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The Successful Mind Podcast on YouTube – Episode 440 – In Search of the Truth: Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 452 – In Search of the Truth: Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying Jan 04, 2022

Show notes

Today I’ve got Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying on the show, and I couldn’t be more excited. Both evolutionary biologists (and a husband and wife team), they’ve spent their careers studying things like tropical biology, behavior, evolution of behavior, and sexual selection. Their book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, became a New York Times bestseller almost instantly, and yet it’s received almost no mainstream press.

Bret and Heather were both popular professors at Evergreen State College for 15 years, teaching students how to think evolutionarily. That all changed in 2017—when 50 students (whom Bret had never met) showed up at his classroom and demanded his firing and resignation over claims that he was a racist. This led to protests and eventually riots. Bret and Heather found themselves dragged into a very public fight at the college over diversity, equity, and inclusion measures. They left the college and are now reaching a much larger audience.

In search of the truth, I had to interview them. In today’s episode, we discuss:

- How the free speech crisis on college campuses isn’t really a “free speech” crisis—but a crisis of a much different nature (and it’s not limited to college campuses)

- How we all function by heuristics, which leads us to making all kinds of assumptions about what we see

- Why resorting to heuristics is leading many people to see a very compelling, but false, picture—and why seemingly intelligent individuals can’t see what’s actually taking place in the world

- Science is supposed to be based on challenging the status quo and letting the data prove what the answer (or truth) is—but what we’re seeing is, in fact, an anti-scientific approach

- Why massive protests are taking place all around the world in countries where the people understand what tyranny is and are standing up against it—yet we’re not seeing any of that in the US

- Why people who were raised in the “WEIRD world” (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic) are susceptible to certain optical illusions, while other people aren’t

Bret and Heather say the rate of change in our world is outpacing our ability to keep up with it—as well as our ability to understand what is true. From an evolutionary perspective, if we can’t keep up with the rate of change, we will perish. And that’s the whole point.

This is a fascinating interview you don’t want to miss!

Links & Resources

A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century

More binge-worthy, truth seeking episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:

Episode 187 – Reality vs. Truth

Episode 389 – We Live In Truth

Episode 440 – In Search of the Truth: Nico Jenkins

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The Successful Mind Podcast on YouTube – Episode 451: Mindset Monday’s – What You Choose to Believe is a Place

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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 451 – Mindset Monday’s – What You Choose to Believe is a Place Jan 03, 2022

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Many years ago, I was traveling and stayed in a beautiful four-star hotel. It was different from anything I’d ever experienced growing up. I wanted to hold that image and have all the beauty and luxury of that place burned into the cells of my mind.

I was on my way to fly home. One of the biggest snowstorms in history was causing all the flights to be canceled. I remember sitting in a limo and having a conversation with my mentor, Bob Proctor. I told him I wasn’t sure if I’d make it home, due to the weather. He looked at me, dead serious, and asked, “When are you going to start practicing what we teach?”

In today’s episode I’m sharing that story and revealing details about it that I’ve never told anyone. You’ll learn:

- Why “holding the image” of what you want is so powerful (even while everyone around you is complaining)

- Why you don’t have to be bound by the ‘rules’ of your circumstances

- How I found myself at a hotel that was a hell hole—and made a decision, “I’m not staying here. I’m going home.”

- Why you should never let the facts of an old belief control the decision you make for you want

- How many people have come up to my team and said, “I’m going to be one of your best students”—and then we never hear from them again (because they don’t have the belief in themselves)

- There’s a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it

- No one is ready for a thing, until he BELIEVES he can acquire it

No matter what you want in life, your job is to hold the image of it in your mind—and to actively believe it. Build that image, make the decision, and manifest something new in your life.

As Napoleon Hill says, “No more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity than is required to accept misery and poverty.”

Links & Resources

Make an unshakable belief your new normal and get the jumpstart you need in the new year with these powerful episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:

Episode 098 – What Happens When You Don’t Hit a Goal?

Episode 332 – Raymond Holliwell & The Law of Forgiveness

Episode 359 – The Premise of Pursuit

Discover David’s book: The Millions Within: How to Manifest Exactly What You want and Have an EPIC Life

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The Successful Mind Podcast on YouTube – Episode 450 – Full Throttle Thursday – 2021: A Look Back on the Year That Was

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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 450 – Full Throttle Thursday – 2021: A Look Back on the Year That Was Dec 30, 2021

Show notes

Most people were probably expecting 2021 to be way different from 2020. We were hoping things would get back to normal—and instead, they took a turn for the worse.

I’ve had many interesting observations throughout this year. I’ve watched what’s been happening in the world, while also helping my clients and students adapt to these changes so they can prosper. Today BT and I reflect on 2021 and how it unfolded.

In this episode we discuss:

- The massive changes humanity is facing that we’ve never seen before—and why I believe we’re heading in a dangerous direction

- Why we need to let go of “how things were before” and ask different questions, so we can adapt, move forward, and make things even better than they were before

- How constant fear is psychologically damaging and messes with people’s minds to no end

- Some thoughts on my interview with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying, two evolutionary biologists (coming in January!)

- Why people in different countries are responding to totalitarian measures with enormous pushback, taking to the streets in huge protests—yet we’re seeing none of that in the US

- Why many people are questioning whether to start a family and have children—and how Elon Musk believes human beings could go extinct if we don’t boost the population back up

For decades, we’ve heard that the world is falling apart, the political left is going to kill us, the political right is going to kill us…etc. It’s like the story, “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.” It’s led many people to bury their head in the sand, but right now, people need to wake up.

We’re in a very serious time in history that requires us all to dig a little deeper to learn how to think, to treat each other with love and respect, and to start looking for real solutions for our life. If we keep burying our head in the sand, we’re going to find ourselves in a world we don’t recognize—and one that we’re ill-equipped to handle.

Regardless of the change taking place, the good news is, change always brings with it opportunity. There’s opportunity in any environment if you’re willing to put in the work.

Links & Resources

A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century

Change always brings with it opportunity. Start the new year on the right foot with more powerful episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast

Episode 081 -Sift Through the Noise

Episode 331 – I Can’t Change the World But I Can Change Myself

Inside Episode 342 – Let Spirit Lead

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The Successful Mind Podcast on YouTube – Episode 449 – Movers & Shakers w/ Ashley Bernardi

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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 449 – Movers & Shakers – Ashley Bernardi Dec 28, 2021

Show notes

Ashley Bernardi is an entrepreneur, a mom with three young kids, and the author of Authentic Power: Give Yourself Permission to Feel. She runs a PR firm called Nardi Media.

Ashley is a trauma survivor who spent the pandemic meditating upon her early traumas from childhood. When she was 11 years old, her father died tragically in front of her. She buried her feelings around this event for years and didn’t even tell her high school friends that he’d died. Ashley says when you bury uncomfortable feelings—instead of feeling them and moving through them—this is a detriment to your health, wellbeing, and livelihood.

In today’s episode you’ll learn:

- Why it’s important to feel your feelings—and to know that no matter how uncomfortable they are, feelings are temporary and won’t last forever

- The F.E.E.L. framework—focus, enter, experience, listen, learn, and love (as taught in Ashley’s book)

- “Authentic power” means accessing the wisdom you have within you

- Ashley’s experience with postpartum depression and Lyme disease, which she sees as her greatest gift—because it was the universe telling her, “Your body has no more room to store the trauma and grief you’ve been burying your whole life”

- Every emotion has a specific breathing pattern

- There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to healing

- True healing always seems to have a spiritual component to it

“As human beings, we’re all meant to feel,” Ashley says. “By accessing our feelings and giving ourself permission to feel all the feelings, there is so much growth and transformation within.”

Authentic Power is a fantastic book that I think should be in everybody’s library. It should be required reading for your own spiritual and psychological health.

Links & Resources

AshleyBernardi.com

Connect with Ashley across these social platforms:

Facebook @NardiMedia
Twitter @BookerBernardi
LinkedIn

More insiprational episodes to direct your spiritual and psycholoical health from The Successful Mind Podcast:

Episode 058 – Bury Your Past Alive

Episode 372 – I Choose How I Feel

Inside Episode 372 – I Choose How I Feel

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The Successful Mind Podcast on YouTube – Episode 448: Mindset Monday’s – What Am I Resisting?

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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 448 – Mindset Monday’s – What Am I Resisting? Dec 27, 2021

Show notes

Napoleon Hill says there are seven major positive emotions (or states of mind)—desire, faith, love, sex, enthusiasm, romance, and hope. He says there are seven major negative emotions (or states of mind)—fear, jealousy, hatred, revenge, greed, superstition, and anger. I would also add resistance to that list.

When you’re in resistance, your subconscious mind is trying to keep you from changing. What’s interesting is, you have a very specific process of going into resistance. You might go into denial, blame, confusion, sadness, depression, or procrastination. Your physical body might be affected in a negative way. Or you might walk away from a situation instead of facing it.

We all have a ‘strategy’ for staying in resistance.

In today’s episode you’ll learn:

- Why we need to pay close attention to which negative emotions (or states of mind) get in our way, prevent us from seeing the truth, and cause us to keep creating things we DON’T want in our life

- “Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time; one must dominate”

- When you’re in resistance, you’re not in harmony with the thing you say you want

- Whatever you’re experiencing, it’s a projection of your own thinking—i.e., your own state of mind (this is why the Bible talks so much about not judging, because the moment you go into judgment, it’s about you, not what you’re seeing)

- Blame gives away our power and our personal responsibility; it’s also a way of being in control

- Problems or “conditions” keep showing up in your life because you’re not seeing the truth about something—and if you change how you see the problem, you can remove it from your life

- To extend a loving thought to anyone or anything, removes the opposition

Hill says, “Only when we cease to recognize a condition, do we cease to attract it. The only way we can cease to recognize things is to change our minds about them.”

What are you resisting in yourself that’s causing you to not see the truth?

Links & Resources

What are you resisting? Get out of resistance and into harmony with the things you want in life by listening to these powerful episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:

Episode 080 – How to Break Through Resistance

Episode 192 – Resistance is Futile

Episode 404 – There’s Something In Me I Don’t Want To See

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The Successful Mind Podcast on YouTube – Episode 447 – Full Throttle Thursday – Magic or Manipulation: The Santa Claus Conundrum

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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 447 – Full Throttle Thursday – Magic or Manipulation? The Santa Claus Conundrum Dec 23, 2021

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**SPOILER ALERT: Don’t listen to this episode with your kids in the car!**

Santa Claus has been around for generations. As adults, we think of Christmas as a time for kids to get excited over presents and visits with Santa. We want to make it a magical time for them and tend to go overboard with the gifts, lights, and festivities. Some parents use Santa Claus as a way to keep their kids in line. After all, Santa knows who’s been naughty or nice. If children are good, they’ll get the presents they want. If they’re naughty, they risk receiving coal in their stocking or, in some cultures, being beaten with a stick.

But what about our own Christmas experiences? How have they shaped us as adults?

In this episode, BT and I discuss how the Santa Claus mythos could be detrimental to developing a successful mind.

You’ll learn:

- Whether the intention behind the Santa Claus myth is to encourage focused, good behavior or just to manipulate kids

- How jolly fat Saint Nicholas was actually propaganda created by a Civil War cartoonist in the 1860s as a way to bring the country together, because people were so divided over the Civil War

- The difference between magical thinking and the law of cause and effect

- How the idea of Santa can get kids to think of success only as an end game (i.e., “If I’m good enough, a fat man will come down a chimney and give me presents”)

- How the media portrays success only as an end result—it doesn’t show the work, discipline, practice, tough decisions, failures, and mistakes it took to get there

- How three Christmas characters—Zwarte Piet, Belsnickel, and Krampus—have been used to scare kids into behaving.

In my company, we teach the law of cause and effect, and how diligent work (not luck or wishful thinking) gets you the desired outcome. While we all have good intentions to celebrate Christmas in the same old ways, we must be honest about the long-term effects those traditions have. We should critically reflect on our own experiences that we had as children around Santa.

However you choose to celebrate, we wish you all a Merry Christmas!

Links & Resources

See how the Law of Cause & Effect can get you the desired outcome by listening to these previously released episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast

Episode 354 – The Art of Success Virtual Summit Sneak Peek: The Law of Cause & Effect

Episode 320 – What’s Going to be Different This Year?

Episode 230 – Cause & Effect: Being Able to Receive What’s Already Here

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The Successful Mind Podcast on YouTube – Episode 446: Trust vs Magical Thinking – You Must Know the Difference

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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 446 – Trust vs Magical Thinking – You Must Know the Difference Dec 21, 2021

Show notes

Knowing how to evaluate someone’s character and knowing whether or not to trust them is a skillset. Unfortunately, most people weren’t taught how to do this. Growing up, many people (myself included) were taught not to take candy from strangers—and that it’s okay to talk to certain people because they’re “nice.”

The problem is, “nice” isn’t a value by which to evaluate a person’s character. Anyone can have a horrible character and be nice for a few minutes. We can get ourselves into big trouble by hiring people or getting into relationships with someone because they’re “nice.” This is magical thinking, and it often stems from a need to be liked.

In today’s episode you’ll learn:

- The difference between trust and magical thinking

- Why we need to evaluate a person’s character before we hire them or get into a relationship with them (business or personal)

- How I was embezzled out of five million dollars in 2004, because I went into business with people whom I thought were nice—without any deeper evaluation of whether I could trust them

- We have to learn trust, starting with ourselves

- Why you should hire people based on the merits of what they can do

Plus, I discuss Iyanla Vanzant’s book, Trust, which I consider to be one of the top five “must-read books.” She teaches that in order to trust others, you must first learn how to develop trust with yourself.

Links & Resources

Learn to trust yourself more by listening to these past episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:

Episode 015 -A Lesson on Trust

Episode 338 – My Three Friends

Inside Episode 370 – My Best Is All That Matters

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The Successful Mind Podcast on YouTube – Episode 445: Mindset Monday’s – Seven Levels of Awareness

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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 445 – Mindset Monday’s – Seven Levels of Awareness Dec 20, 2021

Show notes

In today’s episode I’m teaching on the seven levels of awareness that you can experience as a human being.

These are:

1. Animal—Basic survival instincts. Many people in third world countries where there’s extreme poverty are at this level. The main question is always, “How do we survive?”

1. Mass consciousness—Beliefs are driven into people that aren’t based in factual evidence; they’re emotional and fear driven. We see this as large groups of people become indoctrinated in mass consciousness.

1. Aspiration—We start thinking beyond mass consciousness and aspire to find the truth. We look for something else about ourselves that can move us forward in a different direction.

1. Individuality—We start to accept ourselves for who we are. They get to know ourselves and want to express ourselves. We start to care less and less about what other people think.

1. Discipline—We become “a disciple or student of” something that we’re working to master…whether it’s health and fitness, becoming wealthy, running an eight figure business, marketing, or anything else.

1. Experience—We practice the thing we’re going to master. We become a cause set in motion. We’re practicing cause and effect. We’re getting feedback, which shows up as results, circumstances, environment, people, places, and things. Everything becomes a reflection for us.

1. Mastery—We go through the process over and over again, until we start to internalize it. We become so proficient at it, we don’t have to think about it. It becomes automatic.

Today, think about these levels of awareness in all the different areas of your life. Ask yourself, “Where am I in those levels with different things?” Just because you’re aware in one area of your life doesn’t mean you’re aware in another area.

The goal is to really indoctrinate and train yourself to think successfully—where you’re always asking the right questions about something. You’re never getting sucked into a rabbit hole emotionally. You automatically think about the things that need to be done, based on cause and effect.

Links & Resources

Achieve the levels you desire by taking in these past blasts from The Successful Mind Podcast:

Episode 022 – The Power of Visualization

Episode 172- Start Where You Are

Episode 402 – We Hear With Our Ears But Listen With Your Emotions

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