hoose your focus carefully, it programs your RAS.

choose your inputs carefully, they become subconscious patterns.

choose your repetitions carefully, they wire your automatic responses.

you’re not just your conscious thoughts.

you’re the entire system, the conscious, subconscious, and whatever lies beyond.

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your subconscious learns through repetition and emotion.

fundamental attribution error - when others fuck up, your subconscious blames their character.

when you fuck up, your subconscious blames circumstances.

someone cuts you off in traffic? they’re an asshole.

you cut someone off? you were distracted, running late, didn’t see them - circumstances.

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sunk cost fallacy - your subconscious hates admitting past decisions were wrong, so it keeps investing in failing situations.

stayed in a bad relationship too long because you’d “already invested so much time.”

that’s your subconscious trying to justify past choices rather than cut losses.

anchoring bias - the first number you hear becomes the reference point for all future judgments.

this is why retailers show you the “original price” crossed out next to the “sale price.”

your subconscious anchors on the higher number, making the sale price feel like a better deal even if it’s still overpriced.

availability heuristic - your subconscious judges likelihood based on how easily examples come to mind.

if you’ve recently heard about plane crashes, flying feels more dangerous even though the statistics haven’t changed.

your subconscious is using “easy to recall” as a proxy for “likely to happen.”

confirmation bias - your subconscious seeks information that confirms what you already believe and filters out contradicting information.

this is why people with opposite political views can watch the same event and see completely different things.

their RAS and subconscious are filtering reality through existing beliefs.

confirmation bias - your subconscious seeks information that confirms what you already believe and filters out contradicting information.

focus on opportunities, your RAS starts filtering for opportunities.

focus on problems, your RAS shows you more problems.

focus on reasons why you can’t do something, your RAS finds evidence to support that.

focus on solutions, your RAS starts spotting potential solutions you would’ve otherwise missed.

this isn’t woo-woo manifestation bullshit.

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