or now. So don't worry if this seems like too much of a simplification and you say to yourself but you're leaving something out. It doesn't matter for a reframing. You're trying to keep it simple so that people can hold it in their minds. So if I get this about eighty percent right that's all you need. So forget about being pedantic. Of what you're saying but is it really just genes and traumas? Isn't it also some positive? Forget about that. Just keep it simple.

Your brain is your genes, your traumas, the bad things that have happened to you, and the things that you do intentionally to make it better.

Let me give you some examples. One example of a brain hack is education. So you get some education. It physically changes your brain to be more productive and you did it intentionally. All right so we all agree that's a simple thing to do.

And another hack is intelligent skill stacking. Putting skills together in an intelligent way that they become greater than the value of the individual skills. So those are some examples.

Here are some more. Associating self rewards with habits you want to deepen is a hack. You're literally programming your brain by rewarding yourself for this thing you want to do more often. Learning to put things in context is a hack. Practicing optimism is a hack. If you make it your system, your habit to routinely learn and test new hacks, you become the author of your own mind. And because your experience of reality is subjective you become the author of your own experience. Your experience of life is subjective, right? Life itself might be objective. Probably there's probably something there. But the way you experience life is purely subjective and you can change that.

And so I summarize by saying be the hack not the trauma. Now when I say that your brain is formed by traumas in part, what I'm talking about is let's say there was a bully who always teased you about your looks. Well that could scar you so that you would always be concerned about your looks. So that trauma of the bully just becomes part of your permanent personality because it actually rewires your brain. A hack does the same thing but you're doing it intentionally to create a good outcome.

All right. So if you learn to sort of continually scour your environment for a little psychology tricks, hypnosis tricks, affirmations is an optimism hack basically and a focus hack. If you make it your sort of lifetime practice to look for ways to hack your mind and then test them out, you will be the author of your own experience. Otherwise you're just going to be the recipient of the experience. Otherwise the world will program you. The world is going to program you if you don't do it yourself. So you will become just your traumas. Be the hack not the trauma.

Now that's the whole message, right? Some number of you, not very large or not half, but some number of you just heard that and said what? Because what this does, and this is the power of a reframe, if you reframe something correctly it changes behavior. You're not trying to just change how somebody thinks about it. You're trying to make them think about it differently to change an outcome, a behavior.

If I told you that hey if you just scour your e