Awesome speech by the great Alan Watts, together with an awesome video, enjoy!
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What if money was no object? [video]
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Tag Archives: Mind
Time for reflection
Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.
Pythagoras
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Mind over body
Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired.
George S. Patton
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You decide who you are
This is a big one. In today’s article I want to talk about how to stay focused on goals and how to efficiently make use of your mind. Let’s start with a story.
When I was taking classes for my driver’s license, our instructor told us about the following situation: You drive on a long highway-like alley through the night, everything is dark and there is nothing besides your car, the road and trees beside it every now and then.
Suddenly the road makes a sharp turn and your car starts spinning. Following the glow of your front lights you search for something to hold on, for something to focus on and certainly you will find a positive lock-on on a beautiful tree. What happens then? Right, you will go right-on into the tree, although you wanted to go back on the road.
We have to ask ourselves: Why does our brain work like that? In this case we should have looked on the empty street or even in the vast nothingness in order to prevent a crash so how does this relate to our everyday life? It is simple: Your mind is extremely powerful and controls a lot of what you do. Therefore you have to understand how it works.
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Be prepared
Something I found in my notebook, must be quite old since I don’t really remember when I wrote it. Well, here goes nothing:
People forget to think in good times. They do not take the time to evaluate, appreciate and enjoy.
When it gets tough and time seems to slow down they do not have a clear mind, they are unprepared.
Use the good times to prepare yourself menatlly for tougher parts of life. Never stop thinking about self-development and general concepts of motivation and inspiration.
Take good care of your thoughts and you can harvest the crops when the drought comes.
Prepare yourself.
Meditate, read, think.
Always.
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Your attitude is important
It’s the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time.
Shawn Achor
Your mind works like a camera lense. Adjust it according to any given situation to provide yourself with the best possible picture.
Like in photography one single lense, no matter how good, does not quite cut it. You need to keep experimenting with different lense types until you get the job done.
Be open minded, be creative, adjust your lense and enjoy life.
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Sports motivation!
Somewhere, someone is practicing. When you meet that person on the field, face to face, one on one, he will beat you. Unless that person practicing is you. So run the stairs, crank the corners, hit the wall, and when you feel like giving up, think, is that person giving up?
Some people think you train with your body, but that does not quite cut it. Every body gets tiret during training, even athletes have this problem, it’s natural. That’s when the mind comes in and you have to push yourself beyond known limits.
The mind has to bend the limits the body thinks it has. A strong body with a weak mind won’t train and will get weak over time.
Start to train and train hard, it’s all about the mindset.
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Get your ass up
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Hyman Rickover
Having great ideas and a brilliant mind is awesome. Wasting this by not acting accordingly is not, don’t go there!
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About experience and the difference between practical and theoretical learning
Let me tell you a little story.
When I was about ten years old my mum wanted me to go to a course where I should learn to use a keyboard with ten fingers efficiently. Because, well, it was useful at that time and it should be such an effective system. I refused and said that I had done it several years without this system and I would be fine. She on the other hand attended and after completing the course, she came back to show me how great it worked and to prove me wrong. Without surprise I could write not only a lot faster, but without making as many mistakes as she did. Why was that? Not because the course was bad, not even because the system was bad. Just because she had good theoretical information with little practice and I had basically no theoretical knowledge whatsoever but loads of practical infield experience. I learned typing by trial-and-error, I learned it by chatting, by surfing the web and by writing articles. That is why it felt easy to me, it felt natural. My mother, on the other hand, had her mind in the way. The mind hat to control the body, it had to “tell” the hands what they had to do, while my hands knew it for themselves.
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