Thoughts Shape Reality, Systems Produce Thoughts

00:00:00 — Thoughts Shape Reality, Systems Produce Thoughts

The most important tool you have as a human being is the ability to think about your thoughts. As Marcus Aurelius put it, your soul becomes dyed the color of your thoughts. The quality of your thoughts has a profound impact on the quality of your life and your experience of reality, though this is not about positive thinking magically producing outcomes. The critical insight is that you can change the systems that produce your thoughts, even though not all of those systems are directly in your control. Systems thinking provides the framework: stocks that accumulate value, flows going in or out of those stocks, and variables that affect those flow rates.