Ep. 36 | Mapping the Mind's Potential - Luke Hill

Jack Moran chats with Luke Hill about the incredible potential of the human mind. They dive into neurobehavior, mental training, and how early experiences shape belief systems. Luke shares insights on rewiring mental patterns, embracing authenticity, and chasing bold ambitions. Their conversation reveals how understanding the mind's capacity can unlock transformative growth and untapped potential.

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Chapters

• 1:00 Introduction to Luke's multifaceted career
• 5:00 Discussing hooks and audience engagement for content
• 10:00 Transitioning between real estate, media, and acting
• 25:00 Balancing authenticity
• 30:00 Early influences and the human mind
• 35:00 The impact of formative experiences on belief systems
• 40:00 Strategies for breaking free from limiting beliefs
• 50:00 Embracing fearlessness

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Welcome to Shakin’ Hands, where we provide the platform for entrepreneurs and thought leaders to share their stories in order to hopefully influence others to get out of the rat race and chase their own dreams. If you have any recommendations for guests or questions that you want to be asked, please don't hesitate to reach out. Anyways, if you enjoy the podcast, please like, comment, subscribe and share in order to keep the podcast growing. Otherwise, I'm your host, Jack Moran and this is Shakin’ Hands. Do you happen to have, like any hooks memorized to to help with sort of one like let's say I recommend to my my media client, Jonathan, you had a conversation with some other day. You don't you went pretty good, right? Yeah. Yeah. We're talking about doing a podcast next week. That's good. I'm looking forward to that. He, I told him to memorize a few hooks, and so when he's speaking, it does naturally comes out okay. Like, I feel like, you know, you know, short form hooks. You remember I was like, 5 to 6 of them. And then when you're about to ask a question, you say a hook before, like a 3 to 4 word hook. Then you ask a question. And so when people are scrolling, they hear the hook and they're more likely to engage. Okay. Let's give an example okay. You could hint to a potential reward at the end of the video. So like the main the main thing that keeps viewers attentive and the main thing that increases watch time is if someone expects to be rewarded at the end of the video. Okay, the only way to give that expectation is by kind of giving a foreshadowing of if you watch all the way to the end, there's going to be a reward. And so you hint it like, so what was the biggest piece of wisdom that you got from this one thing? So that's like hinting a reward okay. And the wisdom that I answer with is the reward. And that's what makes them curious to stick to the end of the video, increase the water retention. So right now, what is your business? Is it, are you doing video content exclusively? Is that like your primary desire? And I think you talk about doing real estate and stuff to it. So I have a media company, media agency, and I do that freelance. And I also am in real estate. I'm a real estate agent. Gotcha. Okay, so what's the media company like? What are you doing? So I have a few clients that I help out with. Social media and business marketing, their business and then apart from that, focus as a real estate agent, I also and I'm involved in the film community here in Charleston. So I've worked on a few different shows here, and I'm also an actor and a model, and so I'm kind of all over the board as a person. But yeah. How do you balance all those things? Balance? I wouldn't necessarily say I do very well. I usually hyper focus on one area and that consumes my attention and my energy for the time being, until I get bored and decide to go down another avenue. What are you hyper focusing on right now? Not in this moment, but for sure. Yeah. For like, what business and what aspect of your business? I'm focused on my acting career and my media company currently, and real estate is my day job. But when I'm off that, I'm like really dialed in on scaling my media company and delegating and increasing my skill set as an actor. I just got signed just recently and so auditions are flowing in and getting the ball rolling. You got signed by like an agency or something. What does that entail? It entails an agent who represents you and gives you opportunities. So without proper representation in the film world, as an actor, you're not going to get good auditions. You're basically just going to be trying to self-tape and like, find auditions and opportunities. But an agent's job is to source them and provide them to you. So makes your your career as an actor far more efficient because you don't have to do any of that, any of the sourcing. Did you do like any like theater or anything like that? Yeah, good. I was a theater kid early and in college. Actually, not in high school. I was like, I'm not going to be a theater kid in high school. I don't be a jock or something like that. Okay. So, yeah, that I went to college and I realized, like, you know, I really want to be an actor. You got to be a theater kid. Yeah, it's just a part of the process. But I love theater kids to this day, like, some of the coolest people. So some of the most interesting people that I've been able to meet, they have a bad stigma. Like, they're like the weird kids, but, like. Yeah, like, I hung out with them and, relate to them because they have a passion for filmmaking, as I do. And, yeah, just, I, you know, I'm a booster. The theater kids hurt me. I give them some credit. They're they're on an Olympian unique doing their thing, and they're just exploring their craft. Is that why are you going to, acting is because you like filmmaking. I got into acting because I have the desire to influence people through film. And for me, the whole purpose behind my immediate pursuits in my filmmaking pursuits is to influence people through screens. And so if you look at today's society, all of the attention is on the phone, all of the attention is on the television. And if you want to influence someone, you go to where their attention lies or you attract their attention. There any channel? Yeah. Any channel possible. So my my idea is okay if everyone's paying attention to the phones, might as well be in the phones. Might as well influence them after what they're already given their attention to. And, you know, I see so much content and I see so many movies and so many narratives in film that aren't beneficial to the consumer whatsoever. It's actually quite the opposite of beneficial. It's actually a detriment to their mind and and to their perspectives and the influence that some films nowadays give to their audience is honestly sad. It's like, what does the consumer gain from watching this film? Distraction, escapism from reality. Now, I don't intend on that being my legacy with my films. Interesting. Yeah. I mean, obviously we've never had an actor on the oh, well, we had this guy Curtis, ours. He's not really an actor. He was on a reality TV show. We had him on, but, we haven't had any, actors on, and I don't know if anyone in our audience, who is pursuing a career in acting, but it's still interesting. Like, you know, the whole purpose of shaking hands is to follow your dreams, whatever that may be. And I have this, like goal to get more musicians on and more like, artistic, you know, people, and understand, like how you can be successful and support a lifestyle, from those like creative careers. So it's interesting to hear, like what the process is to be like successful at that. So right now you're probably like, I'm, I'm assuming you're not. And maybe I'm wrong supporting your full income through acting, but that would be a goal eventually. Yeah. Supporting none of my income direct. So what's that like? How do you like. Because I think about it. Might have some, like, overlay, you know, for the audience, like, how to support, how to balance another income stream to fuel that, like, you know, pursuit. Absolutely. Well, I think you need capital to be successful in the film world. And so I've worked on the show Outer Banks, and I've worked on the show The Righteous Gemstones here in Charleston and straight out of college. I studied filmmaking and acting at USC and straight out of college I got a position, I'm super grateful for to be able to be on the set of The Righteous Gemstones, which is a the HBO show, and it was so eye opening, and I learned more in those few months I worked on that set than I did in my entirety of of film school. Where'd you learn? I learned about the inner workings of the industry. I learned about all the technicalities and minor details that are so hyper fixated on to perfect the the visual that they deliver to their audience. And they gave me so much respect for people in the film industry, because I realize how much it takes, how much attention, attentive detail is put into it, and it's you watch the movie and you just see a visual. You kind of get lost in the narrative. Yeah, and if you ever worked on a film six kind of just destroys that, that completely. Because I see I see a shot and I think about the angles, the lighting, the costume, the makeup, all this. I'm like, there's so much that went into that five seconds and we don't even comprehend it. And so it makes me, makes me very, perspective of people in the industry. What are the intricacies of the film industry that you were not aware of, that you are now? People hyper fixate on the smallest things, but I think it's honestly beautiful. I don't think it's like over obsession. I think if someone really has a passion for something, whether it's be business, whether it be filmmaking, whether this be lifestyle, if you're if you're really obsessed about something, you're going to make sure every single detail is exactly how you want it to be. And so I think a lot of filmmakers and directors and people who make movies, they carry that obsession. And that obsession is what makes the film perfect, exactly how they envisioned it. So how do you, as someone that's green and like just getting introduced to the industry? How do you what are the early insights that you have, like getting into the industry, but then also growing within the industry and having more success? Like, what do you think are the like principles and the fundamentals of like having success within this industry? Well, my approach to succeeding in the film industry is kind of counterintuitive. I'm actually stepping out of the film industry to focus on building my wealth and real estate and other and other ventures, and my intention is actually a long term play. And so I intend on coming back into the film industry with capital to invest and to produce films and have a say in the narrative, etc., because I realize very quickly, if you just enter into a beginners job that you're given the when you first start out, you're going to be climbing the ladder. And and for me, you either come in from the top, rather come in with some, some, leverage. Yeah. Some leverage and, and be able to actually produce a film that I think would be helpful to society and, to share my perspective and to have a say in. And what goes into the the movie that would program the consumer's mind. Everything you watch is a program, even the commercials. I don't I had nothing I hate more than commercials. It's like you're you're being programed to be a consumer, right? And so, you know, I don't intend on even if they offered me a pretty penny, I don't want to make commercials. I want to make something that inspires people to produce, not consume. And so my films, they're going to be infused with the wisdom and the lessons and the knowledge that I accumulate over my life's journey. And the lessons I learned the hard way, you know, put those of my films in the narratives deep, deep down in the underlying, the storyline, and hopefully that's programed into people's subconscious and I hope some for the better. And as far as my legacy goes, that's enough for me to ask for. What are some of the lessons that you've learned the hard way? I've lost my authenticity because I actually started. If we're going to talk about my film, my film, my passion for films, origin. It started back in high school. So my parents, they gave me a camera for Christmas one year. This was a small point and shoot from Walmart, and I picked it up and I was watching a lot of vloggers at the time, and I was like, you know, I want to make an videos. This is so cool because I would always go on on adventures in high school with all my friends, and I picked up the camera and started bringing you along with me. I started piecing together little videos here and there and I found the passion for it. I found creative expression in it and and doing so that evolved into, pursuit of social media. And so I went on YouTube, started making videos on my adventures that turned into vlogs. So I was a I was a kid in high school. I was a vlogger. I was that guy. That's hilarious. Yeah. And, and doing so, I realized, okay, if I'm going to be vlogging on YouTube, you kind of got to play a character in a sense, right? Yeah. Like, it's hard to be 100% authentic because you're like, okay, how are people going to perceive me? And I the lesson I learned the hard way is to never lose your authenticity, no matter what potential gain is out there for you. By playing a character or or being some, some version of yourself that's more acceptable or would garner more acceptance or or admiration? Yeah. From an audience to be yourself completely. And that's what I live by, and that's what I stick to because I played a character, after YouTube, I wasn't seeing success with my numbers and I wasn't satisfied, and I was putting a lot of work into my videos. And around that time when I was kind of like, YouTube is not really worth it. Getting a few hundred views. Comments from my best friends. Like, I love that. But like I wanted, I wanted more. I wanted people to see the the work I was putting in, and I got on TikTok at the time and I pretty much immediately got the views that I so long desired. I remember I posted a video, it was some stupid. It took me about two minutes to make, got 35,000 views in like three hours and from that moment forward I was hooked. I was like, okay, TikTok, this is this is the move. This is what's going to give me what I've been looking for, this influence. And so I went all in, from 2019 to 2020. That was when TikTok was really booming. And I was posting like three videos, four videos a day, and I figured out what my audience liked, what they engaged with and what they didn't like and what they didn't engage with. And in doing so, I realized, okay, I can do this and get their get their attention, but it's not really authentic and honest. I was like, you know what? Screw my authenticity. Let me just chase this. So I enveloped myself in this character and this character on social media, and I was making videos that I knew would get attention and they would go viral, but it wasn't me. And that was a lesson I learned the hard way, because I truly forgot who I was at the core of it. For a few months. And I was like, you know, I'm trying to be authentic on social media, but I almost I don't know how to anymore. I don't know how to do this, play this character. And so I think even as an actor, this is something I take with me, is when I play my characters, when I do social media, anything like that, I want to be sure that I'm being the most authentic version of myself. I don't want to put up any facade. I don't want to wear any mask because one that's not sustainable. The mask, it's heavy. And if you're just yourself, it's effortless and you're really actually shining your light and not some light you've orchestrated. And I think like it's it's hard to even define like what is authenticity for yourself? Like it's hard to like look at the mirror and say, who am I truly deep down, like, what is my core self? Like, you know, who am I really? That's a diff difficult thing to pinpoint. How do you define authenticity for yourself, and how do you get down to your core values and core beliefs, and then portray that. So then people are people are absorbing the most authentic version of yourself because obviously, like and there's a question I ask people often, it's like, is the voice inside your head that you know, the same person or the same personality as the person that people see, people see on the outside. And I've never gotten an answer that it is the same. It's it. And I would argue that it's impossible to be the same, because when you're taking that like internal person there, and then you're running that through that process of thinking, which has its own limitations, and then externalizing that core feeling externally. There's limitations to, you know, language like you can't put words in accurately defined feelings, you know, and that's why I like art. Music is so beautiful because you are creating another language and communicating feelings in a way that, words can't describe. So it's I would argue that it's impossible to, like, fully externalize to the physical world, like who your true self is internally. But I'm curious to hear, like, how do you balance or align the version of yourself that you know or that is authentic deep down inside to keep that aligned with what you externally communicate? Does that make sense? Yes, absolutely. I'd argue that it's possible. I'd argue that it is possible to externalize the deepest part of your subconscious and the deepest part of your inner knowing of who you are, and I think you can you can externalize it many different mediums. Like you said, music is one way to do it. Movies, that's another way to do it. Speaking is one way to do it. And I think to truly express your authenticity, you must first know it. You must first know yourself. Knowing yourself is the first step to actually being able to communicate who you are. And as a kid and as a teenager, it's hard to really have clarity on who you are. It's easy to just be who you are, but to understand who you are, that's a whole nother process. Like, let's take this into account. Children from the age of 1 to 7 are completely authentic. They have been through no domestication camps, which I like to also call school and they are completely real and raw. Yeah, right. That is what we should all strive to be. Just like a child. A child is fearless. You know, a multi-millionaire could walk up to a child, a famous ultra wealthy movie star, whatever any title you have, let's say you're this big hotshot. You have this huge ego. You walk up to a four year old kid, and you, you think you're going to gain his respect because you've had these all these accolades and accomplishments. You accumulate all this wealth. The kid does not care, bro. The kids are like, dude, you're just a human being. Yeah. He's not he's not programed yet to, like, associate that with value. Yeah. No. To him the value is is having fun, loving his family, being outside and just doing whatever you want. He's free and he's not unchained by all these. These poisonous idea and desires that we're programed with when we go through our domestication camp, you know? So I think in order to fully express your authenticity, to answer your question, you must first know yourself. And to know yourself completely is to go back to your childhood, to revisit the inner knowingness and the connective ness that you used to have to yourself and your soul when you're when you were just a kid before you were told her to be. Yeah, that's like very profound. What you're saying. And it's like the I didn't know that it was, you know, on average age 1 to 7 when you're like, know yourself the best. But I do understand that, like in your childhood, that most influences how you end up later in life, because all those experiences that you have are defining your belief systems. Which that's another thing is like people think that like, again, that like voice inside their head that's being produced by their brain is them. But it's not like that. That is a physical process in the physical world. It's not your consciousness, or at least not in my belief system. It's not your consciousness. That's just like a process of thought that is highly biased and has been highly influenced by your experiences. That's why you know a person that maybe they, as a child, saw their dad trying to be an entrepreneur and keep failing and keep failing and keep failing, and maybe that dad kept coming home and saying like, this is impossible. There's no way to succeed. America is not the, there is no American dream. Like it's impossible to succeed, it's impossible to get ahead. And that was his belief system that's now been passed on to that child and is impacting how they think. And now that becomes that child's reality where all of a sudden their outcomes become the same as that dad, because it's ingrained, that reality is ingrained, that belief is ingrained, that it's impossible. So that's showing how that experi ence is not true reality, but it is creating having an impact. That experience is having an impact on that person. And therefore impacting their outcomes. Whereas on the other side, if you had a parent that was saying, like, you know, little Johnny, like there is nothing that you can accomplish and there is nothing that's, impossible to accomplish, there's nothing that you can't accomplish. And instilling that mindset into the child, like they're creating that limitless mindset. And then that reality for that child when they grow up becomes limitless. Just because of those experiences that they've been in influenced by. So understanding that, like how much your experience, it impacts your reality. And it is like case by case, it's not true reality like and realizing that at some point you were a blank slate and you could have had any outcome and had any influence or any experience like trying to figure out, like what that blank slate is like. That is your true self like analyzing what were those experiences that I had that influence the way that I think today? And it's impossible to get away from all those belief systems, but just having the awareness of what those experiences were, you can say, okay, this experience influence like has this influence on me today, and these are the ones that are having a negative effect on me and arts benefiting me. And these are the ones that are benefiting me and try to eliminate the ones. And it's like, again, it's it's difficult to get back to that like true true self and like really figure out what that clean blank slate is minus all the experiences. But at least if you can do a manifest of like all the experiences you've had. And again, if you. Chuck, I'm sorry to go on a rant here, but if you if you if you we've lived so many experiences through life like, you know, like I don't know how old you are. Pretty similar to me, I'm sure, but I'm 27 years old, so I've lived a lot of days with a lot of experiences. But if I do a manifest of like my life, there's probably like 10 to 20 experiences that were defining that. If I think about like resonate as being profound, that affect the way I am today. So it's not that difficult to like to analyze what are those super impactful experiences and then analyze them to see, like how they are affecting you today and then eliminating the ones that are not serving you. Did that make sense? Am I speaking to crystal clear sense to me? Yeah. And I love that's my language right there. You know, going into yourself, doing into your identity and your self-image is literally something I could talk about for years, because that's all it is to be an actor is you're just morphing your self image and you're embodying a new character, a new identity and your identity. The character you're playing, Jack, is your self-image. It's who you believe you are. And so there's a quote that sums it up that I live by and not only as an actor, but in life. And the quote goes, this is my favorite quote of all time, as he believes, so he becomes. And so as you believe you are, so you will become 100%. Yeah. And that goes that goes through with everything in life. And so like you were talking about the parental programing like you're the parents role in your upbringing. Right. Like how impactful and how shape will and how much it shapes you into the person you are today. It's they instilled certain beliefs into you in your most programable years of life, 1 to 7. And those beliefs are so deeply ingrained in your subconscious. It's like trying to dig out cement, literally. And so, you know, the best way to do it is to pour more cement over it. And the more the the new cement is a new belief. So you're pouring new beliefs over old beliefs, those old beliefs, they're there and you can do your best to forget about them. But they're really hard, you know, they've been there for some so many years and the best way to do that is to to believe in yourself. And even if it's delusional belief for the time being, I think that's quite healthy to have a bit of a delusional belief in yourself. Like, for me to believe I'll be a successful doctor. Okay. Yeah, that requires a bit of delusional belief. But if I didn't have that belief, even if it was slightly delusional that I will never even attempt to reach my goal, that goes with anything in life. If you have any big dream to accumulate millions of dollars, if you want to. If you want to tell me right now, let's say you're completely broke and you're to be here. I'm going to be a multi-millionaire. Okay, that that's a bit delusional, but if you never even have that belief in yourself, you'll never chase it and you have 0% chance of ever reaching that goal. And so in order to form a new identity and form a new belief system, sometimes it requires a bit of delusion, and it requires a bit of telling everyone who is a naysayer or hater the f off like you're going to do. You, you're going to chase your dreams fearlessly, and you're going to leave nothing on the table because we get one spin around this globe. I mean, look, we get one life, right? Like, why not chase exactly what you want fearlessly. There's no reason not to, you know, like, you can be mediocre. You can be okay with that. There's nothing wrong. I mean, you do you. But, you know, if I get one, if I get one experience in this body on this planet, right? Like it makes no logical sense to me. What? I'm going to pursue something average, something normal, something that's easy to obtain as I go and, you know, pursue your your highest possible potential no matter what anyone saying to you, no matter what anyone's opinion is, because it's all irrelevant. And and secondly, they'll never understand you or why you do what you do. That's something only you know, and that's something that's deep inside of you, deep ingrained in your subconscious. And I think you're doing something like this. Podcasts. It's an incarnation of a childhood desire. You had some desire to speak your truth, some desire to influence people through words. And what you're doing now is you're pursuing your dream. And that takes courage. And it's not easy to get on here and and create a podcast and speak your truth and be authentic. You know, that takes some courage, but I admire that. And I think there needs to be more people like you chasing their dreams with courage. Because in today's world it's like, okay, you go to school, get domesticated, turned into an employee, then this will work 9 to 5 until you die. And I'm like, I recognize from the jump that was a very off course from what I intended on doing, and my intuition was telling me to do. And so, you know, I'm like, I can't do that. I want to unique in any facet, just be different than the normal in any way I can. Because, you know, the world doesn't need more of the same. The world needs someone who's courageous enough to be different and to pursue something that's unique. And, you know, that's why I give so much respect to people who can be kind of weird, like the theater kids, like those guys, like they're in a way like courageous because, you know, it's like, yeah, you're not the jock in high school, you know? But you're you're pursuing your art. You're pursuing what you feel called to, and you're just playing like that. That's all it is, is you're playing, you're acting. And I think that alone, that facet of being able to just play, not take it so seriously, like being a math major or something like, not like I'm just I'm a theater. I'm I'm pursuing theater. It's like, so you want to play for a living? And most people don't take that seriously. But in my mind, it's like, that's one of the most connected pursuits you possibly could ever go down because you're literally pursuing your inner child. You're pursuing what you were called to as a child. All you wanted to do when you were a kid was play, I'm all right, 100%. All we want to do as kids is play. And then we grow up and we're domesticated and programed to do the exact opposite. No, you're supposed to sit down, follow directions, obey your boss, and clock in, clock out. Follow the rules. And, you know, people say that that's the practical route to take. But I think the practicality is actually just fear. Disguised people follow the rules and they go down to the normal course because they're they're afraid. They're afraid to be different. They're afraid to take a risk. And and being someone unique that's like the and it goes back to our tribal instincts to back when we were cavemen, per se. It's like if you were outcast from the tribe, that would mean death, that you needed the tribe to survive. And so if you were weird, if you didn't fit in, they would outcast you. And I think about this. It's it's in our it's in our animalistic programing. And it goes way back. And it's not even like a, it's not even like our normal mindset that influenced most of our decisions is actually our old primal instincts and our old primal neural pathways that have been programed into our brain that actually influence most of our decisions. You know, like the desire for fame, the desire for wealth, social acceptance, it's all connected to the tribal mind. Yeah. And so, like, the mind is literally the Mecca of our entire reality. It controls everything. And so, you know, like, of the lot of research done on self image and how to manipulate your mind and really take control of it. But if some of the complexities, it's like a lifelong pursuit of knowledge. Yeah. And it's but it's very interesting like that. If you have the discipline over your mind, you have the control over your reality. And like, I think that's what's beautiful is that like that is free will to me. It's like we really do have the power to have whatever reality we want. It doesn't matter what it is. It's all about having that discipline to generate that reality through controlling your your, your habits, through controlling it all starts with your mind. Exactly like you're saying. It's like, you know, I don't know if you've seen this guy. I see him on Instagram all the time. He's like new to me within the last year. But he's this like, you know, bald philosopher. And he sits up at the front of the like, seminars and he's like, got his eyes closed and he's doing this move draws or whatever. But you know what I'm talking about. I forget the guy's name, but I've been seeing him recently, and he said something like, the reason why you're not living the life that you want is because you continue to see the life that you don't want. And it's like, yeah, it's like, if you can, if you can have that discipline like to pick first define what is the life that I want to live and then have congruence in your actions. Make sure that your actions are reflecting that goal. Then that's exactly what's going to happen. You're going to get what you want if your actions are congruent with the outcomes. But if you are wanting these outcomes and you have incongruence in your day to day actions and your habits and your mindset is not reflecting that outcome, then you are going to have a outcome that is congruent to your daily inputs. Which again, is like super profound. I don't know if you've are you familiar with anything with like NLP, like neuro linguistic programing and like, you know, self hypnotism that's like a rabbit hole that I've been that absolutely recently is like because again, we go back to, we go back to like what influences our reality. It's those experiences that we've, we've had. And like scientifically what's happening is like you have these like neural pathways within your head and like those experiences are just firing when you have an experience. It's giving stimulation to your brain, your receptors. And then those receptors being stimulated is like data can be like traveling from one neuro receptor to another neuro receptor. And the more profound that experience is, or the repetition of that experience, it will start to ingrain that pathway into your head. And that is like, again, creating that that experience is causing your your memory that those in those pathways being like, solidified into your brain is creating your memory, which is creating your personality, which is causing your personal reality. That's Joe Dispenza. And so what's interesting about like, neuro linguistic programing or self hypnotism is you can go back to those receptors and you do have the power to rewire those experiences, like for instance, like if you had a traumatic event in where you had turbulence as a child, for instance, on a plane, you know, you have associated now fear because you felt fear, you experienced fear while you were flying. So now that and it was a profound experience because you thought you were gonna die. Yeah. So you have ingrained and solidified, cemented this connection between fear and flying. And now you have a fear of flying, but you have the ability through like self hypnotism and, you know, neuro linguistic programing to go back to that state and rewire and re associate that experience of flying with maybe pleasure. And there's practices for doing that. But it's fucking profound that like you can you do have the ability to rewire those experiences. And once you've rewire the past experiences that are negatively affecting you, like pick, how do you want your brain to think? And you can create that framework like a drawing and like a painting and define exactly how you want to think and how you want your body to operate and how you want your reality, to unfold. It's like it's true. Free will. We have the complete control over our our lifestyle, how we live it, and the outcomes. Yes, absolutely. Incredibly put. I am such a I'm such a nerd when it comes to that kind of stuff. And like you said initially when you went on your rant, which, I enjoyed thoroughly, let me tell you, you you said discipline. You said discipline is what really creates those habits. And so discipline equals freedom. It's like if you can have discipline, you can have anything you want. And that's a whole rant. There's so many points you had where I wanted to just dive in and go down a, a rabbit hole, but I'm like, dude, I'm like, I'm going to let it come out. But there's so much I want to touch on with what you just said. Go ahead, because jump on it. We got plenty of time. There is a book I read by the author, Napoleon Hill. Napoleon Hill wrote, obviously, How to Win Friends and Influence People, which is like a a worldwide known book. You know, Napoleon Hill also wrote a book called Outwitting the Devil, and that was one of the most profound books I've ever read on NLP. And just the power of the mind and the power of the program that we all operate on. And there's a segment of the book that touches on a concept called hypnotic rhythm. All right. So like you were saying, the neural pathways, those connections that were made when we were being programed that control our decisions and our habits and our day to day routine, all of those are actually just the the segments that make up the concept of hypnotic rhythm. And so hypnotic rhythm. What Napoleon explained to us is basically, let me give you an analogy to understand it. So let's go back to the blank slate right before we were actually programed, when we were, when we were between the age of 0 to 7, when you're born fresh out the womb, fresh from the source, your mind is like a a fresh hill of of snow, fresh powder. It just landed. There's no there's no footprints in it. There's no snowboard lines or ski lines in it. Right. It's just a fresh hill of snow. That's what your mind is when you're a newborn child. All right, now, the first day of a life. Okay, let's say you're one day old. That first experience you have when you wake up, you're at the top of the hill, okay? On the first day of life, you're going to you're going to wake up. You're going to probably I don't know if babies even eat breakfast. You thought you start going down the hill, right? I you go down the hill and you know, you you create your habits, your routine for that first day of life, whatever it is. Probably sleeping until what babies do not like a lot, but. Right. Okay, so at the end of the day, at the end of the first day of your life, you go to the bottom of the hill and you created a line in the snow. Each day you hop on your little your little snowboard for whatever, and you get on the hill, right. Create a line. The next day you wake up, you're at the top of the hill again. So you go down maybe a different route. This time you do something else instead of sleeping all day. Maybe you go and meet your your granddad for the first time. You go there, you go down a different part of the hill, you create another line. And eventually as you grow and you go into the years of life and day after day, month after month, year after year, decade after decade, you start to do the same, same thing, same routine, especially when you get into a domestication camp school. You go down the same path every single day. You get up, you eat your Kellogg's, you go to school, you sit down, you listen to instruction, complete assignments. You go home, you watch some brain rock TV, and you go to sleep. You do that for seven years, eight years. Now you're in high school, okay? Now in high school, you have a different routine. You've kind of understood yourself more, so you kind of stop eating the Kellogg because you know it's full of sugar and bad for you. Maybe start eating some eggs in the morning. You go to school, you're kind of you kind of recognize the programing and you're like, you know, well, I'm gonna read a book and sort of listen to the teacher talk about igneous rocks because it's all bullshit. And then you actually begin to understand yourself and create a better pathway down the hill. Right? Okay. And as you get older and older and older and start to understand yourself more, then you create a pretty solid path and you make this path like, you know, I'm making money on this path. I'm, I'm developing as a person on this path. I want to take this path every day of my life. And that's what most people do from the age of 25 to 70. Usually they work the same job. This is usually if I'm talking about a majority of society, right. And that path, that path that you've taken day after day after day, is so deeply engraved in the hill. The, the, the line in the hill is so deep. When you wake up, you there's no other way. You have to go down it. Your skis can't turn anymore. You can't turn because your subconscious is so in control of your life. And your neural pathways are so hardened that you can't actually do anything new. Obviously you can, because we have free will, but the majority of society is asleep at the wheel there, just going on the hill, unknowingly allowing their subconscious to control their day in and day out. And until you wake up out of that and you're like, you know what? I have these skis right here. I can go up, I can go that way, I can go travel. I can quit my job, I can go good on this. This route. I can go live in Bali and just eat rice cakes and just swim in the ocean, right? Right. That's a whole nother pathway down the hill. But you have that power. People aren't aware that they have that power. Yeah. And there's so many factors that go into why people don't take another route. You know, one which is the most power powerful is. And it's hypnotic rhythm and hypnotic rhythm, obviously break it down. Hypnotic rhythm. So the rhythm of routine, and it's basically a hypnosis. We're all trapped in. Like when you wake up and you brush your teeth in the morning, you're not thinking consciously. It's a rhythm that you're hypnotized by day and you wake up. The first thing you do is you brush your teeth. It's just an ingrained oral pathway. And until you make the unconscious conscious, it will control your life. And you'll call it fake. Well, powerful. That's why they say like, you know, a good way to break out of that routine. It's funny that you gave that brushing your teeth example. They say a really good way to start getting out of that rhythm or that powder pattern is to start by brushing your teeth with your left hand, because you're breaking those routines. And those are like the most powerful times to manifest and like create that new reality, because it's an easy way to just, like, get your brain out of that pattern. Yeah. Because you're creating a new neural pathway to use your left hand. So your right hand 100%. And like you know how I understand hypnotism is like and why it's powerful is because like when you're in a hypnotic state, hypnotism, the definition of hypnotism, which you're probably familiar with, is a state of heightened suggestibility. And so. So what's again? Let's go back to the science of a pragmatically, what's happening is when you are in this this state, you are more neuro plastic. So you you have more plasticity in those neural pathways. So you can rewire those neural pathways. And when you are in that state of that, that neuroplasticity and you have that ability to rewire your neural pathways, like when you're in this neuro plastic state being like, that's when you have the ability. So okay, this is better way to explain it. So why hypnotism is so powerful is one the subconscious is un or the conscious is unable to put up the defenses against hypnotism. That's why like covert hypnotism is powerful and why you can have influence over a person. Because when you say some something like, imagine it, which is an induction, that's the first step to hypnotizing someone is to have an induction when someone starts to imagine, whatever you say following that induction, it puts them in that state of neuroplasticity. So the the no matter what you do, if you try to fight that in some capacity, when I say the word, imagine your brain is going to picture whatever follows and you will immediately go into that state of neuroplasticity. So that's why it's powerful. Like an an influence standpoint. But then if. So how you can induce that in yourself, right, is by going into that imaginative state where the brain is unable to decipher. And like in a meditation, for instance, when you're visualizing within a meditation, the brain is unable to decipher whether that experience is happening or it isn't happening. So let's go back to the example of being on the plane and having that trauma with the plane. So a practice that I know that's a neuro NLP practice, but it's really hypnotism. They're the same thing. Self hypnotism. You would go a practice that you could utilize is you could go back to that time and visualize that experience that you had on that plane where you were experiencing that fear. And the more that you visualize how you felt, what it looked like, what you were hearing, the more that the body and that your physical being believes that it is real. So now you have basically like opened up this neural pathway again, that's deeply ingrained and cemented in. You have made it more neural plastic. You have the ability now to change it because you're in that experience. And they would say, like when you're doing that visualization, don't visualize yourself from the first person, because if you're in the first person, you're going to like experience that trauma again. Whereas if you're visualizing yourself in the third person, then your body doesn't associate your self as like being in it so you you won't experience the trauma like the feeling of fear. But so in the practice you would get into a very detailed visualization or imagination of that experience. And then they would say in this specific practice, like to put that picture aside. Now that visualization that you had, so you've opened up that neural pathway, right. And, and made it more neural plastic and given it the ability to change. Now you would go over and visualize and experience where you feel absolute pleasure. So anytime I've done this practice, like I just picture myself surfing on a wave because I really enjoy surfing, I can visualize the feeling that I get when I'm there. So you start going through that visualization process and you're opening up that neural pathway that it's like surfing is pleasurable for you and you. So then next in the practice, you'd have this picture that you've imagined and visualized into detail in your body thinks is, you know, real and is actually happening. And you've created neuroplasticity with that experience. And then you, you have off to the side. This is all happening within your imagination during a meditation or something, that experience of flying. And they would say to overlay the picture of the picture of you flying over the picture of you, surfing. So in the front is the flying image that you're visualizing, and in the back is the surfing image that you're visualizing. And again, you're driving all this with your imagination, like you're just making this happen in your head, like you're imagining it. And that imaginative state is driving the neuroplasticity, which is allowing you to change the neural pathways. And so they would say, punch a hole in that front picture of you flying, that image that you're having, that movie that you're having, and let that light and that pleasure emanate through the front picture. And it's like, okay, now, like how and these are the questions that it's asking in the book. The book is called NLP The Essential Guide, where I learn this practice. Super, one of the most profound books I've ever read. But it would say, now open that whole up and let that pleasure emanate into this picture. Okay, how does that feel? Are you feeling like less fear in that flying visualization? Like, are you feeling better about it? Okay, start to close down that hole. Now is that feeling of pleasure going away? Okay. Open it back up again. Keep playing with the opening. Closing it with the objective of when you're just looking at that flying visualization that you're feeling the same pleasure from the surfing image within that visualization. So what did you do there? You literally went back into your brain, into the map of your brain, and you're associated the experience of flying with and connected it to the pleasure of surfing. And you've recreated that, that connection, which is like, again, super profound. But then there's other implications. And I'll wrap it up with, with this, I know I'm going on another rant, but you talk about that programing. You talk about that programing that happens when you're a kid. So again, when I talk about what is the process of hypnotism, hypnotism is an induction. So it's a word like imagine followed by suggestive imagery which further pushes that image. So if I'm hypnotizing someone else instead of you driving that image, I'm saying imagine. And then I'm driving that image, which is allowing me to have control of the neural connections in your brain. So I'm I'm having control of that now. Something that a lot of people don't realize is when you're a kid, one of the most powerful hypnotic induction inductions that there are is the line once upon a time, once upon a time, and so followed by that Once upon a time induction. That's that movie putting you in a hypnotic state to be programed by what gets what's followed. Which is like people don't realize that, like how powerful and how often hypnotism is used to program and control our neural pathways. What do you do? You want to make movies? It's do. And then you look at like, I mean, not to be a conspiracist, but you look at how much influence like government has over Hollywood. It's like they're literally like they're they are programing the masses to believe and act in a way that they want that's beneficial to them. And the program can have any incentive, either good or bad. And so my idea with choice in filmmaking is to make the program good, to program people's minds for the better, to make the world a better place. Because the world is in is controlled by humans, and the humans are controlled by their minds, and their minds are controlled by the program. And so go to the source, go to the very source of what controls the world, which is the human mind. That's where the powers. Dude, you just spoke my language and it's fully aware of this, like and hopefully whatever I just that rant I just went on made any sense. I was I'm trying to figure sense. I was trying to figure out like where to bring it, but, this was not where I was expecting this conversation to go. But it's like very, very important, especially in entrepreneurship and starting your own business because, like, the implication is that you can have full control over your mind and your outcomes is like it's beneficial in anything. And then also having the awareness that you've already been influenced and that there are experiences ingrained in your mind, some that happen passively and some that happen purposely to influence how you act today. And if you can have the awareness that that happened, that's the first step. And going back to what you said is the first step. Knowing yourself, if you can have that awareness of your timeline and you think the experiences that have happened to you in the impact that that have has on you now, that is the first step to understanding and then changing. Absolutely, absolutely. Knowing yourself, know thyself is the first step to wisdom. Wow, that was excellently put. We went on some heavier arts, I love it. I loved every second of that channel, man. But dude, absolutely. And pretty much, you know, Hollywood, the television industry, the movie industry, all of it, every single film, every narrative that's creative has an incentive, whether that incentive is as basic as just simply to entertain or to insinuate an idea or a belief or perspective into the mind of the viewer, therefore, that they can do something either a benefit to society or benefit to a certain corporation or whatever, like name a random movie right now and it can be the most random movie. Goodfellas. Goodfellas, right? Okay. From from my perspective on that movie, it it influences the mind of the viewer to have a say, okay, what's the theme of the the movie? Because those that you that you could recite to me right now, it's like, give me a one line logline of the narrative of Goodfellas. So yeah, it glorifies or highlights the life of being a gangster. Okay. So that glorification and highlighting of the life of being a gangster. Right. That alone, that program you know, could have two sides of the coin. Right. It could be program people to actually commit crime. But in my mind it's kind of like the same incentive that GTA has. It allows people to experience what it's like to commit crime like GTA, like you can go and you can do whatever you can to up a bank in GTA and not face any physical repercussions in reality, because it's just a video game, you can experience the same thing of being a gangster in and watching Goodfellas was, you know, might be good enough so someone doesn't actually have to commit a crime and and understand what that experience is like. So maybe it's actually good to help respect. It's it's maybe good to have the the game GTA because it doesn't you know, it soothes that that hunger for some psycho other that actually wants to like do some crazy shit. Right. So like that's a, that's a silver lining there. But ever since but every single movie has an incentive, whether it be good or bad, the program is there for a reason. And so I think, you know, with my with my intention behind pursuing filmmaking is to insinuate new perspectives, inspiration, wisdom, and, you know, love of others in the world and to their minds and, and that will make the world a better place, which is the whole reason behind it. Yeah, I agree with you completely. And it's a great mission to be on. And, yeah, like I'm inspired by the fact that you're doing it and, and we went on a mega rant there, a major tangent, and I'm glad that we did. But, bring it full circle back to a little bit of, like, business hard skills. Before we wrap up, you had the experience, with, like, content production. I think that that is something that people are really interested in. What do you think the keys to having a good content strategy are? Because obviously it's so important, right now, like social media and content, in today's age for marketing, for doing anything, it's like a fundamental piece of business. What do you think are the keys to being good at it? There's the key press, record and speak or truth. Simple as that. I've studied all the strategies. I've gotten the millions of views, and I can tell you the key to it all is to be fearlessly authentic and and speak your truth regardless of what happens, regardless of how you're perceived, regardless of any attention you receive or don't receive, it doesn't matter as long as you're speaking your truth. Whether your business is getting results or not. I think you're doing your part on social media because too many people put up a facade, they wear a mask, you know, try to be a marketing salesman on their on their social media. People see that from our way, you know, receptive. We are to to advertisements these days. I can tell you this when you're scrolling on your phone, you're being subconsciously operated. You're not consciously there, not consciously scrolling their phone. It's like, this is this is mindless. You go to your phone to escape reality. And when you're scrolling on Instagram, right, I want you guys to practice. Everyone that's listening to this, when you exit this podcast, when you go strong on social media, become aware of what you're doing. Become aware of your thumb moving up and down. And when you see an advertisement, allow your subconscious to operate. I can promise you this your mind recognizes it's an advertisement within the first three milliseconds, and you scroll instantaneously. And so I think for business owners, it's actually very counterintuitive. Do not make advertisements. Don't make videos necessarily promoting your business. What you need to do is to press, record, speak your truth. And when people connect with you or connect with what you're doing, boom might drop. Wow. Well, that's some super good advice. My very last question that I have for you before we wrap up is what is your definition of success? To enjoy this experience. To enjoy the experience. People have all these desires for rich to be famous, to have influence all these desires down from the trap of the American dream. We're being raised and and brought up. You know, they said the American dream is to have a multimillion dollar mansion,$1 million vehicle, a watch that's a few hundred thousand dollars and company benefits. Right. So, like my definition of success is completely like, off that track. And so for me, you know, I envision the American dream to be quite a trap. And I think people go down the rabbit hole of chasing it because they were programed to buy movies like Wolf of Wall Street, etc. and dude, it's like success is defined per individual and if you're really connected to yourself and you really know yourself and success, almost none of the none of the time is ever like the accumulation of of green paper of money. It's never that. It's always like being connected to your purpose and your passion and feeling invigorated to hop out of bed in the morning. That's success. Success is not, just a large digit in your digital bank account. It's like, no, dude. Success is literally like being excited to be alive, being excited to experience consciousness and to hug your loved ones and to to plant your seed of impact into society before your time here is up. That's success. And so yeah, my and and obviously like our impact here is quite minimal. Our consciousness is going to be less than 100 years in this plant. Right. So we're basically a blip in the scale of eternity. And this world Earth is such a blip in the scale of the universe. Right. And so our impact is not necessarily grand, which is why I don't see impact as success. Because, you know, impact is is only important in this in this human game we play on this earth, right. Like you can only make so much impact. And obviously we want to have a good impact because we care about humans and we care about society. We want to make it the best possible place for people to have the human experience. Right. But success is not making impact necessarily. For me, obviously, that's one of my main intentions with my with my life. But success to enjoy your experience because you could be anyone, anywhere in the entire world. And if you don't make a single impact on anyone's life, I want you to know that that's okay. You know, success is defined by enjoying this experience, enjoying this trip of consciousness that you were blessed with, and to have a relationship with God and to love others and to love yourself, which is sometimes the hardest thing to do. But as you can get to that point, you win this game. My drop. So boom, where can people, if they want to reach out to you if they're interested in your services? If they just watch, or can they find their. You guys can follow me on Instagram. Username is Luke Parker Hill and I'll be happy to chat. Connect with you. Have a conversation if you're interested in my services. That's great. But honestly, I'd much rather make a connection with new people and make some new friends, so feel free to hit me up and DMs are open. Sweet deal. I appreciate you coming on. It was awesome. Absolutely appreciate you having me. I do have.