Personal Development – It’s How You Use Your Brain That Matters
October 1, 2010 by selfimprove
If you’re into your own personal development, you may be interested in recent research that shows that “thinkers’ brains are different”. The suggestion is that the way you think is related to the development of certain areas of the brain – but it’s actually the other way around: the development of certain regions of your brain depends on how much you use them! Your mind power is down to the choices that you make.
No one is born a ‘thinker’ – in the same way that no one is born a London taxi driver or cabbie, yet a part of their brains is highly developed and, indeed, a different shape from a regular brain because of the process that they have to go through to learn ‘The Knowledge’ – how to get from A to B using all kinds of weird and wonderful routes. Some years ago, research established that the use to which these guys and girls put their brain had a demonstrable effect on the size and shape of their brain.
Recent neuro-psychological research confirmed that the human brain exhibits a considerable capability for what is called plasticity – in effect, the shape, configuration and development of the brain depends on how it is used and the extent to which one area of the brain may have to take control of the functions of another area that has been damaged.
The main point is that our brains, their capacity and functionality, depends on what we do with them – not the other way around. Many people with whom I’ve worked over the years believed themselves to be stupid, slow or incapable of understanding things that ‘clever’ people understood. Their perception of their own intellectual skills had nothing to do with the physiology of their brains – it was based on the fact that, during their childhood, they had incorrectly learned their own self-image which, as adults, prevented them from using their brains in more effective way.
We all have incorrect ideas about ourselves – we were each programmed during our childhood years – now, those perceived inadequacies disable us from understanding and benefiting from our innate potential. The good news is, however, all you’ve got to do to be all that you can be is to drop your misconceived notions. Even the size of your brain will respond to your properly founded self understanding.
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