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Your brain. Your most influential partner, for good or for bad, when you embark on any journey of elite performance. I’m not talking about how smart you are, but rather, how you are smart. How your brain determines your success or failure.
You know that your brain is always evaluating, organizing, classifying, synthesizing, analyzing. The paradox is that, with all that activity going on, your brain is not interested in your success!
Your brain is primarily interested in your survival.
Almost everything you need to know about reconditioning your brain from survival to success you can learn from the animated movie The Croods. The Croods are a cave-era family on the edge of extinction whose brains are 100% in survival mode. Eventually they learn to innovate, allowing them to discover a new land and a bright new future. But they didn’t change on their own. They were motivated by a natural disaster that required that they start thinking outside of the box (or cave). Lucky for them along came a bold, creative strategist to push them far beyond their previously primal thinking to create new thinking and behaving patterns.
(Don’t judge. I have grandchildren.)
Let’s add some physics here: Newton’s first law of motion is that a body at rest or moving at a constant speed in a straight line will remain at rest or keep moving at a constant speed in a straight line unless it is acted upon by an unbalanced force.
If the cave you’ve been living in is being destroyed by an earthquake, you have to think and behave differently or die.
If something is threatening your business, family, finances, friendships, or happiness, you must change the way you’ve been thinking and behaving or remain in a state of inertia or, worse yet, entropy.
Simply put, your brain is most comfortable staying the same to protect your survival. You must alter your “primal” or survival thinking, the kind in which the same neurocellular gates or channels keep opening and letting the same chemicals pass through in the same ways with the same results. The way your brain cells–neurons–fire and wire to other neurons. In non-scientific terms, we call that “the same ole same ole.” Or, “If nothing changes, nothing changes.”
How do you train your brain to spend more time focusing on your success and less on reverting solely to survival mode?
You have an estimated 100 billion neurons in your brain. When you are creating new ways of thinking and behaving, impressive changes are taking place in your brain, including the creation of new connections between your neurons. This phenomenon is called neuroplasticity. The more you practice, the stronger these connections become.
The more and more often you force your brain to open new channels and create new neuron connections, the less influence your primal brain will have on your behavior and the more influence your prefrontal cortex (the home of creativity, execution, and decision making) will exert. And these neuron connections can become permanent, Neurons that repeatedly fire together, wire together!
The key is to learn the right skills, establish high-performance patterns, break bad habits, and discover better paradigms.
What kind of course altering force do you need in your life?
Newton’s second law addresses the principle that the change in the momentum of a body is equal in both magnitude and direction to the force imposed on it.
Imagine the force of a strategist and/or a mastermind of high and elite performers, each bringing magnitude and direction to overcome your inertia, helping you reach new levels of creativity, execution, and decision making.
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