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The World Wants You To Succeed

Lukas Schwekendiek
3 min readMay 24, 2022

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When you truly focus on what you want, the world seems to want you to succeed.

At least from a psychological standpoint it definitely seems that way.

When you desperately want something you focus on that particular thing a lot more.

Your mind fires more electrical impulses in that direction making your subconscious passively take more actions towards it.

You’ll talk about it more, research it more, and think about it more, all passively.

Over time this actually changes your brain patterns as more connections are formed surrounding your desires, allowing for easier and more frequent access.

But what really makes a difference is what happens beyond that. A snowball effect turns into what is known as a “self-fulfilling prophecy”, which basically means that as you pay way more attention to the things that are in line with what you want, and ignore things that are not, you create more chances to actually get what you want.

Your brain cannot relay every little bit of information to the conscious mind, so it chooses to relay the important pieces, namely the ones you have thought about the most.

Think of your brain as a highway system. While you consciously can use every road, even the unused dirt roads, subconsciously…

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Lukas Schwekendiek
Lukas Schwekendiek

Written by Lukas Schwekendiek

Life Coach, Speaker, Writer. Published on TIME, Inc & Huffington Post. Coaching available again! Email: Lukas.schwekendiek@gmail.com with the word "Coaching"

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