A short motivational monologue by Chase Fisher arguing that the primary determinant of success is one’s thoughts. He presents a causal chain—thoughts create emotions, emotions drive actions, and actions produce results—and recommends metacognition (asking “why” about negative thoughts and breaking them down) as the principal technique to change thoughts and therefore outcomes.
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You'd probably already be successful if you knew what was making you successful or not. Most people think it's about the business model that they're in or even like how much effort they put in, but it is neither of those two things. The number one thing that you being actually successful on is your thoughts. And I know I'm not going to get all rah rah mentality on you, but your thoughts are going to create your emotions. Your emotions are going to create your actions, and your actions are going to create your results. So if you wake up in the morning and you're thinking, you know, I don't want to do this, or whatever, negative thoughts that come into your mind and you cannot control those, you will literally never be successful by default. If you look at that funnel, I told you, right? Thoughts create emotions, emotions create actions, actions create results. If your thoughts are bad, your results are going to be bad. But if you change your thoughts, you ultimately change your results. So your thoughts will create your reality, and if you cannot figure out how to control them, you will never be successful. The number one thing that I've done to control this is metacognition, which is asking why to your bad thoughts and breaking them down. Because you never get scared of broad. You get scared of. You get scared of broad. You don't get scared of specific.