What If This is All. For. You.
Solipsism (In practice, Not just Philosophy)
There’s a philosophy called Solipsism.
It’s one I’ve resonated with like never before.
At its extreme, it says nothing exists except your own mind. Nothing.
Everything else, other people, the room you’re in, the world, the universe is just a projection of you.
Meaning this life you experience, is curated by you and you only.
Let me add this in, I don’t care much for whether philosophies are true or false, I care about if their application changes my life for the better.
If believing in ghosts benefited me, I’d be Ed Warren.
What matters is what happens when you act like it’s true.
You Get To Heaven and..
There’s a story about a man who dies and meets God.
The man asks God “What was the purpose of life?”
God says, “You.”
The man says, “Don’t you mean everyone?”
God smiles. “No. Just you.”
The man asks, the oceans? the galaxies? the great artists? the people who betrayed me? the accidents? the blessings?
“All for you,” God says.
This plants solipsism at the heart of this story, that your stream of consciousness, your life was made with this world curated and catered for you.. For you to make something of yourself and leave a dent in history while you’re here. What happens when you live like that’s true—just for a day?
You ever been disappointed by someone? Only to realize that disappointment was rooted in expectation, from guess who.. you.
Next thing you know, you learned, you grew, you calloused.
What happens when you look at the people who love you, the setbacks, the strangers, the detours and see them all as part of a custom-coded experience for you?
You stop being a victim of circumstance.
You start being a student of it.
You’re the Computer
Your brain is a computer running code.
It’s been programmed by your upbringing, your family, your environment, your experiences, your culture.
It’s constantly updating with new inputs.
And just like a computer, what you “see” depends on the code you’re running.
What you focus on becomes what you notice.
What you expect becomes what you experience.
Neuroscience even has a name for this: the Reticular Activating System (RAS).
It’s the part of your brain that acts like a filter for reality.
Tell it to look for red cars, and suddenly you see them everywhere.
Tell it the world is full of opportunity, and they start appearing too.
The world hasn’t changed.
You have.
Oh by the way, that “code” you’re running is tapped into the same one the Universe’s frequency runs off.
The World Is As You Are
Here’s where solipsism becomes practical.
If your “code” is scarcity, betrayal, and fear, you’ll find evidence for it everywhere.
If your “code” is abundance, connection, and possibility, you’ll see evidence for that too.
The world reflects back what you truly believe is true.
This isn’t magic. It’s mechanics.
Your attention shapes your perception.
Your perception shapes your decisions.
Your decisions shape your life.
Back Down to Earth
This isn’t about believing the universe revolves around you.
It’s about accepting that your experience of the universe, does.
When you act as if everything is happening for you & not to you, three things happen:
You stop resenting obstacles and start mining them for lessons.
You train your RAS to notice opportunities and emotions you’d otherwise miss.
You take more ownership over your responses, and that ownership compounds into results.
Success stops feeling like luck.
It starts feeling like a choice.
You don’t need permission to feel like this is all for you,
But if you don’t start to believe it, you might just think it isn’t.
It Was Always Just For You
Do this long enough, and you’ll notice you’re not “manifesting”, you’re re-coding your perception.
And that shift is where the real path lives.
Solipsism as a philosophy is extreme. I’m an extreme guy.
Solipsism as a practice is simple:
Live like the world is for you, and you’ll start taking everything as a piece of your success story.
