Lewis HowesYour Personal 24/7 Greatness Coach

What the Law of Attraction is ACTUALLY About...

7 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this reflective monologue, the speaker reinterprets the Law of Attraction as a process of changing internal mental states and rewiring the brain to recognize and pursue desired outcomes. He argues that subconscious limiting beliefs and fears—especially fear of vulnerability—create self‑imposed blocks that manifest as procrastination. Using his own experience of delaying a long‑form podcast, he illustrates how an unacknowledged fear of being judged kept him from launching the show. Once he identified the fear, he offered himself self‑compassion (“a little hug”) and was able to act immediately. The talk concludes that we don’t merely attract what we want; we attract what our brain is wired to notice and act upon, implying that conscious rewiring is the true lever for manifesting success.

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When I think of the law of attraction, it's really about changing our internal state and rewiring our brain so that we are actually able to perceive the things that we want and go after them as well. Because a lot of us subconsciously block ourselves from our goals or the success that we desire because we have, whether it be limiting beliefs or subconscious fears even around success. And I think a lot of our procrastination stems from that as well. I mean, I remember back when I was trying to start a podcast, before I started, I wanted to start one for so long and I was just like, why am I procrastinating on this? And then I realized that I had a subconscious fear of being seen in a more vulnerable way because long-form content is just so much more vulnerable. Like I'm over here, everyone could just judge me right now listening to this. Yeah, it's not a 1-minute curated clip. Right, exactly. Like, so you're just so much more vulnerable and I hadn't become aware of that, right? And so I wasn't aware of that fear and it was keeping me from the success that I desired. It was keeping me from the thing that I wanted to manifest, which was having a podcast. Like, I want to have a successful long-form content, and it was keeping me from doing that because of this subconscious fear, right? And as soon as I identified that, I was just like, okay, now I can, you know, just give myself a little hug, like, it's going to be all right, like, it's okay. And then I was able to go and do it right after that. And just— I— just as easy as identifying it, right? And so I think when I think of the Law of Attraction, it really is just about like we We don't get what we want in life, we get what our brain is wired for.