A Glitch In The Matrix

Why Your Mindset Might Be the Real Simulation (and How to Hack It)

Have you ever felt like the world was made just for you?

Not in a comforting way, but in a way that feels like it’s designed to grind you down, to test your limits, to see when you’ll break?

It’s not an uncommon feeling these days. Some call it learned helplessness. Others call it victimhood. But most of us just experience it as a general sense of pessimism, this creeping idea that the world is rigged against us.

But what if that idea is the trap?

What if the “simulation” isn’t some sci-fi supercomputer running the universe but your own mind running a broken program?

“I think, therefore I am.”

 Your perception is the filter through which reality takes shape. If you believe the world is against you, you’ll find proof of it everywhere. But if you believe it’s working with you, the same proof starts to look like opportunity.

As the old saying goes:

The man who believes he can, and the man who believes he can’t, are both right.

Isn’t that a kind of simulation in itself?

Lucid Dreaming and Real-Time Reality.

Ever experienced a lucid dream? That surreal moment when you become aware inside the dream and suddenly you can shape it?

Our waking life isn’t so different. Thoughts do create reality, just not always instantly. It’s like a slow-motion lucid dream, playing out in real time.

That’s why learning to control your thoughts is one of the most powerful skills you can develop.

In fact, it might be the only true control you have in this world.

And yet it’s the one skill we’re never taught.

Reframe Your Code.

Instead of thinking:

“I have to work today.” or “I have to go school.”

Try:

“I get to work today.” or “I get to go to school.”

At least you have something to work on. A place to go. A purpose even if it’s small. That shift in mindset is like rewriting the code of your simulation.

You can’t always control your environment. But you can always choose how to interpret it. And in that choice lies your power.

View it this way: in order to get what you want from life, you have to visualize the end goal.

They say the most difficult step is the first one. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and that doesn’t even include the persistence needed to actually reach the end.

More often than not, you’ll have to visualize each step along the way just to keep yourself moving forward.

You could be handed the fastest car with detailed instructions to get from point A to point Z, and still manage to fuck it all up. Because it’s not really about how you’re going to do it.

It’s about why you’re doing it.

Your “why” is what pushes you through the difficult parts, the very thing that separates pushing forward from giving up along the way.

Your “why” is what drives you to figure out the how in order to get from point A to point Z.

How does this work? Great question!

“Do or do not. There is no try.”

It took me years of pondering that statement to truly understand what it means.

Say you want to reach the top of a mountain. How will you accomplish that goal?

Walk? Climb? Fly?

How?

The truth is, most people begin the way entrepreneurs do by using what they already have.

When you start with the tools and resources available to you, you naturally begin to see more options appear. Each step reveals new possibilities you couldn’t have seen from the bottom of the mountain.

From there, it’s a process of elimination. You cut away the options that aren’t practical or feasible, and what remains becomes the best plan forward.

That’s what “Do or Do Not” really means.

When you say you’ll “try” to climb the mountain, you’ve already left space to quit. You’ve given yourself an excuse before you’ve even taken the first step.

But when you decide you will climb the mountain, failure isn’t the default anymore it’s just feedback. 

You may need to change your route, use different tools, or rest along the way, but the decision to reach the top doesn’t waver.

“Do” is a mindset. It’s commitment. It’s removing the back door of “try.”

Why is it that humanity seems to be the only part of nature that doesn’t always strive toward its maximum potential?

It’s because we have the freedom of choice.

The choice to improve our lives or the choice to do nothing.

No one else is going to value your life more than their own. No one is going to do the push-ups for you to get the body you want. No one can read the books or take the actions that turn you into a better version of yourself.

Deep down, most of us already know what we need to do. But instead of doing it, we complain about it. And in that resistance, we create needless suffering on top of the challenge itself.

So let’s pause and really consider this: why do people believe the things they believe? Why do some develop crippling insecurities while others move through the same events in life without being scarred?

Who programmed those beliefs in the first place?

Your teachers? Your parents? Your religion?

Or maybe mainstream media? Or worse social media.

We should always question what we’re being told and why.

Over time, everyone develops a bias, a sense of “normal” that the mind gets comfortable with. The tricky part is, we rarely notice it happening. It creeps in slowly, like a virus running in the background of our mental operating system.

Biases around race, sex, religion, class… little by little, they shape how we see ourselves and the world. And once they’re installed, they can be hard to detect let alone delete.

But what if the strongest bias we’ve developed is toward ourselves?

Think about it: “There’s no way she’d be interested in a guy like me.”

That’s a bias. It’s a belief unproven, yet deeply convincing that closes doors before they’re even touched.

To assume failure, to expect rejection, to doubt our own worth… that’s the kind of mind virus that quietly erodes our potential. Sometimes it develops over time, worn into us by repeated disappointment. Other times, it’s planted in an instant, a careless comment from someone close, a single painful experience that shatters belief in what could be.

Remember this: not every thought that pops into your head is worth believing.

Thoughts aren’t facts.

You can’t stop waves from crashing onto the shore any more than you can stop certain thoughts from appearing in your mind. But here’s the trick, analyze them. Ask yourself: Why am I thinking this? If it doesn’t serve you, then reframe it or let it go.

Like before, when you reframe a negative thought, you shift your beliefs. You go from “I can’t do that” to “I’m not there yet.”

This simple mental shift builds discipline. It trains your mind to persist toward the end goal. And like building muscle, it doesn’t happen instantly. It happens day after day, rep after rep.

There is no spoon.

Life will happen with or without you. Events aren’t obstacles, they're opportunities. And if you want to change the world, you must first change yourself.

So why is reframing negative thinking so important?

Simple.

Because without it, you’d never dare to strive beyond where you are right now.

What if I did a thousand push-ups? What if I started my own business? What if…?

If you don’t learn to reframe, you’ll never even do a single push-up, or crack open the first book about building that business.

This is the battle. The constant work of focusing your energy and directing your abilities toward your end goal.

In the end, this isn’t a quick battle, it’s a war of attrition against your own doubts and ideals.

And that’s why your WHY is the single most important piece in all of this.

With a strong why, you can hammer your way forward relentlessly.

It’s just like lucid dreaming: if you stay focused on the outcome you want, it’s as if reality itself begins to bend in that direction. The dream responds to your awareness.

Life works the same way. When you hold your vision with clarity, it pulls itself toward you and into realization.

That’s the hack. A Matrix-level cheat code that puts you on another level above the rest.

It’s more of a war of attrition against your ideals. It’s because of this that your WHY is the single most important piece in all of this.

You’ll be able to hammer a way through relentlessly with it.

Same as Lucid Dreaming if you retain your focus on what you want the outcome to be it in a sense will be pulled towards you and into realization. Only when we clearly see it will we have it.

A unique Matrix hack that puts you on another level above the rest.

So here’s your challenge: Today, catch one negative thought. Don’t believe it. Reframe it.

Rewrite the code. That single shift might just be the first step toward hacking your own simulation.

What’s your WHY? Drop it in the comments or write it down somewhere only you can see.

But whatever you do, don’t just “try.” Do.