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Intro
Limitless has always been one of the movies I turn to
When I want to combine procrastinating and becoming motivated
The concept of the film is one we can all relate to
Just take a pill and it will make you brilliant, rich, famous, successful
But I don't think as some have suggested that the movie capitalizes
On the urge of having a shortcut, a quick fix
Instead it explores something that we are all aware of
The perception that we are unfulfilled potential
That we aren't doing everything we could and should be doing
The idea that there is part of us that we can't access
"Potential is an interesting idea because it represents something that isn't yet real
Yet we act like its real because people will say to you, you should live up to your potential"
Movie Dialogue: "You know how they say we can only access 20 percent of your brain
Well what this does, it lets you access all of it"
The idea that we only use 20 percent of our brain is of course a myth
But it is a popular myth because for most of us in a strange way it rings true
We all often feel that our brain isn't working properly, not doing the thoughts that we want it to do
When we forget what we were about to say or where we put something
More importantly when we suffer from creative blocks cant focus or get distracted
When we are inspired and motivated but later cant recreate the same sate of mind when we need it
I don't think I am alone in feeling that often
there is a huge part of my brain's capacity that I don't always have access to
We can explain this by looking at Carl Jung's theories of the conscious and the unconscious
who argues and most of us realize that the majority of what we experience and think quickly disappears again
thoughts and ideas are fleeting and vanish from our minds but they do not disappear completely
instead it becomes part of this mysterious part of our psyche, the unconscious
As Jung states "Such material has mostly become
unconscious because there is no more room in the conscious mind"
Someone's thoughts lose their emotional energy and become subliminal"
The supposed 20 percent of our brains we use then is the conscious which is organized and rational
But 80 percent is our unconscious which is chaotic and of course irrational
This doesn't mean that the unconscious isn't valuable
because thoughts and ideas constantly emerge from it
Jung notes that an author may be writing steadily
to a preconceived plan when he suddenly runs off on a tangent
A fresh idea has occurred to him or a different image forms in his head
If you ask him what prompted this new writing he wont be able to tell you, it just appeared to him
But between the two, the unconscious and the conscious
there is a barrier that we have limited control over
we cannot access and control our unconscious
it is not an organized library where the collection of everything you have thought, heard or experienced
is organized and accessible in chronological or alphabetical order
This is why we say inspiration just kind of strikes
because good ideas emerge most of the time at random and outside of our control
Movie Dialogue: "And then I began to form an idea
Suddenly I knew exactly what I needed to do it wasn't writing it, it wasn't books it was much bigger than that"
But this is of course exactly what NZT48 promises
Movie Dialogue: "Everything I had ever read, heard or seen was organized and available, here it is here you go"
The idea of NZT is organizing and creating complete accessibility to the unconscious
All experience, memory and knowledge of your life
becomes accessible at will making you as it were limitless
Movie Dialogue: "I wasn't high I, wasn't wired, just clear I knew what I needed to do and how to do it"
Of course this pill does not exist and our unconscious remains a chaotic,
inaccessible mysterious place of our psyche so is it possible to become limitless?
To have full and controlled access to the inspiration and ideas that lay hidden away in our unconscious
Probably not but maybe working with our unconscious is something we can improve
Because the existence of the unconscious proves something about our brains
Since a large part of our brains is outside of our control we must realize
that we are not our brain instead our brain is something that we have to work with
There must be principles that we can apply to our lives to optimize our work,optimize our creativity,
to optimize the potential of our unconscious to start as Jordan Peterson states
"Clean up your room that's a good start, organize your local landscape"
An organized mind starts with organized surroundings,
simultaneously we have to place ourselves in new surroundings and around new people
As the saying goes you become the average of the 5 people you hang out with the most
Surrounding yourself with new people, new experiences and new influences
will prompt your brain to be more creative and develop new patterns of thinking
Just as placing yourself in new surroundings it is even more important to constantly gather new information
As Jung describes; A musician might hear a tune as a child
and find himself cropping it up as a teen in a symphonic movement
An idea or an image has moved back from the unconscious into the conscious mind
It is hard to imagine creating worlds so rich and imaginative
as for example those of Tolkien and George R. R. Martin
But we must realize their works are the product of years and years of
reading other fantasy novels history and mythology
" I am not sure that I ever really have unique thoughts.
What I'm trying to do is take in enough information that I can make unique connections, right.
So what you are saying about paring away the sculpture until only you remains, is actually pretty beautiful
Was it Michelangelo that said that?"
This is why you must read as much as we can if we want to write
Listen to music if we want to create music and of course look at designs if we want to design
This is not to take away from these authors who are in many ways truly original
Jung argues that new thoughts and creative ideas can present themselves from the unconscious
Thoughts and ideas that have never been conscious before
These ideas often appear randomly. Inspiration strikes as we say
Another tool to make the most of what our unconsciousness produces then
is to always write down a valuable thought or idea as soon as it strikes
When this inspiration disappears again from the conscious mind by writing it down you will not have lost
Movie Dialogue: "In short I was back but something remained.
You're kidding"
but the unconscious isn't just a source of ideas, inspiration and innovation
it is also where the ideas and the part of ourselves that we suppress resides
Where traumatic experiences linger; the shadow self
Now in order to prevent these parts of us to interfere with our
creativity and our productivity we have to practice control of our conscious minds
This is why meditation and release or letting go exercises are so important
They clean the mind as we clean our rooms
There is no pill that can make us limitless
That instantly gives us the ability to create wealth, health, fame and fortune
But we can definitely improve the functions of our mind significantly
making our unconscious an ally instead of an enemy and this way we can do something worth while
Thank you for watching everyone the tips in this video are rather simple but I think they can have a big impact
i know they did for me
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