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Thank you. live a purposeful and fulfilling New Mindset Who Dis. As always, thank you so much for listening. Thank you for supporting me. And today, I want to talk about a mindset that I think will lead you to joy in life. And it goes like this. We call it pro-noia, pro-noia, the opposite of paranoia. And we know what paranoia is, right? I'm not talking about in like a disorder sense. You know, I'm just talking about paranoia is what happens when

your mind assumes the world is plotting against you. It's you against the world. It means

a delayed text response is rejection. It means a room going quiet is judgment. It means

silence, it's disapproval, right? Paranoia means we brace for the worse and we rehearse and

expect failure and we shrink our hopes to avoid being disappointed. It's like at every turn,

we look for disappointment. We look for a threat. It's paranoia.

But there's another way to interpret life. There's another way to interpret uncertainty.

If paranoia is the unfortunate art of imagining unseen enemies, pro-noia would be allies, right? It's the belief that the world

might be working for you, not against you. Sounds pretty interesting, right? Proenoia, but let's add

some teeth to this. This idea of pro noia was introduced in 1982 by a guy named Fred Goldner, and he wrote an academic paper on it in

1982 called pro noia. It was published in social problems. And he basically explored this

concept of pro noia as a social, as like the social inversion of paranoia, right? So it's not

fear that the world is plotting against you. It's not

fear that the world is plotting your downfall. It's a belief that forces outside of your control

are secretly arranging events for your benefit. And Goldner observed and studied this in all

kinds of environments, corporate corporate political, spiritual, social

as basically an optimistic conspiracy mindset, right? Which I think is really cool. We have

conspiracy theories. This is an optimistic conspiracy theory, right? It's one where individuals

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