How to Trick Your Brain Into Doing Hard Things

[0:00]If you want to trick your brain into doing the hard things, this is the video for you. Now, imagine this, you're sleeping, it's morning, 6:00 a.m., alarm goes off, and you have to go to the gym. That's exactly when your brain attacks you. Five more minutes, let me just sleep a little bit more, let me snooze the alarm. The bed is the most comfortable place on earth and it does not want you to go anywhere else. And it's not your fault, you're not lazy for it. Your brain is designed to avoid discomfort and conserve energy as much as possible. There are two main reasons for this. Number one is the emotional pushback. Your brain doesn't look at tasks logically, it always thinks of it emotionally. So the bigger the task looks, the bigger will be the emotional resistance from your brain. I will read one book every week, that's major resistance. Let me just read five pages today, that's manageable. I need to lose 10 kgs, that's major resistance. Let me just do five pushups today, that's manageable. You see, if you make it look like a bigger task, there will be bigger emotional resistance. But when you break it down and make it so easy to do, that you will feel stupid not doing it, your brain actually allows you to do it. And the second reason your brain is fighting you is because of our ego, your self-image. The story you tell yourself about who you are, and your brain wants to protect it at all costs. For example, if you say that you are smart, you will always avoid things in which you might look dumb or clueless. If you believe that you are fat and not athletic, going to the gym becomes hard and you don't want to do it. If you say that you are a perfectionist, starting anything new becomes terrifying because you will not be great at the first try. Now, let me tell you how we trick your brain into doing hard things. Number one is the two-minute trick. Instead of the massive goal, think about what you can achieve in the next two mins. Just do that. Don't study, just read one paragraph. Don't work out, just do one exercise. Don't clean the room, just pick up three items. And once you start, you always keep going. That's how momentum builds up. Number two is start preparing now. Physical movement bypasses emotional resistance every single time. Don't start the task, just start preparing for that task. Get into your gym clothes, have your protein, and once you are there, once you've prepped up, you will automatically want to start doing the task. Lay out your books, clean your desk, open the laptop, set up your coding project. And all of this will automatically give you the motivation to get started as well. Preparation gives you physical movement and action starts giving you the momentum that you need to keep going. The third way is to start rewarding yourself. The more you sandwich mini rewards in the middle of any task you want to achieve, the more incentivized your brain will be to keep doing everything every day. You start your day with coffee, do a task in the middle and get your favorite lunch item. You watch one YouTube video, then you study for two hours, and then you watch your favorite Netflix anime series for 30 minutes. Maybe you take a nap, you clean your entire house, and then you invite friends over for it. There's a reward, there is an action that you have to do, and then there is a second reward, which is conditional. The fourth way is to make it fun. If you have any activity that you want to do, but you're not feeling like doing it, so start combining it with something fun that you like. Like you hit the gym while listening to your favorite podcast. Light up your favorite candle while you're writing something important. Play your favorite music while you're cleaning the house. When you combine boring tasks with your fun activity, it becomes a lot more interesting and your brain is willing to do it. And the last one is to pretend someone that you're not. Instead of achieving something, try becoming someone. Don't say that I want to get in shape. Say I am someone who hits the gym every single week. Don't say I need to eat healthy. Start saying that I respect my body, I want to nourish it. Stop saying you need to organize my house and start saying that I am an organized person. Fake it till you make it actually works. This way, you will rewrite your self-image. Your brain will want to protect that new self-image by actually doing the task and completing that thing every single day. So your brain will always send you dramatic messages. This is too hard, this is too much, not today, can we postpone it? It's all about bringing in these small changes that will alter the way your brain thinks. And that is the only way to trick your brain into doing hard things. I built my life around it. I learned how to do the hard things. Learn video editing, learn to build my YouTube channel, learn to hire people, grow my company. Be here. Tomorrow, I have a talk at Dubai, at one billion followers summit about AI and upskilling, and I'm super excited to go there. Really excited to bring on my A-game to give a public speech. You know, that's going to be really exciting. And at the very end, just make sure that you are delusionally optimistic about your life and your future. Stop asking why me. Start saying why not me. That is a cheat code that got me to where I am today. Why won't I get the best opportunities? Why won't I work with the best companies? Why won't I get the best love in my life? Why won't I get it? That is the mindset that I am in and that's why I get what I get in my life. That's all from me today. I will see you in the next video. I mean, I hope you have the best 2026.