Can a foreigner with a paradigm become US president?
I watched the videos.
What I couldn't get was this:
The claim was made that what you can do was determined by your paradigm.
So once you reprogram your paradigm you can achieve anything.
As if yours was the only one and nature and other people lacked paradigms of their own.
Let's put this to the test.
1. So I want to be President of the United States and have programmed my paradigm accordingly.
The minimum requirements for this, not including all the political organising and fundrasing, are as follows:
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/thepresidentandcabinet/a/presrequire.htm
I don't live in the USA. I wasn't born in the USA. Neither were my parents.
Now of course those rules are set by humans so can be changed (like segregration). It is not inconceiveable that the birth requirements are relaxed so that others can become president.
So no matter how hard I think, or change my paradigm, I will never be president of the USA with that rule in place, no matter how badly I want it.
(And of course I'd be right due to my small-mindset and refusal to believe and accept this as my paradigm!)
Changing the American born requirement requires influence over many other people (each who might have their own very strong paradigms about wanting to be president or at least who they want as president and will have to sacrifice those to me) to get a requirement changed, to run for president and then to get elected.
No it's not impossible, but is it not more constructive to get goals that are either equally hard but less selfish with greater community benefit (like Martin Luther King) or remain more self-centred but have a high probability of success (like what many investors aim at)?
You've worked out what needs to be achieved for a goal to happen.
You know it's doable.
So you believe in it.
And you make it happen.
The probability of obtaining a particular position is related to whether it is exclusive or not.
Being President of the USA is an exclusive position. If I am president, then you can't be at that time. Given there's elections every 4 years and the minimum age is 35, you've got 10 or 12 elections only to contest, unless they elect a 90 year old (which is not inconceiveable). But most presidential candidates contest far fewer elections (unless they're Ralph Nader)!
Whereas I can be a millionaire and you can be too. Unlike 'President' or the 'world's richest person' millionaire is a non-exclusive position so has vastly higher probability of success (proved because there are so many more of them).
2. A second example. I want to dive into the ocean with no SCUBA equipment and hold my breath for an hour underwater. I don't know why I want to do it, but I think it would be really cool and my mind reckons I can do it as it's in my new paradigm.
Do you think I can, or do you think nature has its own paradigms (worked out by people like Isaac Newton) that are stronger than yours?
3. I buy a house for $1m in an area where similar houses sell for $500k (so I've paid too much to start but I don't believe this). A year later, with no evidentiary basis, I've taught my paradigm that's it's worth $2m, even when the surrounding houses are still at $500k. Can a bigger fool help me out please as I believe in getting $2m for it 24/7?
To summarise, some of this paradigm stuff could be helpful with the right choice of goal.
But with unworkable goals the best paradigm in your mind won't help (as you're fighting much stronger paradigms of nature and other people).
Instead it could just as easily become a recipe for delusion and failure.