Right, that I can understand.
I’m a skeptical person by default, so with everything that happens there’s a little voice telling me this doesn’t have to be subs. It could have happened just as easily without them. Or maybe it’s just because I’m actively doing stuff in line with the subs and that activity is the reason. The voice tells me there’s no way to prove that the subs caused it. It would be naive to think so.
Even when looking back at the journal months later, seeing the progress made, I can still think to myself that if I had done all those things without subs I might have gotten the same result.
Then I’m reminded of a principle of how our brain works. When it shows us something we want to see, it actually helps to affirm that you want to see more of it. Just telling yourself “yes, more like that” will increase the likelihood of getting more because your brain starts seeking it out, bringing it to your attention.
With that in mind, I’ve taken to turning my skepticism upside down. Now when something happens that can by even a slight stretch of the imagination have been caused by the subs, I will simply tell myself the subs are working and I want more just like it.
In doing so, if science is correct, I’m teaching my brain to make the subs work more and better.
Feel free to call me naive or delusional, but the way I see it there’s no real downside to simply stating to myself it’s probably the subs doing their thing. On the other hand, there’s a major upside if it teaches my brain to make those subs work better.
So you tell me, what would be better? Telling your brain every time something happens that works in your favor “well, I can have that just as easily without subs, they must not be working” or doing like remarkable and say “good, the subs are doing their thing, keep it up brain of mine.”
