TRUST YOUR GUT - Never Second Guess Yourself! - How I met My Wife - 070
Peter Saddington explores the concept of trusting one's gut instinct, positioning it as a valuable and often overlooked asset. He argues against second-guessing intuitive feelings, suggesting they represent a form of innate intelligence. Saddington draws a parallel between the gut and the Egyptian belief in the stomach as a second brain, highlighting its independent operation and direct communication. He emphasizes how the gut provides a counterbalance to the brain's tendency to rationalize and create self-limiting narratives. The video advocates for prioritizing personal instinct over conventional wisdom, asserting that innovation and progress stem from challenging established norms and trusting one's internal compass.
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I could tell you very easily when it was clear that the decision needed to be made when I met my wife. We just were on the exact same vibration. We were on the exact same wavelength on all levels. Everything was go, red line, all the way, everything. It just made sense. And it was so great. It was so great about knowing. There was no emotion. That's what's not sexy about this. There was no emotion. There was no fluttering of the heart. There was no ridiculous like passion. It was just holy fuck. It just is. It just already was. I just didn't live it yet. Right? In the linear span of time. I built many startups. Most of them are fans. So Bitcoin is exactly the place that I like to be. We're going to end it right there. There we go. Alright guys, I want
to talk about something. I want to talk about trusting your gut. Trusting your gut. So I'm throwing it out there early in the show here, guys. Trust your gut. And I'm going to give you the follow on. Trust your gut. Trust your gut. Never ever second guess yourself. There you have it. You can now, according to YouTube statistics, most people turned me off right about now. Anyway, so you can tune me out. You can turn me off now. Because I just gave you the TLDR. It took too long. Did not read. Here's the end of the show, guys. Trust your gut. Never ever second guess yourself. I want to talk about this thing. Because I've had a lot of experience. And I bet as I go through maybe some of these stories here that you will be able to resonate with some of these experiences
as well. I believe that your gut, your gut, whatever that means to you, that feeling inside, the idea inside, whether it starts literally in your gut, in your stomach, whether it starts in your large intestine or small intestine, it's probably gas. But if it starts in your large or small intestine or it starts in your heart, I don't know. I don't know if it starts in your heart. I don't know if it can start in your mind. Like it really is your second brain. And you might say, what the hell? What does that mean? The Egyptians, let's go back to some science guys, some history, the Egyptians actually believed that the stomach was like a second brain. Because the stomach really operates in many ways differently. And independently, that's better what I was saying, independently of your primary brain, it does, your stomach does what
it wants to fucking do. If it feels bad, guess what? It's coming back up brother. You ate too much or you didn't eat the right thing or you got food poisoning. Or something, right? You sick? Guess what? Your stomach is going to let you know and it's going to come back up. Your gut, your stomach is really an independent brain that operates on a different wavelength. It operates on a different level. And when I say, trust your gut, I think there's really, I think there's some bio truth to it. There's some real, you know, biology truth to it. And I don't know if it's been studied, I haven't looked it up. Frankly, I usually, if I ever get to these parts in my notes, I usually duck, duck, go it or Google it or whatever. And I try to figure out like, has there been
operates on a different level. And when I say, trust your gut, I think there's really, I think there's some bio truth to it. There's some real, you know, biology truth to it. And I don't know if it's been studied, I haven't looked it up. Frankly, I usually, if I ever get to these parts in my notes, I usually duck, duck, go it or Google it or whatever. And I try to figure out like, has there been science behind it? So for maybe some of the internet sloths out there, if you're listening on iTunes or Android, Google player, whatever, you can let me know if this science has been studied of the gut. In terms, in the context of your most valuable asset, an instinct of sorts is what I'm talking about. And that's it. That's it. Where does it come from? It comes from the
gut. It comes from the stomach. It comes from the big and small intestine, that area. Right? I mean, trust me. When you got a poo, you body is going to do what you, try as you might, brother. Try as you might, sister. The gut is going to do what it wants to do. But it's also, and here's the point of the real thrust of today's conversation, is that your gut just doesn't digest food. It just doesn't throw up food. It just doesn't like remove food and remove waste from the body. The gut actually speaks to you. And that's what I want to talk about with you today. Is your gut trusting your gut? Never ever second guessing that gut. I think there's some real truth to that. Don't second guess your gut. Your gut is your most valuable natural asset in terms of understanding what
to do in a moment of decision. The gut just knows. It communicates to you on a different wavelength because your brain is telling you stories, my man. Your brain is telling you stories, sister. Your brain is telling you things. You know what those things are? It's called rationalization. Rational. Reasons that you should. Reasons that you shouldn't. Your brain is great. And I've done Sunday sermons on this. I've done podcasts on this, guys. You are your worst enemy of you. And the reason is because your brain is your enemy in so many ways. Let me count the ways. Your brain, your thinking, your logic will become the best lawyer in town to tell you why you can or why you can't. And then it'll turn into the psychologist and tell you why you're mentally capable of doing this. You are physically able to do this. And
then your brain will turn into a betrayer and tell you that you're not, can't do it. You suck, you failed before. Why are you going to try again? You're a loser. And then your brain turns into an angel. Or an angel in disguise that says, yeah, sure why not? It's just one time. I'm never going to do this again. It's okay to try it just once, isn't it? Right, your brain is that thing inside of you that is your biggest enemy. It's you versus you all the time. And so how does the body regulate the rationalization of the brain? How does the body regulate and balance out the amount of shit talking you give to yourself, the amount of rationalization you give yourself, the amount of excuses that come up in your brain? How does the body, how did the Lord create this system so
it? Right, your brain is that thing inside of you that is your biggest enemy. It's you versus you all the time. And so how does the body regulate the rationalization of the brain? How does the body regulate and balance out the amount of shit talking you give to yourself, the amount of rationalization you give yourself, the amount of excuses that come up in your brain? How does the body, how did the Lord create this system so that this brain of evil, this brain of thinking, right? This brain that confuses you, that can bring that fights you, the brain that tells you the greatest and sweetest lies. How does the body balance that? Well, I'll tell you, it's the gut. It's what the Egyptians considered your second brain. It's your instinct. And I'll tell you, bar none, guys, your instinct is far greater than any conventional
wisdom. Actually, most conventional wisdom is just wrong. You know, you want to know why most conventional wisdom is wrong because most conventional wisdom has nothing to do with your context and your situation specifically. It's just platitudes. It's just generalities, this conventional wisdom. Let's be honest, be intellectually honest. If everyone drove their lives or led their lives to conventional wisdom, then we wouldn't have the inventions, the innovations of today, because the innovations of today are because people who didn't tow the line, people who didn't follow the rules, people who drew outside the boxes. Right? It's so conventional wisdom, bull shit, poo poo on that, conventional wisdom, your instinct, especially for you, fuck the world. But for you, your instinct, your gut is how the body regulates, how the body manages the craziness up here in your head. Right? That's it. I figured it out, guys. And
I'm a well-maternian scientist, that's for sure. Educated scientist. I am. But I didn't study this stuff. I didn't study the gut. All right? That wasn't within my purview at the time. So I haven't dug into this. But I believe, guys, I believe in my heart, that I, that the gut, this is just me, little little me, and my young years, my old age or whatever. I think I believe I figured it out. I really do. God's honest truth. I believe that how this system, this body was created was that there was a mind of rationale, mind of logic, a mind of reason. And that is to be balanced by this gut, by this gut. Because the gut speaks to you in a different way, like it speaks to you in a different way. And it tells you things. And you know. You know how the
gut has spoken to you in the past. Don't you, don't you learn? Let me, let me tell you four things that will help you learn to listen to your gut better. Learn to identify the things you can't change, not waste time with them. That's easy. You don't even have to really think about that. Learn to identify things you can't change. Your gut tells you this. I have been in gut, gut situations. When my gut has told me, look, you can't change this. You can't change that man. You can't change her opinion. Like how many times, how many times do I need to listen to my gut and learn to identify the things that I just can't change, mostly people, okay? Why waste time on them? Your gut is already, like you've said this thing to them before. You've said this thing to them before. They
been in gut, gut situations. When my gut has told me, look, you can't change this. You can't change that man. You can't change her opinion. Like how many times, how many times do I need to listen to my gut and learn to identify the things that I just can't change, mostly people, okay? Why waste time on them? Your gut is already, like you've said this thing to them before. You've said this thing to them before. They didn't listen then. They didn't listen before. They didn't listen the fifth time or six times. Some of you guys are just in myself included. Some of us are so dense sometimes that we're at the 20th time that we've said this. Learn to identify things that you can't change, especially people. Situations but especially people. Don't waste time on them. Not tell you. Learn in this and trust them
by gut and being like, you're a pro-Peter. You know, it's just time to move on. Don't text them. Don't call them. Don't email them. Just let it die on the vine. Like there's no need to go have any fanfare here or any good-bye lunches. Just let it die. Let it die. Learn to identify the things you can't change in the world. Don't waste time on them. Your gut's already been telling you that. 2. Learn to identify patterns of behavior that get you in trouble. Your gut has told you many times before. Don't touch that. Don't think that you know where this goes. You know what happens next. These patterns of behavior and under these patterns of behavior, 3. Learn to remember the feeling. You've been here before, haven't you? That's like the quite... Sometimes I literally say that to myself in my mind's eye. I'm
like, whoa, whoa, whoa, Peter. Deja, fucking voo. You've been here before, haven't you? You know exactly what situation you got yourself into. You've got to learn to trust the feeling. Learn to identify these patterns of behavior and learn to remember the feeling. You've been here before, haven't you? 4. Learn to remember the story. You know how this ends? I literally said that to myself in my mind's eye as well. At gut moments, I'm like, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, Peter. I'm gonna tell you, brother. You know how this ends. You know how this is gonna go down. Right? You know, you've been here before, but sometimes we don't trust our gut at that level. Right? You've been here before, and then you say, yeah, but this time it's gonna be different. Okay, you hang out and you do stay. And then your gut's
talking to you again a little bit later in the circumstance. And the thing that you should be going through your mind is, you know how this ends? You've been here before, and you've already passed that. You already made that decision to stay. But you know how this ends. You know exactly how this ends. You see these four things, these four things is basically how you should run through the gut because I'm giving you four areas where your gut talks to you and we tend to ignore them. Number one, learn to identify things you can't change. Number two, learn to identify patterns of behavior. How do you get here? Learn to remember the feelings and learn to remember the story. These are four points in a gut situation. When your gut is talking to you, that you tend to ignore. I would say we have four
through the gut because I'm giving you four areas where your gut talks to you and we tend to ignore them. Number one, learn to identify things you can't change. Number two, learn to identify patterns of behavior. How do you get here? Learn to remember the feelings and learn to remember the story. These are four points in a gut situation. When your gut is talking to you, that you tend to ignore. I would say we have four chances of making it right, but some of us learn to identify the things you can't change. That person, you can't change her. Okay, you know what? This time is different. She asked me to come out and we're gonna hang out. Number two, learn to identify the patterns of behavior. Didn't we get into something? Didn't we get into trouble last time? Like we kind of, she asked me
to hang out. Number three, learn to remember the feeling. You've been here before. Oh, that's right. Yeah, it was only two weeks ago. I was in the exact same spot right before I knocked on the door. I remember this. Days are fucking blue. I could leave because I know. Yeah, no, it's gonna be different this time. Number four, learn to remember the story. You're in the door, brother. You've accepted the invitation. You don't have this ends. You know how this ends? And it is just trouble waiting for you at the other side of that narrative. Small note, small note, small note. I think it's bigger than a small note. This is a really important factor to this idea of the gut. The gut is talking to you. The gut is constantly talking to you. It is not illogical, it is not a rational thing. It's
just telling you what you know you already need to do in that moment. The gut's just telling you. It's confirming to you. And you know why? Here's what I believe. Let's just go into it. I believe the divine matrix exists. You see what the fuck? We were just talking about gut. Your brain talking to you, rational. Your gut telling you on a different wavelength. I kind of, I'm following you. Learn to identify things you can't change. Learn to identify patterns of behavior. Learn to remember the feeling. Learn to remember the story. Well, what's all this stuff about a divine matrix, guys? What does that mean? The divine matrix is everything around us is connected. That we live in the matrix. We lived in Neo world. There's the green code everywhere. It's just not green. It's just invisible. But it's divine. Everything is connected. How do
I know this? Let me go through it really quickly for you. And I've talked about this before on previous podcasts. But it's so important here when it comes to trusting your gut. The divine matrix is that we are all moving. We are all atoms. You remember science? Atoms are constantly moving, which means we're all constantly vibrating. How do I know that we're constantly vibrating? Because everything decays over time, even a solid wood. Just like this wood would decay over time, which means it is slowly decaying. Because all the atoms are moving. Everything is vibrating. So we can all concede that we're all moving at an atomic level. We're all vibrating all the time. Number the next part. We vibrate on different levels. Depending on our feelings, emotions, and thoughts, et cetera. There is a difference between vibrating high and vibrating low. It doesn't take a
over time, even a solid wood. Just like this wood would decay over time, which means it is slowly decaying. Because all the atoms are moving. Everything is vibrating. So we can all concede that we're all moving at an atomic level. We're all vibrating all the time. Number the next part. We vibrate on different levels. Depending on our feelings, emotions, and thoughts, et cetera. There is a difference between vibrating high and vibrating low. It doesn't take a scientist to understand when you're vibrating high. You're on, we can consider, better vibration, positive vibration, different levels of thinking, higher levels of thinking when you're vibrating low. You're basically dying. You're basically dying, which is leaving it at that. So there's a difference between vibrating high and vibrating low. We are all vibrating constantly in this, what I would say is the divine matrix. I lifted that from someone
I don't remember who. But we are all living and vibrating together in this divine matrix. I'm sitting here. I'm vibrating. The air that I'm connected to is vibrating. It's connected to me. That's vibrating. That's vibrating right to the door, which is vibrating. The door is connected to the air on the other side, which is vibrating. That air is connected to my wife, who is also vibrating. I am constantly in connection and communion with all facets of life all the time. That is why we are all connected always. This is why prayer works. This is why when people think together on the same wavelength, amazing things happen. This has been studied, guys. This is now used as a prayer. I'm using the word prayer because prayer works, guys. When groups of people come together for positive and they are all vibrating at the same level, things
change. The body responds to this positive level, high vibration. It's just not taught to us in schools, guys. None of this is taught to us in school. They teach you that atoms are vibrating. They teach you that everything is made of atoms and they are vibrating, but they never go the next step. The next step is if everything is made of atoms and atoms are always moving in constant motion and making everything vibrate, that means everything is vibrating all the time. Everything is moving all the time, which means we are all connected in this divine matrix. That is what the gut is. That is what the gut is to me. It's not scientific, but I'm telling you guys, I think it's the fucking truth. That is the gut. The gut is you vibrating, you connecting to what you already know you need to do. Your
brain is going to tell you otherwise. Don't waste time on them. Last time you did this, it got you in trouble. You've been here before, haven't you? Right? Oh, come on. You know how this ends. You know how this ends? That's your brain talking to you. Your gut's trying to make your brain to remember these things so you can make better decisions. That's what the gut level is. It's the right vibration for that decision in that moment in time. I could tell you very easily when it was clear that the decision needed to be made when I met my wife. We just were on the exact same vibration. We were on the exact same wavelength on all levels. Everything was go, red line, all the way, everything. It just made sense. And it was so great. It was so great about knowing. It was just,
is. It's the right vibration for that decision in that moment in time. I could tell you very easily when it was clear that the decision needed to be made when I met my wife. We just were on the exact same vibration. We were on the exact same wavelength on all levels. Everything was go, red line, all the way, everything. It just made sense. And it was so great. It was so great about knowing. It was just, there was no emotion. That's what's not sexy about this. There was no emotion. There was no fluttering of the heart. There was no ridiculous like passion. It was just holy fuck. It just is. It just already was. I just didn't live it yet. Right? In the linear span of time. It was already established this thing, this reason, this happening, this meeting. It totally takes the sex away
from the story. I could try to demean this idea even more. I just say it was a logical decision to marry this woman. But it wasn't a logical decision. It wasn't logical to marry my wife. And it certainly wasn't emotional to marry my wife. Nothing happened. Nothing happened. The choice almost wasn't even necessary. I don't know if you're actually thinking about it right now. I don't think I had a choice. It just was already in existence. And in the linear space of time, I had just caught up to the reality in which R2 vibration or waves or two souls would finally meet and would interlock. And that was it. Like, that was it. That was it. And you say, well, Peter, wow. Can you give us some more context? Yes. I'll give you some more context. I met my wife online on eharmony.com. She was
my number six match. She was living in LA. I was living out here in Atlanta. She was my sixth match. She had nothing written on her profile. And I had everything written on my profile. Just, what everything out there, guys. Long story short, one of my friends got married through eharmony. And I love her. She's an awesome friend. And she met her husband through eharmony. And I was traveling consultant working my ass off. I had no time for this non-sense, this thing, condating. And we sat down after a long week. We went to eat sushi. She told me she said, you need to do eharmony. She's like, just do it. And I was like, okay, so I did it. I did it. And my wife was my sixth match. She was in LA. I was in Atlanta. We talked for 30 days, literally, 30 days.
And then she flew out here to see me. And we hung out for a couple days. No hanky-panky, because I'm a good man. And I don't steal the Kwan before you should steal the Kwan. It was a good man. I treated her right. I respected her, her who she was. And then she went back to LA. And then a month later, I flew out and we got married. So I didn't know this woman, like literally. I did not know this woman. I wanted to go back to biblical terms. This woman was not known to me. Because I respected her. I respected her body. I respected who she was. I respected her soul. When she came out to meet me, we talked. We engaged in conversational foreplay. Yep. And then I went out in a month and we got married in Orange County Courthouse. The less
married. So I didn't know this woman, like literally. I did not know this woman. I wanted to go back to biblical terms. This woman was not known to me. Because I respected her. I respected her body. I respected who she was. I respected her soul. When she came out to meet me, we talked. We engaged in conversational foreplay. Yep. And then I went out in a month and we got married in Orange County Courthouse. The less than a hundred bucks. It was awesome. It was very little emotion. There was a motion that can be in this moment of excitement, having, I guess, physically chosen to walk this life together after only knowing each other for like two months and only seeing each other for like two days. Yeah, guys. Now tell you why. Because my gut just said this is it. My gut just said
this is it. And I responded. It was the best decision of my life. It was the best decision of my life. I tell you in a second place where I trusted my gut and it worked out. Starting my career in cryptocurrency, retiring from the consulting world after 12 yet long years and prosperous years. I quit and I retired at a retirement party. And I went into cryptocurrency. I knew it. It was the right thing to do. It was time. Burn the ships. You're retired. You had a retirement party. After you have a retirement party, if it is kind of embarrassing to want to come back, it really is. So you kind of just have to burn the ships. Delete the profiles. Delete the dot coms. Delete the websites. Delete the blogs. Like starting over. And maybe in some people, they can start over and they
can move into a new thing without burning the ships. But that's not how I work. It's a new life. It's a new identity. It's a new time to reroll a class. Reroan and do something different. And so I did. I burned the ships. I went into crypto. I just knew I had to. And I did it. It was great. We built seven applications. And we're still building awesome ones today. The ones that we've built are still lasting today. It's awesome. I knew it. It was a gut level. And I've learned enough to trust it because the gut knows, right? And I know exactly what I need to do with my next project. Exactly. I have zero hesitation, zero issues. I am ridiculously excited because the gut has told me so. Trust your gut. Trust your gut. When you trust your gut, you are accepting the
vibration on the right level when you do. It's the best way that I could say it. That when you trust your gut, you are accepting the world at the right moment and everything is in tune. And the gut gives you several chances to stay on that level. It gives you those chances. It tells you it says, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold up, sister. Hold up, brother. Pump the brakes. Pump the brakes. Why are you wasting time on this? You'll say, no, I can do this again. I say, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Last time you did this, it got in your trouble. You're saying, no, no, no, this time's different. It gives you a third chance. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You've been here before. Come on now. Come on. Let's get real. Come on. Let's get brass tacks. Come on now. And it says,
the brakes. Pump the brakes. Why are you wasting time on this? You'll say, no, I can do this again. I say, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Last time you did this, it got in your trouble. You're saying, no, no, no, this time's different. It gives you a third chance. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You've been here before. Come on now. Come on. Let's get real. Come on. Let's get brass tacks. Come on now. And it says, well, the gut says, you know how this ends. You know how this is gonna end. You've been down this road before. You know what suffering looks like. You've tasted defeat. You could go through that experience, that mental gymnastics of sorts, or you could just trust your gut because the gut is telling you the right thing to do. Call it your conscious, call it your guide, call it
your spirit animal. I don't give a fuck what you call it. Your gut is real. It's the counterbalance to the mental retardation that we have in our brains. It really is. It's the counterbalance, guys. It's what God has created. This stomach of ours to tell us what's right and what's wrong in the moments in which we truly, truly needed. So here's the question for you guys today. Where do you need to trust your gut? I'm not sure. Thanks guys. I enjoyed delivering this idea. I hope it really helped and resonated with you guys. Be blessed. My friends, be blessed. Share, subscribe, let people know. And I'll see you behind the scenes on Yanda Rayo. Things you didn't learn in school. Yeah, please.