Pronoia

It says pronoia.

Most people don't know the word, so let me tell you what it means.

Pronoia is the opposite of paranoia.

Paranoia is the belief that the universe is out to get you.

Pronoia is the belief that the universe is always, always conspiring in your favor.

I had the word tattooed on my hand because I needed a daily reminder of a meaning that I chose.

Not a meaning I was born with, not a meaning that came naturally to me.

And pronoid is the opposite of paranoid.

Paranoid is the feeling that everything in the world is out to destroy you or hurt you.

Pronoid is an irrational conviction that everything in the universe is setting out to support and delight in you and help you along.

So pronoid apophenia is when you have all these characteristics or a certain number of them and you say to yourself, It's on.

Let's do this thing.

The whole reason for this trip is to work with Jason on this and it's something he's going to bring to other speakers, facilitators as well.

um which is a total gift so uh definitely let listeners know more about that but i thought on monday we met for dinner that evening and we've been working together uh over two half days i do want to kind of double click on that moment when i was talking about having that mindset of um being a bit fearless and putting faith in the world and i said you know that that pronia mindset And Jason's like, what? Pronia? And for half a second there, I thought, oh my goodness, the first time in my life I'm teaching Dr.

Jason Fox a new word.

Jason, what unfolded next?

And I was like, actually, no, it's arriving on time.

I'll be there.

Hashtag pronia.

Pronia, yeah.

Mm-hmm.

And the very last song of, uh, my set this, this week is a song called Pronoia by Carly Pearl.

And the, so the whole lyrics are, um, pronoia is the a- is the opposite of paranoia.

It's the belief that the w- that the universe is always conspiring in your favor.