Speaker A argues that achieving extraordinary goals requires a mindset that feels delusional to others, but is really just a belief outside society's limits. Five years ago, his own ambitions seemed crazy to academic advisors, neuroscientists, and friends. He turned their skepticism into fuel to prove them wrong.
If you want to achieve the unimaginable, you have to believe in the unimaginable, right? And the unimaginable does feel delusional. And I remember when I first started out,
right?
Like, I am creator didn't feel true in the beginning. It's like, what? No, like, like, and so it, the things that feel delusional a lot of the time, maybe they're not delusional to someone like you, you know, me 5 years ago would've thought the things that you're doing were delusional, right? But it just depends on the person. But it's only quote unquote delusional until it works. And I always say I have this kind of mindset of, You know, being delusional really is just living outside of the illusion, which is the reality of the norm. And I personally knew that I wanted to live a reality of the unimaginable, a reality that no one around me that I had ever seen around me was doing. And in order to believe in that, it did feel delusional. It absolutely felt like, what? Like, what are you doing? That's crazy. And I had people around me tell me, that's illogical, that's crazy. Like, how are you going to do that? I mean, my PhD, having, you know, neuroscientists like, you You're making the wrong decision. What are you doing? And people in my personal life as well being like, who told you you could do that? And all of those were honestly motivators for me to prove them wrong.
