Free will
As a hacker, your job is to look at this black box, see what comes in, what goes out and learn how it works. Your brain is the same. Knowing that, do you have free will?
In your brain you have this self defense mechanism. You will always claim: I did what I wanted to do. In reality many things can persuade you to do things and you will think it is your decision.
There is a lot of things that affect your decisions. The temperature in the room, the height of the chair, the weight of the book…
The question is then: who is the puppeteer who is telling us what to do? The answer is that there is more than one. They are voting for what they want and fighting for their decision.
If you understand the decisions you made and why, you know better who you are. Your brain is like a muscle. Knowing your breaking points will make you push harder than before. This is extending your breakpoint. Just knowing will make you push harder.
Be Victim vs. be Winner
Once I gave up the victim mentality and realized: I can do anything I set my mind to. It becomes a spiritual question. If you really believe that you can achieve anything you set your mind to, then how you spend your time is a spiritual question.
If you fail to think big – that is on you. The only think you are not thinking big is that you are scared. We have the ability to change our story – all the time.
The narrative you tell yourself about yourself is the most important thing you have.
Be around people you want to be like. The science behind it is tahat if you are in company of someone else long enough, your brains will behave similarly. The easiest way to change yourself is to first look at what kind of world you want to be in and then bring the world to you. It actually changes the brain. Even if you are alone you are constantly talking to yourself and changing your own brain.
You can change overnight.
