Welcome to Darren Daly on demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better every day.

Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

Today, we're going to talk about how your brain is pulling a fast one on you.

More importantly, how we can catch it in the act and stop it. Are you ready?

Let's dive in. Now, in this crazy world that we're living in with information flying at us from

every direction, social media, news, you name it, there is something that you absolutely need to

understand. It is called selective perception. And it's your brain's sneaky way of fooling you.

So what's this selective perception business all about? Well, it's pretty simple. Your brain has a

tendency to see and hear what it wants to, not what's actually there. It's like having a built-in

filter that screens out anything that doesn't

match what you already believe or want to believe. It's pretty wild, right? Here's the kicker.

What you think is reality might not be reality at all. It's just your brain playing tricks on you.

Don't believe me? Well, let me show you something.

All right.

I'm going to play a recording of people chanting.

That is embarrassing four times.

After the fourth time, write down what you hear.

Thought is embarrassing. Thought is embarrassing Thoughts is embarrassing. Thoughts is embarrassing.

That is embarrassing.

That is embarrassing.

Interesting.

Almost everyone here heard that is embarrassing.

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