HOW TO WIN THE BATTLE OF THE MIND! - #1 SELF-PROGRAMMING TIP! - 003 #carpreneur
Peter Saddington's video explores the idea that modern comforts have diminished our innate drive to struggle and fight. He recounts a moment of realization while observing his possessions, prompting him to define "survive." Saddington argues that the common definition, "to remain alive," doesn't fully capture the contemporary experience of those with relative privilege. He suggests a more accurate definition is "to carry on despite hardships or trauma," leading to the insight that many have lost the "will to fight" because the basic necessities of survival are readily available. Saddington then poses the question: "Where is the battle now?" He explores the idea that with basic needs met, the struggle shifts inward. He touches on historical contexts like World War II, where survival demanded constant effort, contrasting this with the relative ease of modern life. Ultimately, Saddington prompts viewers to consider where their own battles lie in an era where physical survival is less of a daily concern.
Full Transcript (4089 words)
that's what hit me what hit me as I was standing outside my garage with all my toys with all my great achievements with what I have accomplished with my two hands my voice my hard work my perseverance we lost the fight or maybe if I fill it in again it should be we lost the will to fight because we no longer need to fight to survive I've built many startups more so than the fans of Bitcoin is exactly the place that I like to be we're gonna end it right there [Music] uh-huh just go just go so this is number three guys this is number three and I'm feeling okay about the last two videos and two episodes and what I'm sharing and what I'm doing and I'm feeling good I'm executing against well there's no plan here but I'm executing against what I know
to be right which is to continue to work hard this is hard work things are kind of real I have to continue to go what I want to talk about today what I want to talk about today is survival and let me let me give you some context here about how this came about you see I had gone out earlier today in the race car and it was awesome it was started raining just a little bit got a little bit of drizzle on the helmet got a little bit of drizzle on the car but it just it was a different experience right cuz now I'm right I'm driving it around and now I can drive it around and have a little bit of a drizzle it's a new experience I didn't mind it it was what was great it was basically raining sunshine so it
was warm and I was getting rained on it felt great but after I got home from this exceptional drive with my son we stopped by a stop by one of my friends places and let him check out the car and some of his colleagues it was really cool but after I got home and that Park did and kind of did the cleanup you know routine of of these types of things these types of experiences you guys know where I am you guys know where I be and I found myself staring outside I found myself staring outside the garage looking around kind of taken in the world because I had just experienced one hell of a ride and I enjoyed it very much you know as well as you know you're just super satisfied at that moment you just taken in the air you're taking in
the experience and you're just kind of thinking about what just transpired almost you know it's almost like reliving it but you're not really reliving it you're just you're just in the afterglow right and so here I am you know I'm right outside my garage I got my my lambo to my left to race car to my right the Mini Cooper to my other left and these are all been on the track I'm just taking it all in and you know what I thought I thought that we no longer need to survive we no longer need to survive now as I thought of this and this is kind of the crux of today's message as I thought of this it didn't sit well with me it really didn't I was like we no longer need to survive what the hell does that mean like what does
all been on the track I'm just taking it all in and you know what I thought I thought that we no longer need to survive we no longer need to survive now as I thought of this and this is kind of the crux of today's message as I thought of this it didn't sit well with me it really didn't I was like we no longer need to survive what the hell does that mean like what does that even mean see uh unit you guys know me I'm the type of guy who will dig in so I was I went straight to my computer I went straight to my computer opened up the DuckDuckGo because I don't want the gooks to be following me and I typed in define : survive in the search bar and it came up with the definition the first definition was
of survive was to remain alive to remain alive and that didn't make sense within the context of the statement that I had proclaimed out to the universe outside my garage all right when I proclaimed is we no longer need to survive and if I translate survive with the first definition I would say we no longer need to remain alive now that doesn't make any sense because I like my life you like your life everyone life's alive you put most everyone that I know likes to live and everyone wants to stay alive so that doesn't make any within the context of what I meant but I wasn't hadn't found the right words and so I went to the next definition and voila here we are we found it the second definition of survive is to carry on despite hardships or trauma to persevere that is what
I really meant and after I've read that to carry on despite hardships or trauma survive to fight on to carry on despite hardships or trauma to persevere if you replace my first sentence it would sound like this we no longer need to carry on despite hardships or trauma or persevere yeah look it's doesn't make any sense but then it rang to me and then I wrote my note down the word that was missing was the word fight I don't need a definition to survive anymore to remain alive or to carry on despite hardships or trauma or to persevere you already understand this the missing word was the adverb fight we no longer need to fight to survive that's what hit me what hit me as I was standing outside my garage with all my toys with all my great achievements with what I have accomplished
with my two hands my voice my hardwork my perseverance we lost the fight well maybe if I fill it in again it should be we lost the will to fight because we no longer need to fight to survive we have all our needs taken care of if you're listening to this yeah let's be intellectually honest if you're listening to this you're probably doing pretty damn good you got a roof over your head you got food in your mouth food in your mouth you got food in your belly you got wadis maybe you might just even have some form of entertainment maybe even an $800 phone in which you are listening to this right now you are privileged as am i so we have in this modern day the chances of you being relatively taken care of as you listen to this is pretty high in
got a roof over your head you got food in your mouth food in your mouth you got food in your belly you got wadis maybe you might just even have some form of entertainment maybe even an $800 phone in which you are listening to this right now you are privileged as am i so we have in this modern day the chances of you being relatively taken care of as you listen to this is pretty high in my estimation according to youtube analytics and Google Analytics most of my guys are from America so you're doing pretty good so we've lost the will to fight because we no longer need to fight to survive that is what rang in my heart today and so in that moment of thinking we no longer need to fight to survive my immediate the next what's that what's that rang true
to my heart the next thing that immediately came up the next thing the bloody next thing that came up was the question where's the battle where is the battle then why is there struggle because if we no longer need to fight to survive right basics are covered because we're doing something just enough to have our basics covered then where is the struggle where's the battle where's the battle then I ruminate or not I ruminated on this guy's I really thought hard about this I've thought about you know where's the battle what happened it's just too easy now to survive I think that's where you need to land right now if you're listening to this is it's just too dadgum easy to survive today okay now yes people can immediately go to different lands and say well the other people are having a harder time surviving
yes I understand that but you're not them because you're listening to me what happened and so I began to functionally decompose this idea and once I began to spunctional-- decompose this idea in my mind I said well there was a moment in time when people had to fight to survive yeah when was that so let's go back okay well I I you know I can't go back that far I mean I'm not that old I can go back in history looking back in history books and so I started thinking World War 2 nope nope nope just go back world one huh I mean you know the living was pretty yeah it was harsh in some place but it's pretty it was pretty good it wasn't great I mean we you know we had electricity buying that right so let's go back farther and then I
was like I can't figure this out I can't figure out when hardship really began because there's just no way for me to place myself in those times in places and I would have to choose to be a part of some sort of cross section of America which means and ideally if I were to choose I would choose that I were on the higher end of that society if I were on the higher end of that Society in 1850 you know what I'm probably didn't have to fight to survive that much you get where I'm saying and so I was like I couldn't figure out how far to go back so I just went back to the archetype to the very beginning the Adam and Eve all right that is the modern archetype of how life should have been right it should have been perfect right
if I were on the higher end of that Society in 1850 you know what I'm probably didn't have to fight to survive that much you get where I'm saying and so I was like I couldn't figure out how far to go back so I just went back to the archetype to the very beginning the Adam and Eve all right that is the modern archetype of how life should have been right it should have been perfect right now we know how the story ended right these individuals Adam and Eve they chose to become human and what did God say to them and I've actually done a Sunday sermon on this in the past God said to them that you shall toil I went through the definition of toil I dug deep and what to end - what that means man I'll tell you guys the word
toil is not a word to be messed with this word sucks toil is everything that it means hard sweat blood labor no fun not enjoyable this ain't work guys this is toil toil frustrating man shall toil is the word God said to Adam he said y'all done [ __ ] up bro you ate and you chose to be human you now have a conscience all of your own you now have an aspect if you Manny did he that well I guess was destined you chose poorly and now you must toil you must suffer for that decision and so there we must work for a living that's where survival that's where the fight for survival really began right that was also interestingly enough in terms of the archetype that was the first team Adam and Eve were the first team they were from the first tribe
they were the first community and they had to fight to survive see they had to they had to and I and as I traced now the here's here's me right going from where I was back in history going all the way back to the beginning of the archetype and moving forward and so I began to move forward and I said when did it get easier and you guess what guys guess what this is what happens in the mind of a madman who enjoys thinking creatively about the world I found myself in the exact same position I couldn't figure out when life got easy and so therefore I was still left with a very simple question of today the very simple question is where is the battle then where's the battle it is only when I sat down on my my car bench seat in the
corner as I looked out I saw the answer I saw it in my knee as I crossed my legs gasps I saw that my knee I saw it in my knee guys I saw it in my knee you know my knee said to me as I crossed my legs and the enemy is inside myself that's where the battle is then guys the battle is the mind and then it was easy once once that had been realized since we no longer need to fight to survive the battle therefore is in the mind the vices the weaknesses abound in the mind the greed the selfishness The Lying the cheating the harm the laziness the apathy right these this is the battlefield of today's 21st century the battlefield is in the mind now if you think about that from a even larger mental level it's clear to see
then it was easy once once that had been realized since we no longer need to fight to survive the battle therefore is in the mind the vices the weaknesses abound in the mind the greed the selfishness The Lying the cheating the harm the laziness the apathy right these this is the battlefield of today's 21st century the battlefield is in the mind now if you think about that from a even larger mental level it's clear to see that the battlefield of the global stage is soitenly my friends is certainly the mind-controlling mass media controlling you mind control guys is oh you're listening to me which means you're probably not mind control that is we must defeat the enemies in our own minds you know when I wrote down on my notes I wrote down that we must defeat the enemies in our own hearts but as
I read that I crossed it out in my speaking and the reason is is because I don't I just didn't feel at the moment that the heart is something that wars against you I think the heart this is something that is always working for you but it is the mind that is what I knew I should have written we've got the mosquito wow that's fantastic see guys the [ __ ] is always wrong I just give it to you how it is guys cut that mosquito so the battle today for you my friends is in your mind you already knew this and you say well Peter wow this is fascinating revelation that you had that you've already probably knew and we all know but guys it it guys just because you think you thought you knew it does not negate the value of remembering from
self emergence in yourself values principles world views insights encouragement inspiration that is self generated comes out of nowhere and reminds you of the simple things of life this is good I enjoy it and certainly I have the margin and freedom to be able to think so that I can create and so I think on these things we must defeat the enemies in our own minds because that is the battlefield and I thought about what is the battle in our minds well it's easy it's false beliefs it's false beliefs anything that generally arises in your mind that has the context of negativity to tear you down you must not listen my friends you cannot listen to this voice it is destructive by nature it is ruinous by nature it wants to crush kill destroy you it is the negative false beliefs the one to ensure that
you never achieve that which is in your heart this is the daily resistance a part of if not in many cases damn near 100% of it this is the war we rage daily my friends the battle of the mind to overcome the mind and that was the simple reminder for me today to overcome the mind is to do to act how do you get rid of negative false beliefs you do you act action what a false belief comes up you must reprogram yourself towards action when something comes up and says oh you can't take action what someone says oh when when anyone says whether it's real or whether it's in your mind they say you can't you mainly take action you say what are you talking about I can go on the internet and start doing some more research about that thing that you want
false beliefs you do you act action what a false belief comes up you must reprogram yourself towards action when something comes up and says oh you can't take action what someone says oh when when anyone says whether it's real or whether it's in your mind they say you can't you mainly take action you say what are you talking about I can go on the internet and start doing some more research about that thing that you want to do you're just proving to the voice into the world that you can overcome that thought that false belief if someone says you shouldn't you couldn't you wouldn't don't do it you're too weak you're too frail you're not strong enough you don't have enough X you don't have enough y-you don't have enough Z you can't do a you can't do beed you can't do see like these
are the the the that these are the false beliefs that some of you have come on to for far too long it's time to release yourself of these false beliefs how do you do this take action against that which arises in your heart I had that today it was very simple it was very simple but it's easy for me now and then reading in regards to these things because I flex the muscles so many times it was simply it's getting late you don't have to do anything you don't need to and you don't think you're gonna pull it off as well as you could there's like these things flashed through my mind as fast as possible and I mean look at us I follow man well you got made me do like this why you got to make me go like this and you know
you end up with me recording this podcast number three whatever you want to call it show three whatever getting on the mic three that's what you got because the voice inside my head said Peter you tired Peter a young need to Peter no one's expected yes it is all true but I don't want to free them I'm doing it for me and if you're out there and you're listening to this I'm doing it for you because if I can overcome the demons in my head every dadgum day and you can too because I'm no different I'm not different at all self program yourself away from false beliefs fight the false belief with action but if you want to really as best you can and it still comes up now and again but if you really want to get rid of false beliefs use the stuff
programming method erasing rewrite erasing rewrite the truth is that is one of the best mechanisms for anything of the past I love it it's one of the most fantastic some programming things that you could ever do erase and rewrite you got a hurt in the past you got a memory of the past that wants to come up what's a bite you in the ass bring you down think on it think I want to think on it thing on and then say aloud erase and rewrite this memory fill in the blank whatever it's called the the engagement with my my ex the a fight with my uncle the the the disagreement with my mama like the the the the decision of X right what fill in the blank you say erase and rewrite that one experience in 2002 with my uncle call it by name erase
think on it think I want to think on it thing on and then say aloud erase and rewrite this memory fill in the blank whatever it's called the the engagement with my my ex the a fight with my uncle the the the disagreement with my mama like the the the the decision of X right what fill in the blank you say erase and rewrite that one experience in 2002 with my uncle call it by name erase and rewrite that car accident because I got drunk in 1993 erase and rewrite that poor poor decision to blood I don't even know call it out and then most importantly you rewrite it and you say these words the truth is and you change it you change it you make it positive because it is positive now you survived didn't you you're here aren't you your cogent really are
you here you fill it in you say erase and rewrite that issue with my uncle in 2002 the truth is is that made me a stronger person it made me a better person it helped me see life for what it really was my uncle was right I shouldn't you know I should go talk with him I should engage with him tell him he's right I was too naive I was too young I'm gonna repair the relationship and then you do it you call you pick up the phone and you say you know Uncle Joe I know we haven't talked but back 2002 you remember how we do I [ __ ] up bro I just want to let you know erase and rewrite that terrible day in 1993 when you got behind the wheel and you caused that accident erase and rewrite the truth is
is that because of that I was able to pick up my life get focused stop boozing become sober eventually meet the love of my life and now enjoy X Y & Z because of it change it guys change it erase and rewrite the past trauma hardship that thing that you had to fight to survive at that moment erase and rewrite the truth is is that experience made you exactly who you are today ready to conquer the world ready to do amazing things ready to [ __ ] crush it so we no longer need to fight to survive that's okay because the battles in the mind and because the battle is in the mind and we are poised and positioned to be victorious because guys since we no longer have to bend over backwards cut we pitting grapes picking out fruit killing our own animals just
survive this is we don't longer have to do that and the war is in the mind the truth is you already know what you're capable of so let's get started [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music]
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This video is part of a library of 780+ episodes published by Peter Saddington on staas.fund. Peter is a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist (StaaS Fund, RegD 506B), and AI practitioner who has trained 17,000+ professionals in agile and AI methodologies. He bought Bitcoin at $2.52 in 2011, built 4 autonomous AI agents (the Council of Dogelord), and operates 10+ websites with zero employees. His AI Workshop has been attended by Fortune 500 teams, and his newsletter "The Agile VC" reaches thousands of subscribers weekly. Peter holds 3 Master's degrees (Divinity, Computer Science, Computational Operations Research) from institutions including Georgia Tech.