:38type of egotistical narcissist in some

16:40extent, I like you're you're you're not

16:43at the level of belief that you need to

16:44be at. Truly. I'm not I'm not condoning,

16:48you know,

16:50being a narcissist in that sense, you

16:53know, an unhealthy narcissist or being a

16:55super egotistical or self-centered

16:57person. I don't believe in that. But,

16:59when you just lock in on yourself and

17:01you start to become obsessed with with

17:02your own craft and what you're doing,

17:05yeah, people are going to start to think

17:06that you're super self-absorbed and you

17:09don't really care about others and

17:10that's how it should be

17:11in terms of like how how others perceive

17:13you, cuz you should be so obsessed with

17:15all this stuff.

17:16But,

17:18you have to put effort forward.

17:21Everybody who has put effort forward is

17:23just like you. They're just like me.

17:25We're all the same. We're all humans.

17:27It's idiots all the way up. There's no

17:29reason why you couldn't do why you can't

17:30do it. I used to watch influencers

17:32online

17:34growing up like all of us did and I

17:36always would like

17:38if they had like 100k, I'd be like,

17:41"Dude, that's crazy." Or like not even

17:42100 like if if an influencer had like

17:4440,000 followers on Instagram, I would

17:47thought that was the coolest thing in

17:48the world and I was like, "Man, that's

17:50it's like my dream to do that one day."

17:52And then one day I started.

17:54And then that became my reality because

17:56I literally just started.

18:00So,

18:02accept that you're going to look crazy

18:03for a while. It's going to happen.

18:05There's always that awkward phase in the

18:06beginning where nothing's going to make

18:08sense to others. That's just the truth.

18:11There is a price of doing something

18:13uncommon, which is that you're just

18:16you're going to be hated on mainly

18:18because you're trying to do something

18:19other people wish they had the courage

18:21to try.

18:22People are going to think that you you

18:24look stupid and weird.

18:26If nobody doubts you, your goals are too

18:28small. That's That's how you That's like

18:30how I cope with that. That's how I deal

18:31with that. I'm like, "Yeah, people

18:32better be doubting me because, you know,

18:34it's crazy." Well, guys, when I started

18:37posting on TikTok, you can see

18:40when people view your profile and you

18:42know, at the start when I

18:45hadn't gained any traction yet, I would

18:47see people from my hometown who I didn't

18:48even talk to at all

18:50and I've you know, I've it's been

18:52you know, a while since I've ever been

18:54in my hometown or lived there.

18:56And these are people that I hadn't

18:58talked to and they would be viewing my

18:59pages

19:00or my page, I guess I should say.

19:02And

19:04I knew for a fact they were laughing at

19:06me because it's like it's just this guy

19:07who's recording videos in his parents'

19:09basement who is clearly unsuccessful and

19:13is trying at something and failing at

19:15it. And then guess what? I made another

19:18video, and then I made another one after

19:19that. And then and what I did was I

19:21would put, you know, maximum effort in

19:23for a day, get wake up the next morning,

19:25and I got nothing out of it. And do the

19:27same thing again the next day and got

19:29nothing out of it. And again the next

19:30day and nothing out of it. And again the

19:31next day and nothing out of it. And I

19:32literally did this for months on end

19:34until finally I started to get small

19:36hits.

19:37And

19:39all of a sudden I started to establish a

19:42belief in myself, a confidence that I

19:44could do it, and I rinsed and I repeated

19:47until literally I squeezed every single

19:50drop out of the rag. And at the end of

19:53it I had a full cup of confidence.

19:56And then I just I've been running with

19:58it ever since.

19:59I'm telling you, I promise you guys,

20:01this is exactly how it's done. You are

20:05going to look stupid for a while, but

20:07eff it, it doesn't matter. Keyboard

20:10And I promise you guys,

20:13if you

20:15isolate your mind and really focus on

20:18the task at hand, the goal, and don't

20:19let negativity,

20:22you know, flood into your brain,

20:24you're going to win in the end, I

20:26promise you. Thank you guys for

20:27watching.

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