Stop Being Realistic: The Science Behind Big Goals

Greetings and welcome back to Planet M, a podcast all about neuroscience, spirituality, mindset, and really anything that is relevant to leveling up manifestation and building your dream life, whatever that looks like for you. I am really excited for this episode today because this is something that is really super near and dear to my heart and it is the topic of being delusional and the neuroscience behind why being delusional is actually a pro-level brain hack. Being delusional really is the concept of not being under the influence of the illusion and the illusion is the reality of the norm. The reality of the norm, the reality of normal people. I don't know about you, but it is not my goal to live in the reality of the norm or the reality of the average person. To me, I want to live in the reality that is my dream world, my delusional dream world. That's the reality that I want to live in. From the beginning of when I first found out about the power of beliefs and manifestation, when I first got into this space, way back when, years and years ago, the first thing I did was just start to become delusional and I really, being delulu was not even a thing at the time. That wasn't a trend and so I didn't know that's what I was doing, but I was extremely delusional from very early on and I bet on myself time and time again and just so many times in my life I've had to be so delusional to make a certain goal happen or to make a certain dream come true and actually as I record this episode right now, I was looking at my notes on my laptop from like a few months ago and I have a list and it's called delusional dreams and I was looking at like the list that I wrote of all of my delusional dreams that I have and I wrote them maybe four months ago and I realized that one of the delusional dreams that I wrote already came true and so it's only delusional until it happens, right? It's only delusional until it works and then people are like, whoa, how'd you do it? And so that's what I want to talk about on this episode today right now because I really just want to give you permission right now to be so delusionally confident, delusional in your belief in yourself and in your belief in being able to make whatever it is happen, whatever it is that you want to do and it's necessary. It's necessary to have that level of belief in yourself. I remember when I was first graduating early for my PhD, when I was getting ready to go off into this business world and social media and content creation, someone that I knew at the time that I was close to at the time, he had said to me, he said, I know that you're going to be extremely successful because you have one characteristic that all successful people have and it is that you believe in yourself to a delusional extent. When I tell you, when I left and I graduated early from my PhD, I had 30,000 Instagram followers, 30,000. I had no reason to believe that I was going to be able to get to the point that I am right now. Like no logical, rational explanation for how I was going to build the life that I'm currently living now. I had no reason and back when I was in my PhD, I used to look up at the houses and the sides of the mountains and I used to say to myself, I used to point at them and be like, I'm going to live in one of those one day and actually it came up on one of my stories recently, three years ago today, it was me and it was like a video of a house on the side of a mountain and I was like, I'm going to live in one of those one day and literally that's exactly what I'm doing right now. I live in one of those. I'm telling you all this not to brag, but just to tell you everything that I have now came was once a delusional dream. Everything that I have now was once a delusional dream that has come true and so I really want to talk about the neuroscience of why being delusional is so important and I want to tell you a little story about where I think my delusional belief system really was born and it really was born when I first got to my PhD and I've told this story on like the first episode of this podcast back when I was like applying for PhD programs and I had this dream of doing drug addiction research and going straight to my PhD and everybody told me like, that's not realistic, you can't go straight to your PhD out of undergrad and they told me like, oh you're not going to be able to like do the exact research that you want to do, you have to wait until after you get your PhD to do it. Just so many different things that they told me and the whole entire time I was just delusional about it. I was just like, no, I'm gonna do exactly whatever I want to do. I'm gonna make it happen and I made it happen. I was in my first PhD course, it was molecular neuroscience and I went up to the professor of this class and I asked him and he happened to be the head of the PhD program of neuroscience at the time, right? He was this like older man and comes across from the outside like very serious and so I was not expecting his response when I asked him this question. I asked him, I said, do you think that if we were wired differently that we could fly? And the reason why I asked him this question was because I had been diving super deep into all of these podcasts and YouTube videos about like the neuroscience beliefs and epigenetics and just like our ability to rewire and reprogram our brains and nervous system and just like the effects that can have on ourselves. And so I took it to the extreme, which I normally do. I like to take things to extremes, but I took it to the extreme with that question and so I was not expecting him to say yes when he said yes. But when he said yes, I don't even think he probably remembers that conversation. But when he said yes, it gave me just this reassurance and validation to go full force 100% extreme with reprogramming my brain and rewiring my beliefs and creating my dream life. Now of course that took time. This conversation happened one, two, three years ago. Three years ago this conversation happened and I would say it was around like four years ago when I was starting to and so actually it's not even that long. It's not even really that long ago that this happened. The way that my life has completely changed by just changing my belief system is just so wild. And so that story really was the catalyst. That conversation was the catalyst for me going full force basically just going all in and betting on myself. And I was just talking to my brother about this maybe like last week or two weeks ago. He's applying for this job and he was asking me my opinion on the situation and like what he should do and of course I would never tell anybody what to do. But I talked to him from my perspective about different things and in that conversation we were talking about my life path and the path that I took to get to where I am right now. And like I said, I had to take absolutely delusional leaps of faith in my life to get to where I am. And I do it again and again and I continue to do it to this day. I continue to take delusional leaps of faith and I've seen the fruits of that time and time again. And if I never went all in and bet on myself, I would not be sitting here right now talking to you on this podcast. And so I just want to give you permission right now. If you have a dream and there is something that you've been wanting to do, you need to be more delusional about it. And let's talk about the science now. So the first reason why being delusional is actually a pro-level brain hack is that it teaches your brain that your goals are possible. And belief in the possibility of your goals is actually one of the three main beliefs that I always talk about with my clients and in my content. And there are three beliefs that are super important for making your dreams come true. The first is belief in yourself. The second is belief in the possibility of your goals. And the third is belief in your worthiness. And your worthiness is so important and we'll probably have to do a whole episode on that and just like the neuroscience behind all of that and why it's so important. Because there's a saying that is so true and it's that, and science actually shows this too, I was just reading the research about it, that research actually shows that your net worth or your income is a reflection of your self-worth. And they've actually shown controlling for multiple different factors like socioeconomic status and all these different things that when you have a higher self-esteem, higher self-worth, that actually correlates with higher income and your ability to make more money. And I've seen that in my life that whenever I want to level up in my finances, I always have to do a little work around whatever guilty kind of feeling or belief that it's selfish to want more or whatever it is. But anyway, I digress. That's for a whole other episode that isn't right now. But one of the most important beliefs for manifesting and achieving your goals is belief in the possibility. And being delusional actually helps you achieve that. And there's also a quote that completely changed my life when I heard it. I think it's by Sadhguru. And it goes like this. It says, what is possible and what is not possible is not up to you. It's just simply not up to you. What is up to you is simply to strive for what you want. Okay? So if you have a goal, you have a dream, and you're like, oh, that's not possible for me, or I don't think that's going to happen, or that's not realistic. If you walk around saying that you are a realistic person, I challenge you to stop. I used to be that way. I used to say I was realistic. And really, that's just an excuse for being pessimistic. It's really more of a fear response, at least from my experience, saying that you're realistic and that you are a realistic person is really just a fear response, because you're afraid that if you get your hopes up, you'll be let down. And I know that because that's where I used to be. But really, I challenge you to rework that belief and start telling yourself that it's possible. Whatever it is that you want, it's possible. Because at the end of the day, what is possible and what is not possible is simply not up to you. What is up to you is to strive for what you want. Okay? And some of the neuroscience behind this as well is when you are delusional, right? When you set a goal for me, for example, when I first was starting social media, when I had less than 10,000 followers on Instagram, and I was in my journal writing, I have a million followers on Instagram, I have a million followers on Instagram, like way back in the day, that was a delusional dream. Okay? Delusional. But I believe that it was possible. And when you are delusional, those crazy goals that you have become possible. And for me, it doesn't even seem delusional, like from the outside, right? Like other people looked at that as that's so unrealistic, you're crazy, stuff like that. But to me, it was just normal. And that's what being delusional does. It actually normalizes your goals. And normalizing your goals is so important. Because your brain prefers familiarity or predictability over possibility. And that's just the kind of a survival mechanism, right? Because your brain wants to help you survive and stay alive. And sometimes going out into the unknown, putting yourself into an uncomfortable situation, that's not familiar. That's not comfortable, right? And that's not predictable. And your brain wants to keep you safe from that. But when you are delusional, and you normalize your big dreams, you familiarize your brain with your goals. And your brain will stop unconsciously sabotaging you or rejecting whatever it is. And I'll give you an example. Because starting this podcast for me, when I was first starting out, like when I was first starting out, like a month ago, yeah, whenever I've been having this dream or this goal of starting a podcast for a long time, and I've 100% held myself back from that. But I didn't know why I was doing it. I was just like, why am I procrastinating starting a podcast? Why am I procrastinating? I don't understand like this is one of my goals, I really want to do this. It took me to sit down, do some contemplation, talking to chat GPT about it, because it's programmed, I have it programmed to be my neuroscience and manifestation coach. And it knows me and it knows all the advice I've ever given. But anyway, I talked to that about it too. And I realized that I was procrastinating, because I was subconsciously afraid of being seen and being vulnerable in a long form setting. And as soon as I became aware of that mindset, and I became aware of that belief, that fear that I had, that awareness allowed me to take its power away. There's a saying that I love, and that it's you run from your fears, they will chase after you, and your fears will become your limits. But if you run straight at your fears, they will run away from you, because they hate it when you do that. And so when I realized, oh, I have this subconscious fear, I didn't even know I had it, right. But as soon as I took the time to realize that I had it, I was like, Oh, it makes sense. My brain is trying to keep me safe from this fear that I didn't even realize I had. And that is the power of the subconscious, right? We're doing things and we don't even realize why we're doing them. But once I became aware of this fear, I was able to say, Hey, okay, that fear is false. That's a limiting belief that I don't resonate with. Let me just rewrite the script. I rewrote it. I was like, Hey, brain, guess what? It's safe to be seen. It's safe to be vulnerable. And guess what? You don't need to be a friend to everyone. You don't need to not trigger people. It's actually okay to trigger people, because a friend to everyone is a friend to no one. If you're for everybody, you're actually for no one. So rather than trying to please everyone, just try to please your tribe or really yourself. Because when you're trying to please everybody else, that's when you attract chaos. When you try to please yourself, that's when you attract presence and joy and happiness and peace. Okay. But I digress. This is really the power of being delusional, normalizing your goals, right? As soon as I could just normalize and be like, Hey, having a podcast is normal. Doing this is normal. Hey, brain, just doing affirmations, taking the time to journal and script literally changed overnight. And I'm like, let me just film four podcasts in two days so I can just get ahead. The way that the switch was flipped is just crazy. And that is the power of normalizing your goals and dreams as safe to your nervous system and to your brain. Extremely powerful and extremely necessary, in my opinion, to the point that now every time I have a new goal, every time I set a new goal or a new dream, I take the time to sit down and just script out and affirm to myself that it's safe to do it, that it's safe to achieve it, that it's safe to be seen. It's safe to make a lot of money. You're going to be fine. And I think that's where these sayings like more money, more problems or celebrities, it's so tough and they have all these haters and stuff like that. It can be really harmful because if you have this kind of built up fear of being seen, that will actually keep you from taking the necessary steps. And there is science to this as well. That brings me to another point that I wanted to make, which is that being delusional actually boosts dopamine. It activates your reward system, which motivates you and builds momentum to keep going. But if you have this mindset of, oh, it's not possible. My dreams aren't possible for me. I don't know. I need to be realistic. Your brain is not going to release dopamine to motivate you to go get it. It won't. But as soon as you take the time to affirm to your brain that it's normal, that this dream is normal, it's safe, it's normal, and also that it's possible. As soon as you tell your brain that this goal is actually possible, now your brain's going to give you some dopamine so that you can go get it, so you can take action to actually go do it. And dopamine also boosts confidence, right? And when you have more dopamine in your brain and you got dopamine flowing through your reward system in your brain, dopamine is the neurotransmitter for motivation. So it will boost motivation. And when you have motivation, you'll be more motivated to take action toward your goals. So this is also the neuroscience behind why being delusional actually will make you more productive. It will make you more productive because when you believe that your dream is possible, your brain is going to give you dopamine to actually make it happen. But if you don't believe it's possible, you're not going to get any dopamine and it's going to be really hard to take action. But as soon as you believe it's possible, dopamine, productivity, boom, right there. And then guess what? When you actually take that first step, when I actually, keeping with this podcast example, when I went and took that first step, pulled out the camera, recorded that first episode, boom, another dopamine hit. Now I've got momentum. And now I'm building confidence. This is where confidence comes from, right? From actually doing the things that you say you want to from taking action, from taking steps. You don't need to know how to get to the top of the mountain from the bottom. All you need to know is the next right step. And I say that all the time. And that comes from when I used to practice intuitive hiking. When I was in my PhD, I used to go hiking in the mountains and I would just purposefully get lost. Of course, my Google Maps still worked, so I could plot my phone if I needed to, but I wouldn't. I would go hiking, I would go off trail, and I would just try to get to a certain point. And then when I would get to that certain point, I would try to get back to my car without the maps, just to practice following my intuition. And what I learned from that experience in the beginning, the first few times, I would almost be back to my car. And then I would pull out my phone and I'd be like, damn it, I wish I didn't check my phone because I was right. I was on the right path. And that taught me so much about following your intuition and following your heart and just taking one step at a time. And literally, when I say you don't need to know how to get to the top of the mountain from the bottom, I say that from my experience hiking mountains. When I was intuitive hiking, you don't need to know how to achieve your goal. For my example, like I want to have a top podcast. You don't need to know. I don't need to know how to get a top podcast. I do not need to know anything about doing a podcast. All I need to know is the next right step. And for me, the first step was pulling out the camera and recording the first episode. I didn't even record the first two episodes right. I did it like the extreme hard way. And then I went on my now friend, Olivia Thomas's podcast and Kema. They have a podcast called Inspired Illusion. Shout out to them. Love them. But I went on their podcast and they were recording in the certain software. They were like, are you doing it this way? And I was like, no, I'm doing it the harder way. And anyway, now I'm doing it the right way as we sit here today. Right now, my point is just that you don't need to know how to do it the right way, because when you take steps and you become aligned, right, you put your energy towards something. And this is something I talk about all the time. When you send your energy in a specific direction, it does come back to you from that direction. Right. So I didn't need to know how to do whatever it is that I wanted to do. I didn't need to know how to put my podcast the right way. All I needed to do was start and then everything else just starts to fall into place. When I take that first right step, you take that first step and then all of a sudden now the next step becomes easier and the next step becomes easier. And another part to this that I want to talk about when it comes to confidence and belief in yourself and being delusional and dopamine is that being delusional will actually help you push through slumps. Right. And I'm gonna tell you a story because I just went through a slump and this is very relevant. And you might be going through a slump and there's actually something called the dip whenever you are on your way to achieving your goals. And the dip is so relevant to learn about. Everybody goes through slumps or plateaus when they're doing things like that's just life. It's the life cycle. It's up and down. Right. And being delusional and having this kind of like delusional level of belief in yourself and confidence and belief in your goals will actually help you stay motivated and stay confident even when there is nothing in the outside world to prove to you that you could do it. And for example, for me, when I was first starting out creating content, I had no reason to believe that I was going to be able to build the platform that I'm at now. I was getting hundreds of views on my reels and I was just doing it just to do it. And I was just, you know what, we're just going to see where this goes. Right. I believe that I could do whatever I've set my mind to. So let me just keep going. And that really was a delusional level of belief in myself because there was no positive reinforcement or validation coming from anywhere else. It was only coming from me. And now a few years later that I have gotten to build this platform and everything. Right. I will be completely honest and vulnerable with you and say when you start to go viral more often and you start to be seen and you start to get that validation externally. Sometimes, at least for me, I started to attach a little bit of my confidence and belief in my goals to that external validation. And when this slump that I was in rolled around like two months ago and from the outside it probably didn't seem like a slump but from the inside it felt like a slump just because energetically I felt like I was in a slump. And I realized when I was in that slump that a lot of my confidence and belief had become more tied to external results. And I had to do the work. I then sat down and did the work to regain the confidence and belief from within. Having belief in yourself for absolutely no reason is actually the best type of belief in yourself because there will be times when the external validation isn't there. When the positive reinforcement from others isn't there. And that's when you need to be there to give it to yourself. And that's where a delusional level of belief in yourself and confidence in yourself is really so important because it helps you to push through those slumps and push through those gaps. Very, very, very important. And I'll tell you what I did right now. A little kind of practice that you could do to boost your confidence and start to build that delusional level of confidence in yourself. And by the way, it's really not delusional because it's actually a very real realistic practice. What I did was I actually just sat down, opened up my notes app in my phone and wrote out everything that I had to be proud of myself for. Everything that I've ever accomplished. Everything that I love about myself. Everything. I really just wrote like as long made the list as long as possible. I really just made a list of I called it like confidence work. I really just made a list of all the reasons why I should be confident and why I am that girl, why I am her and just made the list as long as possible. And when I tell you the difference that I felt in my brain and body after that night and day, it helped me so much, so much. And stepping into identity shifting is literally so important. And doing this confidence work is a part of this identity work. And we'll do a whole episode on identity shifting and why it's so important we need to because I use it every single time I want to level up. But confidence work and building this confidence from within is so important. So I highly recommend as soon as you're done listening to this podcast, get in your notes app in your phone and just write a list. Make it as long as possible of all of the reasons why everything that you've ever accomplished in your life back from when you were zero years old, zero, everything that you've ever done that you have to be proud of yourself for everything back down to the smallest little things. OK, and realize that you have so much to be proud of yourself for. And it is not arrogant in a bad way to think that you're amazing. OK, you should think that you're amazing. And I posted a video about this maybe a few weeks ago. And some of my comments was like, oh, it's OK to think you're amazing, but it's not OK to say it out loud. Completely disagree. Completely disagree. It's OK to say that you are amazing out loud. I was on a coaching call literally yesterday with my wonderful group. And I was like, please right now pause and tell yourself you are amazing. Say it. I am amazing. And someone in the chat was like, I had never said that before. And that felt so good. It is not arrogant or bad to say that you're amazing, to think that you're amazing and to say it out loud. I actually highly encourage it. And my friends, my people that are around that are close to me, we all think that we're amazing because we are. And fun fact, you are, too. You're amazing, too. You are. You are. And actually, there's something that I've always done and I didn't realize like what I was doing back when I was in school. I'd be studying for an exam. I would be sitting down all like for hours and hours studying. Right. And the only reason I would get up from my desk would be to either go to the bathroom, get a snack or refill my water. That's it. And every time I would get up from my chair, I'd be like, wow, Emily, you're amazing. Like you're doing such a good job. Like you're doing amazing. Emily, keep going. Every time I would get up, I would say that. And I didn't realize the neuroscience of really what I was doing at the time. I hadn't sat down and thought about it. But I was giving myself that positive reinforcement from within. I was being my own biggest cheerleader, my own biggest hype man. And I highly encourage you to do that, too. Whenever I do something or I say something funny because I like to think I'm pretty funny. I'll say something and I'll laugh. And I'm like, well, I'm so funny or I'm so amazing. I love myself. People like that. That might trigger insecure people. And that's fine. But I'm not like I'm not here to please everybody. I'm here to make myself happy. And that makes me happy to pat myself on the back and to show myself love. That makes me happy. And it's not that I'm just over here myself. Obviously, I have everybody up around me until everyone around me. They're amazing, too, because they are. And I want everybody to know that they're amazing and you are, too. And so I highly encourage you to start telling yourself that you are amazing because you are. And now let's take it to the last point that I wanted to make about the neuroscience behind why being delusional is so important and why it's like a pro level brain hack. And it is, of course, that your brain constructs your reality based upon your mindset and your beliefs. I always make the analogy of your brain and reality working like the social media algorithm. I always make this analogy. Let's say you're talking to your friend about something or you're thinking about something or you're Googling something. And now all of a sudden, there it is. You go on Instagram. There it is on your timeline, on your for you. There it is on your explore page. Right. And you're like, damn, my phone is always listening to me. Your brain works the exact same way. It is always listening to you and it is always looking and working to confirm the beliefs that you already have. That's actually called confirmation bias. It's a real effect. Your brain looks to confirm the beliefs that you already have 24 7. It works just like social media, your reality. When you walk down the street, what you see is just like your explore page. You do not see everything that's there. In fact, your brain actually filters out 99 percent of reality over 99 percent and only shows you what your brain is wired for. That's why when a mechanic looks at a car, he's going to see something completely different than somebody who knows absolutely nothing about cars. I just think of my brother who's like a mechanical engineer and works on engines. When he looks at a car, he sees something completely different than when I look at a car. And that's literally just a difference in the way that we have been conditioned, the way that our brains work. We see completely different things. And it goes to the extreme right where I always give the red car example where when you're thinking about buying a red jeep and you're like, oh, I want a red jeep. Now, all of a sudden you're driving down the street and you see them everywhere. Your brain starts filtering your reality to show you them. Your brain is always filtering your reality. And I want to take it one step further to say this because this is not just an analogy. They actually design computers and algorithms and models after the way the brain works. They call them neural networks. It's called a neural network for a reason, because it's modeled after the way the brain works. Algorithms are modeled after the way the brain works. The brain did it first. The brain did the whole algorithm thing first. And social media was just like, hey, let's copy the brain. Let's make it a social media algorithm. Your brain and your reality has an algorithm of its own. That's why when you go somewhere, you go to a party, for example, or you go to a public place where there's a lot of people, you're going to gravitate toward people like you. You curate your reality the same way you curate your algorithm. Your algorithm is curated to you. Your reality is curated to you as well. I bring this up because being delusional and believing in your dreams and having big goals and believing that it's possible will actually teach your brain to then start looking for opportunities that align with this goal. Just putting yourself in places that are aligned with the goals that you have because you believe that they're possible and they're normal. You're normalizing them when a goal that you have is normal. And you're like, yeah, like this delusional dream that I have is normal. It's going to happen. Your brain will then start to look for things in your reality to align you with those goals and dreams. But when you believe that it's not possible, when you think that your goals are a stretch, your brain is always listening and it's OK. We believe the goals that we have are a stretch. Let's confirm that belief. Let's make it a stretch. Let's make it hard for Emily to then achieve that goal because she believes it's a stretch. She believes that it's not really possible. So we got to make sure it's not really possible because we need to confirm her beliefs. That's the way the brain works. Delusional beliefs help you achieve delusional dreams. Believe in the impossible and you will start to achieve things that you never thought possible. That is exactly what happened to me. It's exactly what happened to me. Just like crazy things that I never even could have written down, that I never even could have dreamed of, like truly the things that have happened in my life. I never could have dreamed of the life that I'm living now. Yeah, a million followers. But the fact that I have a million followers and I'm sitting in a home that I used to dream about and I have my soulmate and have my dream dog and she's literally perfect and everything is just like perfect. It's crazy. And yes, I still have my problems. I still deal with challenges and we can do a future podcast on that and why the contrast is so important in life because it is because our triggers are our teachers and contrast and rejection is there to teach us to point us in a better direction. But with that being said, truthfully, honestly, I'm really living a life that I never could have imagined. It's really just like something out of my dreams and I really am just like so blessed and grateful. Like I'm so grateful every single day to live the life that I live now and I wouldn't be here without being delusional and being completely unrealistic. And so I really highly recommend to you to be unrealistic and be delusional and believe even when everything in your life is telling you not to. Even when the people around you are telling you not to, even when you're posting and you're getting 200 views every time, even when things are not looking like they're going to work out for you, I promise you they are always aligning for you. And if you're worried about a timeline, if you're sitting here being like, oh, but it hasn't happened yet, why hasn't it happened yet? And I'm worried about a timeline of your goals. Just know that everything really does unfold and work out the way that it's supposed to. And sometimes things take a little bit longer because you're meant to learn a little bit more. And just an example from my life, like I know and I've seen that when a video hits a million or more, there's going to be negative comments. That's just pure statistics. It's just numbers. Back in the day when I was first starting out, I think that negativity would have affected me a lot more than it does now. And I've built that confidence from within through practice and through repetition. And I know that it is taking the time it's taking for me to get to these levels in my life because I need to become the version of me that can handle that. And actually, I'm going to do a podcast episode on that next because I call that closing the gap. And I always say the only reason why it takes a long time for you to achieve your goals or manifest what you want is because it takes you a long time to become the version of you that achieves it or receives it. And as soon as you become that version of you, that's how you collapse time. That's where quantum leaping comes from. And that's when everything happens in an instant. But truthfully, things take time because it takes us time to become that, to be that, and to achieve it. And so anyway, that'll be the topic of a future episode. I'm thinking maybe we'll do that one next. But with all that being said, truthfully, guys, I really hope that this inspires you to be more delusional and to start thinking a lot more unrealistically. Have a list. Go sit on your phone and write down a list of your delusional dreams. Things that maybe you don't think are possible. And then write them all down. Write a little list of goals that you don't think are possible. And then maybe start telling yourself that they're possible. Maybe practice being like, hey, this is actually possible. If I work toward it and align my energy with it and manifest it, it will happen. I firmly believe that's how it works. And I don't believe in failure. I really don't believe in failure at all. I think the only reason in my life, I believe that the only reason I could fail is if I just stopped trying. Because if you keep going, there's just no way that you'll fail. If you keep going and you keep learning from every kind of setback and you just keep learning, you'll just keep getting stronger and stronger and stronger until finally you break through. So anyway, guys, you have this. You got this. And honestly, every single thing that you think is not realistic, I promise you it is. I remember when I was in college in my dorm room or whatever it was, I would sit there on social media and I would look at these people on social media living these lives that I thought, it's just not for me in this lifetime. I promise you it is. If it's something that you want, it is for you in this lifetime. I promise you it is. Because I used to sit there and think, maybe that's just not for me in this lifetime, maybe in a next lifetime. No, if it's something that you want, please go after it. Please go after it and know that it is possible. Just know that you don't even need to worry about whether it's possible or not. All you need to worry about is working toward it. And when I tell you, I didn't even share the story, guys, but this is one last thing I'm going to tell you guys. When I went to my PhD, my delusional dream was to cure drug addiction and win the Nobel Prize, by the way. That was my delusional dream. And if I didn't have that delusional dream, I never would have gone to get my PhD. And if I never would have gone to get my PhD, I would not be sitting here right now talking to you. Obviously, the dream changed, the path changed, the journey took a different turn. But I would not be sitting here where I am talking about this to all of you if I didn't once have that delusional dream. And now I have new delusional dreams, right? And I'm completely open to those taking turns as well. Don't get stuck in thinking what I want to do for the rest of my life. Oh, like, what's my delusional dream going to be for the rest of my life? Don't get stuck in that. Pick a delusional dream that you want right now and just go after it and allow your path to unfold before you in a way that is better than you could have ever dreamed. With all that being said, I want to wrap up this episode. And I just kind of want to tell you guys some of the things that I'm working on. Currently, as of this episode right now, I hold bi-weekly masterclasses, okay, every other week, and they are free. And I teach you the neuroscience of the subconscious mind. I break it down. What does being programmed mean? And what each of these different areas of the subconscious are, what they do, and how to reprogram them, okay? And then, of course, I talk about this all the time. I also have a coaching program called Minecraft, the Minecraft Method. And it's absolutely incredible. The most amazing people are in this community. It's a community. It's a coaching program. It is a course. It is a workbook. There are so many different things. It's got just so much stuff in it. Honestly, it's my heart and soul. It wrapped up on an app. But anyway, guys, if that's something that you're interested in, everything that you need to know is going to be in the show notes. So go ahead, read about it in the show notes, and I will see you in the next episode. Until next time, be delusional, and please never stop believing in yourself. I'll see you on the next episode.