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The brain works in mysterious ways
but a lot of these mysteries have been
debond by psychology and science.
Do you wanna know why the book
"The Secret" works?
Or why when you learn a new word
you start to hear it everywhere?
Well, keep our genius video.
I´m gonna explain nine fascinating
psychology lessons and will
certainly explain a lot about how your brain works.
Number one.
The Nocebo effect.
You might have heard about the Placebo effect,
it´s when, if you take a pill that you believe
produces positive results,
your physical body will respond accordingly.
Even if the pill is fake.
For example, you could unknowingly take
a sugar pill, and you might
believe it´s gonna help with your headache.
And before you know it,
your symptoms are gone.
Now, the reverse can also occur,
something called the Nocebo Effect.
A doctor might give you a pill
and tell you that you experience nausea or dizziness,
as a side effect.
You take the pill, which you
don´t even realise is just a sugar pill
and you start to feel nauseous and dizzy,
just because he told you it might be a side effect.
If we truly believe that we are going to experience something,
our minds and bodies will follow so,
this shows the power of how important it is
to master your mind.
The number two is,
I´m going to put you this one
but it´s called the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon.
Have you ever learnt a new word,
and you started to see that word everywhere?
Or maybe you watched a new television show,
and all of a sudden, everyone
starts talking about it.
Well, this might be the BMP in action.
Our brains are built with a cognitive bias
towards things that we recently learnt.
This new information receives priority over information
that we´ve known for years,
or information that we don´t recognise at all.
When this new information is brought
to our attention, our brain does
this extra work, make sure that we are
aware of it, and process the information again.
In reality, that word that you just learnt,
isn´t magically appearing, but now
that you recognise it, your brain makes sure that you see it.
Number three is Anchoring.
Your friend tells you that they found new shoes
for really cheap prices at the store,
but when they tell you the price you realise
that you have completely different ideas of
what cheap means, how does your brain determine
what "cheap" is in the first place?
Well, technically it´s based on
something called an "anchor",
when we first learn information,
we tend to reflect back on that initial information
once we are faced with a similar situation.
If growing up, you lived in a town
where gas two dollars per galon,
you´ll be anchored with the idea that two dollars
is the price for a galon of gas, it´s a normal price.
Now, a station that has gas for three dollars and fifty cents,
might seem really expensive to you, and
conversely if you grew up in a town where gas was
five dollars a galon, anything below that
will seem like a sweet deal.
This is why older people usually complain that gas is so high,
in reality, you don´t mind paying three dollar for a galon.
The next lesson is the 80/20 Principle,
using the 80/20 Principle, also commonly known
as the Pareto Principle, is the easiest way to run pop your productivity,
This principle states that 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.
Now, how does this work in real life?
80% of the money that a business makes, will likely come
from 20% of the most loyal, high-paying customers.
Another example is that 80% of the knowledge you retain,
comes from only 20% of your study techniques,
whether that´s cards, memorization, sample quizzes.
And the last example is that 80%of the support that
you feel from your community, will only be from 20% of your best cheerleaders,
or friends, or support group.
Think about this principle as you plan your day or you set your goals for
next year. Out of the 5 goals that you wanna set,
which one will bring you the most fulfillment and the joy;
most likely, it will also help out with the other four.
Use this principle to focus more on your efforts on one goal
to see the best results.
Number five is the Law of Attraction.
How do you bring positive things into your life?
Well, psychology says you just have to think positive thoughts.
It´s as simple as that according to the law of attraction theory.
The Law of Attraction says that we can manifest whatever we
focus our thoughts on, if you focus your thoughts on making money,
money-making opportunities will present themselves to you.
Now, this is the important part,
money won´t manifest, but the opportunity to make money, will.
You still have to put into action, you can´t just sit on your couch.
If you focus your thoughts on meeting wonderful people,
you´ll start to see wonderful people everywhere; you might
be thinking it´s just one of those wise, old man-guru, hippie talk,
but in reality you have something called the Reticular Activating System in your brain,
that causes the Law of Attraction to work,
your brain is overloaded with billions of things everyday, and
your brain has to choose what is important;
so what it does is that it offloads the process
of finding things to focus on to the RAS,
well, you can tell your RAS that it should be looking for
job opportunities, or cute girls, or a way to speed up your business process;
those roll there before, but now your brain is actively searching for them,
just like when you learn a new word, and
the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon occurs.
Number six is something called the Similarity-Attraction Principle.
Everyone has preferences, our brain might automatically switch off
whenever we talk to a person that we don´t like,
or maybe taste new flavors; but, how does the brain determine
what we like and what we don´t like?
Well, the SAP says it starts with us, we tend to be attracted
to the things that are similar to us, we might feel comfortable around people
who look like us, people who talk like us, or even people who come
from the same places that we came from.
We gravitate towards organisations that share our values, or groups
that focus on an activity that we participate in, in fact,
if you have a beard, and a person with a beard asks you to do something,
you´ll be much more likely to follow through, than if the request
was asked by someone without a beard,
because, you subconsciously feel similar to the person with the beard;
this is also one of the major reasons that the LA works.
If we become a person that thinks positive things,
and holds a positive attitude, we will recognise and we´ll be drawn
to other positive people and positive opportunities.
So I recommend making your thoughts positive, and your brain will start to like
positive people, positive things and positive places.
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