Hi everyone. Welcome to this quick lesson
with the one and only John Assaraf.
Today we're
going to be asking a single question
that is perhaps, I can't wait to know the
answer because it's one of the most
important questions I've ever asked
anyone in this field. And it's a question
that's very personal to me because I've
been stuck there.
Perhaps you've been stuck here as well.
And the question is this: Why is it, John
that so many of us sometimes see our
income and our success rise all of
a sudden to hit a glass ceiling and we
stagnate at that level and we get stuck
and we can't figure out how to get to
the next level?
I love that question. Hi everybody.
I think the real thing that people
should be thinking about is how is it
that we develop our beliefs about what
is possible for us to achieve? Whether
it's financially, or in any area of our
life. And most people learn how to
think and what to believe from their
parents, their teachers, their co-workers,
maybe even their partners. And so let me
share with you how quickly it is to
change a perception of what's possible.
And I want everybody who's watching
right now to think about what do you
believe is possible for you to achieve
financially? So come up with a number in
your head right now. What do you believe?
Like really believe, not hoping and
praying and dreaming beliefs.
But what do you really believe? What's the
ceiling that you have right now? Got that?
Ok, now here's how quickly we can change
a belief or a paradigm. Imagine for just
a moment that Vishen and I were to
become your partner starting today, and
we would work with you on your mindset,
your skill set and your action set, which
is what you're going to be doing. But we
work with you. Would you be able to
double, triple or quintuple the amount of
money that you just one minute ago
had that you could achieve? And the
answer for most people is, well if we
would be your partners, of course we
could double or triple the number that
we originally had.
So what just changed? What changed is, we
changed some of the rules of your
beliefs. So when we come up with how much
we want to earn, we usually will go into
our own memory banks and we'll take our
references, our past experiences and what
we have seen other people achieve who
are in our sphere of influence and we'll
say okay well that's what's possible for
me. But as soon as you add new
information, you can actually alter your
beliefs. And so beliefs can be changed in
a moment. And so another example is this.
If we all of a sudden said, well let's
get Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and
Richard Branson to be all of our
partners. Could we expand on that again?
And the answer is absolutely, we would be
able to have a different belief based on
new information and new circumstances.
Well, the first thing that we have to do
in order to achieve two or three or four
times more income is change our
perspective of what is possible.
Now it's possible for us because we always
determine what's possible for us based
on our memory banks, our experiences, our
beliefs and our habits of today. When we
change our perspective of what is possible
in a general sense and then we
reverse-engineer what help do we need?
What beliefs we need to have? What habits
do I need to change? What skills do I
need to have? What knowledge do I need to
acquire? All of a sudden we can create
new reference points for our new
perspective and then we can go working
on how to make that our new reality,
instead of allowing our current belief
system and our neural structure system
system to control our thinking, emotions
and behaviors.
I see. So first question is: We are limited
because when we think about what
we're capable of doing we are basing it
on the rules of a current life. Correct.
But we forget that you can flip those
variables. We can flip the variables.
The reason people love watching
successful artists, CEOs is there's a
part of us that believes that we could
have that, achieve that, be that. And we
see our lives as their lives. We see
ourselves in them and them in us.
However, as soon as we start to think
about achieving it for ourselves, the
first place that we go to be able to
make decisions is our memory bank.
And our memory bank is what? It's what
we have experienced, what we've done, what
we've read. And all of our results show
up as a paradigm. Our feeling of
certainty about something. And so as soon
as we change that structure, in here, we
can start to move towards achieving more
in our own lives. Beautiful. Thank you for that tip.
Now the part to get there is what you're
going to be talking about your upcoming
masterclass, which is completely free.
It's on Mindvalley Academy, happening at
the date and time listed on this page.
And John, how what else will you be
covering in this masterclass? There's
some new research on something called
the 'Brain Plasticity Switch'.
People may think about what is this brain
plasticity switch?
Well, we now know from the latest brain
research that when we're born our brain
plasticity switch, our brain's ability to
create millions and millions and
millions of new connections, which are
our beliefs, our habits, our perceptions
and our behaviours is happening at
unprecedented speeds from birth to about
10, 11, 12 years old.
At that time our brain plasticity switch
goes from being mostly on and everything
gets wired and coated in the brain to
mostly off. And then we just become
creatures of habit of what we've learned
in our environment from our parents. By the
time in our 30s, 40s and 50s,
our brain plasticity switch is mostly
off. And that's why we can go read a
book, go to an event, find something
motivational and get excited about it,
but it doesn't translate to behavior
that's long-term. It's because we're using the
wrong part of the brain to encode the
new information. I see. So the brain
plasticity switch and all the research
has been done in the last number of
years around how do we turn that back on?
And I'll be sharing with everybody how
to turn on your own brain plasticity
switch so that you don't just gather
information but you pick the information
that is the best information for you, the
best knowledge, the best skills, the best
beliefs, the best habits
and re-encode it back into your own brain
and let go of the stuff that isn't
serving you as you input the best new
beliefs, habits and perspectives, and
perceptions. That's amazing. It's like
using your brain like an iPhone or an
Android device. You're able to download
new apps, update, refresh existing apps.
Brilliant. Brilliant. If you're over 30
years old you got to be watching this.
So we'll see you on the upcoming
masterclass with the one and only John Assaraf.