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🗓️ 20 February 2017
⏱️ 9 minutes
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0:00.0 | You're listening to the Impact Theory podcast, your source of empowering ideas and actionable |
0:06.0 | techniques from the world's highest achievers. |
0:09.0 | Join host Tom Billiou, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of the billion dollar brand |
0:13.9 | Quest Nutrition on a journey to unlock your potential and realize your vision of success. |
0:19.9 | Welcome to Impact Theory. |
0:26.4 | And everybody, welcome to another episode of Impact Quotes where I take you inside the |
0:31.5 | ideas and quotes that have really shaped me. |
0:35.4 | Alright, the first one up today is from Ernest Hemingway. |
0:39.3 | Hope and despair are both self-fulfilling prophecies. |
0:45.3 | This is one of the most critical ideas for people to understand. |
0:48.8 | The mind latches onto ideas and it makes them real. |
0:54.1 | And I know how weird and confusing it is because there are things that seem objectively |
1:00.9 | true and there are things that seem objectively false. |
1:03.4 | So how can it be that the mind is so able to believe virtually anything? |
1:10.4 | But it is a fascinating fact about the way that the mind works that it has an inability |
1:15.0 | to distinguish between that which it obsessively thinks about and that which is real. |
1:20.4 | So whether you're focused on how things are going to go right, whether you're focused |
1:24.7 | on how you're going to crush something, how you're going to deliver the performance of |
1:28.6 | a lifetime, how you're going to be able to learn something, how you're going to be able |
1:30.8 | to do it, or you focus on the fact that you're not yet capable, that you're not good enough |
1:35.2 | that you failed in the past. |
1:37.3 | Regardless of which one of those two things you focus on, your brain is actually going |
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