Mind Hacking
Reprogramming
3 Main Principles
#1 Mind Hacking is Free
#2 Mind Hacking is Experimental
#3 Mind Hacking is Mastery
Imagining
Analyzing
The rover
Controlling the rover
Controlling your body
You are the rover
Rover processes data
Brain processes data
Body uses 5 senses
Rover tracks data through its senses
Mind Movie
Your mind is the movie
You are watching the movie/your mind
You must become aware that you are viewing the movie/your mind
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)
Superuser Access
Train the mind to focus on specific targets and when it gets lost bring it back
Improves cognitive control and ability to focus the mind
Forms Of Attention
#1. Voluntary, Top Down
#2. Reflective, Bottom Up
Attention can be taxed by messages, alerts and interruptions
What can ruin attention
Multitasking is inefficient
Loops
Acronym METAL
My
Emotional
Thought
Action
Loop
Types of loops
Counting
Conditional
Infinite
Write Things Down
Helps to:
Reflect on Yourself
Remind Yourself Of Your Goals
Express Your Gratitiude
Repetition
Ways to achieve this:
Put reminders for yourself everywhere
Use an app to increase productivity
Try to repeat positive loops
Tiny Goals
Tiny goals help you to achieve the bigger goal
LASER
Limited
Achievable
Specific
Evaluated
Repeatable
Simulations
Mentally simulating scenarios makes them more likely to happen
Live your life in the third-person rather then living your life from the first-person
Teamwork
Collaboration
"Network Effect" is when something becomes mores useful as others adopt it
Pixar
"Alienus Non Diutius" means Alone No Longer
"Smooshing" is when people are brought together in a shared workplace to collaborate
Einstein
Your thoughts are imaginative works of fiction
You choose what to imagine
Your life is a thought experiment
Positive Mind
Creative Positive Thought Loops
They include the word I
They are positive
They focus on thinking big
They focus on how you can create value
for yourself and for society
Continually reinforce your mind on what you want it to do, not what you don't want it to do
Steve Jobs
"Reality Distortion Field"
Reality is malleable
Can convince anyone practically anything
Moral Perfection Project
13 Virtues
Temperance
Silence
Order
Resolution
Frugality
Industry
Sincerity
Justice
Moderation
Cleanliness
Tranquility
Chasity
Humility