Dr. Noah St John uses a car metaphor to explain invisible brakes: the hidden friction and self-imposed restraints that slow you down in life and business. You wouldn't pump the gas and brake simultaneously while driving to the store, yet most people do this with their goals every day.
So, you are here and you want to be there, right? So, it's like driving your car, right? So, when you're driving your car, what are you doing? You're going from point A to point B faster than you walking, right? That's what a car does. It gets you there faster. Now, in your car, there are 2 forces at work. There's the driving force of the foot on the gas and the restraining force of the foot on the brake. Yeah. All right. So, when you press the gas, of course, you go faster. When you press the brake, you slow down and you stop. Now, what causes that is friction. That's, in fact, what stops you is friction, right? And if you didn't have friction, you'd probably slam into a tree pretty quickly, right? So, we want to have brakes in our car. But here's where it's different. We don't want to have those brakes on in our lives, in our business, in our teams because there's so much hidden friction. I call it the invisible brake. It's the invisible brake that is holding so many people back from reaching their goal. So, imagine if you're driving in your car and you're going down the road to the grocery store. That's your destination. Well, why are you going to the grocery store? Well, you're going to the grocery store to pick up groceries, right? You know, I need milk, eggs, and butter, and whatever you need, right? So, think about this. No one would get in their car, drive to the grocery store, walk around for an hour, Get back in their car and drive home. I mean, that would be idiotic, right? That wouldn't make any sense. Why would you do that? You wouldn't. But there's lots of people that are doing that in their lives.
