Living on Autopilot

People are living on autopilot.

Everyone was assigned goals by society as a child.

Goals require a system to be achieved.

A system takes trial and error to become efficient.

You had the biological goals of walking, talking, and speaking to survive.

As simple as they are for you now, that wasn’t always the case.

Your mind received negative feedback from your environment that led to those systems becoming efficient to achieve your goal of surviving.

Your parents either scolded you or pointed you in the right direction when you made a mistake.

You started crawling, then stumbling around, then walking like a toddler with little balance, and now you can (hopefully) walk like an Olympic gold medalist can flip through the air and stick the landing – because they practiced achieving that goal long enough.

Learning to walk is just the start.

What about the goals of going to school, getting a high-paying job, and retiring at an age where you have little time left to enjoy your life?

Society is a behaviour system.

And those are 3 big goals that they injected into your mind right when you learned to comprehend the language you speak.

99% of people are only interpreting everyday situations in a way that leads to those goals.

99% of people are practicing the skills and programming their minds to live a mediocre life without even knowing it.

The masses are being shepherded to an unfulfilling life because the systems that compose their mind, identity, perspective, and perception are becoming more efficient as they age.

A realization people often make too late:

Success is not planned, it is automatic.

Successful people – whether they were conscious of it or not – had a mind that was programmed to achieve the goals that led to their success.

Think of your mind as a structure of nested systems.

Your identity, perspective, and perception of situations are all systems that feed into and reinforce each other in that order.

I am here to make you conscious of the systems that lead to automatic success in any endeavor.

Goals > Systems

80% of living the life you want boils down to creating your own goals while most people are mindless slaves to society’s goals.

Goals change how you interpret situations, which influences your actions, which programs your identity, which compounds over years into the good life.

You can’t solve a problem unless you’re aware of it.

You can’t become aware of a problem unless it impacts a goal.

Most people don’t have goals. Most people are afraid to make mistakes. Most people don’t give themselves a chance to improve any aspect of their life.

If you aren’t clear on what you want, you can’t communicate what you want to others.

This sets you up for a life of assumptions, expectations, and never getting what you want out of life. Nobody can help you and you can’t help yourself.

If you don’t invest energy into a goal, you won’t feel the pain of not reaching that goal.

Most don’t have a clear vision of what they want from that goal, so the negative impact of their actions goes unnoticed.

Your bad habits don’t seem worth quitting because you don’t have responsibilities (or prioritize those responsibilities) that deserve you at 100% capacity.

If the importance of those responsibilities outweighed the pleasure of your bad habits, you’d stop without question.

Goals are intertwined with identity.

Humans survive on the conceptual level.

We feel threatened when that which makes us, us is threatened.

A bodybuilder will feel stress and pain when they are in an environment that provides less control over their training and diet.

A routine is a set of practical goals that order the mind. A writer who moves to a new location or travels for an extended period of time will have a stressful acclimation period until their mind runs on new systems. If they can’t write well in their normal routine, they feel threatened, because “who they are” may die.

The general misunderstanding here is that you either have a goal or you don’t.

Your mind is a web of conscious and unconscious goals with accompanying systems to achieve them.

You had biological goals as a child to walk, eat, and survive. It’s seamless for most people because they’ve practiced.

The system is efficient.

You may have cultural goals, depending on how you were raised, of fitting in and following the safe path according to that culture.

If you were to condition yourself with new stimuli (constant self-education) to the point of having an identity that couldn’t “survive” without achieving new goals – you would inevitably achieve whatever they are with ease. If you want a successful business, relationship, or anything that is out of the norm, you must fundamentally change the goals your mind operates on by changing who you are.

To change who you are you must educate, practice, and experience new information to reprogram your mind’s faulty wiring that was installed by society.