George Wright III sits down with Patrick Baker Jr for the third and final installment of their exclusive mastermind conversation. Patrick is the founder and CEO of B-Hood, a global apparel brand he built from scratch, and throughout this series he has shared a powerful framework for understanding how your inner world shapes every external result you produce.
This episode digs deep into the mechanics of the subconscious mind, the ego, and what Patrick calls your natural state. He lays out a practical, repeatable system for stepping outside the mental "movie screen" most people are trapped inside and reclaiming the clarity and limitless potential that already exists within you.
Why Most People Are Running Self-Sabotaging Programs
Patrick opens with a striking observation: 75 to 80 percent of the average person's mental programming is self-sabotaging. The reason is not a character flaw but a structural one. People absorb information from the world around them, combine it with their own experiences, and build a personal narrative they then treat as objective reality.
That perception filters everything, including your sense of self. As Patrick explains, your eyes do not tell you whether something is beautiful or ugly. Your perception does. You are not simply "you." You are your perception of you. Until you understand that distinction, you cannot begin to change it.
How Your Attention Is Shaping Your Reality Right Now
Every thought, every word of self-talk, and every emotion is actively creating your reality around the clock. Patrick compares this to gravity: it does not matter whether you understand it or intentionally direct it. It is happening either way, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
To illustrate, he points to the person who is wildly successful in business yet struggles in every relationship at home. The external success is not random. It is the direct result of where that person's attention and energy are concentrated. Even when that person is physically with family, their focus remains on the business. When attention goes, energy flows, and your results follow.
The corollary is equally direct: you can audit any area of your life by asking one honest question. Where is your energy actually going?
What the Movie Screen Analogy Reveals About Unconscious Living
One of the most memorable frameworks Patrick shares is the idea that most people are living fully inside the movie of their own minds, so immersed in the story that they feel every scene as if it were real. Technology only reinforces this, with theaters now designed to make viewers physically feel the action on screen.
The goal of Patrick's system is to help you pull back from the screen, row by row, until you are sitting in the back of the theater, observing your thoughts and emotions rather than being consumed by them. That distance is not detachment from life. It is a return to your natural state of peace.
How to Name the Ego and Start Separating from the Illusion
The practical core of Patrick's method is simple. Anything that pulls you out of your natural state of peace, whether a self-sabotaging thought, an out-of-character reaction, or a negative external influence, gets a single label: the ego. By consciously naming it every time it appears, you begin the process of separating from it.
Patrick compares it to learning to drive. The first time behind the wheel, every small action requires deliberate thought. A month later, it becomes automatic. The same principle applies here:
Anything you do on a daily ritual over time is going to ultimately start to burn the subconscious mind, which is going to create a belief system from the inside out.
Apply that principle to awareness itself, and the results compound in the same way.
Why Daily Rituals Are the Engine of Real Change
This is not a one-time insight. It is a practice. As you consistently name the ego and return to your natural state, the subconscious mind begins to do the work for you:
As you start to call out anything that's taking you from your peace, that's not serving your higher self, ultimately through the ego, you do it consciously on a daily ritual, well, guess what's going to happen three, four weeks down the road? Suddenly, subconsciously, it's going to start doing it for you.
The process accelerates as it compounds. Large disruptions lose their power first. Then smaller ones follow. Eventually you find yourself living from that grounded, natural state far more consistently, and the testimony you build toward the greatness within you becomes as unshakeable as any deeply held faith.
Action Steps
- Ask yourself daily: "Who is the one thinking my thoughts?" This single question begins to create separation from automatic mental programming.
- Audit one area of your life where results are not what you want. Trace honestly where your attention and energy have actually been concentrated.
- Choose a label, such as ego, for anything that pulls you out of your natural state of peace. Use it consciously and consistently every time it appears.
- Build a short daily ritual around naming ego-driven thoughts and reactions. Four weeks of consistency begins to rewire the subconscious pattern.
- Review your self-talk. Your words and internal narrative are shaping your reality around the clock, so treat them with the same intention you bring to any other daily practice.
Your reality is not something that happens to you. According to Patrick Baker Jr, it is something being continuously created by where your attention goes, what your subconscious believes, and how faithfully you practice returning to your natural state. It is never too late to start living the life you were meant to live.
