(upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - Hello everybody, you're listening to the Mind Mastery Podcast. I'm Dr. Barron and Scott Patton. Welcome back and we're glad to have you and good to being here Scott. All right, so the last few podcasts we've been talking about the Ego and I thought maybe we'd be a good idea to start bringing in some ideas in terms of wealth and that's always a topic people like to talk about, how you can increase wealth and everything else. And one of the things that we were discussing briefly before we started this episode was our wealth consciousness. If it's a certain level and that of course is related to our Ego, like as you said in the last podcast, our Ego wants to protect us and if it thinks that having $100,000 is a threat, it will keep us at that $10,000 or $20,000 level. - You got it. - So it seems to me that we may have great ideas, we may have wonderful skills and everything else, but we're missing our promotions or we're not implementing those ideas and creating that wealth because our Ego is trying to protect us. - Right, so if you want to know why you don't, whoever you are, if you want to know why you don't have a greater level of wealth, greater level of success, it's real simple. You're afraid of it. I think, oh, I'm afraid of fear, I'm afraid of success. - Yeah, but usually, those are those daft labels. You think about the label Love Yourself. How do you do that? Put your hand inside your shirt and rub your nipples? I mean, what are you doing? - That's right. - I mean, no, how do you love yourself? So it's one of those same statements, right? So it doesn't make sense in and of itself. So you've got to look at that your reason for not having more wealth and more having more success, is because you're afraid of something. Now, you can call it fear of success. You can call it fear of failure. You can call it whatever you want. But the bottom line, simple to understand is there's a fear running. Now, that fear, of course, as we've talked about in previous podcasts, is coming from an Ego place and that there's some perception of a lack of safety, right? So if you got that, I mean, that's profound in and of itself, if you got that, okay, the reason that you don't have more success and more wealth is because at some level, I'm afraid, then you have to ask the question, "Well, what am I afraid of?" - That's a great question. - What might I be afraid of here? What might it be? And if once you ask yourself that question, that challenges you to look at some of your beliefs. So for instance, if you have, it's kind of scary to have a million dollars because the people you've met who are a million as, that you've met, that's your experience, are rude or inconsiderate or seem bitchy or seem, you know, whatever, turn them, and then your ego minds as well, you want people to like you, you want to be loved and you want to be loved if you're mean or you're nasty or you're bitchy or you're all the things you've associated to somebody who's a millionaire. So even though you consciously want wealth, your ego is gonna be driving you away from it. - Right, subconsciously. - Because subconsciously you want to be safe and being safe means being liked and you've made assessments and associations with not being liked if you have the money. - Right. And I've heard that it's, and I'm not sure exactly what the ratios are, but we're like 5% conscious and 95% subconscious or unconscious, which means we would probably be very unaware of all these. - The bottom one is that the average person walking around is less than 3% conscious. More than 97% unconscious, most people walking around. A fairly enlightened person, a fairly enlightened person would be 20 to 25% conscious. That would be, and you would think that person was quite a mess to hold. - So, and I always think of that and I go, you know, anyone says, "Oh no, no, no, I'm not doing that," or I don't believe, and it's like, how would you know? - Right. - You know, like you're 1%, 2%, 3% of you know is what knows what's going on, or you know 2% of what's going on in you. - 400 billion bits of information are coming into you, coming at you every second. 400 billion bits of information, and if you are a reasonably conscious individual, you are aware of 2,000. Now, you're 2,000, a lot of information to be aware of per second, but compared to 400 billion, I see how minuscule that is. - That's right. - It's absolutely a minuscule, so the bottom line is, we don't know what we don't know. - That's right. - And that's why when people come through my workshop, so they'll say, "Come up to me and say, "Don't, I can't believe I didn't know that." - Well, why would you? - That's right. - Why would you, you're unconscious? - That's right. - So we're making 400 billion bits of information. Sorry, because I'm into computers so much. - Right. - Like 400 billion bits of information, I'm going, "I wouldn't want to be aware of it all." - No, I don't know how I would even be able to-- - And that's what the mind is. That's what the mind is, and this is the key to it all. The mind is a filter system. If you've got 400 billion bits of information coming out, you per second of your waking day, and you didn't have the mind to filter that, you would go nuts. No doubt about it. - Absolutely. - You would just go nuts. It would be like being in a screaming crowd, and everybody screaming information at you. - That's the end, and they would look at you, and they would say, "Man, there is someone fully conscious." - Yeah. - We're not gonna do that anymore. (laughing) - We'll give it a lesson. - Look at him, I don't think I want that. - Holy cunts, he's like, "Please turn it off." - That's right. - So it's too much. So the mind is a filter system. It's trying to filter out what is useless information. 'Cause it's tons of useless information. - Yeah. - You don't have to pay attention to every pathogen in the air. - That's right. - You are aware of it, and some unconsciously, and it's being filtered out. - Well, and if you breathe that in, your body says, "Oh, look at this, a pathogen." We'll just look after it. - Exactly. - You don't have to think about it. - You don't think about it. - So the thing about that, is to understand that the mind is filtering all that 400 billion bits of information down to a couple of thousand, right? That's fine. The problem is, what is it filtering? - Right. - It's filtering out everything based on history. So if a tall, dark-haired guy with a unibrow was ominous in threatening to you when you were a child, then every tall, dark-haired, unibrowed man, you know, that means a guy who doesn't have a party in the middle of his eyebrows, just one eyebrow going across his head. - Right. - If that guy walks into a room, even though you're no longer full, even though you're now 44, there's this anxiety sense to build up in the body. Because that information has been filtered to say, potential threat, cortisol is released in the brain, the body goes into an anxiety response, stress response, and you look at this person as a potential enemy. Now this might be the person who's coming to say, "Hey, I think you're fantastic and is a million dollars." - Right. - But your mind just fills it out, because it base all of its filters on the history. So now when you look at that from a place of wealth or accumulating wealth, you have to look at what is being filtered out. Because if you, well, let's say you make $30,000 a year, and you're standing in a room right next to a guy who makes $13 million a year, and somebody walks over and has a conversation with you both. And in that conversation is an opportunity to make a million dollars. If you make $30,000 a year, you won't see it. You will not hear it. Your mind will filter out that knowledge, that information, that opportunity. But the person who has a 30 million a year income will not filter it out, will take it in, and likely pick up that opportunity. - And do it effortlessly. - Effortlessly, because it's one-thirty of what they do. - Yeah, you'd be like, "Oh, that's a piece of cake." - Right. - So he came in and it was a billion dollar opportunity. He might, you know, there was a billionaire beside him, and he might be like, "Ooh, I don't feel too bad out." But the billionaire would pick it up. - Right, so what we now understand is that the ego is filtering based on safety. - Yeah. - And therefore your level of consciousness has to expand. The level of consciousness has to expand in order to expand the filters. - Right, and you talk about this a lot when you talk about comfort zones. - Exactly. - You know, because I'm safe in my comfort zone. I'm not safe outside of it because I'm not sure what's gonna happen out there. - It's not comfortable. - It's not comfortable. (laughing) - And another, you know, as I always say, another word for comfort zone is jail. - Yeah, that's right. - Right, you know, maybe a jail with some nice curtains. It may be a jail with a-- - A gilded cage. - A gilded cage. It might have nice curtains. It might have nice bathroom fittings. It might have a Mercedes available. It might have a 42-in-flat-screen TV. - Oh, yes. - It might have a nice-- - It might have a nice stereo. It might have all those things, but you're still inside your comfort zone, and you won't expand beyond it. And so you miss your filter every opportunity outside of that. So the bottom line is, if you want more wealth, you've gotta change the filters that your ego's putting up around safety. So here's a simple question you can ask yourself. - Yeah, 'cause that was my next question. Okay, I got this filter. How do I change it? - Right. Well, first one is, take your number, and again, we used 30,000 years. The first step was to make it 30,000 a year, okay? If you want to make a million a year, and you're making 30,000, your ego's just gonna be all over. It's gonna jump all over you, and give you every possible reason why that's no possible for you. So you need to take incremental steps. How do you, an elephant? - One bite at a time. - One bite at a time. Incremental steps. So what that means is that you go, okay, is it possible for me to stretch to 35,000? Yeah, I could do that, I'll be all right. Okay, what would I have to be aware of? What would I have to pay attention to? And you don't even have to know the answer. You just don't even want to ask that question. - Yeah, 'cause our mind is a problem-solving machine. - That's what it means. - We ask really good questions. It'll come up with really good answers. If we ask lousy questions. - If lousy answers, like how can I get over $29,000? - Right, to the 30,000. - Right. So if you say, you know, then you start asking those better questions. So now you've got 35,000 coming in. So you say, what might be great about, 'cause if you made 5,000 up to your 30, what is that? - 35. - 35. And so you go, okay, if I make 35, that is, well, that's been a, all right. What now if I could, what would you feel like to make 45? What might be great about making 45? 'Cause 45 is still a jump, but it's not a massive jump from 35. - Right. - And you already made five. - You already made another five more than the five. - It's not a big deal, 'cause these jumps are smaller. Now when you're at 45, you can jump to 60, because 60's not a big jump from 45, but going from 30 to 60 is a massive jump. - Right. - So you gotta ask yourself questions about what might be okay about that, what might not be all right, about what might be open to, what could it pay attention to, to allow me to take that leap. It's worth society, and of course, we've been conditioned to this, and I call it the cocaine mentality. We want this instantaneous response, instantaneous gratification, and we want instantaneous success. I mean, you know, the get rich quick scheme. Now everybody knows the get rich quick scheme is a scam. It doesn't work, and yet we still chase it all the time. And what you need is a steady pace of anything in your life. - It's like if you've never run a mile in your life, and then you think you're gonna break the world record for running a mile, like, it's too big a jump. - Exactly. - You gotta be able to run, you know, quarter mile first. - Well, you gotta be able to get your runners up. - That's right. - Some people don't even get up the couch. You gotta get your runners up, you gotta put those on, you gotta walk around the house a little bit when you're running the shoes on. Then you gotta get out of the door, maybe you gotta walk around the block, and maybe you walk around the block twice, and then maybe you walk around the block four times, and then maybe you jog around the block twice, and then you maybe run around the block twice, and then you start training for your app for your mile. - Yeah. - And eventually, before you know where you're at, you're doing a marathon. But you don't get up in the morning, go for a marathon, you've never ran before. So you gotta keep crashing these comfort zones, and these internal, limited boundaries that we've got inside of our own mind. Whether that comes to finances, whether that comes to wealth, whether it comes to health, whether it comes to success, it doesn't matter what it is. You've got this, the moment that you might think of it as, that's governing how much you can take in. Change the filters by asking yourself, what might be great about that, and what could I be open to having show up? What could I choose to start noticing? And simply by asking questions like that, your mind starts to focus on that. - Cool. Those are some great questions, Doug, and so thank you very much for taking time out of your busy day. I know that you're doing a whole bunch of programs in the next few weeks, so-- - There we are. - Good luck with those. If somebody wanted to know more about your programs and contacting you, how could they do that? Go to Baron, that's B-A-R-O-N, Mastery, M-A-S-T-E-R-Y.com. BaronMastery.com. Great, and if you enjoyed this particular episode and you want to listen to some more, you can head over to freemindmastery.com. We've got them all archived there, please leave a comment for any questions, and we'll deal with them in a future podcast. Thank you for joining us, everybody. See you next time. (upbeat music) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ This podcast is a part of the C-suite Radio Network. For more top business podcasts, visit c-suiteradio.com. ♪
