Who needs boot camp (basic training) for learning and critical thinking?
Neuroscientists estimate that around 83% of students and 76% of executives are unaware of the link between knowing and doing. It’s called the “critical thinking” step. Use it or lose it.
My dad used to say, “Anything for nothing? Take it back, kid.”
At the bottom of this blog is a free, no-strings offer that helps your kids get great grades, classes, and tests (including SAT, LSAT, GMAT, and MCAT). Don’t reject it. If you’re worried about promotions and pay raises (regardless of age), we’ve got something valuable for you, too.
Why should executives worry in the midst of their successful careers? Two words: information overload, the need to keep up with the latest technology and creativity without stress and anxiety? Are you the go-to person in your division or team? Does it cost you promotions to stop learning and growing?
There are easy baby boot camp strategies for figuring out how to be that guy.
What are endorphins and dopamine and who cares?
See if you can permanently remember endorphins. When you are excited with joy, exercising, eating spicy food, falling in love, or experiencing an orgasm, think of endorphins. They act like natural morphine and come from the brain and body. They overcome the pain and affect your emotions. Good material.
Dopamine is a rush of chemicals: neurotransmitters when you have desires and the anticipation of possible rewards. Get this: when we’re curious, we just need to know more, we want something (new car, new relationship), dopamine levels rise. It allows us to keep an open mind and seek discovery.
The flow of dopamine allows us to harbor a new idea in our prefrontal cortex, the brain structure that triggers our thinking. PFC decides which thoughts are important and deserve to be activated for action. If you want to use critical thinking to make winning decisions, increase your dopamine levels. How? Activate your prefrontal cortex. How? Increase your curiosity and create a sense of want or need?
Make believe is the law of acting as if
If you “make believe” that new ideas are going to get you a promotion and a raise, you have value, and your PFC begins to overproduce dopamine. Wait, but what if the new stuff is irrelevant, boring, and boring?
If I ask you to ‘make believe’ that you ‘smile’ this very second, can you do it? Put a fake happy smile on your face. Show the world your teeth. Sure, and something strange happens to your mind and body. You automatically feel better and better (if you continue to fake smile) even if it’s fake, which means there’s nothing to be happy about.
The law of acting as if (Professor William James)
Actors do it instantly and so can you. Understand this: If you decide to put a meaningless grin on your cat and hold it for 30 seconds, you can’t, again, can’t, feel depressed, angry, or stressed. If you hold this Pan-Am smile (just showing your teeth, no squinting) for 50 seconds, you will forget what was originally creating negative emotions and feel new positive feelings.
Your brain turns the fictitious (fake) smile into a real smile. Will you remember this? Now it’s your new secret strategy to dispel the negative forces in your mind and body. Can you teach it to your children, significant others and your career partners? Wait, if you have ongoing pain in, say, your shoulder, getting rid of the emotional block can often eliminate the negative physical symptom.
You have much more control over your symptoms and physical feelings
Yes, our knowledge and experience is that your non-conscious mind (5/6 of your brain) believes that anything you put on your face that indicates joy and happiness is real. False is only known to his conscious mind (1/6) of his functioning brain.
If you act as if you want to learn boring things, your mind accepts these new ideas and knowledge as valuable and necessary for your survival. Why? Because your conscious mind sets the goals and your non-conscious mind carries out the learning activity without question.
The principle is a law, an instinct or a reflex
If the principle of acting as if you can eliminate negative emotions and even negative physical symptoms by using your PFC and dopamine flooding, go the extra mile and do a thought experiment. Decide that you are going to be curious and want to be an expert on a new idea that is normally boring and seems stupid to you.
Imagine (act as if) that you want to be an expert on any new topic, and your brain and dopamine will do it. They will double your long-term memory and your creativity. If you use the principle of acting as if often, your IQ will increase by up to 15%, and that’s a lot.
Students excel in their tests, classes, and grades: In high school, college, and grad school, many rise to a full grade. The executives we teach speedlearning101 get this strategy and brag about its effectiveness in the business world.
But how
Think like this and act like you do for the 83.3% (non-conscious mind) of your functioning brain. Your conscious mind (16.7%) programs and conditions your non-conscious mind to react to Act-As-If.
You activated your prefrontal cortex to make it happen, and your brain is flooded with dopamine by the activated smile or the desire to learn new things. Yes, that happens with a real and legitimate smile or becoming an expert in whatever you choose. Most people are not aware of their personal strength-energy-power to create hope.
It is part of the rhythm of life that you control. If you know the secret strategy and use it, you will be inspired by the revelations (intuitions) that occur in your mind.
Now use this principle to get curious about winning a $50,000 bonus or learning Spanish.
Offer
We really want you to know the strategies to win promotions and pay raises, and for your kids, how to get great grades and tests. A boot camp is like basic training in the army, you get all the knowledge principles you need to survive and thrive. Find us and ask for information about the LIVE Boot-Camp or Do-It-Yourself At Home workshop.
Don’t miss out on your new skills. They lead to better health, creativity and longevity. Ask us how.