What if the mind you trust is running a four-year-old's survival code?

Rob Brinded, author of Glitch: The Hidden Code Running Your Life (And How to Debug It), joins Shawn to reveal how childhood programming creates unconscious “hamster wheels” that determine who we trust, why we repeat patterns of betrayal, and how intelligent people make devastating choices. This conversation maps the five binary programs installed in early childhood that run our lives—left-siders seeking value through people-pleasing, right-siders compulsively achieving to avoid disappointment, both trapped in wheels that inevitably flip.

Rob unpacks Bitcoin as collective consciousness technology that exposes our programming, the critical role of mineral restoration in clear judgment, and the path to “admin mode”—observing your patterns without judgment until they dissolve.

Guest Background

Rob Brinded is a mind coach and author of Glitch: The Hidden Code Running Your Life (And How to Debug It). Working with elite athletes, founders, and executives, he helps clients identify and dissolve childhood programming that drives self-sabotage, addiction, and misplaced trust. Rob spent years observing behavioral patterns to map the five “hamster wheels” that create our reality. He combines Eastern philosophy, somatic observation, and Bitcoin-inspired thinking to guide clients into “admin mode”: the ability to watch and reprogram their operating systems.

Highlights

• The hamster wheel framework: five binary operating systems from childhood—left-siders people-please for value, right-siders compulsively achieve to avoid disappointment, both inevitably flip
• Intelligence doesn't protect you: PhDs at the Fed, David Deutsch blocking critics, Nassim Taleb's fragility—all running four-year-old survival scripts, not strategic thinking
• Bitcoin as collective consciousness technology: reveals the fiat hamster wheel, forces you to question your own operating system, price triggers fear as opportunity for observation
• Mineral restoration urgency: copper deficiency plus iron overload from fortified foods creating hormonal chaos, magnesium burning through under stress, lowest testosterone levels ever recorded
• Admin mode practice: observe your reaction to information—that reaction is a program, not you; “everything you don't want to be like your father is within you"

Quotes to Remember

• “If someone keeps getting betrayed, it's because their operating system needs that.” — Rob Brinded
• “The only thing I can trust about chemtrails is that it triggers my hamster wheel.” — Rob Brinded
• “We have the lowest levels of testosterone ever recorded throughout the world. Look at our system—everyone feels completely unable.” — Rob Brinded
• “Know the truth. There's no forgiving.” — Rob Brinded
• “You cannot trust your mind. It's not intelligent. It's just scripts.” — Rob Brinded (citing David Bohm)

Resources & Links

• Glitch: The Hidden Code Running Your Life by Rob Brinded: https://www.glitchthebook.co/shop/
• Rob Brinded on X: https://x.com/RobBrinded
• Rob Brinded on Nostr: https://primal.net/RobBrinded
• The Place to Be / Citadel Garden: https://citadel.garden/
• Rob Brinded website: https://robbrinded.com

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Music in this episode by More Ghost Than Man.