Donald Hoffman’s thesis explains this perfectly. You don’t see reality itself, you see an interface designed to guide your behaviour. Feelings like “ready” or “not ready” aren’t objective truths, they’re signals generated by your nervous system to regulate risk.

The problem is, the interface updates from action, not from thought. Reading, preparing, and waiting feel productive, but they don’t give your system new evidence. So the interface continues to display danger, uncertainty, and hesitation.

When you act despite that signal, you generate real data. You survive. You adapt. And the interface recalibrates. What once felt impossible becomes neutral, then normal.

Confidence isn’t what enables action. It’s what appears after the interface learns that action didn’t kill you.

Most people are waiting for their interface to show “safe”. The ones who change their lives act while it still says “danger”.