The most powerful tool we can count on is above our shoulders, spread across our brains. Of course, we’re talking about our minds. Its operation is so powerful and at the same time so special that it is the main pen with which we write our own destiny.
A few years ago the idea of using only 10% of its potential became famous; Secondly, we have seen that everything is more complex than this simple statement because, although we have limited processes, such as the ability to maintain attention or shorten memory to completion, we also have processes that seem to know no boundaries, such as the ability to imagine or learn.
- It is clear that what we can do with our minds is exponentially infinite.
- However.
- If you look at most of our behaviors.
- We will find that what most influences them are routines or mental programming.
- Routines where there is a disconnect between the action and the conscious part.
- We’re talking about laying clothes on the clothesline.
- Cooking or driving on a familiar road.
- The action is so well known that we free our minds to work with ideas disconnected from this present.
In addition, something else happens: our mind is generally intelligent in its self-management, so it always seeks to work minimizing energy consumption. Think about our ancestors and how difficult it is to access certain types of essential nutrients.
You may be wondering why they needed such selective mental energy savings for our species if they served the day hunting and hunting prey. Well, it has been proven, for example, that the best long-term athletes share a common characteristic: their brain oxygenation. long and intense efforts is greater.
Obviously, our minds don’t like wasting energy because it’s afraid to be without it, and that many of the activities we do are automatically, we understand that we may not use 10% of our capacity, but it’s true that there’s a lot we don’t use, limiting it to a percentage is the minimum, the really important thing is what impact it has.
The part we don’t use in our minds? As a general rule, are there always exceptions?It’s about creativity and finding new solutions. Much of the resistance to change has this biological reason, as it goes against the brain’s tendency to save money. Maybe the current way of doing things isn’t. the best, but changing what we are used to something new implies, in addition to uncertainty, additional energy expenditure at first.
Let us take a trip to the Middle Ages and attend the trial of an accused, in this trial the judge wanted to convict the accused at all costs, but he also did not want his attitude to be explicit, so he suggested that the accused Throw him by chance. Was I supposed to put two identical envelopes in a box, one with a piece of paper with the word?Innocent, and another with the word “guilty. “
Evidently, the judge had written? In both envelopes. Clearly, the defendant knew, because grudges against the judge came from afar. What do you think the defendant did? I could have denounced it, but if it were found that his hypothesis was false, he would be convicted; on the other hand, if that were true they would probably get the judge off the case, but there is no guarantee that the next one would be better.
Because he ate one of the two papers. Then he said they could know what he had chosen because it would be the opposite of what he had left in the box. Obviously, what was in the box said “guilty”, and he was released in anger against the judge, who had to swallow. your own trap.
Going back to the present, we must not forget that we all have a tool similar to that of the intelligent accused and that we can use it to save or improve our lives: we are talking about our mind, it is true that we cannot control everything. But it is also true that this control often goes beyond what we imagine, so in this difference between prediction and reality, between ingenuity and repetition, there lies our true potential.