“Hamish Armstrong, author of “”Success with 1000 cuts”
“I never want to learn anything again. I hate it!” I replied to my boss. He asked about my university experience and looked at me with gentle sadness and disappointment before replying to his signature, cool, calm and collected tones (still gentle warning). We had a quick meal in the restaurant before meeting difficult customers. He then gave me a free lesson to navigate challenging clients. Free lessons never stopped, and over the next five years he showed the endless possibilities of continuous learning. This changed my overall perspective, opened my mind, removed prejudice, started me on a journey to do anything.
It’s a positive and open mindset all! Most of what happens to you in life is not inherently positive or negative. Our brains interpret them as positive or negative based on our preferences. The ability to change or change your way of thinking, being open and positive will help you win in life and increase your happiness.
The idea is quite high level and is comprehensive. It’s just that you say, “If you have a positive mindset you win,” and you can’t follow that easily. Success with 1000 cuts has an entire section to break down key concepts and tools to build positive thinking.
Positive thinking starts with one of the most fascinating works that exist: our brain, your hardware. There are some very simple and important concepts that once understood, which will allow us to use it to our advantage to create the ideas of our choice. Did you know how we use it? You may lose the principles that use it or actually change how a particular feature is dominant. If we practice using it for what we want, it actually changes for what is better, a concept called neuroplasticity. Conversely, if we do more of what we want to stop, our brains will change to make them better, making it even more difficult to improve or transform ourselves into those we want to be.
Another principle is called those that fire together and wire together. So the more difficult we do, or what we turn into people we want to be, and what we want to have, and that will be easier. Stick to it, it becomes easier and soon it becomes a second nature.
Once you’ve worked on how your brain works and identified the possibilities and pitfalls of your hardware, you need a set of thinking strategies and frameworks to make the most of it. The two best things to start with are no expectations or worries!
We will forever build expectations of how we want to unfold something, how we can get what we want. In reality, it rarely unfolds like this. When it’s away from the fantasy we’ve built, we start to create negative emotions within us and try to force change, so it generally follows preconceived notions that prevent the outcome we want. There’s no need to worry about expectations. As long as you get the overall results and learn something, don’t worry. Using flows to relax, you can learn more, meet incredible new people, and gain more value.
We say yes with anyone to please and forget how valuable our time is, less stressful, and how valuable it is to add when we have time to focus on the right. Be polite, politely say to those who you don’t fit and people, and you’ll be low prioritized and will undermine you being your best self. People will actually respect you more. If you say yes and don’t stream, it’s really a late, stupid no!
You’ve already won the lottery
To truly zoom you out and thank you for the life you have, the fact that you woke up this morning is an absolute miracle, not to mention having the privilege of reading this blog post. The chances you are born will be 2,685,000 strengths in one tenth of you. It’s 10 with zeros of over 2.5 million. It seems like a pretty small number now, but let’s put this in a bit of a perspective for you. The odds of a single winner in the Powerball Division 1 jackpot are one or about 3×10 power per 302,575,350. The number of atoms in the body is output from 10 to 27. The planet has 50 atoms.
Well, the numbers are already sufficient. What I am saying is that your life is an absolute gift. By birth you won Life Lottery, a lottery ticket where you have more odds of winning stacks than any other lottery ticket. Once you start to calm down or negative, remember this hilarious little fact, you’ve already won! Thinking it’s recenter, amazing, how lucky I am!
Source: Spiritual Media Blog – www.spiritualmediablog.com
