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1 Roger at American Ninja Warrior Roger's Story
See it in action 13 min · 1 video
See how the IC Solution saved Roger's life.
My Story
2 IC in headquarters Quick Start Guide
Understand the basics 49 min · 1 video
Learn everything you need to know to start setting your goals in less than one hour.
Quick Start Guide
3 IC User Guide map The IC University
Go deeper ~3 hrs · 6 videos
Delve into the details with the IC University. This is best for when you're ready to start leading your own meetings.
IC University
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Option 1  —  13 minutes

My Story

See what it actually feels like when the IC is running your life — and what changes when you separate from it.

By Roger Andresen and his Instinctual Core

Start here if you want to see it before you try to understand it.

About This Video

Roger starts where many people live — stuck in a loop that feels impossible to break. Drinking, shame, trying again, failing again just much deeper in… and a voice in his head that wouldn’t stop.

What changed wasn’t more effort or willpower. It was seeing something clearly for the first time:

That voice wasn’t him.

This video shows the moment that shift happens — when “I need this” becomes “something in me is saying this.” From there, everything starts to loosen.

You’ll get your first look at the IC, how it operates from the brain’s command center, and why it can feel exactly like you. More importantly, you’ll see how separating from it begins to change everything.

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Option 2  —  49 minutes

Quick Start Guide

Understand what the IC is, why it feels like you, and how the User’s Guide helps you separate from it.

by the Instinctual Core

About This Video

This is where the IC Solution becomes clear.

The IC walks you through what it is, why it exists, and how something designed to protect you can start working against you in modern life — showing up as anxiety, cravings, shame, and constant mental noise.

The shift is simple, but powerful:

You are not your thoughts.
You are receiving signals from the IC.

From there, the map starts to come into focus — the conscious brain, the IC, the activation filter, and the command center that turns signals into reactions.

Once you can see the system, you can start to change your relationship to it.

This video also shows you how to begin: how to notice when the IC is firing, separate from the false alarm, and stop feeding the reaction so retraining can begin.

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Option 3  —  The full education system  —  6 videos  —  ~3 hours

IC 3-Hour University

by the Instinctual Core

Course Contents
IC University
Overview · 6 lessons · ~3 hours
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Overview

Complete Walkthrough of the Instinctual Core and the IC Solution

by the Instinctual Core

IC University is the deeper walk-through for people who want the full map of the IC Solution. It takes the big shift from the Quick Start Guide and slows it down: the IC is a real survival system, it is separate from you, and it is misreading modern life through ancient survival code.

From there, the course walks through the full structure of the system — why the IC hijacks, why separation is the unlock, how the User's Guide works, where the false alarms live, and what it looks like to move from a life forced by the IC to a life chosen by you.

The goal is not just to understand the ideas. The goal is to start recognizing your own hijacks in real time, stop treating the IC's fear, cravings, stress, and judgments as you, and begin retraining it toward freedom, comfort, and a higher level of happiness.

1. Meet the ICDefine the separate survival system and the brain model behind it.
2. See the misfireUnderstand why an ancient protector becomes the source of modern hijacks.
3. SeparateStop treating the IC's fear, cravings, demands, and judgments as identity.
4. Use the GuideRead the activation filter, internal reaction, external reaction, and weapons.
5. Spot false alarmsTrace survival-layer traps before they run the day.
6. Take the wheelMove toward intrigue, appreciation, engagement, self-improvement, and purpose.
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Lesson 1 of 6

Meet Your Instinctual Core, Your IC

by the Instinctual Core

This video answers the first big question: what exactly is the IC? It introduces the perspective shift at the center of the whole solution — you are not all the thoughts, urges, fears, and reactions moving through your brain.

Instead, this lesson breaks down the simple model: you, your conscious brain, the subconscious brain, your instincts, and the instinctual core as the separate survival system working through the fast, automatic part of the brain.

The point is not to win a debate over terminology. The point is to give you a usable way to see what has been happening inside your head so the unwanted thought, craving, or emotional storm can be investigated instead of automatically believed.

Lesson 2 of 6

Why Your IC Sucks at Its Job, Your Survival

by the Instinctual Core

Now that you know what the IC is, this lesson shows why it becomes such a problem in modern life. The IC was built for a world of small tribes, immediate threats, and simple survival problems. It was brilliant then. It is deeply confused now.

This video shows how an ancient system using the dumbest part of the brain starts misreading modern inputs — status, safety, food, belonging, failure, pleasure, and false victories — as if they were still life or death.

The result is anxiety, addiction, shame, emotional chaos, and endless false alarms. This is where it starts to become clear that the toxic voice is not you being broken. It is the IC doing a terrible job in a world it was never built to understand.

Lesson 3 of 6

The Power of Separation: You Are NOT Your IC

by the Instinctual Core

This is the unlock. The power of the IC Solution begins when you stop treating the IC's voice as your own and start seeing it as a separate, outdated survival system inside your head.

This lesson shows why fighting yourself never works. If you think the fear, craving, self-hate, or demand is you, then you are trapped arguing with yourself until willpower breaks down. But once you separate, the inner war changes completely.

Now you are not fighting yourself. You are retraining the IC. Catch the hijack, correct it, repeat. This is how the subconscious begins to move from hijacked to reacquired.

Lesson 4 of 6

The IC User's Guide

by the Instinctual Core

This lesson introduces the User's Guide — the practical map you will use to investigate how the IC works in real time. It shows the activation filter, the IC at the command center, and the three basic survival reactions the IC is always trying to produce: destroy the threat, avoid the threat, or attain the treat.

From there, the video breaks down the IC's weapons: fear, anger, hate, sadness, pleasure, stress, cravings, demands, and judgments. These are not random. They are the tools the IC uses to hijack your thoughts, emotions, and behavior in the name of survival.

Once you understand the guide, you stop seeing chaos as chaos. You start seeing a system. And once you can see the system, you can begin to retrain it.

Lesson 5 of 6

Your IC's Layers of Survival: The False Alarms

by the Instinctual Core

This lesson goes deeper into where the IC really gets you: the false alarms. It breaks down the six layers the IC monitors for survival — physiological, safety, belonging, pecking order, IC evaluation, and manageability.

Back in the Stone Ages, these layers were often real matters of life and death. Today, the IC still treats them that way, even though the world has changed beyond recognition. That is how it traps people in impossible standards, chronic stress, comparison, shame, addiction, and the feeling that they are always losing.

This video helps you see that these traps are not your identity. They are the IC's misfires. And when you can identify the trap, you can begin to walk out of it.

Lesson 6 of 6

The Layers of Human Happiness

by the Instinctual Core

After showing you the IC's side of the system, this lesson shows you yours. It introduces the layers of human happiness — intrigue, appreciation, engagement, self-improvement, and purpose.

The key shift here is that life does not have to be run through fear, cravings, pressure, and false alarms. Once the IC stops forcing life, you can begin handling the same world through curiosity, gratitude, focus, growth, and meaning.

This is where the great life flip comes into view: from a life forced by the IC to a life chosen by you. Not just feeling better, but functioning better — with more freedom, comfort, clarity, and productivity.

Option 4
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Investigate it live.

The videos give you the map. The live meetup helps you use it on the reaction, urge, craving, fear, demand, or false alarm that is active in your real life. You can bring one example, stay anonymous, and learn how to separate from the IC without fighting yourself.

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