How I Brainwashed Myself Into Believing Anything Is Possible

TITLE: How I Brainwashed Myself Into Believing Anything Is Possible CHANNEL: Jett Franzen DATE: 2026-04-04 ---TRANSCRIPT--- I’m going to be a little bit all over the place in this video, but just stay with me here. I promise you it will all make sense. About 7 to eight months ago, I completely rewired my brain into becoming delusional enough to believe that I could make my dreams come true. That if I really put my mind to something that I could make that a reality and materialize it. And so that you kind of understand the context surrounding it, at the end of 2024, in the beginning of 2025, I was homeless living in the city of Chicago. I had been working a insurance sales job where I would cold cold call people all day and get rejected all day. And I hated that job. I was absolutely miserable. I had, you know, tried 50 million different business ideas, e-commerce, sales, doortodoor, you name it, I tried it. And I failed at all of it. And I was struggling a lot with identity and I was struggling a lot with self-belief. And so what happened was after I quit that job, I didn’t have a place to stay. And so I was living in like really on this staircase that was like kind of covered um by by this wall on the side so that you know the wind wasn’t hitting me. And it was this the steps that I was sleeping on were frozen most nights. I wasn’t homeless for too long. It was only like 2 weeks. But I ended up moving back in with my folks. And you know I was still doing college at the time so I was just doing school online. And I I’m telling you guys this story, by the way, so that it will make sense as to how I developed my my mindset and my belief. But what ended up happening was I I got a job after I moved back in with my folks working for, you know, an Exfinity retail store. I was a sales consultant helping people sign up with new Wi-Fi plans or whatever. And I was still in school full-time. And what I would do in with the little free time that I had was I would just research. And I always wanted to be some type of content creator. I didn’t know what I would even talk about or do because I felt like I was just a regular guy. I had a lot of the different interests. Not even just stuff that you guys see me talk about. Not just philosophy or psychology, although those are my those have always been major interests of mine, but many other things. You know, I I I thought that the best route forward at that point was to try to get into streaming, weirdly enough, because I know you guys you guys see me on my channel and you know, a lot of people tend to think that I’m a serious guy, but I’m really not. Especially around my friends, I tend to be much more energetic on upbeat around my friends or uh I like to I I used to play a lot of video games. Unfortunately, I had to cut that out since I started, you know, chasing my dream. But what I did was I started researching parts for a PC and I and I watched a bunch of videos on YouTube and I taught myself how to build a PC and I did that. You know, I I camped out overnight at MicroEnter to get the new GPU that was coming out. And I was doing all this stuff. Um, and I was so focused on my goal, which at the time was just to start streaming and and to be able to afford the stuff that, you know, I was working overtime at work. I I could really bear any any what because I had a a a why. And eventually I got, you know, all the parts to build a PC. I built a PC and then I just waited for summer so I didn’t so that I would quit my job at that point when I go into summer. And I was my family was moving across the country and I was I was just in this new chapter of my life which was really refreshing. And one of my best friends, he also wanted to get into streaming with me. And our plan was I was going to move into his uh place in he lived in Iowa City and I was going to just sleep on the carpet there over the summer and we were just going to stream every single day. And so that’s actually what ended up happening. So moved in, started streaming and it was just a very very dry introduction to content creation. I mean I was really working hard. I was streaming for like uh 6 to 8 hours a day every single day cuz I didn’t have a job and I would you know make multiple clips every day and post those online and I was getting no traction at all. I mean none. And neither was my friend. And my friend got discouraged very quickly. And you know, he started to he was doing summer school at the time. He also had a job which he didn’t really work a lot at all. He worked maybe one or two days a week for for 4 hour shifts. So he wasn’t even getting like 10 hours a week. And in his free time because we didn’t really have couldn’t get traction online. And you know, it was it was just it was just hard trying to like solidify your identity and and your self-belief when it was like if I I would spend my entire day trying to make content, trying to make my streaming thing work and it ne it just never it wasn’t getting any traction. I’m just sitting there. I’m like, “Bro, what is going on?” And, you know, I had failed at every business venture I’d tried before. I tried I I tried, you know, dropshipping sales, whether that’s door too, over the phone. Um, you know, I tried modeling for a little bit. I tried like I tried so many different like ways to make money and unconventional by unconventional means and it just everything failed. And so I pretty much just have a life full of failures up until this point. And I’m sitting there and I’m sleeping on a carpet floor. Like literally, I’m sleeping on the carpet for this entire summer and it’s hot as balls. I mean, it’s it was like the the air conditioning in the unit didn’t work. So, it was like, you know, in the 80s in that room. It was just crazy. And every night before I would go to bed, what I would do was I would watch like some sort of documentary or like something on a famous creator who made it. And since I was in streaming, it was a lot of like Jinxy, Queso, Kaisen, like those guys cuz that’s what I wanted to do. I wanted to stream. And I would just and like all these guys, they seem to just have some sort of lucky break. And I remember just being like, “Oh man, I’m just never going to get that lucky break. Like I I don’t know. Like I’m working so hard, yada yada yada.” And so what ended up happening was the end of summer happened and I made no traction with the with the streaming even though I gave it my all the whole summer. And so I come then I move back in with my parents but they move you know they moved out of Illinois so now I’m in Colorado with them and I’m just sort of I’m sitting there and once again my you know my parents they’re yelling at me. They’re like Jet you got to start like applying for jobs. You need to build a resume. You need to do like adult things. You need to do what everyone else is doing. And I always push back against this. I’ve always been the black sheep of my family. I was like I refuse to be a corporate slave. Anybody who’s fans of my channel understands this. And I would just every single night throughout this entire journey from like from like really like middle school, I just understood and I pattern recognized that every successful person just had some sort of crazy delusional belief that they could do it. And I I and I knew that that was true. I knew if you believed in yourself that you could do anything. But I didn’t know how you could believe. As a matter of fact, the fact that I knew that everything boiled down to belief made me scared and actually gave me self-doubt because knowing that, you know, it’s all on me at the end of the day to to make it work or not. And if I can believe, then I can do it. But if I don’t believe, then it will make it impossible to do it. That power in and of itself scared me and created doubt for me. And I so I struggled with this over and over again. I started reading books about it and I could never figure out how to have self-belief. For whatever reason, I thought that I had a natural gift for I don’t know. I don’t know if content creation would be the right thing. I thought that I could just speak passionately about topics that I cared about and that people would listen. And you know, it it is now with June, July, so it’s like August, like mid August when I moved back in with my folks. And I’m like, and even after I moved back in, I was still giving the streaming thing a go. And me and my friend were doing it every night. And then school started up again. And now I’m on my senior year. And I’m like, man, I got to figure something out because, you know, I got to get a uh, you know, grown man’s job by the end of this year, by the end of school year. Like, I I got to have that um that that’s like my absolute worst nightmare. And so I was telling myself, I got to figure out a way to make this content thing work before then, you know? And so I had one friend of m and and so one of my close friends that I told you about when I was in college that I stayed with in Iowa City. I mean he just quit the streaming. He you know whatever reason it’s no no shame to him. And then I had I I created two other close friends online that I had met that did streaming as well and another one of them quit. And when you don’t have any friends, which I hadn’t had, and when you have when you move across the country and you don’t know anybody, it’s kind of hard because you’re just by yourself. You don’t have um a support system. And so what happened was like, you know, I was friends with like these three guys and then two of them just quit. And that hurt a lot because it was like, dang, bro. Like I thought I was doing this with my friends. Even even through the hard times, if I could do it with friends, like it would be worth it. And then and then that gave me the hard realization that like, yo, no one’s coming to save me. I know that’s super cliche saying everybody says that, but I really realized it. I was like, I’m by myself with this. I I got to figure out a way to make it work. And you know, my one friend, uh, who I still talk to a lot, um, he kind of stayed with it, but he was a little bit less serious in the sense that like he wasn’t consistent every single day. he would just kind of, you know, he he would stream every day, but, you know, we kind of just enjoyed playing video games at the time. You know, it was one of those excuses to play video games. He was younger than me. Uh, so it wasn’t as as pressing cuz he wasn’t going to graduate that year and, you know, go straight into to a a job. And so then we get to around October and this is where I what I started to do was experiment with and and it’s crazy. I don’t understand why, but I just still believe that I had a shot with the content creation even though it wasn’t working. Every night I would struggle with my own belief, but I just still to my core thought that I still had some type of ability to make it work. And so what happened was I sat there and was like, “Bro, you need to switch up the content because whatever you’re doing right now is not getting the traction that it needs to be getting.” And so I started just doing talking ad videos cuz almost all of my videos were literally like like this. They were uh they were like clips from my desktop and I would just edit them and I would throw them into it. So it wouldn’t be like a full format on on uh you know short form content like it wouldn’t fill up the entire screen. It was just like um you know like a like a movie clip. You know it’s not filling up the whole screen. And so I started doing talking ad videos. And what I realized was number one, the talking ad videos were more fun. Number two, they were easier to make. And number three, I had a lot more success doing them. So I was like, let me start to double down. So I started to double down on it. I’m like, okay, whatever. And then I I was convinced my account got shadowbanned. So I made a new account on all my socials. And so I so first video I post on the brand new account gets a million views. I’m like, “Oh my gosh, like this is insane.” I think it was the second or third vi viral video I had ever gotten and I was like, “Oh my gosh, a million views on first video on the new account. Like, this is golden.” And so that at that point, I went all in. And some somewhere within like the month after that, you know, it’s October. So then, you know, we’re getting into November here. And all of a sudden, I start to post these philosophy videos where I’m talking about quotes or whatever. And all of a sudden, they start to pick up a little bit of traction. And the second that my average videos just like the average views increased from like 500 views to like I think it was like a thousand. I I can’t even describe it to you guys. I just knew I was going to make it right then and there. I just had the belief. And the reason that I did was not because um I I like saw some like insane growth. What I realized is that I saw some growth. And I knew that if I saw some growth, I could duplicate and replicate that and get a little bit better every single time. So I just I I just knew in my head fully that I’m just going to keep on building these blocks. And I started getting one follower a day on Instagram. And I was like, “This is insane.” I was like, “If I don’t give up for 1,000 days, I’ll have 1,000 followers. And then if I have 1,000 followers, I’m taking this to the moon.” Which is which is crazy thinking back on it now. But that really was the mentality that I had. And so then all of a sudden I it got to two followers a day, then three followers a day, and then I had like a viral video finally go on Instagram and I started getting like 40 followers a day and then eventually that died out. And then I’m like, you know, it’s up and down with the views. But I was just like, I just got to be relentless and I’m posting around 14 videos a day. And I was just going crazy with it, just trying super super hard. And I’m like, how am I going to keep this up? I just got to put my head down and just focus on the videos I need to do for today. And I would do that every single day. And I would show up and nothing would happen. And guess what? I would get up the next day and I would not care. I would do it again and nothing would happen. And people would hate on me in the comments and I would show up the next day. And I did this over and over and over again just relentlessly believing that I could do it. I I just I I don’t know what it was, but through all of the struggle, I just never lost hope completely. And you know, I start to build these bricks and all of a sudden I see a wall in front of me and I’m like, “Dang, like I’m building some proof for myself.” And that is where everything changes is when you build the proof for yourself through the trial and error, all the failures and getting back up again. All of a sudden, you’ll realize you’ve come, you know, such a long way. All of a sudden, my average views goes from a thousand to 5,000 because I’m just I’m I’m studying the game. I’m trying to get better and better and better every single video. And you know, I really started to take over this philosophy niche on Tik Tok. And I was doing that and people were loving my videos and people were hating my videos and and I started to get a lot of hate. And that’s how I knew I was getting traction because people started to hate on me and I’m like, “Yes, finally I’m doing something right.” And you know I just double tripled down and then people would hate on me more and it just fueled me and I was like I got to do better and I would just keep on doing it and doing it and doing it and then I expanded beyond philosophy. Then I started doing a lot more psychology. I started doing you know societal commentary which is my main thing now. And I just really started to create my own path where I was like, “Hey, if I just show up every day and I just give, you know, the best effort I can every single day with no exceptions, something has to hit.” And so I would show up, I’d record 14 videos every day, just go crazy, post them, boom, just keep just just like not look back. Just do so much volume that it would be unreasonable for you not to win. This whole time all I’m doing is starting to layer my own belief system to where it’s more and more possible and I’m going higher and higher in my level of confidence. And you know I started to realize that this was you know not only was it a possibility but now it was a probability. Like I I believe that I was more likely to succeed in the social media, which is what I always wanted to do, than not succeed because I was willing to be relentless. And I still am, and I’m still going to continue to work hard. And so eventually, I got to a point where I realized it’s like, okay, I’m kind of in in in in flow state. Like things are just clicking. I’m understanding what hits with the algorithm. I’m understanding what’s going on. And all like my friends are like texting me. They’re like, “Dude, like we like, you know, we were we were telling you like, “Yeah, you could do it, man, but I didn’t believe you could do it.” You’re like actually doing it. All of a sudden, in one week, I gained There was one week in November where I gained I think it was the first week of November, I gained 112,000 followers on TikTok in one week. 112,000. And that’s where I was like, “Okay, we like there’s there’s actually some like legitimate potential here.” And you know, and even even still to this day, although I I do like believe in myself, you still got to convince yourself to get out of bed and that you could do it. And you’re still going to struggle. There’s still going to be doubt there. But the belief overtakes the doubt. And that is what you need to focus on is showing up every single day. Cuz what people didn’t understand was the all the years, especially my high school years where I was completely isolated alone, spending all my time in a room reading books where like all this stuff compounded over time and accumulated to the point it’s like the law of accumulation where, you know, people see me on social media now and they’re like, “Oh my gosh, like he, you know, he he uh you know, grew this following.” But like really everything that I talk about in my videos was something that I’ve established when I was, you know, in in my years of adolescence and just like growing up and just trying to pay attention to the world around me. And so everything just started to add up. And now I was, you know, starting to reap the benefits and it just kept on, you know, climbing and climbing and climbing. And the whole time guys, I I am literally I I start to get in touch with some other creators and and I literally did this thing where it was like there were creators and I would I would tr I would try to reach out to people that were bigger than me because that was my thing. I would go for someone bigger than me and all these people that were bigger than me, you know, I would start to to meet them, become friends with them and then what would happen was I would I would go beyond them. Like I would I would create a bigger following than them. Not saying I’m better than them at all. Like some of them I’m still cool with every single one of them. But I realized it was like what I would do was I would try to talk someone who was above me, learn their mindset, and then like use them to propel me off their shoulder to just go higher and higher and higher. And I was relentless with it. And I still am. And I just It’s just like you just got to keep going. You just got to like against all reason just believe that you can do it. And the only way you’re going to develop this belief is if you actually try and show up every day because that’s when you’ll finally start to see the results. And so it didn’t come right away. I mean, it took me 1,62 videos for me to even hit 1,000 followers on IG. But the next month, I was I make I got over 100,000 in a month. And so it’s like literally you just you you you have to like be so focused on the input that you’re doing every day. Detach from the outcome. Don’t be so concerned with the outcome and just I I need to hit these KPIs every single day, right? And if you actually hold yourself to a standard and you don’t just not only don’t just try to hit the KPIs, but put honest work into those KPIs, whatever it is that you’re doing. If like for me with if it’s content, yeah, I could easily just record 10 videos in like 30 minutes, but they’re not going to be good. Instead, I want to record 10 videos in four or five hours because those are going to be more intentional and more designed and they’re going to be better videos. So, you want to put in good effort into what you’re doing. And that is when you will really start to reap the benefits of what you are doing. You need to believe that you can do it. And the only way to believe that you can do it is to just trial and error, trial and error, trial and error. Fail, fail, fail, fail, fail, fail. get up again and just not let anything stop you from pursuing your goals. I mean, that really is the story of how I I I certainly wouldn’t say that I’ve made it and and I’ve got a long way to go, but that’s how I’ve built like my foundation of my social media. Um, which has always been my dream. And what’s really cool, I I don’t know if you guys would be interested. I’m I’m potentially thinking about getting back into streaming this this upcoming summer. I’m not exactly sure how what I would be streaming exactly because it’s kind of hard to just, you know, talk about what I talk about on my channel here uh in sort of a stream format, but I don’t know. I might just uh do video games and talk about, you know, philosophy or do like segments. I don’t know. Let me let me know. But um I would I would just say that there one of the things that I realized, oh yeah, this is what I wanted to say earlier. when I would connect with these guys, I would start to like I connected with uh two of the biggest social media guys in the area that I live in would um in in Colorado. There are two guys that have a pretty decent following and and I started like I I I think I hung out with him like once or twice to get connected and and one of the things that I realized was that not even just with them but with people in general. There is a transfer of energy of belief with the people that you hang around. If you’re around people that don’t believe in you and don’t believe in themselves, then you’re not going to believe in yourself. And because of that, I’ve just isolated. Like, if I really wanted to, I could go to the nearest like university by me and make friends there. Like, I could if I really wanted to. I could I could DM a bunch of people if I really wanted to and make friends, but I’m not going to do that because I just believe that I’m so literally so delusional and self um I I I’m I’m I you know what I even though it’s cocky. I’m self-absorbed and but I don’t mean that in the cocky sense. I mean that in more like a I’m so focused on myself and what I’m doing right now and trying to be the best version of myself and figure out who I am that I don’t want anybody else to get in the way of that. And so I’m going to spend this time, you know, isolated because I just think everybody’s going to hold me back at this time in my life. You know, you don’t want to do that forever. I’m not saying you should just, you know, be that uh covert narcissist or whatever the right terminology would be. But I am saying like if if there isn’t anybody who’s going to believe in you as much as you believe in you, then don’t hang around other people. And so that’s what I’ve done. I’ve sacrificed a lot. And yeah, it’s it’s one of those things where you’re going to get up in the morning and you’re going to have doubt. You’re when you go to bed at night, you’re going to have doubt. But above all that, you need a strong foundation of belief. Belief and doubt coexist together. It’s yin and yang. One cannot exist without the other. And so what you just want is for your belief to be stronger. And once again, the way that you establish that belief is literally just by trying and eventually getting enough shots to where some of them start to land and then you’re like, “Okay, this is possible.” If you’re watching my video right now, I want you to understand something. If I did it, anybody can do it. If I did it, you can absolutely do it. I have no doubt in my mind because I’ve recorded all my videos in this freaking basement, bro. There’s nothing high. There’s no editing at all in my videos, you know? So, you you just don’t have an excuse not to try, you know? And and maybe like you don’t have to do social media. I’m not, you know, I’m just using that as an example because that’s what I do. But if you want to be an actor, if you want to be an artist of some sort, get into, you know, the industry of your desired, you know, pursuit in life, and then you’ll you’re going to like the more reps that you get, you’re going to realize that it’s idiots all the way up. Everyone else is just like you. All the people that you look up to are just a version of you that that was consistent and tried and tried and tried and then, you know, after a certain amount of years passed, that’s the person that you look up to. So yeah, believe in yourself and and you have to take action to establish that belief. Thank you guys so much for your support. Thank you for watching.