Thoughts are More Powerful Than Bombs The Truth About Manifestation

Literally my thoughts are the most powerful thing in the world, more powerful than bombs. If you can look at what's happening as in your favor, then I think you get to start seeing the whole world differently. It's only like our biological selves that are limited. But I think in terms of consciousness, I think that's an infinite set of possibilities. I've had to find faith. Like I've had no choice but to like find something to be a north star to believe in. And so like if things like this get bad enough for people, it's like all right, maybe it's Jesus or it's you know who God or whatever, right? Um but for me it's like all right, I've got to I've got to just find something to believe in because otherwise you do feel so powerless. And that's uh it's a terrible feeling. And I actually think that's an illusion. I think in reality our conscious selves have like infinite power. It's only like our biological selves that are limited. Like obviously I can't lift, you know, a million pounds. Um there's limitations in the physical world. But I think in terms of consciousness, I think that's an infinite set of possibilities. That's what I think. And I think all of us who are conscious, we all have that infinitess in us. The trick is remembering that or believing it if you don't or remembering it. And then if if you can keep that top of mind that oh yeah I'm a conscious creator and my thought my thought literally my thoughts are the most powerful thing in the world more powerful than bombs. If you realize your thoughts are so powerful you can just monitor them work on them study them instill better versions of of thoughts ones that are more empowering and that's how you can like be okay through all this. [laughter] What does that mean pragmatically to you? It some of it sounds a little bit like manifestation, like if I think really good thoughts, I can make a bunch of things happen. And I don't know if I believe in that or not. You know, I can I can make an argument both ways if I'm on the debate team. But but what does that mean for you? Because it doesn't sound like you're saying think good thoughts and you'll make a bunch of money, but but or maybe you are saying that. I don't know. Actually, I'd love to know what you what faith means to you. Okay. Um, so yeah, you just threw faith in right at the end. I know I brought it up earlier. So the manifestation thing and the thoughts I do think I mean I'm open to changing my mind, but we all just think whatever we [laughter] think. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not I'm not You can change your mind whenever you want. Yeah. I'm not going to like assert that like this is, you know, [laughter] um I just want to be clear about that. But what I find to be extremely compelling and consistent with all my experiences is the idea that our thoughts shape our reality. So yes, the kind of like trit example you gave of of think positive thoughts, you can make a bunch of money. Yes, that's true. However, where I think a lot of people goof up is they don't eliminate the disabling thoughts. You can think, "Oh, I'm gonna be super rich. I'm gonna be super rich. I'm gonna be super rich." But if you also have nine different thoughts in your head, like, "I grew up in a poor family. I don't deserve to be rich. Um, there's no way I could be richer than that other guy who I know and he's only like middle class." If you have all these different like competing beliefs in your subconscious, it doesn't matter if you instill one positive belief like I'm gonna be a millionaire. I'm gonna be a millionaire because all those other ones are stronger. So you have to kind of shine the light of awareness onto the hundreds, thousands of beliefs that you already have on whatever the topic is. My my health and fitness, my relationships, my finances. We all have all these thoughts, all these thoughts in our head. And they've all contributed in my view to getting to wherever you are now in life. Like just that it's a pro all those thoughts you've ever had. And like some thoughts come in and they go out right away and you're like, I don't like that thought at all. And then others you like you cling to. Like it's your identity. You're like, I've always been a baseball player or like I'm a guitar player. That's who I am. And like you just hold on to that. That's fine. Great. Then you're going to be that thing. You are going to be that thing. I'm certain of it. So, and you can just let it if you ever wanted just you can just let go of it. Be like this, you know what? I'm just not that person anymore. And you've got to have like a thought. You have to have like meta thoughts, thoughts about your own thoughts. And you have to believe that it's okay to change your thoughts. You have to believe that, you know, you're not a bad person if you choose to redefine yourself. you know, you have to so there's thoughts, metaphors. So that's kind of what I think. And then the role of faith in all that is the short way I'll explain it is like, okay, given all that, I'm just going to trust that the universe is going to work out somehow and that's it. That's the faith. That's interesting. I've heard the I've heard the idea that you should live your life as if uh the universe has worked all the odds in your favor. Live your life as if everything is stacked in your favor. I love it because it is. And I think that that's more like that doesn't mean you have to make a million dollars. It actually means if you lose a million dollars, you'd go, "Wow, this is awesome. What am I gonna do with this?" Like everything that's actually happening to you. You You don't get to decide if it's good or bad. You're deciding what's happening to me is good. And I know that there's some like weird questions that come up with that, but fundamentally, if you can look at what's happening as in your favor, then I think you get to start seeing those those the whole world differently. Yes. Yeah. There was there was one company I don't know if it was Zappos maybe you guys have heard this but Zapos when they were hiring one of the questions they would ask in interviews is do you feel like you're a lucky person or not or like how lucky of a person do you think you are and that was like the one question that they used so like the whole interview was just like a formality blah blah blah blah and then there was like the only question that mattered which is like how how lucky of a person do you think you are and if they're like oh I'm so lucky I just like I win all everything all the time I win these like lotteryies these contests it's like all right you're hired cuz like we want someone who just believes that they're going to have good outcomes. Like that was like the thing. So it might not be Zappos and I could be like messing up that story. But it was like a really cool thing and I I resonated with it for sure. And people who are like you know I just never win anything like like who wants to be around that person like I'm like like okay well go go somewhere else. Yeah. Zappos was really famous. They also offered every hire like five or 10 grand to not take the job. So they wanted to make sure that people were not taking the job for money. And so they give an offer and they go, "Hey, one last thing. We'll pay you $5,000 to not take the job right now. Do you want it?" And some people would take the money and they'd take a check for five grand and walk out. But most but everyone who worked at Zapos had to turn that down. They go, "No, I don't want the five grand. I want to come work for you." Wow, that's so cool. And that was one of the things they did on the on the end of the hiring. Yeah. They paid people to not work there. And they said a people did take it. And they're like, "Honestly, that saved us so much money because we would have hired these people who really didn't want to work here. they were just in it for the job and the money and then that their performance would be less and you know they quantified it in some capacity but they said that is more worth it to us to pay you to leave if you would take that offer than to stay on. That's super cool. So they really embodied it. You know the Zappos really was known for their culture building in that way and I I definitely think that's they were the ones that were doing what you were saying too. Yeah, it's cool. It's so hard to quantify that level of metacognition that you can't really know if a person's good at it. So, it's cool to find these indicators where you see like obviously they're metacognitive. They're they're thinking thoughts about their thoughts. They're in a different plane of of problem solving. I love that. I think everybody should start thinking they're lucky. Yeah. Why not? For sure. Well, we damn need to be pretty soon, so [laughter] start thinking it fast. Yeah. So, so you think silver is going to have a better year this year than last year? Yeah. I mean, I'm not going to like It's just your thought on it.