People who consider themselves lucky see literally with their eyeballs more opportunities. You don't have to change your mind. But what you can do is to say, you know what, that pair of sunglasses that I've been wearing, I'm sick of those sunglasses. Let me try and look at the world through a different pair of lenses, figure out what are those limiting beliefs that are keeping us from what we really want, and then replacing them with what I call liberating beliefs. My family came to America when I was three,

and by the time I was six, they had been scammed out of every dollar they had. So your brain is constantly one step ahead based on what it thinks is going to happen, and how does it know that? Based on what happened in the past. And then I came across this study that blew my mind. Learned helplessness is this concept that over time,

if nothing you do works, you learn to be passive. Turns out it's exactly wrong. It's to demonstrate

that if the power of the mind can exclude pain, can change through its belief, what enters

conscious awareness through the power of attention? What else can we do? Each of us creates our

own simulation. How can we show this? It's called

the coffer illusion. It's the same image. And you tell me whether you see rectangles or circles,

I know where you're born.

Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the Knowless Self podcast. Our guest today is a best-selling author who teaches

and sits at the intersection of psychology, technology, and unlocking human potential. He is

somebody that is a really eloquent teacher exploring habit building, the distracted mind,

beliefs, and the invisible forces that are shaping our life often unbeknownst to us near y'all. Thank you for being here. My pleasure. Thanks

for having me, Andre. What is the difference between fact, faith, and belief? Okay, so a fact

is an objective truth. It's something that is true, whether or not you believe in it. So the world

is more like a sphere than it is flat. Sorry, flat earthers, the earth doesn't care what you think.

You just lost all your flat earth audience. I wonder how many there are. Yeah, probably not that

funny. That's a fact, okay? Now, on the other end of the spectrum is faith. Faith is a conviction

that does not require evidence. What happens in the afterlife? God rewards the righteous.

These things don't demand evidence. In between fact and faith is what we call a belief.

A belief is a conviction that is open to revision based on new evidence. And what's so amazing about these beliefs that I think most people don't realize is that we can

choose them.

That beliefs are not the same thing as facts and faith.

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