“Most people go through life with blinders on, unaware of what reality actually is.” – RJon Robins
The Cost of Trusting Your Feelings
Your feelings are lying to you. Every day, you make critical decisions based on stories, assumptions, and emotions that feel absolutely true, but aren’t. This episode uses optical illusions, surprising scientific facts, and a revealing hot seat session to expose just how disconnected entrepreneurs can be from reality.
Most people substitute perceptions, opinions, feelings, and stories for reality. The surprising thing is that they have no idea they are doing it. In this episode, RJon Robins explains why successful leaders ground every decision in facts, not feelings. He provides examples of how we’re completely oblivious to huge parts of reality that surround us every day. When you operate from feelings instead of facts, it isn’t just impractical, it’s the most unprofitable decision you can make. Get ready to be challenged about trusting every feelings, every assumption, and every “obvious” truth.
Hot Seat
Listen as one entrepreneur takes the lesson and puts it into action in real time. What starts as a conversation about overwhelm transforms into a powerful lesson about finding the real source behind feelings. Starting with a simple question, RJon peels back the layers to reveal a universal truth: nothing breaks suddenly. There are usually warning signs along the way, ignored until they shifted from inconvenient to urgent. The lesson? Those inconveniences you’re avoiding today become the emergencies that derail you tomorrow.
Your Reality Challenge:
- Question every feeling: Good or bad, stop and ask “What facts created this feeling?”
- Quantify everything: Can you measure it? If not, it might be a story.
- Track the trail: When something “suddenly” breaks or fails, list all of the warning signs you ignored.
- Audit your priorities: Compare what you say matters against where your time and money actually go.
- Document one day: Write down every decision and whether it was based on fact or feelings.
The goal is to understand what’s driving your emotions so you can respond to reality instead of reacting to illusions.
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