Back to episode — Episode 792 Scott Adams - Impeachment Stains, Some New Reality Filters to Ease Anxiety
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r whatever gender flavor you like, what are the odds it wouldn't change your personality? Because without being a doctor it feels to me like the odds would be zero. Any change to your hormonal structure almost certainly is gonna have an effect on who you are at some fundamental level. Well I've never seen this many yeses. That was okay. How many — so I'm wondering if this is mostly men because it…
← Previous segment →y you know and I'm hearing her practice and in just the last few weeks she got to the point where she's memorized the entire piece and now she's just honing it. And I think to myself what the heck happened inside her actual physical brain? She rewired her brain in two weeks. I mean a pretty substantial rewiring because none of the skills that she is demonstrating at a near virtuoso level didn't exist two weeks ago. Yeah it's all we call muscle memory but of course it's in the brain. It's not in your muscles. And so when you see people fundamentally rewiring — I mean something insanely impressive in two weeks. You know she practiced a lot but it's just two weeks. You start to realize how programmable your brain is.
So everybody who's got a loop in their brain that's not working you might be able to reprogram that. And I have lots of experience of doing it myself.
Now let me give you a fun analogy. If you are a computer programmer do you ever write programming code for a computer in zeros and ones? Do you sit down and say all right I'm gonna write the program 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 and then 1 1 1 0 0? Well no you don't. Now there may be special cases where somebody's doing some deep engineering and they are actually looking at the zeros and ones but that's not typically the way you write a program. The way you write a program is with something that's analogous to but different from a language like an English language or a French or Spanish or whatever. You have words with letters and you use some numbers too but you know brackets and words and they stand for something that the computer translates into zeros and ones.
Here's my analogy. When you hear language or you have experiences the language and the experiences of just hearing things in the spoken word is being translated into your brain into the equivalent of zeros and ones. Now your brain doesn't work on zeros and ones. It works on connections that get strengthened and built and some are emphasized and de-emphasized and stuff. But the point is that when the programmer is writing the program they don't see the zeros and ones. They don't know exactly what the zeros and ones are doing. They just know what the outcome will be. When a hypnotist or somebody doing what I'm doing, taking you through a guided visualization, I'm having you imagine something that you're imagining in pictures and you're hearing in words but these are symbolic tools that are actually rewiring your brain. So when you hear me just talking and you say how can you rewire my brain just by talking? Well the answer is it's the same way a programmer can program a computer without knowing what zeros and ones are happening. I don't know which neurons are firing. I don't know which connections are being made. But through trial and error and experience I can make general assumptions that effectively become the user interface for your brain.
So find the user interface for your brain. You're getting close. You've gone up two levels. You're on the cusp, maybe some of you there, of reaching the next level in the game where you can intentionally reprogram your own brain. And then left of that is you can reprogram other people's brains.
So check out the anxiety. Let me ask here how many people on here experienced the anxiety exercise, the anti-anxiety exercise I did, and tell me what experience you had. How many of you had experienced something like a reduction of anxiety? It's going to take a while for the comments to catch up so I'll stall.
All right so I'll read you the comments as they come in. It helped me. Nothing but I tried. Made me feel sad. Remember I said everybody will have a different experience. There's a yes. Yes I did. I tried it. Nothing happened. A body experience. Some people have that. No change. No change. Somebody said read my brain. Thumbs up. Yep I did. Me totally relaxed. No. Yes. Yes it helped. Somebody said it didn't help. Yes. No. Yeah on YouTube is where you'll find the stored thing. A calming. I definitely did. I felt like it was being in denial. It was very unusual. It reframed things. Definite reduction. Good. Good reminder. No change. Definitely relief. Me no. Husband yes. Felt like floating etc.
All right. Here's remember what I told you. Actually this is actually more of a response than I was actually expecting but remember that this is cumulative. So in the example of there was a husband wife where I think the husband felt something and the wife didn't. Remember you're al
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l at a different starting place. It could be that the people who felt something profound were right at the cusp of moving up to the next level and just easily moved to the next level. Could be that some of you need a little more understanding of frames and that's what I did for you today. So you'll find that this needs to be reinforced but the more I reinforce it for you the closer you're going to…
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