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I swear I mean it when I say this.

Delulu is the Salulu.

The most successful people in the world are successful because they believe in themselves.

If you want to achieve the unimaginable, you have to believe in the unimaginable, right?

And the unimaginable does feel delusional.

For the next 30 days, I need you to be as delusional as you possibly can.

My Instagram is currently filled with these kinds of reels.

But to be honest with you, I actually really love them.

I love watching them, which is probably also why I'm getting shown so many of them.

even though it seems crazy to everyone else, I somehow find really inspiring and fascinating.

But I also know that there is a lot of backlash to

that whole Delulu trend and that you cannot think yourself into a different reality just by imagining it and believing in it.

And as I usually do for this podcast, I spend some time researching the whole topic to figure out what is actually the real science behind being delusional.

Does it actually really work?

But also how do you actually believe in yourself and have this delusional belief that you can achieve anything you want.

And let me tell you, some of the research I found seriously frocked me.

I cannot wait to dive into it and share it all with you in this episode.

And let's start right away with something super fascinating

that I'm actually still trying to wrap my head around because it is a little bit complex.

But let me explain this to you.

Our brain is not taking in the world around us as if a camera kind of confirming with our senses,

like our eyes, ears and so on.

And this is called controlled hallucination.

And there are actually two reasons why the brain is operating that way.

The first one is obviously speed, because it would just take way too long for our brain to first get kind of all the images

and then translate them in our brain.

We would be so behind and not be able to react quickly to anything.

So instead, what is much faster for the brain is to assume and kind of as we go.

And the second reason is bandwidth.

There's way too much going on and way too many impressions for our brain to process.

So it's much more efficient to guess and prioritize.

And a really important thing here is that this guesswork that our brain is doing is based on our expectations.

So what we expect will happen is then what the brain uses to guess what will happen.

So this strongly influences what we perceive is happening.

And let me actually give you a few examples, because I know this can seem a little bit out there somehow.

But so we've all experienced searching for our keys, and we cannot find them.

And we've looked everywhere.

And then someone points out, they're lying right in front of you at the table.

And we just literally did not see them because in our mind, we were like, they're not on the table.

We can't find them.

They're lost.

They're away.

So the brain almost kind of photoshopped it out of our vision, because we that it's not there.

But the keys obviously were always there.

A prediction just wasn't.

Or you know where you're for example looking at the clouds

and then someone says this cloud over there it looks exactly like a heart.

And then you look at it

and you're like oh yeah that's true it looks totally like a heart

and then you can't unsee it anymore even though just a few moments ago you didn't notice at all

that it looked like a heart.

And again the clouds didn't change but your brain's prediction did.

Or another really good example when you're reading something and there's a typo predicts what should be there,

which is also why sometimes you read something a million times, but you still haven't noticed that a word is missing, even though you were maybe consciously scanning if there's anything wrong with it,

because of how good our brain is to fill out things that usually should be there, again, based on our expectations.

And with that knowledge, it makes

so much sense to always imagine the best case scenario and always think about what could be the best that could on.

So always operating on the mindset that everything's going to work out.

Of course I'm going to be lucky.

Of course I'm going to succeed with this.

Of course we're going to have a great time.

Of course this will work out.

Instead of being like oh this is so typical.

This always happens to me.

Why am I always so unlucky?

Why does nothing ever work out for me?

No no no no. We want to go away from that

and fully focus on what is the absolute best thing that could happen.

This by the way is also the underlying research for another social media trend.

The lucky girl syndrome, which I'm sure you probably heard about, this belief that you're the luckiest person in the world

and then the brain actively looks for lucky situations or circumstances in your daily life because you've primed yourself that way.

And one last thing, research also shows that people who expect positive outcomes persist longer,

recover faster from setbacks and achieve more than people who expect the worst.

So this is already very much speaking to being delusional, but let's move on to from a researcher called Albert Bandura.

He's actually one of the most cited psychologists of all time

and rightly so in my opinion because he spent decades on something called self -efficacy.

Self -efficacy is the belief that you are able to do the thing.

So the belief that you are capable to do what it is you want to do.

And he found that self -efficacy is one of the strongest predictors for persistence, effort and performance.

Meaning that skill is important, yes, but self -efficacy

as important because imagine you have two people with the exact same skill level

but one of them has very high self -efficacy and the other one not at all.

So one of them has this really strong belief in themselves

that they are capable to do the thing and the other person just doesn't believe in it.

And the outcome between those two people is so different because the person with the self -efficacy

outperforms the one without every single time because when you have that belief it makes you

It really helps you to keep going and having skill or talent alone just simply doesn't do that.

And when you read this research, there's basically not even a question anymore whether you should have that delusional self -belief in yourself.

And we're gonna talk about a little later on in this episode how we can actually develop that.

Because obviously, if it was easy, then everyone would just then do that and believe in themselves, right?

But yeah, we're gonna come back to that.

you notice or how persistent you are, but it actually has also been found to change your biology, which is insane.

So it can change your hormones, your blood pressure, literally your body.

And there's this researcher called Alia Krum and her research is seriously wild.

I think one of her most famous studies is on the hotel housekeeper.

So maybe you've already heard about it, where they had this group of housekeepers and they divided them in two groups and to one of the group,

they said that their work is really highly physically demanding.

Their walking up and down the stairs, carrying heavy things, moving their body so much so

that they actually are really living a super active lifestyle and burning so many calories with their work.

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And to the other group, they didn't say anything.

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And then after four weeks, without changing anything about the workload or the diet,

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they compared the two groups and the group that was told how much they're actually physically doing with their work, that group had lost weight and their blood pressure had lowered.

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Just from that belief alone about how physically demanding their Nothing else had changed.

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Only kind of the mindset they had around it or what they believed to be true about their work.

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And it's just insane how that can impact how your body reacts to it

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and literally burning more calories and lowering your blood pressure.

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That's just crazy.

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And there were actually two more studies that are quite fascinating.

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One of them was about a milkshake where they told one of the groups that the milkshake had super many calories, like 600 something calories.

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And to the other group, they said it only had 200 calories.

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who believed that the calorie intake was super high was also less hungry or like more satisfied after the milkshake.

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So their ghrelin hormone, which is like the hunger hormone,

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was lower and was more satisfied just from the belief that they had been drinking this super calorie dense milkshake,

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which was the exact same one that...

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The other group was drinking, but their ghrelin was much higher.

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Again, it was only the belief who changed the actual hormone in the body.

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And then there's this third study about stress, where again, they had two groups of people.

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And to the one group, they framed stress in a very positive way

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and told them how it enhances their performance and how it makes them so much more efficient and capable and so on.

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they had such a positive association with it and had this belief that stress is something so good for them.

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So yeah, it's just really wild how much belief can change.

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But now we also need to talk about another study that actually shows where pure delusion fails.

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And I think this is so, so, so important to know because there's this researcher named Gabrielle Oettingen

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and she spent over 20 years studying what happens when people fantasize about their future.

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So when they time on fully immersing themselves into this daydreaming, fantasizing about their goals, about their dream job,

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their dream life and just envisioning these scenarios.

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And what she found is that the more vividly someone fantasizes about a dream, like getting a job, the relationship,

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the body, the life, without confronting the obstacles between where they currently are and where they want to be,

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the less likely they are to actually get there.

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getting the thing.

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And this brings us back to what we also talked about in last week's episode, about when you tell other people about your goals and about what you're going to do,

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it makes you less likely to actually do it

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and to actually achieve it because you're getting

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that dopamine from just talking about it and then it reduces your motivation to do the thing.

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And it's the exact same with fantasizing about something that you then in the moment feel so good because it

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dopamine hit and it makes you less motivated to then actually put in the work.

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In one of her studies, Gabriele Oettingen, for example, found

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that people who fantasized more about their dream job got fewer offers and lower starting salaries than people who didn't.

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And so this is really the part where we need to be conscious

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that the fantasizing about something and this visualizing and seeing as if it already had happened,

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that alone by itself, is not good or basically doesn't work.

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It doesn't produce results or the science actually says it makes them worse.

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But Gabriele Oettingen has a solution for us and it's a framework called WOOP.

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So W -O -O -P, Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan.

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So we start with the wish.

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What is it that you want?

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You have to be super specific, being so clear about that kind of delusional goal that we have, what is it we really want to have or achieve.

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Then O for outcome, imagine the best outcome of getting it.

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So that's the visualization, the fantasizing about it, what is the best that could happen and really feeling it.

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But then we have O for obstacle.

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So there we need to become so real with ourselves

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and asking ourselves what is standing in my way at the moment

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or what do I actually have to overcome and to do to achieve that goal.

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have to face to get there.

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Probably a big lifestyle change, implementing more exercise, cooking healthier, maybe being much more conscious about what I'm eating,

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trying new recipes and what could be difficult about that, what could be fears that I have or beliefs I'm holding or certain habits or also the story I'm telling myself.

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And I'm moving on to P for plan to then be so specific about If.

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something happens, like the obstacle, then I'll do a specific thing.

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So if then, if I want to skip my workout

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because I don't feel like it at all and my motivation is not there, then I'm going to call my friend who's my accountability partner

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and who's going to drag me to the gym and do the workout with me.

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So having a specific action plan for each obstacle

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that could be coming up and being so real with ourselves there and just so realistic.

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So that's kind of the element we need here, that in

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we also need that reality where we face the struggles

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and where we face the potential obstacles that could come in our way so that we're not in this dream world,

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but that we're being actually really like also hands on and focused also very much on the actions.

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What is it going to take me to get there?

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Because that's, I think, where sometimes you can get so lost in or stuck in is having this very, very clear dream and

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knowing exactly what it is you want and fantasizing about it

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and having a super vivid daydream

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but not actually asking yourself what do i actually need to

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do to get there just kind of wishing it will come magically

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if i just think about it enough that's just not how

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it works it also does take the action it does require conscious work

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and conscious effort to get there but believing in it

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and having this self -efficacy so just really strong belief in yourself that you are able to do

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capable of achieving it is still super important.

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So it's really these two things that in my opinion are equally as important, especially when you look at the science, how powerful it is to be delusional and to have

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that strong belief in yourself that anything you want to do is actually possible for yourself.

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It's just as important as then also taking the action

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and doing the work and overcoming specific obstacles and showing up for it.

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But so a really important question is of delusional about my goals when I'm not in the moment,

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when I actually right now don't believe in myself at all and think, It's definitely not possible for myself.

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What do we do about it?

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Because we want that belief.

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We want it.

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Neuroscience is proving how powerful it is.

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And so I want to share five steps with you.

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Step number one is to trade certainty for possibility.

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So instead of saying, I will achieve this, turning it into it's possible for me to achieve this.

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So instead of saying, I will get this job, saying it's possible for someone like me to get the job.

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So we want to lower the bar from definite to possible.

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interrogative self -talk.

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So we're not declaring, we're asking.

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We're not saying I will do this.

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We're saying, will I do this?

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So framing it as a question for yourself, because that interestingly brings up much less resistance than having this clear declaration.

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There's actually a study where they found that people who ask themselves, will I do this, were much more motivated and also performed much better than people who told themselves, I will do this.

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So this is definitely which kind of sparks more motivation, then I will do this workout.

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Step number three is also something we've discussed before.

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One of the most powerful things to do and it's to build belief from evidence and not from willpower.

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So to act exactly like the person you want to be,

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doing the things you said you would so that you have that evidence with which you prove to yourself

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show up exactly the way as the version you want.

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It's always like that action first, belief second.

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Step number four, or maybe actually more like tip number four, is to look for the evidence in someone else.

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So looking at someone else who's achieved it to show to yourself that it's possible.

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Maybe it's someone similar to you who did something you want to do

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and then looking at that person and then taking that as proof that if she could do it, of course you can too.

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Of course, there's absolutely no if she can.

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So it's literally really boring the evidence from someone else.

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There's also this super famous study about the four minute mile, which I'm sure you've heard about,

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where there was this one athlete who for the first time

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ever was able to run a mile under four minutes and no one was able to do that ever before.

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And it seemed like this completely impossible thing to do.

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But then once he did it, there were so many other athletes who did it after him then as well, thought, oh, actually it is possible because he did it.

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So then why shouldn't I be able to do it as well?

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And then they did it too.

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So we're going to just look at someone who did it and take it as proof and confirmation that you can too.

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And tip number five is something else I find a really powerful mind hack.

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And it's to think of someone that you really admire and that you really look up to.

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And then to ask yourself, what would that person do in my situation?

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And then acting like

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almost this conversation with that person like what would you do

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if you were me what you would you do in this situation

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and then using that as inspiration and also motivation to act as

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if because again our brain catches up on our actions so

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when we act in a specific way it helps to strengthen

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that belief so it brings us back to step number three it's kind of a little bit double here

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but anyways I really hope this is helpful with having this person in your mind and asking

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quite a rapid episode today but I hope

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that you take away from it two things first of all self efficacy

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and being delusional about what it is you think is possible for you

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and really believing in it believing of course it's possible for

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me makes a huge difference in the outcome based on all of the science

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that we looked at here but do not neglect the action do not get lost in this fantasy I want to go,

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what could be potential obstacles, what do I need to overcome and then get

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going while always keeping this belief really strong that you totally can

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and you totally will so be freaking delusional

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and I hope you enjoyed this episode

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if you did please send it to someone who could maybe

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enjoy it as well leave me a comment I would love to hear from you don't forget to subscribe

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and I will see you next week bye

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you

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日常のシナリオ：「妄想的な自信」についての議論

このビデオでは、「成功する人は妄想的なほど自分を信じている」という考えから、脳の働き（コントロールされた幻覚）まで、科学的根拠を交えながら話が展開されています。鍵を探す時に見落としてしまう例や、雲の形が心に見えるようになる例など、身近な体験を使って説明しているので、リスナーが共感しやすい展開です。IELTS スピーキング対策でも、こうした日常的な話題を自然に語る能力が求められるので、参考になります。

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delusional self belief：妄想的な自己信念（「delulu」という略語も使われます）
controlled hallucination：コントロールされた幻覚（脳の認知メカニズムを表す言葉）
guesswork based on expectations：期待に基づいた推測（脳が情報を処理する方法を説明するフレーズ）
photoshopped out of our vision：視界からPhotoshopで消されたように（見落とすことをイメージ的に表現）
can't unsee it anymore：もう見ないではいられない（一度気づいたものは忘れられないこと）

シャドーイングチャレンジ：今すぐできる練習

英語スピーキング練習のための「shadow speech」を試してみましょう。ビデオの中で「the keys example」（鍵の例）を説明している部分（「We've all experienced...the keys obviously were always there.」）を選び、以下のステップで練習します。

ネイティブスピーカーの発音を1回聴き、リズムとイントネーションを覚えます。
1秒遅れで追いかけるように発音し、「photoshopped out」や「prediction just wasn't」などのフレーズを自然に口に出せるようにします。
3回繰り返した後、自分で同じ内容を日本語から英語に翻訳して話してみます。

この練習は「英語シャドーイング」の基本で、発音だけでなく、自然なスピーキングの流れを身につけるのに効果的です。shadowspeaksのような方法を使うと、より効率的に練習できるかもしれません。

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話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型	動画での表現
条件文 if + 節, will/would + 動詞 — 条件とその結果	if it was easy, then everyone would just · if you were me what you would you
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える	them, which is · people who expect · biology, which is
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している	we've looked · haven't noticed · you've primed
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てる	is currently filled · is called · is based

シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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