Ryan Sickler talks about his transition from a stand-up comedian to a radio and TV personality and shares his obsessions with animals, particularly dogs. He also discusses his love for his girlfriend's Pomeranian.
Your online engagement with certain content conditions your mind to focus on it, making it a reflex. Similar to social media algorithms, the more you engage with certain topics or ideas, the more you will see them in your feed.
This episode explores how great obsession or passion can fuel big ideas and projects, but it's important to have checks and balance to ensure they are pointed in the right direction and not obsessing over the wrong things.
Psychologists have studied the concept of latent inhibition, our biological gating mechanism, which automatically tags our experiences as relevant or irrelevant to a goal in mind. While it's great to have gratitude for new things, it's even better to appreciate stale experiences that are often taken for granted.
The constant tick-off list mentality of focused on the things we don't have leads to a lack of positivity, and this is where manifestation can come in handy—by reinforcing to our brains that we can achieve what we want, but we just need to divide those goals into progressive steps.