Peter Crone, aka “The Mind Architect”is a thought leader in human potential and performance. He specializes in helping people overcome the constraints of their subconscious minds so they can ditch their limiting beliefs and break free from constraints.
On the origin of his nickname ‘The Mind Architect’:
“I think the old expression is ‘necessity being the mother of invention.’ I’ve been called everything under the sun from ‘performance coach’ to ‘spiritual teacher’ to ‘hitman for the ego’ – which was pretty cool for a minute – and I just realized that none of them were quite sufficient, so I looked at what I did, and I wanted to find a moniker that justified my services. So, ‘The mind architect’ was self-generated.”
How Peter redefines the subconscious mind:
“It’s really about a revelatory process. I’m helping bring that what is unconscious to conscious. … There are things that we know, the conscious thoughts that we worry about, and there’s what drives all of that at the deepest level. So, for me, I sort of do this reverse engineering process where someone comes to me with whatever they think their issue is and I’m able to ascertain where that is coming from in terms of your deepest subconscious constraints.”
Start working on removing your constraints now:
“The longer a constraint has been there, the harder it is to dissolve. When you work with young athletes, for example, when they see a prison they’ve been in and recognize it’s not a truth, their capacity to move beyond that is much easier than when I work with a 50-year-old executive who really has, for 40-plus-years, thought that he’s worthless.”
To fully live, you must “die” first:
“To me, to be truly alive, is to constantly die to the current iteration of yourself. In order to access true vitality, you have to free your mind. And the only way to free your mind is to die to the limitations of your identity that were born in your childhood through whatever circumstances you had to go through.”
Why you need to be comfortable saying “I don’t know”:
“Here’s the paradox. By virtue of being human we have this central nervous system with this thing we call a brain which is designed to help us survive, which means it’s always trying to predict and protect. So now you start to see the conundrum in that we live in a paradigm that is uncertain, yet we have a brain that is always trying to find certainty. And that’s why people suffer.”
Learning and growing from your trauma:
“When you have gone through your own hell, when you have transcended the limitations of your own suffering, that’s no easy feat. And I think it breeds a lot of humility and then, as a result, you recognize that everyone is carrying their own cross. Everyone is bearing their own stress and suffering and so, be kind.”
Peter’s key to a successful relationship:
“I’d say a true long-lasting relationship is one where you say, ‘I’m really committed to my own brilliance, in terms of my divine nature that I want to keep accessing by dissolving these limitations that we all have, and I’m committed to helping you in whatever way I can as your partner to do the same.’”