Thinking is like facing a wall, you
either want to move it out of the way or to get to the other side. If your intention is to move it, using a machine might be your best shot, but if you just need to go to the other side, it is best to climb over or just go
around the thing. Before Archimedes lifted a boat with one hand using a pulley,
what he did was thought impossible, but
he did it anyway, and like the analogy of the wall shows, it is all
about looking at things from a different angle and more than anything else, thinking
is like that. There are scarcely straight lines between mental problems and their
solutions; you often have to turn corners, to maneuver
and to climb over.
In their book Peak: How To MasterAlmost Anything, authors and researchers Anderson Erickson and Robert Pool
point out that in order to improve, individuals must be ready to get outside
their comfort zone and continuously
challenge themselves as this way they are able to make the brain develop new
neural patterns and sometimes add new matter to targeted sections of the brain.
The kinds of challenges that the
authors urge their readers to undertake involve
setting very specific goals and receiving constant feedback on the same.
This is what they call purposeful practice ie,
the kind of training that seeks to
improve on the areas that limit the performance of an individual.
The key lesson that they give in
their book is that anyone can become a master at something and all they have to
do is to practice with a purpose. It is not about doing it hard, it is about being smart.
The two
rules for today
Don’t push, think differently
Reduce your problem to small and achievable goals.
Mateo Ngatia
I'm Mateo Ngatia. A full time Content Developer who enjoys sharing two rules to live by on a daily basis. It is mostly a fun thing, that reminds us that living is serious business no matter what you do .
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