Recharge Your Mind

How would you read this?

VIII

Right, its the roman numeral 8

Now how would you read this?

IX

Right again, its the roman numeral 9.

Now how would you make “IX” a 6 by just adding a single line?

Think!

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May be not, but another study suggests that it definitely is a ctrl+n for sometime. The study coming out of University of Atlanta suggests that “thinking about not thinking” frees your mind from distractions and helps is various disorders like ADD, hyperactivity and obsessive-compulsive.

In the end it is all about focus. You can read more about meditations here.

Suzy Girard-Ruttenberg writes and I quote:

“There’s a classic story about a bicycle manufacturer who sent two marketing  scouts to opposite ends of a remote corner of Africa to assess the prospects for expanding its business into this unexplored region. The first scout sends back a telegram stating: Situation worthless, no one rides bikes. The other telegram excitedly proclaims: Incredible business opportunity, no one rides bikes.”

This is a very good example of different ways people think in; one of which is “possiblity Thinking”. As the name suggests, possibility thinkers believe that anything is possible even when things don’t look favorable and your mind suggests otherwise. They  try to keep an overly positive attitude about things and try to work towards achieving their dreams instead of thinking that it is not practical/possible to make those dreams a reality.

There are a lot of articles suggesting that possibility thinking is the right attitude to adopt if you want to get things done. I don’t know if it is or if it isn’t. May be its both. May be some people get better results with the “everything is possible” thinking, while some people do better when they think “analytically”. 

Whatever way of thinking you utilize, I think its very important to identify it and work towards improving it. The sooner you know how you think, the better analysis you would do of your weaknesses and strengths. This would give you a good chance to identify and overcome your weaknesses.

Henry Ford suggested: “I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.” Some more good quotes here.