Everything that isn't in your conscious mind is stored in your subconscious mind. It keeps track of your beliefs, past experiences, memories, and talents. There's a record of everything you've seen, done, or thought. It's also your navigation system, continually scanning the data from your senses for hazards and possibilities. Dr. David Snyder looks deeper into how the subconscious mind works and how you may make changes to enhance your life in this episode.

Standout Quotes:

"Anytime we talk to ourselves and these modal operators of possibility, I can, I will, I have, I'm going to, we develop pleasure." [David]
"When you tap into a person's emotional motivation checklist, you cut right through all the bullshit, and you cut through all the reasons why that society said you should want something to what makes that person tick. That's a tremendous amount of power to have with another human being. So use it with respect, but it's an amazing game-changer to have it over yourself." [David]
"Anytime you lose your motivation, it's because you've consciously started focusing on the task to be accomplished, rather than what it's going to get you. That's how we lose motivation, that's where our language kind of messes us up. It is a short crash course in how we talk to ourselves a little differently." [David]

Key Takeaways:

Every time you use it, whether someone else does it or you do it, every time you use a modal operator of necessity, it shifts your perspective and the locus of control away from you. It would be best to start thinking of it as something forced on you when they begin using the need to have to. It's a motivation based on suffering. It acts as a demotivator. As a result, the locus of control has shifted away from us. As a result, we push back and become reactive to ourselves.
You generate an internal modal operator towards something when you start tapping into your emotional motivations for doing something; it generates a pleasure response in you that unites all of the many reasons for doing it.
You'll always feel like you're making it up, and you'll constantly want to edit what just came up because your subconscious mind will always answer you first, not necessarily verbally, but always honestly. It's never loud, and it's never in a linear fashion.