Peter Vander Wall explores how believing motivating lies activates problem-solving and keeps you from giving up. The conversation tests where the line is: Speaker A says false confidence works, Speaker B jokes they could join the NBA if they quit rapping, and Speaker A pushes back on that.
Sometimes I lie to myself to feel better. Here's why. There are a lot of things that are not true that I choose to believe anyways. And the reason for this is my life is just better when I do. Here's an example. I have the ability to overcome every obstacle that is put in my way. Let's be real, I don't. But if I hold that mentality that turns on the problem solving part of my brain, instead of getting in the fetal position and crying about it, I'm looking for a way over and around it. And it turns out even if I can't overcome every obstacle, I can overcome an awful lot of them. But if I didn't have this belief, I'd be giving up way before I ever reached a solution.
Is there any limit to your ambition? No. Or any limit to what you think you can achieve? No. Well, no. Because I think right now, if I was to quit rapping and I said I want to go to the NBA, I would be in the NBA. No. You would? Yes. No, you would. Yes, I would.
No, you wouldn't.
Yes, I would. Why would you think you could make it to the NBA? Because I think I could do anything.
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