Some things are believed because they are true, but many things are believed because they have been asserted repeatedly.

Hey everybody, welcome back to the Primal Potential

podcast and our consistency 365 series.

I am Elizabeth Benton. There's a book called Economic Facts and

Fallacies, super fascinating title I know, Economic Facts and

Fallacies. It's by Thomas Sowell and this is a quote from that book.

Some things are believed because they are true,

but many things are simply believed

because they have been asserted repeatedly.

Now, we can all probably think of some examples

from the life around us, politics, health care, you name it.

But I think this is most powerful to understand

in the context of our own thoughts. When you say, I can't, I just can't stay consistent. I just can't focus. I can do

well all day, but I just can't seem to hold it together at night. Those things are not inherently

true. You believe them because you repeatedly assert them. You believe them because you

repeatedly reinforce them with your patterns of behavior, with your choices.

And then we believe that there are these barriers

and limitations all around us,

but they're only there because we created them.

We aren't, they are not there because we can't pass through them

because we can't tear down those walls because we can't make another way.

We absolutely can, but we build these barriers all around us. I can do

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