T. Harv Eker asserts that the conditioned mind is primarily a survival mechanism whose sole job is to keep you alive, not to make you happy or successful. He likens fear to a bodyguard that keeps you in your comfort zone by bringing up problems to prevent risky actions; listening only to this conditioned mind will prevent success or happiness.
The first critical thing is your mind. Your conditioned mind is a survival mechanism. Its job is not to make you happy and its job is not to make you successful. Its job, its one and only job is to keep you alive to survive. That's it. In fact, just so you know that fear bit and that the feeling it brings up is fear so that you don't act, so that you don't get into trouble, right? It's like a bodyguard. And so the one thing need to know is that your mind actually doesn't want you to be happy and it doesn't want you to be successful. It wants to bring up all the problems so you can stay in your comfort zone and be safe. So that's number one. Your mind does not want you to be successful or happy. It's only there to keep you alive. And if you keep listening to that and only that, that's all you will get.
