Hey welcome back to the personality hacker podcast my name is Joe Mark Witt and I'm

Antonia Dodge and this week we are kicking off a short series of personal development

topics around things like your mindset, health and wellness,

relationships, and a just like a really cohesive overview of all of the different components of personal

development that we tend to, you know, as people be working on headed toward and we wanted to start out with what we believe is the most powerful

component of your personal development process and that is your mindset.

It's fundamental for everything else because it Because all of our behavior,

all of our personal growth comes from how we think about ourselves

and think about that journey in our lives.

Yeah, your mindset is basically the garden.

It's the soil that everything else grows from. So we wanted to focus in on a

couple aspects of mindset. In particular, we wanted to define mindset a little bit, but we in particular want to talk about the concept of what one of our favorites Robert Anton Wilson calls a live mind versus a dead mind and how to develop what he would define as a live mind.

But first let's talk a little bit about what a mindset is. Your mindset is

is defined as your fixed mental attitude or disposition that

predetermines your responses to an interpretation of situations. So basically it's your mental habits that you build over time

which influence how you see life and how you're going to be behaving essentially.

One of my favorite synonyms for mindset is your mental inertia.

So effectively how you're going to show up, how you're going to interpret situations,

how you're going to pattern recognize is all built on the infrastructure of where your mindset starting point is.

So you can see how important your mindset is, how important it is to be thoughtful, be aware of what your actual mindsets are, and be thoughtful about how you craft

them.

Now I mentioned mindset as sort of a singular thing before and now I'm referring to it in plurality

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