Apr 27, 2026 · 22 min · 13 segments
A rainbow literally appeared while I was speaking to you in this episode and if that's not a sign to open your mind up to all the ways you maybe CAN do the thing your brain is telling you you can't, I…
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Now, I think it's quite a common experience for us to when we come across obstacles or when we, not even necessarily obstacles, but when we entertain something that we can't currently do or that we don't currently have or that isn't currently available to us, we find it very easy to build a case for why it is not possible.
This is a very natural thing for the human brain to do because it protects us from the things that we're scared of.
It protects us from threats.
It protects us from risk.
It keeps us safe by being like, "No, keep everything the way that it is.
Don't stretch yourself because this is safer." And at the same time, you know, I'm not here to be like, "Your mindset is the only obstacle in your way," because at the same time, [laughs] of course, we have to acknowledge the fact that it's much harder in a lot of ways than it used to be to create those kind of big life-changing opportunities or seize opportunities or, you know, there, there's just a lot less fat to trim in daily life now, especially with, like, the slow growth of wages and things like that.
And so it's important not to, you know, gaslight ourselves and be like, "Oh, it's just because I don't think that I can." But I do really love that phrase, I think it was from Henry Ford, and it's rare for me to quote a man, uh, "Whether you believe you can or whether you believe you can't, you are right." And I, I just really like that phrase, and it is so true.
When you really bring it down to its core, whether you believe you can or whether you can't, you are right.
If you believe that you can't, then absolutely right, you can't.
If you believe that you can, you probably can.
And I think that it would be good for all of us to make room for that sentiment while, of course, still having, you know, our foundational acknowledgement of the systems that we exist in.
Now, I think it's quite a common experience for us to when we come across obstacles or when we, not even necessarily obstacles, but when we entertain something that we can't currently do or that we don't currently have or that isn't currently available to us, we find it very easy to build a case for why it is not possible.
This is a very natural thing for the human brain to do because it protects us from the things that we're scared of.
It protects us from threats.
It protects us from risk.
It keeps us safe by being like, "No, keep everything the way that it is.
Don't stretch yourself because this is safer." And at the same time, you know, I'm not here to be like, "Your mindset is the only obstacle in your way," because at the same time, [laughs] of course, we have to acknowledge the fact that it's much harder in a lot of ways than it used to be to create those kind of big life-changing opportunities or seize opportunities or, you know, there, there's just a lot less fat to trim in daily life now, especially with, like, the slow growth of wages and things like that.
And so it's important not to, you know, gaslight ourselves and be like, "Oh, it's just because I don't think that I can." But I do really love that phrase, I think it was from Henry Ford, and it's rare for me to quote a man, uh, "Whether you believe you can or whether you believe you can't, you are right." And I, I just really like that phrase, and it is so true.
When you really bring it down to its core, whether you believe you can or whether you can't, you are right.
If you believe that you can't, then absolutely right, you can't.
If you believe that you can, you probably can.
And I think that it would be good for all of us to make room for that sentiment while, of course, still having, you know, our foundational acknowledgement of the systems that we exist in.
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