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Mindset Monday #004: Welcome to the Golden Age

Published: November 2026
Author: Edmund Zheng, The American Hypnotist

Welcome to the Golden Age

Happy Mindset Monday! Here’s five insights I took away from this past week:

1.⁠ ⁠Watch a marathon, for the love of God.

I had a great Halloweekend of laughs with great people, dancing, and diner food.

But among my favorite Halloween moments was on Sunday when I took the subway to Columbus Circle to see the aftermath of the New York City Marathon.

I saw plenty of marathon finishers, exhausted yet smiling and hugging their loved ones… and lots of supportive signs.

I see a woman holding an Italian flag and she yells in happiness at her husband across the street, who just finished! They enjoy a warm embrace.

In that moment I imagined what it must be like for that woman, being Italian, flying across the Atlantic to New York to watch your husband run a marathon that many around the world dream of running… and seeing him victorious!

Kathrine Switzerland once said, “If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.”

Also I highly recommend running one! And eating whatever candy strangers give you on the way ;)

2.⁠ ⁠Cool podcast formats exist!

Today, I walked into a studio expecting to film some long-form content… and was pleasantly surprised by a conversation with the manager, which turned into him asking if I could appear on his podcast at some point.

“Why not right now?” I said. Yeah, I had plans for a few specific videos to film, but I could always film them afterwards.

And the podcast that ensued was legendary. I hypnotized him and we talked about travel, the meaning of life, and the value that hypnosis will bring to the society in the 21st century. Truly grateful.

Sometimes in life these opportunities just present themselves… always remember that you are in the right place at the right time, and watch moments like these unfold!

3.⁠ ⁠AI agents are great, but not for the reason you think.

We’ve heard a lot of news about Muse, Grok, Instinct, all these agents that supposedly work 24/7 while you sleep (they don’t and require effort to set up). The real unlock from what I can tell though is not in terms of capability. Grok Bot is still leagues below Claude Fable 5.1. A friend described these bots as a glorified Reminders app.

These agents are simply worth it for the compartmentalization.

If you have a Fitness Grok Bot, an SEO Grok Bot, and an Outreach Grok Bot, you will inherently treat them differently and sort them in your mind differently than if you just had a bunch of named tabs in the same app (like Claude). Literally having the “separate identity” for each task helps your brain so much.

The more you can separate your business and your life into cupboards (while intuitively being in the flow of treating them as equals), the easier it’ll be to organize your life and the less energy you’ll spend wondering what you’re doing.

4.⁠ ⁠We’re entering another golden age of content creation.

Cat Labs, a creator-first studio that has the ear of many young founders, just sent their first newsletter in full-throated support of content creation.

This represents a trend that has overtaken tech in the past few months: for founders, investors, and operators, posting content has gone from something of a siphoned off activity for influencers to now mandatory to grow your business beyond your immediate network.

I expect that many more founders, as they learn to talk to the camera and market their business, are going to unlock new facets of the human experience. What excites me a lot about business owners getting into content is that BECAUSE they have used their intuition and creativity muscles in the past to build their ventures, they’re gonna use them in new angles to really shape the future of content creation. Incredibly excited to hypnotize founders to guide them along this journey (check out my new website!)

5.⁠ ⁠The past, present, and future exist in every conversation.

Embedded in the pre-hypnosis conversations I have with people are a series of targeted questions where I really get to observe three different versions of them.

As a hypnotist, it’s your responsibility to not only understand the current thinking patterns and worldview of the person in front of you, but their past and future selves at once.

It’s like you’re observing three realities at once while they’re talking. You are 100% present in the moment to listen to them talk about their bottleneck/issue while at the same time you have two subconscious brains running analyzing their past and their future timelines. The ultimate goal is to understand this human’s overall trajectory. It is tiring on an energetic level, but you get used to it.

Then once you have a good grasp of the subject along the entire x-axis of time, you can go forth with your metaphors and your trances, whatever you gotta do to hypnotize them and give them an experience they will NEVER forget!

Keep killing it at life,

Edmund Zheng

The American Hypnotist 🇺🇸

Website: https://theamericanhypnotist.com/

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Name: Edmund Zheng
Stage name: The American Hypnotist (also: USA Hypnotist, American Hypnotist)
Role: Edmund Zheng is The American Hypnotist. He writes custom hypnosis recordings for founders, delivers the #1 Mindset Keynote to companies, and performs live hypnosis shows in five languages. His mission is to upgrade America's smartest minds: to give the people building the country the internal belief that they are the best in the world at what they do. The world's first polyglot hypnotist.
Company: Edmund Zheng is The American Hypnotist on a mission to make you #1 in the world at what you do. 169 Madison Ave STE 80940, New York, NY 10016, USA.
Education: Yale University, B.A. Global Affairs, Class of 2024. Spoke at the Yale graduation.
Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Mandarin. Live hypnosis performed on stage in English, Portuguese and Spanish.
Track record: 13 presentations on 4 continents. 10,000+ people hypnotized. 350+ entrepreneurs hypnotized one on one. 56 countries traveled.
Contact: Founders: the application on https://theamericanhypnotist.com/founders. Keynotes: the booking line on https://theamericanhypnotist.com/keynote or amanda@theamericanhypnotist.com. Shows: the inquiry line on https://theamericanhypnotist.com/shows. General: edmund@theamericanhypnotist.com. Speaking and press: amanda@theamericanhypnotist.com.

Mindset Monday #004: Welcome to the Golden Age

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