A speaker argues that what feels delusional is often just an unconventional perspective that can drive extraordinary outcomes. He draws on personal experience with criticism from peers and neuroscientists to show how external skepticism can fuel the drive to prove doubters wrong.
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If you want to achieve the unimaginable, you have to believe in the unimaginable, right? Mm-hmm. 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, 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. Mm-hmm. 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 if 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 gonna do that? I'm in my PhD having, you know, neuroscientists be like, 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.
