I used to spend a lot of time arguing with people.
About anything and everything. Offline and online.
It gave me a rush. I wasted a lot of time and energy doing it. And often acted like an asshole.
Exercise is one of those things that we just “know” we should do.
Personally, I started exercising because I used to be super skinny. I couldn’t care less about my health, I just wanted to look “normal”. And so once I put on considerable muscle, I had little incentive to continue.
If you’re not in bad shape, why exercise?
“Habits” is a topic that’s been repeated to death across all self-help literature.
Maybe justifiably so. It’s an important topic.
But when something is talked about frequently — our minds get desensitized to its significance (for instance, coronavirus).
Our brain is this amazingly complex network of billions of neurons.
These neurons communicate with each other through electrical impulses. And these impulses generate electrical activity that can be observed outside the brain in the form of “brain waves“.
You know you could be doing and achieving and experiencing so much more. Because there are people out there with lesser “talent” and worse circumstances accomplishing things you dream of.
What are they doing differently? How do their minds operate? Where do you fall short?
People with a defeatist attitude love to put it all down to luck. Because it absolves them of any responsibility for their own life. But it’s so much more than luck. You know that.
The idea of higher consciousness might sound a little woo-woo.
The term is almost always used in spiritual contexts, often by pretentious mystics or posers.
But higher consciousness has inherently nothing to do with spirituality.
You are probably familiar with the concept of herding / herd mentality. It’s when people follow and copy what others are doing instead of making their own decisions. I’m sure you see it a lot around you. You do it too. In a different way, called Self Herding.
Have you noticed that we dwell on the unpleasant and traumatic events much more than pleasant ones?
We replay arguments in our head, overthinking what we should have said.
We get hung up on something terrible that happened earlier in the week, despite everything else going great.
“I don’t know what I was thinking!”
We say things we didn’t mean to. Do things we know we’d regret. Make stupid purchases. Act aggressively in the heat of the moment. Eat mindlessly.
Almost as if we lose control of our own minds. Why?
So there’s this thing called the Reticular Activating System (RAS). This tiny little system at the base of your brain (see the picture above?) and it plays a BIG role in shaping your life.
Let’s talk about how the RAS works and how you can hack it to create the life you want.