Categories: All - mind - multitasking - collaboration - attention

by Grant C 5 years ago

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Mind Hacking

The concept of multitasking is scrutinized for its inefficiency, emphasizing the importance of focused attention and teamwork. Positive thinking and setting tiny, achievable goals are key to creating value for oneself and society.

Mind Hacking

Moral Perfection Project

13 Virtues

Humility
Chasity
Tranquility
Cleanliness
Moderation
Justice
Sincerity
Industry
Frugality
Resolution
Order
Silence
Temperance

"Reality Distortion Field"

Reality is malleable

Can convince anyone practically anything

Steve Jobs

Positive Mind

Continually reinforce your mind on what you want it to do, not what you don't want it to do

Creative Positive Thought Loops

They focus on how you can create value for yourself and for society
They focus on thinking big
They are positive
They include the word I

Einstein

Your life is a thought experiment

You choose what to imagine

Your thoughts are imaginative works of fiction

Pixar

"Smooshing" is when people are brought together in a shared workplace to collaborate

"Alienus Non Diutius" means Alone No Longer

Collaboration

"Network Effect" is when something becomes mores useful as others adopt it

Teamwork

Simulations

Live your life in the third-person rather then living your life from the first-person

Mentally simulating scenarios makes them more likely to happen

Tiny goals help you to achieve the bigger goal

LASER

Repeatable
Evaluated
Specific
Achievable
Limited

Tiny Goals

Repetition

Ways to achieve this:

Try to repeat positive loops
Use an app to increase productivity
Put reminders for yourself everywhere

Write Things Down

Helps to:

Express Your Gratitiude
Remind Yourself Of Your Goals
Reflect on Yourself

Loops

Types of loops

Infinite
Conditional
Counting

Acronym METAL

Loop
Action
Thought
Emotional
My

Multitasking is inefficient

What can ruin attention

Attention can be taxed by messages, alerts and interruptions

#2. Reflective, Bottom Up

#1. Voluntary, Top Down

Forms Of Attention

Improves cognitive control and ability to focus the mind

Train the mind to focus on specific targets and when it gets lost bring it back

Superuser Access

Mental Movies are when our mind spends time projecting into the future about plans,dreams or fears or when it is reminiscing about the past (memories,regrets and nostalgia)

You must become aware that you are viewing the movie/your mind

You are watching the movie/your mind

Your mind is the movie

Mind Movie

Rover tracks data through its senses

Body uses 5 senses

Brain processes data

Rover processes data

Controlling your body

You are the rover

Controlling the rover

The rover

Mind Hacking

Analyzing

Imagining

3 Main Principles

#3 Mind Hacking is Mastery
#2 Mind Hacking is Experimental
#1 Mind Hacking is Free

Reprogramming