The Mindset That Unlocks Your Full Potential | Dr. Gio Valiante

0:00If you go through life over-indexing and caring too much what people think about you, that's your ceiling.

0:09I want to start with something you said last time we talked, which is most people are underperforming relative to their ability.

0:17Walk me through that.

0:18There's a term that I came across many years ago called the central governor hypothesis, and essentially conveys the fact that most people underperform.

0:27And any observer of the human condition, I think going back to forever, agrees that that's probably true.

0:36Now, why is that?

0:37Well, you have to sort of delve into sort of human biology and genetics and understand.

0:42So what's the purpose of the brain?

0:46Generally, to keep you alive long enough to reproduce, right?

0:49You know, at a fundamental biological level.

0:52But we're not designed to overperform.

0:54We're designed to survive.

0:56And so overperformance or achieving one's potential requires sort of a cognitive decision to push oneself there, right?