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Mind Management
AKA: How to Change the World, Stay Sane and Always Be Home For Tea
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We manage time
We manage budgets
We manage projects
We manage people
We manage stress
Mind Management?
Would you benefit from
• A more positive mind, able to see and go for opportunities, and less limited by self doubt
• A more creative mind
• A more relaxed mind
Would you benefit from
• A more positive mind, able to see and go for opportunities, and less limited by self doubt
• A more creative mind
• A more relaxed mind
Would you benefit from
• A more positive mind, able to see and go for opportunities, and less limited by self doubt
• A more creative mind
• A more relaxed mind
Tour Route
Science …
• 75% water
• 10% fat
• One indiscernible from another
• No trace of you
• Weak
Things we know for sure …
A few mililitres of C2H5OH
• 100,000 miles of blood vessels
• 25% of our energy
• 100 billion neurons
• 10,000 synapses for each
• 70,000 thoughts per day
The most complex thing in the Universe
1. The Brain Is Plastic
The Case of Dominique Riel
Habit
Another name for a funny story, beginning with ‘J’?
JOKE
Another name for Coca Cola?
COKE
Unpleasant thing to do with a sharp stick?
POKE
Pleasant thing to do in a hot tub?
SOAK
The correct name for the white of an egg?
DID YOU SAY YOLK?
DON’T YOU MEAN ALBUMEN?
Tony Buzan’s Jungle Model
… no alternative route is considered
Once there is a well-trodden neural pathway …
Do this … Now also do this …
Practice makes perfect
Benefit 1: A more positive, less limiting
mind
Put your hand up if you
regularly hear a voice inside your head …
Self Talk
Poor Performance
Negative Belief
Self Talk / Thoughts
Reinforced Negative Belief
Worsening Performance
Self talk is usually negative.
Why?
Because of over 100,000 ‘no’s’
Put your hand up if anyone has ever called you
• ‘Stupid!’
• ‘Clumsy’
• ‘Selfish’
• ‘Naughty’
• ‘Ungrateful’
• ‘Nerdy, uncool or unattractive’
By the age of 14, 98% of children have a negative self image
‘The self image of the adolescent is small… helpless… powerless… socially unacceptable … confused… inferior and (sometimes) unloved and unwanted as well. Then nature plays you the dirtiest trick imaginable. You grow up, but your self image doesn’t’
J.H. Brennan
But we weren’t born with this programming …
Roger Bannister
6th May 1954
+ 37
+300!
Good Performance
Positive Belief
Self Talk / Thoughts
Reinforced Positive Belief
Better Performance
Poor Performance
Positive Belief
Self Talk / Thoughts
Reinforced Positive Belief
Better Performance
Your internal monologue (your thinking), strengthens and reinforces those neural pathways, including those concerned with belief
This has implications for your beliefs about what is possible, what might happen, what can be
done, etc.
“Whether you believe you can, or believe you can’t … you’re
probably right”
Henry Ford
The imagination is more
powerful than the will
A short history of the brain…
• 500 million years ago?
• 50 million years ago?
• 2 million years ago?
Your sub conscious cannot tell the
difference between a real event and a
strongly imagined event
Visualisation
Arizona State Basketball Team
Edson Arantes de Nascimento
1. Everything you do is the result of how your brain is wired up
2. The architecture of your brain is physically alterable
3. Your subconscious is more powerful than your conscious mind – and it does work to mould your brain
4. You live with the consequences
5. You can take charge of the process to produce only good
Benefit 2: A more open and creative mind
Positional Thinking
The Chimp Paradox: Dr Steve Peters
The Chimp Paradox
The Chimp Paradox
The Chimp Paradox
The Chimp Paradox
Ditch paradigms
Benefit 3: A more relaxed mind
Work Smart
Don’t Feed The Monkey!
Regularly work late
Travel during the rush hour
Be honest with everyone. All the time. About everything.
Nurture grievances
Try to finish your to-do list by Friday
Listen to the news in the morning
Always make sure that you have the last word
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Learn to love Incompetence
- These are actual excuse notes teachers have received, spelling mistakes included-
My son is under a doctor’s care and should not take P.E. today. Please execute him.
Please excuse Lisa for being absent. She was sick and I had her shot.
Please excuse Ray Friday from school. He has very loose vowels.
Please excuse Tommy for being absent yesterday. He had diarrhea and his boots leak.
Please excuse Jimmy for being. It was his father’s fault.
Don’t take yourself too
seriously
Take the work seriously – but yourself lightly
• The General
• The Politician
• The Florist
• The Policeman
• The Airline Pilot
The Power of Laughter
Norman Cousins
The health benefits of laughter
• Laughter relaxes the whole body. A good, hearty laugh relieves physical tension and stress, leaving your muscles relaxed for up to 45 minutes
The health benefits of laughter
• Laughter boosts the immune system. Laughter decreases stress hormones and increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies, thus improving your resistance to disease
The health benefits of laughter
• Laughter triggers the release of endorphins, the body’s natural feel-good chemicals. Endorphins promote an overall sense of well-being and temporarily relieve pain.
The health benefits of laughter
• Laughter protects the heart. Laughter improves the function of blood vessels and increases blood flow, which can help protect you against a heart attack and other cardiovascular problems.
“She who laughs, lasts."
You can’t have too
much fun in your job!
…or can you?