the law of attraction has become widelypopular due to the success of the secretwhich was a book that has sold over 19million copies it states that if youwant something to happen you just haveto believe and think about it reallyhard and your thoughts will manifest itwhether it be events things or evenpeople if you believe in it hard enoughit will happen but just how true is thelaw of attraction I think that the lawof attraction is 90% correct I don'tagree with how it says that yourthoughts manifest things with the powersof the universe because frankly in myopinion it's common sense why it workssee we have a thing right here at thetop of our heads called a brain I liketo think of the brain as aproblem-solving machine because that'swhat it is that's what it specializes inthat's how our DNA has survived the testof time for millions of years by havinga way to solve all of the obstacles andproblems that come your way you give youbrain a problem it starts solving itit's cold ok we need to build a fire andshelter we're hungry ok we need to findfood somehow you want to pass on yourgenes ok we need to find a mate and thegreat thing about our problem-solvingmachine is that it's the best type ofproblem-solving machine on the entireplanet out of the 8 million otherspecies on this planet we're at the topof the food chain because that's justhow good our problem-solving machine ison top of that each of us shares about99.9 percent of the coding of thisproblem-solving machine or as we like tocall it DNA with every other human onearth even great scientists greatathletes and powerful powerful people soit's safe to say that the majority ofpeople share an equally powerfulproblem-solving machine the reason thelaw of attraction works is becausethat's just how good we are at solvingproblems if you give your problemsolving machine a task to complete itstarts looking around your environmentfor things that solve this problem whichis why people who decide to lose weightand start envisioning themselvesskinnier suddenly find themselvessurrounded with more opportunities tolearn about weight loss they say wow itmust be the law of attraction workingthe powers of the universe all of theseforum posts about ketosis orintermittent fasting or the coincidenceof bumping into someone who gives youfitness advice it's not the universethat'ssetting you up those opportunities havealways been there it's just that younever noticed them until you startedthinking about weight loss all the timeand this law can be applied to justabout anything you want to be rich thinkabout it and imagine yourself becomingrich you want a girlfriend think aboutit and imagine yourself alreadysucceeding and boom you'll get agirlfriend now you might say well thisisn't true there's tons of things I wantand think about then never come aroundwell that's because the law ofattraction isn't a hundred percentaccurate you can't just think and poofsomething appears in front of you thereare four mistakes that people make whichstop them from accomplishing whatever itis they want with the law of attractionnumber one they stop giving their brainproblems to solve if you look aroundthis is extremely common nowadays peoplego out drinking they spend hourswatching TV or Netflix and scrollingthrough social media they play videogames it's almost as if people arerunning away from reality they don'twant to sit down and contemplate whattheir problem-solving machine needs towork on next in fact it gets so anxiousabout the future they incapacitatethemselves in any way possiblethey're basically turning their machineoff so if you tell people you want to besuccessful and start your own companybut you spend six days a week under somesort of influence whether it be weedalcohol TV or pornyou're never gonna solve this problembecause guess what your machine isn'teven turned on the second mistake thatpeople make is that they try solvingunsolvable problems there's certainproblems your problem-solving machinecannot solvethere's simply no correct answer forexample let's say that you're in a toxicrelationship you've been together for along time but things have been sour fora while there's arguments breakupsgetting back together manipulation lackof trust you spend so much time worryingabout how to fix the relationship whenin reality it might be something thatyou can't really solve sometimes there'ssimply nothing you can do to fixsomething and it's best to just walkaway another example of an unsolvableproblem is trying to go back in time tofix something many of us spend largeperiods of time ruminating about thepast oh I should have done this in highschool or oh I should have said this toso-and-so when you do this you'retelling your problem-solving machine tosolve this problem but it canit's not possible there's no way you cango back in time and solve it so in theend you're just wasting more time thethird mistake is that people give theirbrain problems that contradict eachother I would say that this is actuallythe number one most detrimental mistakethat people make because it's somethingthat flies under the radar let's say forexample you want to be in a relationshipand you think about it all the time butat the same time you spend time thinkingabout why you don't deserve to be in arelationship most people who are singlewho really really really want to be in arelationship don't think they'reattractive or doubt their abilities tocourt a member of the opposite sex so inthis case you're telling a problemsolving machine to do two things numberone look for ways to get into arelationship number two look for proofthat I will never be in a relationshipthe solution to the second problemnegates the solution to the firstproblem in order to find proof thatyou'll never be in a relationship you'llstart acting in a way that will make itso that you won't be in a relationshipanother example of this is very presentin my group of childhood friends theyall say they want to own their ownbusiness and make a ton of money but atthe same time they don't believe takingrisk is safe nor possible so in thiscase they're telling their problemsolving machine to solve two problemsnumber one look for ways to start abusiness and make a ton of money numbertwo look for proof that taking risk isnot safe nor possible again your brainis unable to solve problem 1 when it'slooking for answers to problem 2 becauseif you're looking for proof that risk isnot possible you're gonna skip overevery opportunity that could haveeventually grown into a thrivingbusiness the fourth and final problempeople make is that they don't givetheir brain enough time to solve aproblem let's say your goal is to builda six-figure business realistically evenif you knew exactly what to do how longdo you think that would take you eventhe smartest and brightest would have towork for at least a year or two in orderto accomplish this goal from nothing butyou're not the smartest and you're notthe brightest and you don't know what todo so that means they'll take youanywhere from 2 to maybe even 10 yearsof constantly asking your problemsolving machine to solve this problem inorder to solve the problem people arevery impatient they think ok Law ofAttraction I'll think about mysix-figure business really hard for likea week or a month but if you ask anysuccessful business owner what the firstmonth of business was like for them theanswer is well it usually sucked reallybad but the reason they succeed is thatthey continue to ask the problem solvingmachine to solve this problem for aslong as it takes until it solves it thekey to making the law of attraction workfor you really comes down to yourability to turn on your problem-solvingmachine constantly ask it to solve oneproblem to clear your mind of any otherproblems that would contradict that oneproblem and to make sure that you'reasking a problem that can be solvedthat's why although all this magic we'lltalk about thinking and envisioning yourgoals sounds like it's actuallyvery powerful and effective because whenyou envision a goal and you're thinkingabout it all the time you're tellingyour problem solving machine I want thatso let's get to work and that's itit's simple