HACKING YOUR MIND
“be the hack, not the trauma.”
The Lesson
Your mind is the outcome of genetics, traumas, and hacks. If you don't learn to hack (program) your own brain, the default is that you are little more than genes and traumas. Examples of hacks: education (conscious choice to alter brain via learning), intelligent skill stacking, associating self-rewards with habits, learning to reframe experiences, seeing reality as subjective, avoiding emotion pollution from entertainment, treating sleep as a learnable skill, putting things in context, practicing optimism. Make it your system to routinely learn and test new hacks. You become the author of your own mind and experience.
Real-World Example
A founder realizes they're running on default programming, anxiety from childhood (trauma) and risk-aversion from their parents (genetics). They start installing hacks: reframing failures as learning (hack), associating small wins with dopamine rewards (hack), seeing their startup journey as a game (hack), cutting doom-scrolling that pollutes their emotions (hack). Six months later, they're a different person. Same genes, same traumas, different operating system.
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