How do you change a belief that holds you back?
Questioning and turning around beliefs that hold you back.
Axis: question the belief and look for counter-evidence … accept it and act anyway
Answers by date: 4 records in 2 sources, newest first; the answers above are the current ones. The advice was refined (2026), never reversed, in these records.
| date | who | answer | source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-30 | Ali | Ali says he had dismissed $50 million as unrealistic before running the numbers; broken down into hypothetical steps, the steps are still hard but feel doable rather than impossible. | If you're ambitious but feel stuck, please watch this 00:18:28 |
| 2026-09-30 | Ali | Ali says at almost every plateau a mentor or friend with an outside view pushed him to think bigger; his first response was always "that's not realistic", and listening to them broke the plateau. | If you're ambitious but feel stuck, please watch this 00:03:41 |
| 2026-09-10 | Ali | Ali came across the turnaround method in Byron Katie's The Work a few years ago, has experimented with it on and off, and finds it genuinely very helpful. | If you’re ambitious but inconsistent, please watch this 00:32:51 |
| 2026-09-10 | Nir Eyal | After the four questions Nir does a turnaround: ask whether the exact opposite could also be true, not to convince yourself of anything untrue but to collect a portfolio of perspectives. | If you’re ambitious but inconsistent, please watch this 00:29:53 |
Timeline notes
- Ali: first recorded event is refine (earlier stance may be outside 2016–2026 or unrecorded)