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• Bart and Sunny Miller • Season 1 • Episode 71

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The Most Important Tool You’ll Ever Own: How to Program Your Reality and Stay Human in the Age of AI

What if your thoughts weren’t just reactions to the world… but the actual code building it?

In this powerful episode of We Play Full Out, Bart and Sunny dive deep into the idea that your brain isn’t just a processor—it’s a projector. Drawing stunning parallels between computer programming and human consciousness, they explore how thoughts, emotions, and beliefs quietly construct the reality we live in, line by line, moment by moment.

You’ll hear jaw-dropping real-life cases of the placebo and nocebo effects, including a man who died because he believed he had terminal cancer - only to be discovered cancer-free at autopsy. You’ll discover why your memories don’t live inside your brain, and what that means about the nature of self, soul, and where your “data” is actually stored.

But this episode isn’t just philosophical—it’s incredibly practical.

You’ll learn:

  • Why your neuroplasticity is use-dependent and what happens when you stop challenging your mind
  • The hidden danger of outsourcing all your thinking to AI (and how to avoid becoming mentally obsolete)
  • How a group of under-resourced kids from violent neighborhoods kept winning national robotics competitions by being trained to think under pressure
  • A two-step protocol for strengthening both the “cloud” (your inner world) and the “computer” (your cognitive muscles)

If you’ve ever wondered how to keep your edge in an increasingly automated world…

If you’ve ever felt like you were losing touch with your own intuition or mental stamina…

If you want to use AI as a tool, not a crutch…

This episode will wake you up, wire you in, and help you remember the one thing no machine can replicate:

Your consciousness.

Let’s go.

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Speaker 1:

Welcome to. We Play Full Out with Bart and Sunny Miller. Take it away, Sunny.

Speaker 2:

Thanks, Bart you bet. Did you know that computer programming is a fascinating skill?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it is. It's really a fascinating skill. It's like music.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you sit down and through a coding language and the computer's operating system you can create a whole new reality.

Speaker 1:

It's so amazing.

Speaker 2:

What wasn't there is now there Virtual cash registers, banks, storefronts, shopping malls, virtual worlds, entire digital universes. None of it exists until someone writes and executes the code. It's so good Now our brains work the same way. Our executes the code. So good, now our brains work the same way. Our thoughts are the code, our emotions are the operating system and our beliefs are the architecture. Every single day, whether we realize it or not, we're programming our reality and our future, line by line, thought by thought.

Speaker 1:

So good.

Speaker 2:

Yep. So what you think, you begin to see. What you believe, you begin to experience, and what you focus on, you begin to attract. Now, with that in mind, can we agree that our brains are the absolutely most powerful tool we have at our fingertips?

Speaker 1:

Oh boy, I think we've understood it, but not at the dimension. We're starting to understand it today.

Speaker 2:

Right. So I think one of the clearest demonstrations of this and I think it's so clear because you can see the direct line between cause and effect is the placebo and the nocebo effects. So in clinical trials it's been proven that over 30% of patients experience real healing simply because they believe they're receiving real medicine Yep, even when it's just a sugar pill.

Speaker 1:

That's crazy, isn't it?

Speaker 2:

It's like I'm taking this into my body. I believe it's going to heal me.

Speaker 1:

Came from an authority.

Speaker 2:

It's going to heal me here we go, and what's fascinating is like our brains are a pharmacy. They trigger biological processes that mirror the effects of the actual drug. On the flip side is the nocebo effect. In one study, participants were given a harmless substance and told it would cause specific side effects like headaches, dizziness and nausea, and, believe it or not, 70% of them reported those symptoms. So nuts it should have caused none of it.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

There was a study done where one patient participated in a clinical trial for antidepressants. Now he believed that he overdosed on this experimental medication and he developed severe symptoms of hypotension and he was hospitalized for it Dang. But then as soon as it was revealed to him that he ingested placebo pills, his symptoms went away quickly, crazy.

Speaker 2:

Another fascinating story, and I think there's lots of these. There was a man named Sam Lond and he was a former shoe salesman from Nashville, Tennessee and he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. Shoe salesman from Nashville, tennessee and he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. Now his physician, dr Clifton Meter, informed him that the disease was terminal, and then he delivered the heartbreaking news that he only had a few weeks to live. Now Lund passed away in that timeframe. However, during the autopsy, it was discovered that his esophagus was actually cancer-free and I guess there were some minor cancerous spots on his liver and one on his lung, but they were not sufficient to have caused his death. Therefore, the only conclusion that Dr Meador could come to was that he died with cancer, but not from cancer, suggesting that the belief in the terminal diagnosis was what caused his death. So what's happening here?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, like you said, the power of the brain is what's happening here.

Speaker 2:

Yep the mind isn't just reacting to reality, it's creating it. And if that's true, if belief alone can harm or heal the body, then how much weight should we be giving to our inner world?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and some of the beliefs that aren't even ours.

Speaker 2:

Yep. So I would say definitely more than we give to our inbox our social media, our sales strategies or even our endless to-do lists.

Speaker 1:

Amen to that.

Speaker 2:

And this is why, as we play full out in our lives, we say spend twice as much time on your mind as you do on your business or even your everyday routines, because your mindset is your business, your mindset is your reality.

Speaker 1:

It is your reality 100%.

Speaker 2:

Okay, I love this topic, that you discussed it inner circle. Okay, cut open a brain.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so good right, what's in there? What's legitimately when you cut open a matter, that's it in a brain.

Speaker 2:

Would you find the person?

Speaker 1:

Thoughts.

Speaker 2:

Would you find memories, dreams, regrets or ambitions Right? Would you see the image of their first kiss or the fear they felt in a childhood accident? There's no folder in the brain that stores who they are, so where is it, Bart?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it's in that Google cloud, right, it's up there, or you know it's around us and existing, because you know, if you take, most people's beliefs are accountable to something, so therefore they've got to be somewhere.

Speaker 2:

Where or?

Speaker 1:

how would you be accountable to them, right? So I say they're in the Google Cloud.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, it's not stored in the brain, it's stored through the brain like a conduit.

Speaker 1:

Yep.

Speaker 2:

Just like your computer doesn't store all your data on the desktop anymore, your identity, your identity, your perceptions and your sense of self don't live in your biology. They're strained from somewhere else. Some call it consciousness, some call it the soul, you call it the cloud.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, no-transcript when it's being stored.

Speaker 2:

And it sounds like a metaphor for the cloud, but it's not. Our technology mimics our biology. Do you want to talk about that?

Speaker 1:

So our technology and our houses and our cars, everything mimic our biology, and what we mean by that is is that you have a heater, you have air conditioners, you have a way that's fueled, you have all these going through well, you know like we got power coming into the house.

Speaker 2:

That's power, your nervous system is kind of your wiring system, your electrical system.

Speaker 1:

You can all go back to everything, and it's all stored in a house, it's all in a car, it's all. Everything that's created is based off of the human body.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so we upload our memories and our moments to the cloud, with our photos and our videos, just like our brain uploads experience to something much greater and more expansive.

Speaker 1:

Right.

Speaker 2:

When you sleep, when you meditate, when you pray, when you dream. That's when downloads come through. You don't get genius out of thin air. You connect to something and that something is the same intelligence. Our modern AI is trying to replicate, and yet it will never be able to match the depth of it.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it's pretty interesting because, like a computer, can the code just come in without rebooting. No, no. Does it take time to download?

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

Boom. So all these things mimic the exact same process we go through as a human.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yep, because you're not just the brain and body, you are a human with access to something higher. Okay, we're going to flip the script a little. We're going to go to part two. So, while you connect to the cloud, you must also strengthen the computer. So here's what we're seeing right now. As AI becomes more and more integrated into our everyday lives, the temptation is to outsource our critical thinking.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and so what we've got to do is not avoid it. Right, there are certain things we can outsource, but we still have to take time every day. It's like going to the gym and work on critical thinking, work on the brain, because the brain is what we're competing against. It used to be brawn, now it's really the brain, if you want to keep up with certain things.

Speaker 2:

Yes, Because, um, like you were saying, if you, if you outsource all this critical thinking, like you know, you can go to chat GPT now and have a solution to your problem in less than two seconds. So why problem solve when a tool can give you a dozen strategies? Right, Absolutely. But when you stop using your brain to wrestle complex ideas, solve problems, engage in deep worker learning on and on right, your brain actually begins to prune the unused pathways. Yep, Just like unused muscles atrophy, unused mental pathways begin to fade and rigidity begins to set in. That means your neuroplasticity in your brain, which allows you to grow and adapt and learn new things, slows down. In other words, your software is not getting an update. Exactly Right.

Speaker 2:

So true, you know, and that's why you, my grandmother, always swore by doing crossword puzzles or knitting or doing different things, because she said, I've got to keep my, my capacity awake, and so we used to have an older couple who lived next to us and they'd always invite us over to play Rummikub.

Speaker 1:

And that was.

Speaker 2:

That was their way of like.

Speaker 1:

I got to.

Speaker 2:

You know, this is one thing that connects our brains and keeps us, keeps it going, keeps the neuroplasticity alive. We just got back from Inner Circle and there was a I think he's a former principal. Yes, he's not a principal now, correct. So he's a former inner city school principal, and his students came from neighborhoods filled with violence, poverty and a lack of resources, but his students would go on to win, I believe, national robotics competitions every year, yep, and this is what they would do. Do you want to say what you tell?

Speaker 1:

Okay, so what happened is that he learned something in the process that, at all these competitions, what would happen is it would always have a robot that would break and things would break, and that would would cause the team to lose. And so, anyway, what he decided to do is he would absolutely take all the robots apart and run different scenarios so that these kids had to learn how to fix everything in case something broke or, you know, the programming wasn't going or whatever it might be. So they were aware of all the things that could happen. So when they got there, what was funny is, every time there was something broke, they were the fastest ones to get it back put together and could win the competitions.

Speaker 1:

But, it was because he took them through. These exercises is what set them apart from the other students that had never, ever had to take them apart and put them back together and figure all this stuff out. They were just worried about running the robot and they were thinking about what could happen to the robot.

Speaker 2:

Well, I want to say they sabotaged the robots on their first competition the night before they would break them without telling the kids.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, right, yeah, they did this several times, but yeah, that's one thing they also did, so they had to fix them. Yeah, one thing they also did, so they had to fix someone. Yeah.

Speaker 2:

They had their backs up against the wall, didn't have time to go research, it Didn't have time to Google, it Didn't have time to do anything Forced them to use their brains to critically think, and keep that going.

Speaker 1:

Yep, really cool, so good. All right, and we don't do it enough.

Speaker 2:

No, because it takes work and it takes energy.

Speaker 1:

It does take a lot.

Speaker 2:

So here's what we recommend. There's this two-step process Because, as we talked about in the first part, we need to strengthen our minds, and I like to think about this as like connecting to your Wi-Fi right. How do you get to the cloud? You got to have Wi-Fi, so what do you do to do that Spend? At least 15 minutes a day in silence. Silence is powerful.

Speaker 1:

So powerful.

Speaker 2:

Journal, meditate or just breathe and observe.

Speaker 1:

Listen. Yeah, in fact, russell even said he had a huge problem, spent all this thing, everything like that, finally sat in silence and in five minutes he figured out the answer to the problem.

Speaker 2:

And he's like whoa I should sit in silence more often.

Speaker 1:

Right, it's the power of silence.

Speaker 2:

Watch your thoughts like data. Which ones are serving you, which ones are quietly sabotaging you?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so are you getting bad code or are you keeping good code?

Speaker 2:

Yep what code is coming in and what needs to be repaired or deleted? Yep, what is it called when you do that on a computer?

Speaker 1:

What delete it All of a sudden.

Speaker 2:

You know how you used to have to go through and like run a program.

Speaker 1:

Word of the trash? Yeah, it would be antivirus is what it was.

Speaker 2:

It was something that would like clean out all the old stuff that like was slowing your computer down. I can't remember what it's called. Replace one negative belief with a new one each week. Yep, you know? I read a statistic recently that said that like 88% of our thoughts are negative self talk.

Speaker 1:

That is bad code. Oh man, that will only spread.

Speaker 2:

Right, it's like a virus. Get rid of the virus. Install the antivirus.

Speaker 1:

The McAfee virus on there, okay.

Speaker 2:

So the other part is to train your brain. Tackle one problem this week without AI, just you, your whiteboard and your logic.

Speaker 1:

Or actually get the AI responses too and actually make sure they're true.

Speaker 2:

Yep, I have come across some that are inaccurate. And when I say hey, that's wrong, they're like, oh, oh yeah, oh yeah, this has been updated. I'm like, nope, still wrong. They're like, oh, oh yeah. I'm like, okay, you're not helping me Totally. Do one hard thing daily a riddle, a puzzle, a strategy game or a challenging conversation. Listen to a book on Audible at two times the speed. It keeps your brain going.

Speaker 1:

You got to keep up, got to think faster.

Speaker 2:

Learn something manually, write it out, draw it, teach it back to yourself. Another thing is music. Sit down and play an instrument.

Speaker 1:

Yep, so good.

Speaker 2:

Mm-hmm. So the bottom line is AI will accelerate those who know who they are. Yep, it will amplify the creators, the thinkers and those who are self-aware, but it will also replace the passive, the reactive and the mentally disengaged.

Speaker 1:

Love that so much, so what I'm hearing is play more pickleball.

Speaker 2:

Yes. Because you know that was in the bottom line of everything I was just saying.

Speaker 1:

Exactly. That's why I was just letting everybody know.

Speaker 2:

Play more pickleball.

Speaker 1:

Critical thinking movement in the body racket sports.

Speaker 2:

And eye coordination Eye coordination for the brain.

Speaker 1:

We're on to something here.

Speaker 2:

I think so. So if you'd like our new pickleball course, you can log in Right. Here's the URL. How to activate your our new pickleball course you can log in Right. Here's the URL.

Speaker 1:

How to activate your brain through pickleballcom Yep.

Speaker 2:

I like it. So the real question is are you using AI to escape your brain or to expand it? Your greatest advantage isn't your tools, it's your consciousness. Amen, take care of it, train it and trust it, and play full out, let's go, let's go, cause we play full out. Yep All right Life updates.

Speaker 1:

Life updates are. We went to uh Salt Lake. We spent time there with Chris Crone, uh at his amazing house and really got to be around some really, really neat individuals and learn a lot. While we're there, I was able to speak in front of the group, have a breakout session, also met a branding expert that we're going to be doing our branding stuff with and changing everything up, which was really awesome. Learned something new about myself as being a seer versus being a generator, which is really cool A projector I believe is the term Projector.

Speaker 1:

So, that was really fun. And then we went from there to um boise, idaho. We had an airbnb one of our dear friends was so cool to like help us with, and then, um, we stayed with them, fred and jacklyn, and best oh man, these guys, you guys talk about just you know, there's levels of friends, yeah, and then there's levels of friends and these guys are just the most awesome friends.

Speaker 1:

So so grateful. We got to spend time with them, we got to talk business, we got to have fun together, just enjoy each other's company. That was a real highlight for for us. So so grateful for that. And then we obviously did inner circle meetings. Learned a lot of things from that. Also met some other people there that we hadn't seen for a while and got to know some new people. Then we played pickleball a few different nights. We even had an inner circle pickleball group, which was a lot of fun. It's a big shout out to matt fru for hosting us and doing that. Thank you very much. And then we uh, we came home and got home, xander had the house clean, which was absolutely awesome. Um, xander did tryouts.

Speaker 1:

He had to get to tryouts for his instruments for next year's auditions. He got a 10 out of 10 and 9 out of 10 and a 9 out of 10 yeah, so, so he crushed that and so, other than that, I think those are the major life updates. I think so. Things are greening up around here. Still a little chilly today, but you can see, it was cold.

Speaker 2:

yesterday we had snow.

Speaker 1:

You can see spring. You can start to see little flowers starting to come out.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, my favorite thing See all the fun things, so we love that.

Speaker 1:

So I think those are the major ones. Can you think of anything?

Speaker 2:

I missed. No, I think that's it.

Speaker 1:

Cool, all right. Well, if that's it, then I'm going to wrap it up, okay. So, once again, you guys, if you feel inclined, please pass this on to somebody else. It's the only way that we get the newsletter spread out. If you have an email list or something like that, and you want to talk about one of these subjects, send this newsletter out and and let us help share our information with them. Would be great. Um, if you want to be on the podcast, we are looking for couples right now that are playing full out in different ways of their life, so please reach out to us, let us know that. And, uh, I think that's it, but we greatly appreciate you and look forward to you in being in one of our programs, coming to one of our events, and with that, we'll end by this segment sponsored by I Do Epic.

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