"Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you"
About this Quote
Hopkins is selling a mental technology: repetition as identity engineering. Coming from a businessman best known in sales training, the line isn’t philosophical wallpaper; it’s a practical warning and a pitch. If you drill a script, a mindset, a set of affirmations long enough, you stop performing them and start defaulting to them. That’s the point. In high-pressure work like sales, where rejection can scramble confidence and improvisation can dilute a message, repetition becomes a way to stabilize the self: same cadence, same framing, same emotional posture, even when the room turns cold.
The subtext is thornier. “Anything” is both empowerment and threat. Repeat confidence and you get confidence; repeat scarcity and you get a personality organized around fear. Hopkins smuggles in an ethics of attention: what you rehearse privately is what you’ll become publicly. It’s motivational on the surface, but it also reads like a corporate-age version of “you are what you practice,” updated for an economy where personality is a tool and consistency is monetized.
The line works because it collapses the gap between behavior and being. “Start to become you” suggests a slow creep, a kind of identity drift that feels accurate in an era of algorithms and mantras, where the stories we loop - in meetings, in self-talk, on social feeds - don’t just describe our lives; they shape the boundaries of what we imagine we can do. In Hopkins’ world, repetition isn’t boring. It’s destiny with a calendar invite.
The subtext is thornier. “Anything” is both empowerment and threat. Repeat confidence and you get confidence; repeat scarcity and you get a personality organized around fear. Hopkins smuggles in an ethics of attention: what you rehearse privately is what you’ll become publicly. It’s motivational on the surface, but it also reads like a corporate-age version of “you are what you practice,” updated for an economy where personality is a tool and consistency is monetized.
The line works because it collapses the gap between behavior and being. “Start to become you” suggests a slow creep, a kind of identity drift that feels accurate in an era of algorithms and mantras, where the stories we loop - in meetings, in self-talk, on social feeds - don’t just describe our lives; they shape the boundaries of what we imagine we can do. In Hopkins’ world, repetition isn’t boring. It’s destiny with a calendar invite.
Quote Details
| Topic | Habits |
|---|
More Quotes by Tom
Add to List
