Life's a game, the brain's the controller, your thoughts are the coding and your senses are the language. You can learn something and your subconscious will employ actions that water that seed. Once you understand this principal of meta-cognition, you'll understand why theres a population of people who believe you can 'manifest' your dreams by speaking them into the universe. They're not entirely wrong, they're just very off i- or in my opinion missing the mark on a key demographic of logical thinkers - in the way their interpreting and delivering the skillset.