Podbit · The School of Greatness
There are only two states of being: primal (stress, anxiety, fear, guilt) and powerful (joy, curiosity, peace). Everything you want to create — money, health, love — comes only from a powerful state. Primal states are resistance. Powerful states are creation.
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Lewis asks for a concrete example of non-resistance in action, and Bayer delivers his own podcast story. He started recording weekly in July 2023, followed Ali Abdaal's YouTube optimisation course, produced what he believed was quality content — and got nothing back. That gap between expectation and reality is what resistance looks like: obsessive analysis, comparison, doubt. When his son was born, Bayer stopped making the underperformance matter. His mentor's phrase — 'what you make matter becomes matter' — captures the mechanics: attention directed at absence creates more absence. Within 90 days of redirecting that attention to his child, the podcast took off. The difficult art, Bayer notes, is holding Neville Goddard's advice to 'ignore your current reality' while still taking consistent daily action — obsessed with the desire, unattached to the result.
For a year Bayer obsessed over why his podcast wasn't growing. When his son was born, he stopped making the underperformance matter. Within 90 days, the show took off. The lesson: what you make matter becomes matter — and resistance is just focused attention on the wrong thing.
After Bayer's son was born and he stopped obsessing over his podcast's underperformance, the show took off within 90 days — a live demonstration of his Golden Equation.
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