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Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

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You're a Brain and a Vat, and All Your Memories Are Fake

People's lives are dictated by their frame of reference, says thisad. When that frame is self-defeating people feel like they have no hope in the world. So i play a game called you're a brain in a vat and all your memories are fake. And so whenever i am tempted to spiral at a control, to feel really negative about something, i'll remind myself not eno a brain and a vat. Now what that does, it so radically shifts my perspective. Because now i don't need to beat myself up over things in the past. Those were just memories implanted. I don't actually believe this. This is just a thought exercise, but these are

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