Regulate Your Mind And Rewire Your Brain, Effectively

An interesting podcast with a scientist on doing what works to Regulate Your Mind And Rewire Your Brain.  I've done a "transcript" with some comments and links that could be useful.

There are some strategies/tactics that you can use to effectively and simply regulate your neurochemicals for the better and to take advantage of our brain's neuroplasticity ability.

There is value here, so click the link to the piece.

Reality, spirituality, effectiveness, causality, capability - questions from a "student of life"

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As "Tim" reads my Life Value Productivity book, certain significant life philosophy and effectiveness questions come up.

He is shedding his beliefs about "accidents", "magical entities", "wishful thinking" and such and learning to rely on actual reality and causality: the cause-effect principles (as compared to the "hoping for effects" without enough cause being inserted!).  In this I suggest that he re-read The Believing Brain summary.

He is beginning to see that it is all systems (processes) that we need to discover and/or correct from what we do that gets us undesired results.  Indeed, I suggest that "As we fix our systems, more and more reliable results are produced...and life gets better and better, until it arrives at being great (and then even greater and then even greater...etc., as we continue to grow."

And we get off of "wishful thinking" and into reality where this is what counts: "Workability/results is the only criterion for anything in life.  Good/bad/right/wrong/blame are not valid!"

And we discuss a number of issues around life effectiveness and even a few forms to use to arrive at better solutions....

Read the actual dialogue and details:  Click here. (You can also use the discussion as an exercise, where you actually do what he has done and/or some of the specifics that I suggest.)

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Are there actual "allies" in The Life Management Alliance? Here's one...

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Is there an actual Life Management Alliance?

Not yet, per se.

Unless you look at it from a different viewpoint, that I am the one choosing to align with the best resources I find, in order to help the users of the site learn and develop the capabilities that are needed to create a great life.

To that end, here is one site I would choose to ally with, with its slogan, which I totally support:

"Farnam Street helps you make better decisions, innovate, and avoid stupidity."

Though this site is oriented toward those who might be in business and/or a profession, I think the value of it is, indeed, in teaching all persons how to learn better, how to think better, how to make better decisions, and how to manage life better.

It is, I think, about acquiring practical life wisdom.  "Practical" refers to gaining results in real life, results that actually show up in terms of one's own happiness and in one's impact on others in the world (on the world).  The ability to run one's life with the wisdom that will create the very best life is what it is about.

Even for those who aren't really interested in "going deep" into wisdom thinking, I recommend that you at least scan the email to get the idea of the post - and to possibly discover some things you might actually care to follow up on, just for personal reasons.

In most cases, I've discovered, it is virtually useless, and too random and unsystematic, to be notified by email of new information that is not specifically on what I am working/focusing on.  So I send most of them automatically (without me screening them or reading them first) to a category of emails that I can read when I am focusing on something related to the category.  However, I recommend that you get the Farnam Street Blog newsletter directly for your reading that day - as it stimulates thinking to the highest level, for anyone in any position in life.

There are a very few others that are worth receiving directly into my direct email list, but I'll cover those later.  (I have recently shed most of the 50-100 blogs/newsletters/notifications so that I don't waste an ounce of energy or mental space on them and only look at a very, very few now.  While this, of course, increases one's productivity (or decreases the causes of lack of productivity), I attacked it because of the thoughts and strategies that came up while writing The Self Control book, upcoming.)

[Of course, I recommend that you recommend this blog, or an occasional post of interest, to your associates who are progress oriented and who want to live the best life.  Some may wish also to explore the website to extract what is of value to them! (Use the little envelope symbol below this post to share a post with someone you care about.]

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Following Buddha's Path - Interpreted with comments - I hope you follow this path!

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I absolutely (minus a few outdated practices) believe that one is immensely helped by the precepts and truths involved in the basics of Buddhism.  Indeed, we are not stuck with suffering (anxiety, stress, tension, feeling we are not good enough, etc.) if we follow this path that is laid out to get you from suffering to no suffering - and to peace of mind, true happiness on a lasting, repeating basis.

So I have used a summary from the internet, but provided my interpretations, comments, and how one might look at a truth or precept, where people often misinterpret words such that it stops them in their adopting what will work the best in life.

See the piece:  Following The Buddha's Footsteps.  Take the rating sheet to see how you are doing on Right Living.

May you commit to the path to wisdom and receive such benefits that your life becomes truly great and stress free,

Keith

Diagram overview of the transition from the "life before" to the great life

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A person must "see" what the overview of life is in order to comprehend it fully.

In this case, this overview diagram takes us from Life Before To Life After, From A Not So Great Life To A Great Life!  (Click on that link to go to the piece.)

From this, you can see the pieces necessary to transition to the great life, guaranteed (though it does take doing "the work", which is totally priceless!).  And you can click on the links to go explore and learn the pieces.

Bon voyage, and I hope to see you on The Other Side of the transition and of life!

Keith

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Always Seeking New Learning, Seldom "Completing"

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THE ADVENTURE OF IT ALL
     
As a friend of mine goes off on yet another learning adventure all week with lots of classes on life, finance, relationships, etc., he is excited for all he might learn and for the possibilities of who he'll meet or what might come up.

Well, that sounds pretty good, but...

As in all things, being too far out of balance can be harmful to one's living of life!

If one has too many ideas and too little implementation and completion, one has few results to show for it, other than the fun of mental masturbation or hope for the future.

Random ideas and possibilities CAN provide some grist for the mill in producing a better life.  Yes, that is true, but... it should be done AFTER the key implementations are completed!


FULL OF IDEAS GOING NOWHERE
     
I notice that he is stuck in being full of ideas (and tidbits of knowledge) and short of implementation of what is necessary to actually live a better life.

He is being similar to what we used to refer to as "the seekers" in life, who get stuck in seeking but never quite attain happiness - while we'd recommend instead being a "finder" of the answers in life.

New stuff is exciting and a new journey is always exciting.

But those who succeed are not the ideaholics, the 'new'aholics, and/or the possibilityaholics , but those who determine a path to follow and follow it all the way to completion - to learning sufficient knowledge to be able to (and then implementing) produce the result - and concentrating on the few things that really matter, rather than all the things that might have "some value".


LEARNING EFFECTIVELY

The very idea of learning at random and not in a systematic way is antithetical to being successful in learning life.

He "got" the idea of productivity "time blocks", but, so far, has not been inserting enough "life learning" hours to make a difference in his life.

He improves something a little and then the pressure is off - things are "better" and no longer urgent...  And then he is out there looking for the next new possibility, always seeking but seldom progressing much.


DO "THE BUILD"...QUICKLY!

Unless he changes this, his "build" in life will be slow or nonexistent and life will continue to have its (unsolved) difficulties, guilts, anxieties, and lack of emotional well-being.  Instead he (and anyone who is reading this) should commit (and design) to following a designated path to completion of whatever life goal or sub-goal he seeks AND inserting into his "high value" time blocks the necessary hours to rapidly make progress.  

This will cause one's learning curve to accelerate so that life gets far better in one year instead of five years or ten years or never...

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WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH THIS?, YOU ASK

Heed it.

1. Pick a goal you'd like to reach in life.

2. Review the relevant articles on the site, using the contents/links and/or reading sequences or paths.

3. Write down which ones you'll read, put them in order, and then follow the path you've set up - or use one of the paths I've already set up (perhaps modifying it to better fit your situation).  Go to The Paths and then navigate your way to a path you can use. (While you're at it, you would best read The Only Sure Path To The Greatest Life - and fully engrain yourself into following it.)

Note:  If you run across something of interest on the site and of high relevance to your life, don't just read it for a "quick hit" and then go do something else.  Instead, build on it, concentrating on the area for at least a week, reading the related links and then sitting down to write out what decisions (and actions) you have determined.


HOW MANY HOURS OF LIFE LEARNING PER WEEK?

If you are in the early stages of "the build", do at least 5-7 hours a week.

If you are aiming for dramatic life change rapidly, wasting no time, do 15-20 hours a week.

Yes, there is time.  How To Find The Time For Life Improvement - There's Lots Of Time Plus You'll Get More Spare Time!