Guided Thought | William Batten

I’ve been rewatching Seinfeld recently. It’s a genius show – how else could four characters generate enough content for nine seasons? Even though society has changed – mobile phones, let alone smart phones, solve a lot of the problems – the writing still snaps as sharply today as ever.

It’s one of the few shows where an episode here or there is making me smarter.

And I’m seeing it in a whole new light, thanks to the behind the scenes interviews.

(Yes, I bought the box set. Can you blame me?)

Because I learned something fascinating about the character of Seinfeld’s greatest nemesis.

I am, of course, talking about Newman.

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Your unconscious mind is vast, mysterious and powerful. It controls all of your automatic processes, from beating your heart to processing your vision. And then there’s your memories, your habits and those beliefs which you don’t even know you have.

Plus your emotions.

Plus your immune system.

And… well, you get the idea. If you do it but you can’t control it, it’s your unconscious.

But here’s a question:

What does your unconscious want?

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I try to be a mellow guy in all things, including my advertising. You have enough people trying to guilt or bully you into doing things their way. I’m from the school of marketing that says I should build you up into a better person – one who will also happen to buy my wares.

That’s why I’m such a fan of content marketing. I add some value to your life – maybe a little useful info, maybe some entertainment, ideally both.

Then I offer you something that’ll add even more value to your life, even if it costs you.

That’s win-win. No matter what you decide to do, you wind up with a great deal.

I like that style. It works for me, it works for my products and it works for you. Why would I stoop to being aggressive, obnoxious or unethical?

So when I tell you that you need to act right now, you know I mean it.

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If you feel you’re not living the life you should be, you’re not alone.

Society is not optimised towards allowing you to live your potential. That’s not its fault, though, as the universe isn’t optimised for civilisation.

We’re all just trying to make do with what we have.

That doesn’t mean you stop trying, though.

And it certainly doesn’t mean you curse the universe for not forcing utopias everywhere.

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I often said I’m not so much a fan of The Simpsons as its disciple. It was the #1 show when I was growing up – in the world and in my mind. It was clever, quotable and utterly addictive.

I haven’t seen an episode in years, probably. Even so, I like to think I know it well.

So how can I claim Homer Simpson is a genius at anything?

Let alone something as unusual and esoteric as self-hypnosis?

It’s pretty obvious if you think about it.

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… what would you do?

There’s that saying – learn like you’ll live forever, live as though you’ll die tomorrow. Well, I can’t offer immortality. But I can offer the ability to learn anything quicker and easier than ever.

And what would that do for you? I’m making up a number when I say six months. Maybe it’s more, maybe it’s less. Let’s say, though, you could master two new skills each year.

(That’s conservative, by the way.)

How does your five-year plan look?

How might it change if you could master ten fields in that time?

It won’t be easy, of course.

That’ll take discipline, focus and dedication – the sort that comes from having a clear vision and a burning need to change something.

But even if you have those, how can you master ten things so quickly?

Think about it this way:

Consider something you are naturally skilled and passionate about. It was easy to learn and become great at this. If you studied and practiced the right way, mastering it in six months doesn’t seem too crazy.

Now, what if you could learn everything that way?

What if you could grab hold of the way you learn naturally and focus it on anything you want?

If everything came easier to you, what couldn’t you master?

Now, I’m not promising miracles.

But it might seem that way when suddenly the penny drops. Your mind draws connections between things and it all makes sense.

Without having to bully your brain into concentrating or memorising anything.

It’s easier than it sounds to shift your brain into an ideal learning state.

All you need to do is focus and listen.

On the material, yes – but before you do that, focus and listen to this:

https://guided-thought.com/downloads/accelerated-learning-system/

It’s pretty hard to learn a new state of mind. Let’s say you want more mental and physical resilience. You could head over to a search engine, punch in ‘how to be tougher’ and wade through a billion pages to find the gold in the garbage.

Then you actually have to do the exercises.

What’s even harder is when you know something is missing but you don’t know what it is. It’s like… well, charisma isn’t the right words, it’s more of a… presence, I guess?

When you can’t even think of the word for it, you can’t Google it.

So, what do you do?

Buy a thesaurus?

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You should always be highly suspicious of anything that makes contradictory claims. There are no shoes that make you both taller and shorter. There’s no energy drink that calms you down, too.

How can one treatment, say, both raise and lower blood pressure? That’s not how medicine works.

At least, that’s what I used to believe.

But I know one thing that both energises and calms you. And it increases your blood pressure if it’s low, but lowers it if it’s high.

Scratch that – I know of several.

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What causes a Golden Age? What historical and cultural factors come together to make a people great?

Is it when a society becomes bold and free with its ideas?

Is it like that Asimov short story where humans are experimented on by aliens, like we’re bacteria in a petri dish?

I don’t know.

I’m hungry for the answer, though.

Because I know what it feels like to enter my own ‘golden age’. Suddenly my life accelerates forward, no matter how you measure it.

I become healthier and more disciplined.

Wealthier and more fun.

More ambitious and more grounded.

Creative, spontaneous and productive.

Oozing charisma, wisdom and everything else I dream of.

These golden ages happened before I learned self-hypnosis, it’s true, so you don’t need to master it to experience your life locked into amazing mode.

But these fantastic periods come more often and more intensely than ever before.

If I were perfect, I’d be in a permanent golden age. I’m only human, though. I have my ups and downs.

And this is great – if I were flawless, I’d be unable to teach you. The gap of understanding between a mortal and a deity it too great.

Fortunately, I’m as squishy and fallible as the rest of us. That makes it all the more easy to learn.

If you’re ready for a revolution that enhances every corner of your mind, then here’s your guide to it:

https://guided-thought.com/downloads/unlock-vault-self-hypnosis/

Every now and then, the owners of a plantation stop maintaining it. Maybe they go out of business and no one takes over. Maybe the government buys it off them to turn it into a forest.

Then again, maybe the owner wants to return the land to nature.

The plantation is a monoculture, all lined up in rows and columns.

Ordered and efficient.

But as soon as human hands stop interfering…

Everything dies.

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