Tamir's metaphor for beliefs and conditioning that build up like plaque on teeth, setting invisible limits that hurt performance in every area of life. You can't simply think your way out of them.
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It's like a snake eating its own tail. It's very difficult for the computer with a bug to unbug itself, to fix itself. There has to be new code that's pushed to fix the bug.
- A bugged mind needs outside code
A mind can't fully debug itself from inside its own faulty logic. It needs new input, new ideas or a new environment, the way software needs a patch pushed to it.
There is plaque that can accumulate in our minds that can affect performance in every area of our life, and they create these boundaries. And the problem with these boundaries is you cannot really truly think your way out of it.