By now it is clear to you that much of what determines your ultimate success is 'in your head'.
Naturally there are outside circumstances and challenges like the economy, competition, relatonships, your health and so forth. But its the extent to which you are able to 'manage' your thoughts and beliefs that actually determines how to generate the success you seek.
I came across this really outstanding video on TED earlier this week and wanted to share it with you. In it, Michael Shermer, author of "Why People Believe Weird Things" and "The Mind and The Market" talks about the hard-wired brain habits that make us believe strange things. Shermer's work offers cognitive context for our often misguided beliefs.
I am absolutely certain you will be enlightened and entertained. Check it out:
Be sure to let me know what you think by commenting below.
As a companion to this video I'd also like to introduce you to Morty Lefko of the Lefko Institute.
Eliminating the subconscious beliefs that curtial your success is vital to your accomplishment. There are hundreds of techniques for identifying and clearing them. Morty's system is amazingly effective and requires very little 'effort' on your part. Click on the link below and he'll proove it to you personally:
I’m standing for all that’s possible for you.
Sincerely,
Steve
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Yes, Shermer is always entertaining but what did he actually say? In the context of this blog post, it is true that we see patterns and may draw false conclusions; however that is not what he actually said. What he is really saying is that some patterns are acceptable while others are “obviously” delusion. My question for you is, who is making the final decision as to what is real and what is a sham? And can you discern the facts from the maybes?
This video is in and of itself based on a pattern, a pattern that Schermer and others hold up as being correct. He begins the talk with, (5:12min) “I think we evolved…” then continues to pad this statement with anecdotes that say little if anything about the state of the mind and our ability to understand and make sense of the world. Yes we evolved but to then leap to the why we have this ability to find patterns is pure speculation, which then becomes the foundation for the rest of the talk.
He is guilty of doing exactly what he detests, selling snake oil, but instead of snake oil, it’s an idea. This is how he does it: He presents wonderful information that we are all happy to see and agree with, science, yet what he leaves out is that most of these things he mentions correlate to brain states, but are not causal.
I apologize for not giving you more basis for my opinion, maybe you don’t want it, but I’d like to finish by saying I wholeheartedly agree with Shermer, that our default state is to believe, while being skeptical is work and difficult for most of us. We prefer delusion over truth, but we’d be wise to not confuse correlation with causation. And I think pattern recognition is too nuanced to be based only on the drive to survive.
Thx for this great information that you are shareing with us
This is another great example. Many of our patterns of perception are indeed flawed, if not completely inaccurate. Associating this subject with self-defeating beliefs is both appropriate and profound. Thank you Steve.