Adopt the mindset that you can literally do anything you want in life and you will

Most people die with the life they settled for. A few don't. Here's what separates them.

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A limitless mindset that I can do anything changed my life.

This idea can bizarrely change your life too. To get to the essence of the idea, I need to take you beyond the cookie-cutter mindset info that is all over social media. A happy-go-lucky view of the world won’t make you successful and wealthy.

That’s clickbait.

I never used to have a limitless mindset. I was overweight, depressed, hated my 9-5 job, and didn’t want to live anymore.

One evening I discovered these “Power Talks” from Tony Robbins. They were recorded in the 90s, long before podcasts existed. Tony sat down with individuals most people hadn’t heard of. The whole point of each talk was to reinforce the idea you can literally do anything you want in life.

He interviewed regular people who became astronauts. And spiritual gurus like Deepak Chopra. After the first talk I called bullsh*t on the idea, as you do. But I was bored and had to pass the time on the way to work because I parked an hour away from the office to save $5 in parking fees.

After about the 30th Power Talk, a switch flicked in my head.

It became obvious to me what Tony was trying to drill into my stubborn brain. I could literally do anything I put my mind to.

I didn’t get the inspiration then do nothing.

Nope.

I went to the staff directory of the 40,000-person bank where I worked. I looked up all the General Managers and Chief-level staff members.

I called them on their cell phones out of the blue. And I just assumed I would be working for them in the future. I even told them so. Then I asked for advice on how to skip the line and reach their position.

Some of them told me to f*ck off. No joke. But most helped because they admired the total bat sh*t craziness of my approach. I wasn’t just delusional. I risked my job to call them and talk the way I did.

One complaint would have ended my career.

I eventually got a gig working for one of these Chiefs much sooner than I thought. We’re still friends. And he still thinks I’m crazy.

The world wants to place limits on your imagination. It wants you to get on your knees and ask for permission, get more experience, wait your turn, be patient, get underpaid in the name of “that’s what you deserve,” and choose one path and stick to it until retirement.

The internet burned this worldview to the ground.

AI and social media finished the job.

You can now literally do anything you want in life with zero barriers. No one is watching. No one gives a f*ck if you fail. And there are infinite opportunities to replace the current ones you have access to.

Let me explain the power of the mindset that you can do anything you want in life.

The war hero with a naughty secret

Joseph Cyr is a son of a gun. You’re about to see why.

In 1951, he got on a ship and headed to the Korean War. He was the ship's sole medical officer, responsible for the health and lives of every man on board.

As the war raged, he completed dozens of complex surgeries and saved many people’s lives. Everything from reattaching limbs to cutting open chests to remove bullets. Not a single patient died.

Dude was a freaking hero.

There was only one problem: “Joseph Cyr” was actually Ferdinand Demara, a high school dropout with absolutely zero medical training. Ferdinand had stolen a real doctor’s credentials, forged some paperwork, and walked onto the ship with a smile.

When patients started piling up, he didn’t panic because he had zero medical training. No. At night he read books on how to perform surgeries. The next day he’d perform them. He felt successful because he saved lives.

When he returned home, he got busted for not being a real doctor. The public was outraged. “Why’d you do it, man?”

His answer was chillingly simple: he just didn’t see why he couldn’t.

Ferdinand couldn’t be stuffed waiting 4 years to get a medical degree. He just decided he was a surgeon, so he became one. Before you go and do the same, I must tell you that I don’t suggest you become a fake doctor. That’s not the point.

The point is people tell themselves stories about why they can’t do things when they can. The story you tell yourself becomes reality. You can change the story. You can rewrite it. Or, like Ferdinand, you can pretend the rules don’t exist.

The delusional 16 year old that defied a room full of PhDs

Boyan Slat decides at age 16 to clean up the ocean.

He gets in front of a room full of billionaires and PhDs and tells them he is going to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the largest accumulation of ocean plastic in the world. World governments had already declared the problem impossible.

The world’s brightest scientific minds unanimously agreed that cleaning the oceans was impossible. The area was too big, the currents too unpredictable, the cost too astronomical. It would take thousands of years and tens of billions of dollars.

So the fat cat scientists went back to work and kept reading National Geographic.

Boyan was a punk high school kid. He had a total disrespect for authority and experts. He decided to fix the problem himself. He dropped out of his aerospace engineering degree and founded The Ocean Cleanup.

The biggest problem to solve was the extreme current of the ocean. Instead of moving his cleanup machines through the ocean, he got the ocean’s current to move the rubbish into his cleanup machines.

10 years later, this punk kid is now an adult and his company has removed hundreds of thousands of pounds of rubbish from the ocean.

There is a solution. There is hope. Seals don’t need to swim in your beer packaging anymore and get drunk with frustration.

Boyan didn’t make enormous progress because he had a high IQ or a degree.

He did it because his brain wasn’t mature enough to understand what was impossible. He assumed the problem could be solved so he just got to work.

Most of society sees a problem and goes, “The government needs to solve this and change my adult diaper.” A small part of society sees a giant problem and says, “No one is going to solve this, so I must do it, instead of complaining like a toddler.”

The moment you stop seeing problems and start seeing opportunities, your entire life changes. You realize what Star Wars creator George Lucas said: “We are all living in cages with the door wide open.”

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There’s a dumb fish called a Northern Pike.

If you put it in an aquarium and divide the space in two with a piece of glass, the Pike will try to get to the other side.

Each time it will bruise its nose when it hits the glass. After three days, the lazy Pike gives up on life and stops trying. It’s conditioned to stop trying after three days of failure. Conditioned by failure, it accepts the invisible wall as permanent reality.

If you remove the glass in the middle of the tank and chuck in lots of food on the previously blocked half of the aquarium, the Pike dies.

Inches from food it just ignores taking a bite. It won’t cross the now invisible barrier to save itself. The Pike’s mindset is fixed and nothing will change it. It’ll die because of its stubbornness and worshipping of the rules.

This story isn’t just about the Pike. It’s the story of mainstream society.

Most humans starve to death in an environment full of opportunities only inches from their grasp. Then they complain there’s no food when there’s a Costco warehouse full of food right in their backyard with the door wide open.

A limitless mindset is the solution to your biggest struggles

I know you’re not Ferdinand, and you’re not going to pretend to be a doctor. And you don’t need to.

But everyone suffers from limits we place on ourselves and don’t even realize. Unless you remind yourself every day that you can literally do anything in your life, you’ll forget. Hang this picture from Tim Urban on your wall as a reminder:

You may have followed one path to date, but that’s literally one of millions of paths you can take. And you get to choose your path in life. The most dangerous thing you can do is let other people choose your path.

Religion, parents, or the corporate ladder can make us put on blinders and limit our paths in life for no good reason.

A limitless mindset is different. It allows you to turn the impossible into possible. It gives you mental fluidity. It helps you see opportunities, not problems. It expands your mind to believe anything is possible and you get to decide.

It’s one of the greatest forms of modern freedom in existence. And most people do not take advantage of it.

Right now you either believe anything is possible for your life or you don’t.

There’s no in-between. Now don’t bullsh*t yourself. Be honest. Do you really believe anything is possible for your life? If not, that’s the opportunity of this essay. That’s the change you now get to make if you want to get what you want.

The challenge is not so much yourself, but everyone around you who wants to mold your mind for their benefit.

Slavery is the default in society and it starts with brainwashing people to close off huge parts of their mind and delete all of the limitless paths they could take.

Modern mindset theory lied to you

The woo-woo spiritual vibe guys go too far and tell you to believe you can do everything. So you end up doing too much and being overloaded and burned out.

One of my readers said this:

It’s about taking responsibility for building the conditions that make something possible. Mindset without a system is an illusion. Mindset with a system is power.

Theory sounds smart. It’s inspirational. But it doesn’t produce change or turn you into a millionaire. It’s just free dopamine that gives your brain an orga$m.

If you want to do anything you want, you must first work out what you want. Dan Koe calls this a quest. I call it a mission. Call it whatever the hell you want. But what do you want? If you don’t know, you must experiment or you’ll never know and die a bum.

Once you know what you want there has to be a system to get you from where you are to where you want to go. That’s a combination of cliche as hell daily habits and some sort of accountability like a KPI tracker.

No one wants to hear that because we’ve had James Clear’s Atomic Habits shoved up our asses for almost a decade. But it’s true.

Adopting the idea that deep-rooted belief manifests into reality has completely changed the way I move

(One of my readers)

What you believe shapes your reality.

If you have terrible beliefs, no amount of reading or advice will help you. What you believe determines whether you will act on what you learn.

Beliefs must shift before you can learn new things.

I used to believe I was a loser and would end up on welfare. I came within a month of that becoming a reality. Getting a $55K a year call center job saved me.

After learning Tony Robbins’ teachings, I began to change my beliefs. I believed I would find a way out of the corporate world and build a life I love. I didn’t know how, but I believed this idea with every bone in my body.

This belief opened up my mind and helped me see opportunities I couldn’t see before. For example, I used to go on Youtube and leave hate comments on people’s videos. I believed anyone with a Youtube channel was a grifter and trying to sell something.

When my beliefs changed, I suddenly became open to the idea of doing Youtube, using social media, putting up a website, and doing some blogging.

That opportunity eventually changed my life.

The simple path to get what you want in life

Whatever you’ve done to date is irrelevant.

You can go from being a lawyer to a Youtuber tomorrow if you want. You can quit a career in banking and go be a chef if you decide to.

You can light your current degree on fire and get another one. You can use self-education to get out of poverty if you’ve had enough of your current life.

The limitation is you.

If you can remove YOU from the equation, you can see a different reality. Your current thinking got you to the current place. New thinking is what is needed. And the idea you’ve been searching for your entire life is this:

Adopt the mindset that you can literally do anything you want in life and you will.

This idea made me a millionaire. Everyone I’ve shared it with, who has dared to embody it, has gone on to change the world in some tiny way.

Why not you?

“But this situation prevents me from…”

The limitless mindset tells us that humans are all the same.

People we love get sick. Some of us have kids which affects free time. All of us will struggle financially at some point. People will lose their jobs. We will get lied to at some point. You’re not special. Your situation isn’t unique.

I had a guy last week tell me life is hard because he’s a single father of two kids. Therefore, he can’t do anything until the kids are grown up. He acts as if he’s the only single father on Earth.

Meanwhile, a connection of mine lost his wife to cancer and raised two kids on his own with no help, while building a massive brand online that helps people overcome the grief of losing a partner.

Some people are victims. Some choose to be heroes.

I had another guy tell me he’s been stuck trying to start a business for 16 freaking years. Yet he still won’t change.

The harsh truth is nobody is coming to save you. You must save yourself. But the upshot of this reality, as Alexei on X said is, “No one is coming to stop you” either.

Every limitation you think you have is just a fake sob story and a bunch of excuses. If you’re living like that you need to wake up and stop being immature. You will either get what you want, or you will suffer and watch other people get what they want.

You get to decide. And your bullsh*t excuses determine which reality.

You will hate this part and may block me

When some people discover the secret they can literally do anything they want, they set up an Instagram account to brag about it. They take photos of the Ferrari and 6-pack to rub it in your face.

There’s not much you can do about it. It’s human nature that once you learn to defy the laws of nature and live in abundance, you may want to brag about it. A limitless mindset is incredible. But it can make you think you’re better than everyone.

I’m guilty of this.

I discovered in my 20s I could build a $50M a year eCommerce business without much skill and using other people’s money. I turned into a narcissistic a**hole and even asked employees to kiss my shoes. I asked a couple of them to suck my you know what, too. And I was serious. I wish I didn’t. But that version of me did it.

Every cheat code in life comes with downsides.

The solution here is to adopt this limitless mindset, but use it for good. Don’t let it blow up your ego. Instead, use the mindset to help others. That’s how you use it to create more abundance, and it oddly creates more for you too.

Here’s how to make a limitless mindset work for you

This part is simple. It’s uns*xy. But I’m not here to please you. Sorry.

1. Reverse-Engineer the “Experts”

The biggest illusion holding you back is the myth of the “Expert.” You look at CEOs, authors, and innovators and assume they possess a secret blueprint of the universe.

They don’t. Most of them are just making it up as they go, running on high confidence and iteration.

• The Action: Stop looking at people at the top as superior beings with superpowers. Look at them as prototypes. If a human being built a company, wrote a book, or sailed the world, it means the physics of reality allow for it.

• The Rule: If someone else has done it, it is mechanically possible for you to do it. Strip the romance away from success and look at it as a logical puzzle to be solved.

2. Operate with “Strategic Delusion”

If you only aim for goals that feel realistic based on your current resume, you will only ever achieve linear growth.

To do anything you want, you have to practice strategic delusion: setting a goal so absurdly high that your current brain doesn’t even know how to process it.

• The Action: Choose a goal that genuinely scares you, then actively ignore the voice that asks how you’re going to pull it off.

• The Rule: The how is none of your business at the start. Your only job in phase one is to lock onto the what. When Ferdinand Demara walked onto that ship, he didn’t know how to do surgery. He figured it out because the situation demanded it. Audacity forces capability.

3. Lower the Cost of Failure to Zero

The reason people don’t try to do “anything they want” is the fear of looking stupid.

They treat failure like a permanent tattoo when it’s actually just kids’ washable paint my daughter uses to draw monsters for my 5 month old baby.

• The Action: Build a lifestyle where a “no” doesn’t break you. Send the cold email. Pitch the crazy idea. Apply for the job you’re entirely unqualified for. Build the business that feels beyond your reach using your existing skills.

• The Rule: Treat life like a video game with infinite respawns. If you lose a level, you don’t die. You just hit restart with more data than you had before. The faster you collect rejections, the faster you stumble into the room where everything changes.

The brutal truth

I’m not that smart. I didn’t invent this limitless mindset.

Everyone who has succeeded throughout history has stumbled across this mindset. Unfortunately, the bastards didn’t share it and kept it for themselves to reduce competition and have an aura of superiority.

F*ck those sons of b*tches. It’s time to level the playing field with a bazooka.

Adopt the mindset starting today that you can literally do anything you want in life. Embody the idea. Tattoo it on your cheeks. Then when it brings you abundance, like it has for me, make sure to share it and not be greedy.

Those who believe they can do anything end up doing anything they want. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy as old as the Egyptian pyramids.

What's one limit you've accepted as permanent that, reading this, you're now not so sure about?

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