Neuroplasticity will make you a millionaire

The title says “millionaire.” That might make you think this will be easy.

It won’t be.

Becoming wealthy is hard, and no essay can make you a millionaire. But this one can rewire your brain to do the hard things that will.

Most people fail to make real money because their brain f*cks them. Neuroplasticity unf*cks it.

Neuroplasticity is your brain’s ability to rewire itself based on what you repeatedly think and do. In plain English: your brain becomes whatever you train it to become.

Let me explain in simple terms so you can increase your level of wealth.

The weird sportswoman who changed the meaning of neuroplasticity

I am a millionaire. But it’s not because of any hack or business idea.

Years ago, I spent the last money I had on a Tony Robbins seminar. It was there I learned the word neuroplasticity. After I heard the explanation, I was on a high for weeks. I couldn’t believe how powerful it was.

It felt like I had found the key to the human genome and could cure cancer.

Recently, I came across a skier with the same obsession with neuroplasticity that I have. Her name is Eileen Gu and she said this:

*You can control what you think. And you can control how you think. And therefore you can control who you are.

And especially as a young person, like I’m 22, so with neuroplasticity on my side, I can literally become exactly who I want to be….

I’m always trying to think how can I approach my own brain the way that I approach my craft of free skiing, so that I can be better tomorrow than I was today.*

Before she said this, critics dismissed Eileen as nothing more than a Barbie doll model.

After she said this, everyone had respect for her. She explained what it takes to succeed at anything, including wealth.

The answer: rewiring your mind with the power of neuroplasticity.

Eileen is now a 22 year old millionaire because of neuroplasticity. No one is laughing at her anymore.

The gang member who became a multimillionaire

John was a gang member as a teenager.

His life of crime and drugs led him down a dark path. He got a job earning $1.65 an hour. Then he met a man named Alan Brown.

Alan didn’t hand him money. He didn’t hand him a job. He handed him a challenge: change what’s happening inside your head.

So John Assaraf did something strange. Every day, for one hour, he trained his mind. He called it “the inner game.” He unlearned the kid he’d been. He rehearsed the wealthy man he wanted to become.

It sounds cringe, and woo-woo. The results weren’t.

Within a single year, he went from $1.65 an hour to $300,000.

That’s not a raise. That’s a different life.

And he didn’t stop.

He went on to co-write a book claiming the same mental methods were behind 18 multimillion-dollar companies He now says the businesses he’s been part of have generated billions in revenue.

Billions. From a kid who couldn’t finish school.

But here’s the part almost nobody notices.

When John was doing his daily hour, he had no idea what he was doing. Not scientifically. The word he now uses for it hadn’t gone mainstream.

The word is neuroplasticity.

Today he runs a company called NeuroGym. His entire empire is built on one idea: that the brain can be rewired, deliberately, through repetition.

He wasn’t selling the idea back then. He was proving it on himself. The gang kid didn’t get lucky.

He got rewired with neuroplasticity.

Neuroplasticity is the answer to money problems

I have this debate all the time with people.

The answer to money problems isn’t to save money in a bank account, or cut your expenses.

There’s only so far that’ll get you before you’re eating beans and rice for every meal in your undies and living like a bum.

And with the rising cost of living plus inflation, it’s becoming mathematically impossible to get ahead with this strategy.

The answer to money problems is to make more money.

“Geez, thanks, Tim, you f*cking w*nker.” That’s what you’re thinking. But hear me out. If the answer is just to make more money, then what stops people? It’s not money, resources, the right opportunity, or daddy’s connections. No.

I’ve learned the hard way that what stops people making more money is their mind.

It’s what stopped me from making more money for a decade. I had all these stories in my head about why I couldn’t do it.

Why I was a victim. Why my environment determined my outcome. Why I was born to be poor. Why being an introvert stopped me from self-promoting or networking my way to better career opportunities.

It was all bullsh*t.

Your brain is programmed with a scarcity mindset by default. You’re forced to see everything as a huge risk and to let your caveman brain turn every opportunity into a tiger at your front door ready to eat you for dinner.

Without neuroplasticity your default brain wiring will run. And it will ruin your money situation.

Think of it like this: Every human is born faulty with this sh*tty scarcity mindset. At some point, everyone who gets wealthy reprograms their brain using neuroplasticity, whether they realize it or not.

If your brain can’t get out of caveman mode, it can never make any real money.

The result will be an addiction to certainty and comfort in the form of a salary.

A 9-5 job is modern slavery. It’s how most people earn money, and it works by turning their own minds against them.

Once you understand and use neuroplasticity, you can never work any kind of 9-5 job ever again. You’re permanently unemployable like me. Your mind is able to see abundance everywhere and turn it into opportunity.

Someone asked me the other day what would happen if I went bankrupt. They assumed my answer would be to go back to banking and get a job with my original mentor. But that’s not what I told them.

I said, “If I lost everything, I’d go straight back to the internet and find a new opportunity to pursue because that’s faster and simpler than starting again by climbing the corporate ladder.”

That’s the power of neuroplasticity right there. You can never go back to the old life. You can never see money the same way again.

Push your brain to its absolute limit

Becoming wealthy is just like any other goal. It’s hard.

You need an extreme level of self-improvement, the right habits, and the right mindset.

Over the last 12 years, I’ve interacted with more than 400,000 people online. The main blocker to wealth I’ve seen is how far someone is willing to go.

Most people will not go to their limit. They will avoid stress, uncertainty, and anxiety at all costs because they’ve been taught that these feelings are bad.

But to get wealthy you must expand your mind.

Neuroplasticity only works when you push your brain to the limit. When you try new things. When you break through pain barriers. When you struggle. When you accept more failure and rejection.

Everyone thinks dumb-dumb consistency is the key to wealth.

That’s not enough.

Consistency without going to your limit and letting neuroplasticity work in your favor still leads to poverty.

Yet every self-help book cr*ps on about consistency like it’ll kiss you on the t!ts and give you an orga$m without ever touching you. Wrong.

Consistently novel experiences are the real cheat code.

The hidden trigger for neuroplasticity that unlocks wealth

Zey Percyyy on Threads said this:

*The fastest way to trigger neuroplasticity isn't playing brain games or reading research papers. It's forcing your brain to fail repeatedly at something you have zero natural talent for.

High frustration is the literal chemical signal that forces synaptic rewiring.*

Mind blown.

The opposite of what we’ve been told triggers neuroplasticity.

Your rate of failure must be unusually high. And you must chase goals you have zero natural talent for.

How often do you hear that advice? Never.

Yet people like me, who’ve used neuroplasticity to become millionaires, know this at a deep level. It’s illogical on the surface.

And it even sounds crazy.

That’s why it works. Doing hard things is at the core of neuroplasticity, which is why everyone who chases easy money or passive income is broke.

Easy = No Neuroplasticity

Someone tell all the day traders (gamblers) who are trying to beat Wall Street :)

Neuroplasticity works faster under high emotional intensity.

If you can resist a craving when it's at its peak, you get a bigger rewiring effect. This is why the hardest moments matter most, they're not setbacks, they're high-voltage opportunities to change

– Leo | Phalanx Labs

Repeat the actions of a wealthy person

Your brain is rewiring itself right now around whatever you repeat.

• Check your phone 80 times a day and you train distraction.

• Avoid hard things and you train avoidance.

• Pitch your offer every morning and you train a business owner.

Your brain doesn’t give a f*ck about your goals, your vision board, or your Lambo screensaver.

It only cares about what you did today.

Wanting money is useless. Repeating the actions of a wealthy person is everything. That’s what most people miss.

They wait to feel like an entrepreneur before they act like one. It’s backwards.

Act first. Identity catches up later.

Week one will feel like friction. Weeks two and three feel familiar. By week four the new behavior starts running on autopilot.

Most people quit right before the wiring locks in. Don’t be one of them. If it still feels hard, that means it’s working.

A broke brain was built by repetition. So is a rich one.

Same machine, different reps. The only question that matters is what you’re training yours to become. Do the work. Do it daily. Let your brain do the rest. The money follows the wiring.

Your brain gets better at whatever you repeat. If you spend hours every day worrying about worst-case scenarios, your mind becomes an expert at finding things to worry about – Raj Shamani

There’s a huge downside to neuroplasticity

I’m not here to sugarcoat neuroplasticity.

With every tool there’s a downside. If you constantly label yourself a failure, a reject or a victim, neuroplasticity will work in reverse. It’ll reinforce these dire labels and make them your reality.

The path out of this hellhole is to be delusional enough to label failure, tragedy, or rejection as a data point rather than part of your life or personality.

When you say “this making money thing is hard” you trigger the amygdala (fear).

When you instead say “what’s the first step?” you trigger your prefrontal cortex (problem-solving). Wealthy people make money by solving problems for others. This means they predominantly operate from their prefrontal cortex, not their amygdala.

Wealthy people are problem solvers, not problem creators. The difficulty of problems you can solve with your skills and experience determines your level of wealth.

The bitter truth (that’ll trigger the haters)

Money is a direct outcome of your level of neuroplasticity.

And you control whether neuroplasticity works for you or against you. Most people are financially defeated in their minds long before the debt, redundancy, or economy ever messes with their bank account. It sounds harsh but it is true.

The hippies in the 70s said, “Money is the result of your mindset, man.” These bong-smoking potheads were half right. Money is a result of neuroplasticity.

Understand it, and you experience enormous wealth. Be ignorant of neuroplasticity, and it’ll guarantee you work a modern slave job until 65 and retire on a pension the government can’t actually even afford to fund.

I understand this reality isn’t what you normally hear, especially from a potty-mouthed Aussie who quit his job forever at 34.

And it’s probably what nobody wants to hear. But logically, you already understand your mind runs your life. So it makes sense that if you can tame your mind, you can reach any goal, financial or not.

You become a millionaire after you rewire your brain with neuroplasticity (not before).

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