THINKDROP 17: Free your mind !
- Pierre Stanghellini
- Sep 23
- 4 min read
And your A#S will follow...
🎤 From Me to You
What happens when you stop thinking inside the frameworks you didn’t choose?
This drop is a call to unlearn.
To break the invisible mental loops you’ve inherited from systems, schools, markets, and even your own habits.Because most people aren’t stuck because they lack strategy.
They’re stuck because they haven’t challenged the mental models running in the background.
Creativity, momentum, and innovation don’t start with “doing more.”
They start with thinking differently. And that begins with the guts to question what you believe, why you believe it, and who benefits from you staying stuck.
So, this week, we ask: What would happen if you actually freed your mind?
Let’s go.
Pierre Stanghellini -
HARi.wtf founder
1. Most Mental Models Are Inherited, Not Designed
You’re not just building a business — you’re building it through a lens that was handed to you. From school, startup culture, hustle influencers, or even your family’s definition of “security.”
If you never question your defaults, you’ll just scale someone else’s belief system.
What you believe about work, success, money, time, or identity didn’t start with you — but it can end with you.
Mental freedom begins with recognizing the frameworks you’re unconsciously living within.
Try This: Make a list of 3 beliefs you hold about what success “should” look like.
Now ask: Who told me that? And do I still believe it?
You’re allowed to uninstall outdated software.
2. More Thinking Isn’t Always Smarter Thinking
We’ve been taught to think our way through every decision — overanalyze, optimize, intellectualize. But the mind is a master at disguising fear as logic.
Sometimes, thinking more is just stalling.
The longer you spin, the heavier the decision gets. At some point, clarity stops being intellectual — and becomes somatic.
You feel the answer before you explain it.
Try This: What’s the decision you’ve been spinning on for weeks?
Stop.
Flip a coin. Heads = you go for it.
Tails = you let it go.
Feel your body's reaction. That’s your real answer.
3. Discomfort Isn’t Always a Problem — It’s Data
We confuse discomfort with danger. But often, it’s just the nervous system responding to new territory. That tension you feel?
It might not be a red flag. It might be a signal that you're finally moving beyond your old identity.
Discomfort shows up when you're about to grow, pivot, or be seen differently.
It’s not always something to solve — it’s something to listen to.
Try This: The next time you feel resistance, ask: Is this fear of failure — or fear of being seen in a new identity?
Then move toward it. Slowly, but deliberately.
4. Liberation Beats Optimization
You can be highly efficient — and still completely stuck. If you’re optimizing within a box that doesn’t reflect your truth, you’re just decorating the cage.
Not every system deserves to be improved — some deserve to be dismantled.
True progress isn’t faster. It’s freer. It gives you room to move, experiment, and expand beyond the algorithm.
Try This: Take one system or structure you use daily (email, calendar, to-do list) — and break it for 24 hours.
What happens when you let chaos in — even slightly?
5. A Free Mind Builds a Freer Future
The future you’re building depends on the questions you’re willing to ask now.
Free thinkers don’t wait for permission. They move with alignment, not compliance.
Freedom of thought leads to freedom of action.
When you trust your vision more than external approval, the world begins to bend around your conviction.
You stop chasing best practices and start becoming the signal.
Try This: Ask yourself: If I trusted my own vision 10x more, what would I start — or stop — today?
Then take one step as if the answer is already true.
🔁 Quick Recap
Most of what’s blocking you isn’t real — it’s inherited.
Overthinking isn’t strategy. It’s fear in a clever costume.
Discomfort doesn’t mean stop — it means you’re expanding.
Optimization is a trap if you’re stuck in the wrong system.
The freer your mind, the bolder your actions — and the more original your future.
🔥 FINAL DROP
You don’t create change by following instructions.
You create it by questioning the premise.
The mind — if left unchecked — will keep you safe, small, and exactly where you’ve always been. It will dress up other people’s expectations as your own.
It will reward conformity and label it wisdom.
But once you see the blueprint… you can choose to burn it.
Freeing your mind isn’t about rebellion for rebellion’s sake.
It’s about building from a place that’s truly yours — not borrowed, not inherited, not default.
Because when your mind is free:
Your attention sharpens.
Your actions align.
Your vision gets dangerous (in the best way).
And suddenly, your body, your work, your entire life starts to move with clarity.
So here’s your invitation:
Drop the borrowed beliefs. Ignore the algorithm.
Say the thing. Make the move. Change the system.
Because when the mind is liberated, everything else follows!
Pierre Stanghellini
→ Let’s connect, drop me a line directly at pierre@hari.wtf .
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About the Creator
Pierre Stanghellini is a creative strategist, systems thinker, and curator of mental rabbit holes. He created Thinkdrop Weekly to feed the brains that don’t want the same old Business advice. If you’re building something bold, beautiful, or strange—this is your corner of the internet.
About HARi.wtf
HARi.wtf is a creative strategy studio for businesses that hate business-as-usual.
Born in Hong Kong, in 2017, we work with restless founders, operators, and teams who’d rather break things thoughtfully than grow them blandly. We don’t do generic decks or bloated strategies—we build clarity, guts, and traction.
From street-level restaurants to global brands, from Asia to Europe, we help shape ideas that move fast when it matters, and slow when it counts.
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