Reticular Activation System -- Following The Yellow Brick Road

One of the trippest things about constant self-actualization is the whole "Reticular Activation System" phenomenon.

What is Reticular Activation System?? Well first, it's a big mouthful of a word like Real Social Dynamics.

But it's even more than that...... :)

Basically, RAS is what filters out information you don't need and focuses in on what you DO -- so that you're able to tune into the things that are both most valuable and most threatening to you, and keep yourself alive.

Is there something valuable around like a hot girl or your favourite food?

RAS tunes into it...

Did you hear a gun shot go off?

RAS tunes into that too.......

Incidentally, while writing The Blueprint I spent about 6 weeks working through explaining RAS only to later FIND OUT that it had already been identified, explained, and even given a name (RAS) by other psychologists.

I knew it existed because when I talk to a girl and I have more value than the guy she's with, she'll tune him out and focus in on me.

Even if he yells over me so that I can't hear myself talk, the girl will somehow be able to hear the frequency of what I'm saying and blank out the obnoxious guy.

Seriously, this stuff is sooooooooo weird, but once you recognize it you'll find yourself seeing it constantly.

Again, it's RAS that makes you suddenly start constantly noticing it......

Anyway, the whole RAS thing is also why the rule of focus on what you want, not on what you don't want is so massively, utterly important.

When you're focused on what you want, your RAS eventually leads you to find the solution.

In my case, learning the whole "success with women" journey has been about a five year personal odyssey.

I'd constantly have all sorts of crippling sticking points that I couldn't find my way around. Maybe I could get attraction but not a phone number. Maybe a number but not a second meet. Later it became getting girls home but I could never seal the deal.

And all that, to be honest, was the least of it.......

I also had goals like learning to be more chilled out, positive thinking, and natural. That was even more difficult, but it allowed me to become a "natural" with women who really *does* very little when I talk to them other than just to *be* who I am.

Beyond success with women, there was also the personal odyssey of writing my book. With the book I was constantly circling around various concepts, unable to figure out the missing pieces.

It almost drove me to the brink of insanity on some nights......

Funny enough, a lot of the answers I came to were ALREADY OUT THERE and fairly well known by lots of people. I'd just never previously been aware of them.

Take the concept of "ego" for example.

I had all these principles and definitions laid out, like "situational confidence" and "response junkies" and "external pillars of reality" -- and constantly circled around them trying to find the link between all of them.

This tee-ed up the old "RAS" and finally lead me to the concept of "ego" -- which tied everything together for me in a way that went "click" in my brain.

The day that I finally, finally, finally, finally "GOT" what an ego was, I linked all the concepts together and had a fucking barn-burner meltdown spiritual epiphany.

I basically laughed my ass off for like four days straight, and f-ing KILLED IT in the nightclubs. I can't tell you how weird this was.

Later my ego started to take grip again because I couldn't process that all the noise that had been in my head for years and years had just disappeared, and my brain started to go hay-wire.

I got super stressed and became ill for a few days, and then later snapped out of it and landed at a sort of middle point between my previous state and my best one.

At that point I started seeking out books that could help me to backwards-engineer what it was that I'd been through.

What did I find??

Eckhart Tolle and various other authors who were already out there, articulating what I'd experienced in vivid detail.

See, it was the same with the book "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand, which taught me the necessary creative mindsets I'd need to reach a higher level with my book.

I only FOUND these absolutely vital resources because I knew what I wanted, and RAS eventually pointed me in the right direction.

Personally I have full faith that you can accomplish whatever you set your mind to accomplish, EVEN IF YOU HAVEN'T THE SLIGHTEST CLUE OF HOW YOU'LL DO SO, just so long as you focus on WHAT YOU WANT and put yourself in a position where have absolutely no choice but to succeed.

In my case, I'll travel to different locations and put myself into various situations to keep stimulating my brain with new input until it finds the answers or creative inspirations that it needs.

As long as the "RAS" is dialed properly, I just bombard with outside-the-box input until something clicks.

That's also why I advise people who are supremely dedicated towards accomplishing a personal goal to travel and get as much new mental input as humanly possible.

It's often during these experiences that people find their "missing piece"........

I've always got SOMETHING I'm working on. Something edgy. Something fun.

The process I'm talking about here -- it's the process that I have TOTAL FAITH IN in order to get this stuff done.

Of course, this stuff isn't always the most comfortable. When there's something I really want, I oftentimes find my brain feeling like it's a computer about to overheat and explode.

My thoughts will just go and go compulsively, even waking me up in the middle of the night, until the challenge has worked itself out.

It's something I've had to learn to harness over time, as well as to redirect outwardly so the process is mostly "outside of my head" and done "in the moment" rather than using up all my mental energy.

Is this making sense?? Maybe it warrants another article.

Anyway, it's not always easy.........

But hey, I've really haven't got much else better to do... My mind craves stimulation and experiences, and life is just so damned short.


Tyler