The Mind as a Computer: Operating Systems and Potential

The mind operates like a computer, often limited by preset programming from early life experiences.

### Unlocking Your Mind: The Computer Analogy for Personal Growth
* 💻 "Your mind is like a computer, with multiple layers of software, from **basic apps** to **deeper operating systems**."
* 📱 At the surface level, people often rely on simple applications, similar to how **basic smartphone apps are designed for ease of use**, allowing even the least tech-savvy individuals to function.
* 🧠 Many individuals remain stuck using the pre-installed "apps" of their upbringing, such as **beliefs and values instilled during the first 20 years of life**, without seeking to upgrade or change them.
* 🔧 Beneath the app layer lies the operating system, which represents the **foundational worldview shaped by education and environment**, limiting one's potential to a **fraction of what is possible**.
* 🌍 Various operating systems, whether secular, religious, or scientific, all impose constraints on personal growth, with the best scenarios only allowing for a **maximum potential of about 3%**.
* 🚀 To achieve significant improvements in life, one must go beyond mere app rearrangement and actively seek to **upgrade their operating system** or even **jailbreak their mind** to explore new possibilities.
* 🔍 Actualize.org aims to guide individuals in this deeper exploration, emphasizing the **importance of understanding and transforming the core beliefs and systems** that govern their lives.
* 💡 "Don't underestimate the power of **even a single idea** to change your life," as new ideas can lead to **profound transformations** and the unlocking of **human potential**.

Your mind is like a computer. I really like this analogy. We can take this analogy very far. Once you realize that your mind is like a computer, you can appreciate that in a computer. And we could be talking about a desktop computer or a smartphone. It doesn't really matter. They're both

computers. Uh, your computer has multiple layers of software in it. At the surface layer, it just has your basic apps. Microsoft Word or your Facebook app or something like that. Just the basic apps that you use. These are these are apps that your grandma can use

without too much thought. Basically, the apps on your iPhone are designed for the for the dumbest people on the planet so they could still click with their fat fingers and still get something accomplished and buy something. That's how these apps are designed. And I

mean that's fine. That's good. We want the apps to be simple. But but also I mean this is this is the level of interaction at which most people are living their life. Is it the level of using apps? The apps that And then for most people

it's even worse than that. It's like they use the apps. Imagine if you got a phone pre-installed with all the apps. You're not even You're so you're so irresponsible with your use of this phone that you don't even know how to install

an app. Maybe your grandma is like this, right? She doesn't know how to. And you got to do it for her. Um, but she but once you do install a few apps for her and she learned, you know, through some difficulty, she learns how to use a

couple of her favorite apps, okay, she gets that down and then she can use that and she can manage it. But then, you know, we need to install a new app, she doesn't know how to do that, or when something goes wrong with the old app it

needs to be updated, she doesn't know how to do that and she clings to the old app even though there's newer ones that came out that might be better because she doesn't want to learn how to use the better ones. So this is exactly what's happening with

most people around you, is that they see their mind has come pre-installed with apps as they were in the first 20 years of their development. All that stuff you learned in school, through your family, through your church, all the moral systems you learned, the worldview you learned, all the basic

science you did in history, all of that created a core, a core foundation and then programmed you with, with a bunch of these uh preset default settings. And really it goes the problem is much worse than just not being able to change an app on your phone, the problem is much

deeper because you have your app layer below that, you have the operating system layer, and then below that you have something even more fundamental which is like the BIOS, the kernel of the operating system itself, the assembly language in which the operating system is written, like the very lowest level

of hardware software interaction. And so, of course, most people have no idea how to code a new app, they couldn't design their own app if they're live dependent upon it, let alone how to change the operating system, recode the operating system, let alone how to actually get into the

like binary code of the BIOS and start to tinker around with that assembly language type of low-level code and so because of this, most people are going through life simply using the stuff that their mind was programmed with, not consciously programming their mind with new

software and then going even deeper than that, but but questioning the very foundation of their whole world view which would be like questioning the operating system, rewriting the operating system because you see your operating system was not something that you consciously designed for the first 20 years of your life, your

operating system was just what you were born with, you know, the instincts that you were born with as an animal, basically as a Homo sapien and then and then 20 years of schooling and various kinds of education and programming that resulted in some kind of operating

system for you. Whatever that is, if you were in a Christian environment you have a Christian operating system, if you were a Muslim you have a Muslim operating system, if you were an atheist you have an atheist operating system, if you were raised a scientist in a sort

of a scientific household where your parents were teachers or professors and they were very secular, then you have a secular operating system. But all of these are still operating systems, they're not all the same, some of them are worse than others, they have different pros and cons and

advantages and disadvantages, some of them are more conscious than other ones, some of them will limit you a lot more than other ones, but still, basically, all of them limit you severely even if you were raised in a high quality, like let's say your parents were

MIT professors and they raised you really well and read you all the good books and raised you with a nice high-quality secular modern worldview, you're still gonna max out your human potential at three percent whereas a Christian, they'll max it out at half a percent or a Muslim, half a

percent, all right? Um so don't go thinking that just because you were raised in a secular and you have a secular worldview that this now somehow um means that you're you're maxing yourself out, no, you're not. Um so you see the problem here is that if you

want to get significantly better results than the average or what you've already been getting for most of your life, if you want something, something drastically better, you can see how it's not going to be enough just to rearrange the apps on your phone, that will get you some results, but it's

not going to deeply, fundamentally change the way your phone operates. If you want to really change how your phone works, upgrade your operating system. Or if you really want to get fancy and you really want to do some cool stuff with your phone that is going to be blowing people's

minds, because see to blow people's minds, you just got to do something that their phone can't do. So how do you do that? Well, you got to root the phone, jailbreak the phone, and then you can do some really fancy stuff. I don't know if you've ever looked into

jailbreaking phones, uh, I've done it a few times on my older phones, um, and it's it's an interesting, it's an interesting experience, it's very technical, it can come with a lot of risks and problems. Um, yeah, you could spend, you can spend hours

and hours pouring through various kinds of technical documents and obscure esoterics, you know, programmer speak and jargon to try to understand how to unlock your phone, jailbreak your phone, and then how to install new operating systems and change various kinds of settings that

the manufacturer didn't want you to change. And that's really the heart of actualize.org. That's what makes it different than all the other common self-help teachings that you'll find out there is that yes, we talk about rearranging the software on your phone,

sometimes I give basic business advice, basic financial advice, basic career advice, basic love advice, sex advice, this sort of stuff. I give that advice sometimes, but really I only give you that advice to the extent that you need it in order to get more interested in actually working on the operating system

and ultimately what we want to do is we want to get down to the kernel level and start to tinker around there because that's where the real change happens. That's how you become superhuman is by tinkering around deep in there and understand this:

because we live in the dark ages. Nobody, almost nobody in society, in of all they don't even know this is possible. This is outside the realm of their possibility space. So even doctors and scientists and self-help gurus generally don't know that there's this

possibility. That's one problem. Uh, the other problem though is that they will actively discourage you from even trying this. They will fear monger about it. They will say it's impossible. They will say it's crazy. They will say it's a cult. They will say

It's a, it's some new age stuff. They will say it's just wishful thinking. They will say it's just philosophy and theory. It's just ideas after all. What can an idea really do to change your life? Don't underestimate the power of even a

single idea to change your life. New ideas will change your life. You

Your Mind's Operating System Can Be Upgraded, Just Like A Computer

Actualized Clips

The mind is compared to a computer with multiple software layers.

The surface layer contains basic apps like Microsoft Word or Facebook, easily used by most people.

Many people struggle to even install or update apps, clinging to outdated ones.

This is compared to people's reluctance to change their pre-installed mental 'apps' (beliefs, worldviews).

Beyond the App Layer: Operating System and BIOS

The analogy extends to deeper layers: the operating system and the BIOS (kernel).

Most people lack the ability to modify the operating system or the BIOS level code.

People mostly use pre-programmed mental software, failing to consciously program new software or question their worldview.

The operating system is shaped by upbringing and environment (religious, secular, etc.).

Rearranging apps (surface-level changes) provides limited results.

To fundamentally change, one must upgrade the operating system (deep-level changes).

The analogy of jailbreaking a phone represents reaching one's full potential.

Actualize.org focuses on working on the operating system and kernel levels for true transformation.

Most people are unaware of the possibility of deep self-improvement.

Many actively discourage such efforts, labeling them as impossible, crazy, or cult-like.

The speaker emphasizes the power of new ideas to transform lives.