Monday, June 16, 2008

The Power of Your Thought

After this weekend, I thought I would write a quick blog entry. Most of us don't realize it but our mind moves at a million miles an hour and we are thinking about things all day long. You'd be amazed if you actually paid attention how self destructive our own thought process can be. For example in a 15 minute drive, you could start from being in a great mood when you get in the car to being completely pissed off when you reach your destination. Why does that happen? Let' s look at the process for this

1) You get in the car
2) Something external (some guy cuts you off, somebody drives too slow) triggers an emotion
3) That emotion is tied to a certain negative memory
4) You're now in the state of mind that was created by that negative memory
5) Now you're going to spend the rest of the car ride thinking about that negative memory and by the time you get to your destination it's almost as if you had that experience again during you car ride.

But it's worse because you did it in your mind and now you've had that miserable experience twice instead of once. Isn't our mind amazing? :). Well, actually it is. If you watch the above video, hopefully you'll realize how to use this exact process for doing something better. Ok, so you're probably wondering what this has to do with my internship. Believe it or not, this is the underlying key to your own success/failure and if I had known this early in my career, I would have been much more careful to pay attention to what many dismiss has hippy new-age bs.

This weekend I took a surf lesson and it was almost like a philosophy lesson. The instructor kept telling me to relax and not fight the waves but embrace them and everything would be easy. Sounded like the universe and life work in kind of the same way.




Posted by Srinivas Rao at 8:39 AM

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