How To Change Your Beliefs
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The document recounts a personal rock climbing experience where the author was led to attempt a difficult route, which he perceived as easy due to misleading information. It emphasizes how our beliefs can shape our perceptions of difficulty and suggests that we can train our minds to view challenges as manageable. The author proposes that by changing our beliefs, we can potentially accomplish much more in life.
How To Change Your Beliefs
- 2. A long time ago I used to go rock climbing with a few buddies.
- 3. All the different routes are rated on difficulty, and since all of us were at different levels, we had to pick a route that everybody could do.
- 4. Which meant the guy that was the least skilled controlled our choices.
- 5. That guy, by the way, was me.
- 6. But once I was climbing with this one guy, who really wanted to go up this really tough route.
- 7. It was a few levels above what I was capable of.
- 8. So he just fudged the numbers a little bit.
- 9. The way he presented it to me, was it was one more quick route that would only take an hour or so, before we drove home.
- 10. It was "easy" and it would be a good one to end on.
- 11. When we were done, he told me that it was a couple levels higher than anything I'd ever done before.
- 12. But while I was climbing, I thought it was easy, so it was easy.
- 13. I didn't slip, didn't miss any holds, I basically just walked right up. Like climbing a ladder.
- 14. Had he told me how hard it REALLY was, I would have been terrified.
- 15. The truth is that many things are like this, only the opposite.
- 16. We make things seem much harder, in our heads, than they really are.
- 17. And that, of course, makes them harder for real.
- 18. But what if could reverse the process?
- 19. What if we could look out into the world, look at something that USED to be hard, and simply convince yourself that it's easy?
- 20. What would you be able to do?
- 21. If you could make anything easy, simply be changing what you believe about it.
- 22. How much more could you accomplish?
- 23. How much more could you get?
- 24. The good news is that there ARE proven techniques that will teach you this.
- 25. Allowing YOU to decide if something is hard or easy.