Most people NEVER consciously decide who they are becoming. They inherit beliefs, standards, habits, fears, ambitions and definitions of what is possible from whatever surrounds them: family, school, friends, culture, social media, algorithms, praise, rejection and failure.
None of this requires your permission. Your subconscious mind is absorbing patterns CONSTANTLY. Your attention is being trained. Your identity is being reinforced.
That is what PROGRAM OR BE PROGRAMMED means.
If you do not deliberately cultivate your mindset, self-concept, standards, beliefs, attention and identity, your environment will do it for you. You will still be programmed. You will simply have outsourced the authorship.
Spend enough time around cynicism and cynicism starts to sound intelligent. Spend enough time around mediocrity and mediocrity starts to feel normal. Consume enough fear, outrage, scarcity and distraction and those states begin to feel like reality.
Immerse yourself in discipline, courage, ambitious people, great books and better ideas, and your internal reference point moves.
Repetition becomes familiarity. Familiarity becomes belief. Belief influences perception. Perception influences behaviour. Repeated behaviour becomes character. Character starts looking suspiciously like destiny.
Your subconscious mind learns from what you repeatedly see, hear, feel and do. Your conversations are programming. Your content diet is programming. Your self-talk is programming. Your routines are programming. Your peer group is programming.
Ask “Why does this always happen to me?” and your mind searches for helplessness. Ask “How do I solve this?” and attention shifts toward resources and opportunities. Ask “Who must I become to handle this?” and the obstacle becomes an identity challenge.
Notice what is programming you. Notice what your algorithm keeps showing you. Notice which beliefs you repeat without remembering where they came from.
Then ask:
Did I choose this?
If the answer is no, choose again.
Stand guard at the door of your mind. Curate what you consume. Train what you focus on. Rehearse who you intend to become.
PROGRAM OR BE PROGRAMMED Ω
Choose carefully.
STOP TRYING TO “FIND YOURSELF.”
One of the strangest ideas modern people have swallowed is that somewhere deep inside them exists a pristine, finished, AUTHENTIC personality…
And your job is to go digging around until you “discover who you really are.”
Why?
What makes you think the current contents of your personality are sacred?
Half of what you call “me” is shit you accidentally picked up.
Your sense of humour.
Your relationship with money.
Your confidence.
Your taste.
Your posture.
Your standards.
The way you speak.
The things you are afraid of.
The amount of disrespect you tolerate.
What you believe you are capable of.
Where did all of that come from?
You think you consciously selected it??
LOL.
A gigantic percentage of your “identity” is simply the accumulated result of family, teachers, friends, girlfriends, embarrassing experiences at 14, random praise, random rejection, movies, music, algorithms, people you admired, people you hated, and whatever happened to be repeatedly placed in front of your nervous system.
And then at 25 you point at the finished pile and say:
“This is just who I am.”
NO.
That is who you have been CONDITIONED to be.
Important distinction.
Because once you understand that personality is far more plastic than people pretend, the entire project changes.
Stop asking:
“Who am I?”
Start asking:
“WHO AM I BECOMING?”
And better:
“Who have I consciously DECIDED to become?”
If you admire somebody’s vocabulary, steal the standard and train yours.
If you admire somebody’s composure, study it.
If you admire somebody’s courage, deliberately place yourself in situations that demand courage until courage becomes normal.
If you speak like shit, improve your speech.
If you dress like shit, develop taste.
If you’re socially timid, train social boldness.
If your standards are low, raise them and tolerate the discomfort of no longer fitting neatly into your old environment.
This applies to almost everything.
People have this ridiculous reverence for their existing limitations.
“I’m just introverted.”
“I’ve never been disciplined.”
“I’m not really a reader.”
“I’m bad with money.”
“I’ve always been anxious.”
“I’m just not that type of person.”
Okay?
And?
Since WHEN did your past get voting rights over your future?
Your previous behaviour is evidence of your previous conditioning.
That’s all.
You can condition something else.
This is why I have always found the obsession with “authenticity” slightly suspicious.
Authentic to WHAT?
The version of you created by your parents?
Your secondary school?
Your ex?
Your hometown?
Your Twitter feed?
Fuck that.
There is enormous power in becoming ARTIFICIAL on purpose long enough that the artificial becomes natural.
At first, the new behaviour feels fake.
GOOD.
Of course it does.
Anything outside your existing identity feels fake because your nervous system has not normalised it yet.
Repeat it.
Reinforce it.
Build evidence.
Eventually what required conscious effort becomes automatic.
Then one day somebody who knew you five years ago meets you again and says:
“Wow. You’ve changed.”
Correct.
That was the fucking point.
You are not an archaeological site.
You are an ENGINEERING PROJECT.
BUILD YOURSELF.
One of the worst sins you can make against yourself is… wasting your youth.
Energy goes down…
Mobility declines…
Life demands you take increasingly levels of responsibilities…
You get a mortgage, and kids…
You have a brief window in time where you can abuse sleep, abuse your body, where it barely hits you and you can recover overnight.
That window does not last forever.
It would be a DARN SHAME for you to exit your young energetic years without having made proper and ample use of them. It would be a shame to not have burned the candle extra hot to make extremely fast progress in record time…
A darn shame.
You couldn't push a button the entire week? Why care? As long as you followed your hard rules, stay unfazed !
Preserve your money for opportunities that truly deserve it and that opportunity will submit itself in a moment you never expected.
That's the beauty of these markets
Kusoma with smart people makes you understand that there is a huge distance between you and the next guy despite both of you scoring As -intellectual wise
The As are not equal
I talk a lot in this video, unlike others... [grin]
I want you to consider what I am doing every week. What I teach and taught... and how as a Teacher, I guard new students mind; so they don't talk themselves out of success.
The things I cover in this video help with very High Precision executions, which are indeed based on "ANTICIPATING" or "PREDICTING" and never reacting.
You have to experience a shift, from hoping and fearing, to knowing what you are looking for.
My Logic is the framework that you need to align with, over Price... Daily. By repetition, you learn to think like the Algo and Price will seem to be obedient to your expectations... in shocking manner.
Don't give up... you are so close!
Simple Model Example Diagram
In Bearish Markets, using Premium Arrays anticipate Bearish Breakers to form. Wait for Price to displace lower, Short the -Breaker, use Stop Loss above the High of -Breaker.
Target Discount Arrays, like opposing +Breaker. Target Mean Threshold.
Your Trading Model:
[In A Thread]
1) You put down on paper who you think you are, what your strengths are, and the small list of weaknesses, I'm sure it's really just one... and it's most likely modesty.
This will be referred to at a later time in your development.
This week try this Timeframe Alignment
Weekly ➡️4hr➡️15min
Daily ➡️1hr➡️5min.
Mark your HTF key level
Wait for Liquidity purge 1hr\4hr
15min\5min ,Execute in the direction of your HTF.
Entries within Killzones.
GLGT.
This is the day that Lord has made, and we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is a dream. Today is the Present... don't waste it.
Give thanks... you woke up and that alone is a gift.
527 Followers 4K FollowingElite Forex Entrepreneur💸|
Trading The World's Largest| Creating Income From The🗿 Markets|📈 Smart Risk. Big Vision.🙌| Success Is A Lifestyle⚜️
204K Followers 518 FollowingSharing trade setups, strategies and concepts to the ICT mentorship community. The Markets Will Provide. We rise by lifting others. My DM's are always open.
169K Followers 4K Following~ I have no master, except my enterprise. I have no enemies, except my indiscretions: and my only claim to relevance is sanity ~
539 Followers 65 FollowingCabro Installation Experts in Kenya 🏗️🌱 | Driveways, Parking Lots & Landscaping done right & affordably. Quality you can trust. Let's transform your space! 📲
2K Followers 887 FollowingHigh Performance Computing Specialist by day, full-time Linux aficionado, capable sharp-shooter and pilot. Engagements are not endorsements.
17K Followers 195 FollowingStudent of the market. How you do anything is how you do everything! Check highlights for trades. Talk footy sometimes TG: https://t.co/fI887QSJ2l
2K Followers 857 FollowingTrainee civil engineer|•|Fresh import car dealer |•|Motorcycle importation 📩| Car Sourcing & Buying|
CEO and founder of @Directbikeimports
7K Followers 746 FollowingCivil Engineer| PE I MIEK| MAAK(E)| Honorary Registrar -@Arch_KE, Adv. Committee -KGBS,Comm. Ordinary Council Member @TheIEK.Director https://t.co/OLAQy5sX8t
373K Followers 371 FollowingGet Rich. Get Fit. Get Smarter. Learn what the schools won't teach you. | 90 Day Self-Improvement Program: https://t.co/VjhNOqaBtK