You spot the deception immediately when he compares one description of events from Lisa compared to a suspect where he asks about Wednesday night. Interesting. Chase is talking with Lisa Bilyeu.
Every time that you don't respond to a provocation, every single time that you withhold explanation, every time that you don't let somebody into your emotional living room, you're building muscle. And this is Authority muscle, self-respect muscle, self-esteem muscle if you want to call it that. Silence is your sword and self-control is your shield. People will say, "Don't take it personally," as if it were easy, but you can do that. And when you master it, you truly become unreachable. It's not because you're hiding, it's because you choose to be. So the world has no choice but to respect that, and they may not like that but they're definitely going to feel it and they will adjust. People always adjust.
How we metaphorize maturity with ownership. If someone makes fun of you online, like own it, or if you did something wrong and you get caught, like own up to it. What's going on there?
When it comes to owning things, you can own it with shame. You can own it with fear. You can own it with obligation. You can own it with guilt. Those are like the big four: shame, fear, obligation, guilt. Or you can own it with just "it is what it is," and see yourself as a fact instead of all the other people. Like those are layers of how we see people. Can . . . am I able to see myself as a fact? Like well that's just what happened. It's just something that happened. I'll definitely work to make this better in the future. I'm in charge of the future. I'm not in charge of the past right now. But once you get to that delusional self forgiving, you get into the mode of viewing life almost not in a bizarre way but like a video game, like, "Well that sucked. Let's try to do better this next week or next month." And if I treat it like it's a video game and still I'm good to people, I'm good natured, I have great intentions, I'm not hurting anybody, I'm not trying to hurt anybody, then I think we tend to enjoy our lives more.
More on shame.
The fastest way to read a human being, number one way, is to keep one question in your head. It is "What does this person want me to feel about them and what do they want me to notice?" because everyone wears some kind of a mask. The mask is made up of the things that this person built to conceal shame. And shame today is institutionalized. It's a public weapon to use shame. So shame creates cognitive dissonance, which is a mental discomfort. Mental discomfort says, "I don't want to be this uncomfortable in front of people." That creates a mask. So we wear these personas in these masks to cover up something.
15:05 PsyOps all the time dominate the news cycle and they drown out other stories. Real news coexists with other reports. Say it again: real news coexists with other reports about stuff that's going on. If one topic is everywhere while major global events get completely ignored, you're in the middle of a psyop.
LOOK FOR FOLLOW-UPS
15:35 This is it. Real news evolves with updates. Real news evolves with new updates. PsyOps fade once they've served their purpose. PsyOps will fade away once they've served their purpose. For example, if you see some inflated, sensational story that just vanishes after a week with no follow-up, that is called a distraction. It's called a distraction.
TRUST YOUR GUT. DOES IT FEEL SCRIPTED?
16:19 So, finally, trust your gut. Does it feel scripted? Sometimes, things just feel off, and I want you to trust your instincts. Back them up with research if you want to. So what can you do? Like what the hell can you do about all of this? The most important thing that I can give you, and I had no idea that I was going to really be talking about any of this, but the most important thing is to cultivate critical thinking skills. Learn to spot the propaganda. Go back through what I just talked about, the recording . . . look for patterns in how the media or the government communicates about things, maybe UFOs. Do they spot, or do they focus on fear, or are they offering solutions that involve giving up freedom or increasing government power? Try to diversify all the places that you're getting news from. Try to block every single news provider that you can possibly think of and use AI to get your news. [Wow, this surprises me.] and tell AI to be concise and apolitical in its answer. It's the best way to do it.
Memorize these 3 questions if you're taking notes:
1) Who benefits from this narrative?
2) What evidence is being shown and is it verifiable?
So when somebody online has a ton of certainty, my rule is the higher the degree of somebody's certainty, the more suspicious I am of that person's claim. --Chase Hughes
10:40 When we do "herd checking," we're checking other members of the herd to see if there's safety. You'll see lateral eye movement, lateral head movement, looking back and forth, and somehow the priority to keep that phone pointed directly at him, no matter what's happening, if someone is moving her, she's kind of moving with the crowd and just kind of bending with them but she's maintaining the steadiness of that phone that . . . I've never seen behavior like that and I've done 9 solid deployments around to crazy areas of the planet.
26:35 Update to the Fight or Flight model to Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Film being the alternative response.
40:33 I had a tiny amount of data and a lot of certainty about what was going on, and that's what we're seeing here. Small data, lots of certainty. So when somebody online has a ton of certainty, my rule is the higher the degree of somebody's certainty, the more suspicious I am of that person's claim.
I would write your goals in a Sharpie marker so that you can never back down from them. --Chase Hughes
Definitely get an accountability partner who is going to call you out on BS when you try to lie your way out of not achieving a goal. --Chase Hughes
I didn't like Chase's assessments of people's motivations or how to read behavior.
His point about military personnel getting ready to leave and they write a resume, Chase says you're going to use it. So he says don't write that resume. Because your experience and mindset in the military, where every decision requires permission, is like a huge governor flip switch on your brain, problem-solving, and workarounds. That was insightful.
Instead, go out and develop salesmanship, and confidence in building and selling a product.
SMEAC? WWII procedure on how orders come down from the brass to the troops. Chase says to not discount what you picked up in the military. He got connected to a lot of people who knew how to do marketing and email campaigns, how to run a Facebook group and that kind of promotion. If you know how to find people with recipes, then you'll never have to cook.
34:28 Your mindset is more valuable than anything else. The way that you think, and the way that you see the world should be your #1 investment, above stocks, above Bitcoin, above real estate investing, it should be 100% investing in things that change your mindset and get a better mindset. Anybody that's smart enough to be an entrepreneur would take the mindset over the 3 Ferraris. Mindset is so much more valuable.
36:05 Money psychology is the 2nd part of that mindset. "Do I deserve to earn X number of dollars?" If you view rich people as scam artists or douchebags, what will you become when you earn your wealth? And that's holding us back so much, just saying "it's okay for me to charge X number of dollars," or "it's okay for me to make money and getting okay with that to the point where if you've got a little place where you keep goals, even if you open up the inside of your closet door and write them on the inside of that, I would write your goals in a Sharpie marker so that you can never back down from them.
ACCOUNTABILITY PARTNERS
37:40 People who had an accountability partner that they spoke to weekly had a 95% of achieving their versus someone with no accountability partner. The concept of Accountability Partner is built into the military. So used to having someone like that who is going to "check you" and say, "Hey, man, you're not doing what you're supposed to be doing." Definitely get an accountability partner who is going to call you out on BS when you try to lie your way out of not achieving a goal.
Law of Attraction is Responsibility for Your Thoughts. So be clear what you want to put in your brain’s electrical center. Do you want to have the fear-manufacturing news story so that’s what you’re telling it to look for? Your brain is being told “I’m going to go look for negative things because that’s what they’re [the media or creeps] telling me to look for. Do you honestly want to seek out anger, hatred, failure, and lack? --Chase Hughes
GETTING AHEAD OF YOURSELF
Discipline is when your mind is in the future. And that’s it. Put the needs of your future self ahead of your own. How would you work, eat, spend money? Successful people all have the ability to prioritize the needs of their future-self ahead of their own. Would your future-self enjoy that party? Would a certain food benefit your future-self? Stop thinking about how you’re going to feel today; your future-self . . . Will your future-self look back at your past behavior with regret or gratitude?
BE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN ELECTRICITY
Your brain runs on 12 volts of electricity. It’s an electric organism and you get to pick where that electricity goes. Law of Attraction is Responsibility for Your Thoughts. So be clear what you want to put in your brain’s electrical center. Do you want to have the fear-manufacturing news story so that’s what you’re telling it to look for? Your brain is being told “I’m going to go look for negative things because that’s what they’re [the media or creeps] telling me to look for. Do you honestly want to seek out anger, hatred, failure, and lack? So get responsible for what you put in your brain. That electricity is precious so it’s going to seek out whatever you show it. Whatever you’re focusing in, you can’t talk to your brain. It can only observe what you’re focusing on, so pick those things very carefully. So show your brain what you want, not what you fear.
BE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR INGREDIENTS
It’s the single thing that makes everything else possible. So to do any of these things well–lime thinking positively, focusing on your goals, waking up early, those things all require something to be in place first. And that is you. The one thing you can’t trade in for store credit, or trade in when you don’t like it anymore is you. The one machine that does all the things is you. Would you dump a bunch of salt into your car’s gas tank? Absolutely not. So when we think about the machines in our lives, we only give them what makes them run at their very best. We may add premium oil and high grade gasoline to the engine and nothing else. All the thoughts that you have and all the goals that you set passes through you first. So what you put in this machine matters a lot. So what if you treated your body the same way you treated your car. What would happen if you only put into this machine exactly what it needs to function at its highest level? Everything that you put into this machine matters and it matters forever–for you, for your goals, for your family. But if the engine is packed full of sand instead of oil, water instead of gas, what would happen? It might run for a minute but it will stop working. It’s going to stop achieving the goal that you want it to do. The person says I guess U didn’t do what you suggested. I didn’t set goals properly and didn’t focus on your outcome enough–that’s why you’re not successful. But what you put into your machine is what really makes the difference. And whether or not you’re going to get all the outcomes you want this year. The skin on your arm isn’t the same skin you were born with. Your body replaces everything over time. So you get to choose what your body is made of. Like that skin on your arm right now is made up of things that you ate. What you put into your body matters for success more than any coach will ever tell you because that stuff is hard to monetize. Setting goals is wonderful, and they’re necessary for success but they’re hard to reach if your brain is running on garbage. There are thousands of programs that promise to deliver these secrets of what to eat. And I’ll sum all if those secrets up in 20 seconds. Stop eating highly processed foods (meaning stop with the fast food), stop foods with high sugar and salt, and fat, and if you don’t recognize an ingredient on the label, don’t eat it. The linger the shelf-life of the food, the worse it is probably for you. Don’t eat foods that are drastically altered from their original form, like apple juice, chicken nuggets, vegetables chips, potato chips. The less something has been modified from its original form, the healthier it is. Plan your meals this year, and include snacks that come from the earth instead of a factory. Cook rice ahead of time. Prepare for your cravings in advance; put that stuff in the fridge. When you’re traveling, find healthy places to eat ahead of time. Avoid packaged foods in all forms as much as possible. The good foods are kind of found around the perimeter of the grocery store. The middle is the packaged stuff. Choose ethically raised animals. And this isn’t just some kind of a protest thing. Not only is it the right thing to do, but those factory-raised animals live horrible lives and those stress chemicals, like cortisol, stay in the animal and in the meat. That’s a fact. Eating well is not about how long you live, it’s about how well you live. You deserve high-quality thoughts and feelings, and the machine that makes them is depending on you to get it running at its highest level. You are in charge.
