Lead the Brain

Lead the Brain

First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do

On 26^th January, Jeddah had unprecedented rain that led to breaking of a few smaller dams leading to flooding on the roads. Some major roads were flooded, that led to extraordinary personal or business loss in terms of cars getting totaled to people spending umpteenth hours walking on the flooded streets to the shop mechanizes wasted.  


Following the social media, in such a situation, made me realize that there are “generally” two groups of people  (a) Who are sharing sad pictures of the city and blaming the issue to somebody and (b) People who have moved forward and are now helping in rehabilitation.
What I have come to conclude is that it all boils down to the “Mind-Set” that lead us to react differently to the same situation. It all boils down to how we “lead our brain”


To elaborate:


Brain in my opinion, responds to the questions we ask it. If we tell our brain we are in a disaster due to this rain, the brain will reply, yes you are doomed, and now xyz bad things will happen to you. However, if you had asked your brain, that how can I make best use of this circumstances due to rain. The brain will start thinking towards finding a solution.  All in all, we have to lead our brain and ask the right question.


Lets do an exercise, look at any object around you and tell your brain, this object is blowing up. I am sure that most of you would have visualized the object blowing up and you getting hurt. Now, if you look at the same object and tell your brain that look how beautiful this object is. Most probably, your brain would have shown you aspects of this beauty.


Lead your brain, rather than being led by it.


Whenever in distress, People with positive “mind set” ask the question of “what is the solution of this problem” rather than people who have a negative mindset who keep telling themselves that things are bad and their brain keeps reinforcing this. And this is the difference we see on the road, some people are working on their cars to get them running again (positive mind set), while the others are sitting besides their cars with both their hands on the head (negative mind set). It will not help in blaming others or in reinforcing the negative feeling. Rather it would help, if we ask the brain, how can we get out of this situation….


Lead your brain, rather than being led by it.

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