You won’t change your mindset by trying harder.
You’ve probably noticed that already.

You can journal about it. Reframe it. Gratitude it to death. Still, spinning is there. The same loop. The same noise.

This is where most mindset advice collapses. It assumes that more effort is the answer. As if the reason you’re stuck is because you haven’t tried hard enough to think differently.

But what if the problem isn’t in your head?
What if it’s that you haven’t looked up in a while?

On a clear night, far from your WiFi signal, the Milky Way doesn’t try to inspire you.
It just is. 100,000 light years across, indifferent to your plans.

And yet—something shifts.
The noise quiets. Not because you silenced it, but because something bigger drowned it out.

This is what awe does. Not the instagram meme kind. The real kind, standing under something too vast to categorize, too quiet to ignore.

Awe interrupts the loop.

Your brain doesn’t just experience reality.
It predicts it—on repeat. That’s what the predictive brain model tells us. You’re not reacting to the world. You’re reacting to what your brain thinks the world is, based on your past.

Which means: if the inputs don’t change, the outputs won’t either.

Same desk. Same thoughts. Same behaviours.
No wonder nothing feels new.

Awe breaks that.
It gives your nervous system a moment it can’t instantly explain. A night sky your brain can’t file away. So it stops. It updates. It opens. Not because you told it to—but because the stars did something your feed never could: they surprised you.

You don’t need better thoughts. You need different input.

You feel it before you understand it.
Time stretches. The body softens. The inner monologue loses its edge. Your problems don’t disappear but they stop being the only thing.

This is where mindset actually shifts.
Not through effort, but through scale.
Not in your head but in the stars.

You stop being the centre of everything.
And strangely, that’s when you start making better choices.

You won’t get that from another reel.
You might get it from lying on your back for 20 minutes in the dark, watching the sky spin slowly above you.

It’s not a practice. It’s a position.

Look up.
That’s where the change begins.