So imagine you're walking through the park and you see a parent and their
young child and you overhear the parents saying hey Bobby you can do anything you
want in life anything is possible and you walk by and you start to think about
this is this true can Bobby really do anything and whether or not that is true
should their parent be telling them this I'm gonna explore this concept of
limiting and empowering beliefs in this video and at the end of the video I'm
going to share two extremely empowering beliefs for us idealist types that have
served me extremely well in my own life now if you're new to the channel my name
is Dan this is Dreams Around The World here my mission is to help you become
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this concept of truth when it comes to beliefs is something that's being
discussed more and more I don't know if you listen to podcasts but if you do
you'll hear people like Jordan Peterson or Sam Harris discussing you know truth
what is real and what I want to discuss is not necessarily the truth of a belief
but whether or not it serves us so let's go back to Bobby and this belief that
when he grows up he can do absolutely anything now we all know that's probably
not true right Michael Jordan proved this even the great Michael Jordan when
he made a run at baseball it was like nope not exactly you know going to work
for you right of course we can't do anything I mean on this channel we
talked a lot about personality types enfps infps all this MBTI stuff and of
course part of that is here's what you're really good at and here's what
you're not good at but will that serve you as a belief will studying all the
weaknesses of your personality type and coming out and saying you know I can
never do this stuff I'm bad at this and I'm bad at this and let's have a
realistic game plan for me I think it is hogwash I think that will not serve you
and if you pay attention on this channel when I talk about personality type and I
talk about different types I'm primarily talking about superpowers
how to use your strengths and maybe ways to work around some of our weaknesses
whereas you might find on other channels or just really you know reading
different literature and stuff a focus on like this type sucks at this this
type sucks at that and for me I don't find that that serves a purpose not
because I don't believe in truth not because I don't think there is an
objective reality because in many ways there there is within reason but because
your beliefs will ultimately shape your life yes Michael Jordan eventually found
out he could not play professional baseball at the level that he wanted to
but I'm pretty sure if Michael Jordan didn't believe in himself and believe he
was capable of things like changing sports mid-career then he probably would
never have become the Michael Jordan we know that belief is what got him where
he is today so let's look at this belief I can do anything well let's look at the
opposite of that is I can't do much I can't do anything I'm not that capable
things are hard things are impossible you know if you ask me and I have to
choose between one of those two beliefs for me to believe in for my future kids
to believe and for the people around me to believe in a hundred times out of 100
I'm gonna choose to believe I can do anything yes perhaps not factually true
I certainly can't eat peanuts but I would rather believe that than the
alternative because that is going to put me in a solution-oriented
gold driven mindset if I believe I can do anything then I'm gonna focus on what
I want to do and then I'm like yeah I'll figure out how to do it and you know
what I found a lot of people who are more fact focused they're obsessed with
things being objective and was arguing based on the external factors again I'm
not just missing those I do believe we live in a real world and I don't think
if you visualize a parking spot it magically appears for you but I have
found that people who are really fact oriented often have a lot of trouble
making decisions and making things happen they get lost in their head they
overanalyze way too much they think through every possible alternative every
way something could work out before they even start off going after it where is
it you think hey I can do anything then you're gonna look at things like okay
I can do anything so I want to start my own business so what business would I
want to start you're not thinking what if it fails oh my god this is so hard
did you know that 9 out of 10 small businesses fail you're not thinking
about any of that you're just thinking about what you want to do what would
excite you what your goal is maybe what your vision is five years from now with
your awesome business and that is gonna give you the energy to actually make
things happen to move things forward and then yeah you're gonna hit some
realities at some point but you're probably going to be better off dealing
with them with the attitude of I can do anything including solving these
problems then the attitude of like no I can't do anything this is hard there's
no solution all right I think you get what I'm saying and this brings me to
another extremely disempowering belief that is becoming more and more present
and it's the 1% the anti-capitalist being money is evil now in my part of
the world I'm filming this in Prague where I live you're not gonna find a lot
of people talking about how great communism is because they've lived under
it but in other parts maybe back home in North America this is becoming some
romanticized world and believing that capitalists are evil that all rich
people are bad you know you only get money by cheating and stealing I was up
for dinner last night with a friend who does a lot of investing that's a big
part of his world and yet at the same time he holds some beliefs that are
anti-capitalist that basically most money is received through stealing
through manipulating that's his belief system that's never been my belief
system now I am very confident there's a certain part of the real estate and
finance world the big banks that are just the most evil people in the world
and I'm not a fan but I'm also aware that a vast majority of self-made people
made it through creating value made it through entrepreneurship made it through
actually doing something for society do you really think that all the wealth out
there is people who just like stolen it and never got in trouble you know when
you look at actually you look through the billionaire list like how did Oprah
get rich well she made a show people like it she helps people she got money
rich musicians actors directors they create something
people like it they get money for it same goes for athletes and everyone else
I'm not bringing this up to engage in some debate on the right economic system
or whether or not people who make money or sometimes cheats but think about this
belief if you have to choose your belief and I do believe most of the time we are
choosing our beliefs as we get older as we form our own opinions and you can
either believe that people who have money get it through stealing or you can
believe that people who have wealth the vast majority of them gain it through
giving value and through contributing to the world you have these two beliefs
what effect do you think these beliefs will have on you if you are an honest
person if you believe in giving back to the world and being authentic which I
hope you do if you're a fan here at the channel if that's your belief system and
you simultaneously believe that people have a lot of money are cheats they
steal they manipulate and you believe that you want to be honest and
contribute do you really think you're ever gonna make any kind of money do you
wonder why maybe you have trouble marketing yourself selling yourself
succeeding what are you gonna do you're going to work hard to become the person
you hate doesn't make a lot of sense to me right where you believe that people
who have money primarily yes evil bankers I'm all for that trust me I have
so much hatred in my heart for so many companies and types of people but if you
believe that the vast majority of people who have wealth earned that wealth
through hard work through giving value through contributing on some level then
what's that going to do to your behavior well you're probably gonna work harder
you're probably gonna look for ways to contribute to give value and probably
from my little bit of knowledge of economics and entrepreneurship those
actions are going to lead you to actually earn money to actually
contribute and to actually do something so just something to think about I'm not
here to change your worldview but something to consider if the beliefs you
have whether they're political economic personal what impact are those actually
going to have your actions and is it possible that
those beliefs are holding you back from getting where you want to go because
there's an internal conflict you've created for yourself now I promise that
at the end of the video I would share to really empowering beliefs that have
served me very well the first one I believe I say adopted from Tony Robbins
at some point early in my life which is there is always a way you might not know
the way you might not be on the path but there is always a way so if you know
where you want to go and you are here and you want to be here there is always
a way all you need to do is figure out that way that has been a game-changing
belief for me because then when you struggle you don't change your goal you
don't quit you just say I got to find the way I gotta find a better path
there's always a way I love that belief and ingrain that in your head if you can
if you agree with me that it could be a helpful belief and the second belief is
that those who give value and who contribute are rewarded for it those who
give value and contribute get rewarded for it
I think that's really important because if you believe that working hard and
contributing and giving value will get you rewarded you're going to do it more
and most likely if you've made it this far in the video and if your subscriber
here on the channel and if you're not yet subscribed then you are someone who
wants to give value who wants to contribute to society but if you believe
that only evil people who steal ever get rewarded then why would you bother
giving value why would you bother contributing why would you bother going
out of your way to do something you wouldn't and then you'd hold back those
gifts you have to get the world now keep in mind there are people who don't give
value and don't contribute who also get rewarded sometimes in the short term
sometimes in the long term yes sleazy bankers and these sorts of
people may often be reaping rewards that they do not deserve in our opinions but
that's not the belief the belief is that if you give value and that means people
actually have to want what you're doing or what you're giving or what you're
selling if you give value consistently if you work hard and if you contribute
you will be rewarded those are the two empowering beliefs that have served me
extremely well in my life and I continue to refer back to as
kind of compass on the world do you have any empowering beliefs of your own or
perhaps through this video you've discovered one or two disempowering
beliefs beliefs that may have been holding you back
share them below in the comments hit that subscribe button and the Bell if
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