You Need to Let Your Old Self Die

0:00Today, I'm going to teach you why nothing in your life will change until your old self dies. Not improves, not changes a little bit, I mean actually dies off. And then I'm going to give you

0:12four things that you can actually do about it. So, let's get into it. Here's the thing that you have to understand about your brain. Your brain does not build a future out of nothing. It builds

0:23your future out of your past. There's a Harvard researcher named Daniel Schacter who spent decades studying this. And what he found is that when you imagine your future, your brain is not creating

0:38something new. It's pulling pieces out of your memory and reassembling them into a version of what's coming up. And so basically, you're imagining tomorrow but with pieces of yesterday.

0:53Which means that your future is literally being built out of the raw material of your past. Like think about what that means for a second. If the only data that your brain has of you is