Neuroscientists estimate that about 83% of students and 76% of executives are unaware of the link between knowing and doing. It’s called the “critical thinking” step. Use it or lose it.
My dad used to say, “Something for nothing? Take it back, kid.”
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Why should executives worry in the middle of their successful career? Two words: information overload, the need to keep up with the latest technology and creativity without stress or anxiety? Are you the go-to person in your division or team? Do you struggle with promotions to stop learning and growing?
There are easy baby strategies in Boot Camp to figure out how to be that guy.
What are endorphins and dopamine and who cares?
See if you can permanently remember the endorphins. When you’re excited with joy, exercising, eating spicy food, in love or through an orgasm, think endorphins. They act like natural morphine and come from the brain and body. They overcome pain and affect your emotions. Good material.
Dopamine is a rush of chemicals: neurotransmitters when you have desires and the anticipation of potential rewards. Understand this: when we’re curious, we just need to know more, we want something (new car, new relationship), dopamine levels rise. It allows us to be open-minded and seek discovery.
The flow of dopamine allows us to harbor a new idea in our prefrontal cortex, the brain structure that triggers our thinking. PFC decides which thoughts are important and deserve to be activated for action. If you want to use critical thinking to make winning decisions, increase your dopamine levels. As? Activate your prefrontal cortex. As? Increase their curiosity and create a sense of desire or need?
Make believe is the law of acting as if
If you “make believe” that new ideas are going to get you a promotion and a raise, you have courage and your PFC starts producing excess dopamine. Wait, but what if the new stuff is irrelevant, boring, and boring?
If I ask you to ‘make believe’ you ‘smile’ this very second, can you do it? Put a fake happy smile on your face. Show the world your teeth. Sure, and something strange happens to your mind and body. You automatically feel better and better (if you continue to smile fake) even though it’s fake, which means there’s nothing to be happy about.
The Law of Acting As If (Professor William James)
Actors do it instantly and you can too. Understand this: if you decide to put a meaningless smile on your cat and hold it there for 30 seconds, you can’t, once again, you can’t feel depressed, angry, or stressed. If you hold this Pan-Am smile (just showing your teeth, no squinting) for 50 seconds, you will forget what was originally creating negative emotions and feel new positive feelings.
Your brain converts the fictional (fake) smile into a real smile. Will you remember this? It is now your new secret strategy to dispel the negative forces in your mind and body. Can you show it to your children, significant others, and fellow racers? Wait, if you have ongoing pain in, say, your shoulder, getting rid of the emotional block can often remove the negative physical symptom.
You control your symptoms and physical feelings much more
Yes, our knowledge and experience is that your non-conscious mind (5/6 of your brain) believes that whatever you put on your face that indicates joy and happiness is real. False is only known by his conscious mind (1/6) of his functioning brain.
If you act like you want to learn boring things, your mind accepts those new ideas and knowledge as valuable and necessary for your survival. Because? Because your conscious mind sets the goals and the non-conscious mind carries out the learning activity without question.
The principle is a law, an instinct or a reflex
If the principle of acting like you can eliminate negative emotions and even negative physical symptoms by using your PFC and dopamine flood, go the extra mile and do a thought experiment. Decide that you are going to be curious and want to be an expert on a new idea that is normally boring and stupid to you.
Imagine (act as if) you want to be an expert on any new subject, and your brain and dopamine will. They will double your long-term memory and your creativity. If you use the act as if principle often, your IQ will increase by up to 15%, and that’s a lot.
Students excel in their tests, classes, and grades – in high school, college, and graduate school, many rise to a full grade. The executives we teach speedlearning101 get this strategy and boast about its effectiveness in the business world.
But how
Thinking like this and acting like it did for 83.3% (non-conscious mind) of your functioning brain. Your conscious mind (16.7%) programs and conditions your non-conscious mind to react to Act-As-If.
You activated your prefrontal cortex to make it happen, and your brain is flooded with dopamine from the activated smile or the desire to learn new things. Yes, that happens with a real and legitimate smile or becoming an expert in whatever you choose. Most people are unaware of their personal strength-energy-power to create hope.
It is part of the rhythm of life that you control. If you know the secret strategy and use it, you will be inspired by the revelations (insights) that occur in your mind.
Now use this principle to be curious about winning a $50,000 bonus or learning Spanish.
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