Lewis Howes argues that moving to a new place speeds up personal transformation because it breaks old mental patterns and forces your brain to rebuild your identity. Visualization alone doesn't work; your brain only trusts consistent action and following through on what you say you'll do.
Moving is such a crazy way to level up in life because you're taking your brain out of an environment, putting it into a brand new one where there are no prior associations, there's no old identity. So you kind of— your brain kind of just has to like build this new construction of who you are in this new space. And, you know, environment is huge for that, and the people around you are huge for that, but also your habits and your behaviors. Your behaviors are identity anchors as well. And so You know, if you're trying to shift your identity to someone that is, you know, likes to go to the gym and exercise frequently, you also need to be acting like that, right? You gotta— you also have to follow through on your word, which is huge. And I always say, you know, what do you trust? Like, if someone came to you every single day and was like, oh, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do this, and they never do it, what would you believe, their actions or their words? Yeah, like we trust people's actions and it's like you don't feel, you know, yeah, you wouldn't be able to trust them and your brain is no different, you know, like when you're constantly doing the affirmations or the visualizations and you can do that all day long, but if you're not acting, but if you're not acting on it, then what do you think your brain is going to believe?
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