hi your unconscious mind is absolutely
cracked seriously it controls so many of
your most powerful brain processes
intuition Insight most of creativity and
basically the vast majority of the
thinking you do all goes on in the
background some have claimed your
unconscious mind is hundreds or
thousands of times more powerful than
your conscious mind and I would say one
of the biggest advantages that
successful people have is that they know
how to focus this incredible source of
brain power on whatever they're trying
to accomplish there's a famous post by a
former world number one competitive
programmer that claims the same thing
the best people are all able to think
about things passively even during
random tasks like showering or skydiving
and keep their unconscious mind focused
on the tasks they're trying to figure
out so you may be asking now how do you
do this too how do you control the raw
power of your unconscious mind and get
it to listen to you and I'm going to
offer you a habit something easy in fact
something you only have to do for a few
minutes a day to keep your unconscious
mind focused on what you want but
despite its Simplicity it'll work very
well because it draws upon what drives
your unconscious mind in the first place
and that sounds really nice it is really
nice so enjoy the video but first let me
tell you who I am all my points are
going to be logical but it'd be good if
you can trust my experience too so I'm
one of the world's best competitive
programmers that means problem solving
and I had an extremely quick rise to the
top and probably the biggest reason for
this is that my unconscious mind was
extremely invested in My Success because
even when I wasn't consciously thinking
about problems my unconscious mind was
churning out ideas in the background and
constantly rewiring itself to get better
and better at problem solving because it
cared so much about Improvement and the
hardest problem I ever solved in a
contest was solved through Insight which
is when you're unconscious mind out of
nowhere gives you a really good idea in
fact I personally kind of lost interest
in the problem I thought it was too hard
for me but my unconscious mind stayed
focused and cooked up ideas in the
background eventually gave me a really
good idea that ended up being correct so
my unconscious mind is very much on my
side and after this video you're going
to learn how to set that up for yourself
too but before we start that let me give
a bit of info on what the unconscious
mind is and does for us and I'm not
going to make the sciency so don't worry
about technical stuff just some basic
facts so what's important for this video
is that your unconscious mind is a
background process something you don't
have conscious control over so by
default it's doing random things like
regulating your body temperature and
making sure you're still breathing that
you're breathing manually now that I
mention it you're welcome and it's
unbelievably powerful just think about
how much your body does automatically
things you don't even realize are
happening even a fraction of that raw
power can be incredibly helpful to you
like let's do a speed test add two and
three that was instant right probably
before I even finished the sentence
that's because the task was so simple
your unconscious mind just decided to
handle it for you now add these two
numbers probably not so instant right
you can break it down into a bunch of
easy parts to your unconscious mind can
handle but it probably can't do the
whole thing and that's because you
probably don't have the addition
algorithm ingrained in your head so what
you had to do is consciously perform the
steps of addition with carrying and such
and feed those smaller tasks to your
unconscious mind to handle but that was
orders of magnitude slower because your
conscious mind is weak so you want your
unconscious mind to do as much for you
as possible and it's capable of a lot of
complex thinking such as offering
insights and intuition but only when
it's interesting enough and there's a
comment on my Android social media that
summed up all my points better than I
could basically your unconscious mind is
this Ultra powerful computer and your
Consciousness is like the keyboard
telling that computer what to do and
that's pretty much what's Happening Here
your goal is to give your unconscious
mind the task of helping you with
whatever you're trying to do you may
have to simplify your task you may have
to break it into smaller pieces But
ultimately you want your unconscious
mind to focus its power on your task and
the tricky bit is it's usually not
necessarily just try the task for some
people it is and we'll cover why very
soon but for most people you have to do
some extra work to get your unconscious
mind really invested in it and finally
now we'll talk about how you do that so
now the question becomes how do you
control your unconscious mind and give
it a task for it to focus all its power
on and the key is to get your
unconscious mind to care about something
and this will sound very dumb but to get
your unconscious mind to care about
something the only thing you have to do
is to care about that something but I
don't just mean caring I mean caring
like loving something so much that just
doing it brings you significant
Happiness by default or on the other end
of the spectrum caring so much that if
you fail at something you feel like
you're very survival is threatened you
feel genuinely afraid of failure and
these are things that your unconscious
mind can recognize happiness fear
survival very basic Primal fundamental
human nature emotions that results from
your caring your unconscious mind wants
to be happy if you get good at your task
or even just do your task you'll be
happy Therefore your unconscious mind
will focus on the task doing what you
love is one easy way to accomplish that
if you fail the task your survival will
be threatened your unconscious mind
doesn't want that so we'll focus on not
failing the task and nothing artificial
will work there's no inherent Primal
value in money or Prestige or success or
any of the things that motivate most
people your unconscious mind just
doesn't care and therefore I won't try
to help you so if that's what you're
working for you're gonna have to turn
these artificial motivators into Primal
emotions that your unconscious mind will
care about so let's get into exactly how
you do now let's start with an idea I've
dubbed the chain of motivation so let's
imagine a conversation with someone
who's studying computer science they'll
say I want to study computer science
I'll ask why they'll say something else
if their answer is that they love it
then they've already won over their
unconscious mind but they probably won't
say that so let's imagine what else they
can say for example they can want a good
job and I'll ask why and they can say so
they can earn a lot of money and I'll
ask why and this can again Branch you to
a bunch of different reasons let's
imagine a common scenario they would say
they want to support their family so I
can again Ask Why and maybe this is the
point where it becomes about happiness
or love or emotional connections or
whatever eventually it will reduce the
sum set of Primal emotions or nothing at
all and if it reduces to nothing then
you should seriously consider why are
you doing this at all what's the point
if there's no benefit are you really
just wasting your time if you don't get
anything out of your thing this method
won't help you but at the same time if
you don't get anything out of it the
thing might not be helping you at all so
really consider that but if it does lead
to some Primal emotions then your goal
should be to focus on those and let's
call these Primal emotions your are key
motivators things that your unconscious
mind recognizes and will focus on in the
ideal scenario you love what you're
doing and therefore your key motivators
are right next to you that means your
unconscious mind is by default focused
on those key motivators and therefore
also on the thing you're trying to do so
you win but if you're watching this
that's probably not the case your case
probably looks like more like the
hypothetical CS student so you want to
turn your case into the ideal case and
how do you do that well as an example
try to visualize yourself achieving your
goals for example having a lot of money
being able to buy nice things Etc it's
nice right probably brings you good
feelings just think about how happy
you'd be if things worked out for you
let that happiness bleed into the
present so what you ultimately want to
do is associate your task directly with
those good feelings skip the long chain
of because this is what I want this task
is how I get there nothing in between
burn that Association into your head
you've probably heard of pavlovian
conditioning by using a metronome to
Signal the arrival of food Pavlov got
dogs to salivate just by hearing the
metronome since ultimately they form the
associate station between the metronome
and the food that's ultimately your goal
here you want progress on this task for
example a success to directly associate
with happiness and your unconscious mind
will recognize this Association since it
has to do with the key motivator and on
the other end you can also try to get
failure to associate with negative
emotions and this is a risky game
because you can make yourself unhappy
but it will probably let you be even
more focused since your unconscious mind
will work on avoiding those negative
emotions so I promised you a habit
something you can do for only a few
minutes a day what can you do to make
this conditioning happen and the first
thing you have to do is figure yourself
out so on day one take some time out to
figure out how your motivation Works
have the why conversation with yourself
inspect your motivation chain like
literally draw out this diagram if you
need to understand what drives you
figure out what your key motivators are
and on the rest of the days you can work
on this conditioning you want to get rid
of the stuff in the middle so Embrace
Pavlov start doing your task and while
you're doing your task think about
whatever your key motivator is Imagine
success imagine yourself getting what
you want imagine happiness or imagine
failure and Dread if you don't succeed
in the task make yourself feel these
positive or negative emotions while
you're doing the task so that those
emotions get associated with the task
again nothing in between ignore the rest
of the motivations in the chain just
your task and the key motivator
condition yourself to recognize that
your task will directly lead to your key
motivator in a similar vein you can
reward or punish yourself for success
and failure doing that will give
yourself a direct short-term way of
feeling those emotions as a result of
your task and also visualize that reward
or punishment while doing the task so
you can associate those emotions with
progress and that's the Habit spend a
few minutes a day conditioning yourself
you don't need to do it for a long time
there are diminishing returns anyway you
can do it multiple times a day or as
often as you feel like and the more time
you put in the faster your unconscious
mind will recognize your goal but you
don't have to do it that often for it to
work just do it consistently and that's
all you really need to do convince your
unconscious mind to Care by associating
your task of Primal emotions that it
cares about mental change is achieved
through repetition so do this daily and
you'll see results fairly quickly just
as Pavlov did some other things to note
ego can be a very good key motivator so
let's do out an example what's my
motivation chain how does this work for
me so why do I do competitive
programming there are a lot of reasons
for one I love problem solving and I
also love coding so there's two good
things but there's another reason that
trumps both those and that's ego I did
this problem solving stuff ultimately
because I want to prove I'm smart so any
success is a decent ego boost and any
failure makes me feel basically
worthless so obviously my unconscious
mind has an incentive to contribute here
and I've sort of done this conditioning
automatically but I take any failure
very personally it hurts to fail like
physically it hurts I would say I'm that
guy that equates failure with
threatening my survival so my
unconscious mind is very invested in My
Success it's not exactly the healthiest
setup but it works very well and you
should take failure personally too for
example suppose you can't learn
something or you can't get good at
something or whatever how can you let
this minuscule task make a fool out of
you it should bother you that you can't
accomplish this I mean others probably
have you should take it personally take
it as a hit to Your Ego then your
unconscious mind will want to preserve
your ego so it'll help out a couple
other things get this conditioning set
up and make your task associated with
happiness but then don't waste it don't
like go out of your way to do easy tasks
to get quick dopamine hits you should
still do hard things do what you would
normally do and do the tasks normally
but just add in this conditioning every
once in a while don't try to game your
own system and create artificial
happiness because that's not productive
and won't get you anywhere and finally
one easy trap to fall into is feeling
entitled to success but don't no matter
what you still have to work for your
goals if you feel entitled you'll
naturally lose interest in the goal and
so your unconscious mind so block those
feelings out don't give them any space
in your mind stay focused on your task
and your goal okay to finish up not that
much to say like I said you can do this
for a few minutes at a time you can do
it multiple times a day probably for
better effect but you don't have to do
it for that long at a time and you
should do it for a while keep the
association strong and don't let it go
away this will make a world of
difference in your life so keep it up if
you happen to already be doing what you
love this won't help you because if you
love it your unconscious mind will love
it too but I suspect that's not the case
for the vast majority of people and
that's why this video exists to help
those with other forms of motivation
recognize that they need a more direct
connection for their unconscious mind to
get involved
uh what else this is a different style
of video or at least the title is I
realized that a large issue with my
recent videos has been originality so
I'm trying this out to present something
new for everyone and I hope it works but
we'll see and I suppose that's it so
that's all goodbye