This is the most useful interview you’re going to hear for all time. Make time for it.
Luigi & The CEO.
Charlie Kirk & JFK.
What is the hypnotic power of the made-for-TV stories we're being told, and how do we stop becoming brainwashed characters *in* those stories?
Now listen in on my conversation with @walterkirn :pointdown: pic.twitter.com/laohOyBJA7
— "Dr. Hypnosis" | BowTied Brain-Hacking (@BowTiedTrance) November 5, 2025
I’ve only JUST started listening to it, and early on, Walter (who I greatly admire), made a comment about modern psychology and how we shape our lives. He said that PRIOR to modern psychology, we imagined our lives by looking to the future and writing stories in our minds about how we would turn out in the FUTURE. We all imagined a hopeful future for ourselves. A productive, positive, life.
But then, he said modern psychology reversed all that by claiming we had to look into our past and resolve all our past traumas before we could live productive lives. We supplanted the positive imagination of our futures with stewing on every bad thing that ever happened to us.
That simple explanation of human nature and how we envision ourselves resonates with me and my own life. As ai have posted before, I had a rather traumatic childhood; alcoholism, violence, multiple divorces, moving every year, poverty … yecch! But something inside me refused to be defined by that “trauma”. I wrote stories in my mind of a better life, a different way of doing things. I refused to live in my past, or give it any legitimacy in defining who I would become. I looked forward to a future that I would build. On my own. My life was going to become MY story … not some repeated horrible childhood.
I believe that is a massively important theme about how we envision ourselves in the world. We need to write POSITIVE, HOPEFUL, futures for ourselves. This is how both my brother and I dealt with our substandard childhood. We wrote stories of hopeful, successful, futures in our minds. Then, as an adolescent I discovered that Jesus Christ was the ultimate guide toward that positive future. That God wants the absolute best for us … not only in this life but for life everlasting. Call The Bible a “story” … a collection of “stories” … and nothing more. I won’t argue the Divinity of The Bible, as that is a personal decision each person must work out for themselves. But everything about God is about positivity and looking to the future. Call it the ultimate “story” of a positive future.
We should all create our own positive stories. First; imagine it … then DO it … make it happen. It’s amazing how that simple state of mind turns trauma into triumph. Well said Walter.
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