MindShifting: Mastering Your Resourceful Brain / MindShifting 3: Silencing Our Inner Critic / 2. Understanding Scripts and Stories
He slammed on the brakes and yelled before he thought, an automatic script triggered by a perceived threat on the road. When something happens—a challenge, a surprise, a…
MindShifting: Mastering Your Resourceful Brain / MindShifting 2: Breaking Free from Our Scripts / 2. Examples of Scripts and Stories in Our Lives
In the previous topic, you saw how fast, automatic responses can be incredibly helpful—keeping you safe, reducing overwhelm, and increasing efficiency. But not all fast reactions are helpful.…
MindShifting: Mastering Your Resourceful Brain / MindShifting 6: The Realist’s Guide to Happiness / 2. Review of the Five Sage Powers and the MindShifting Framework
Understanding the MindShifting process and the five Sage powers is important, but applying them in real life is what makes the learning stick. Stressful situations are not rare.…
MindShifting: Mastering Your Resourceful Brain / MindShifting 1: A Smarter Way to React / 2. Why MindShifting?
Review key points and prepare for the next lesson.
MindShifting: Mastering Your Resourceful Brain / MindShifting 4: Mastering Your Mind for Happiness and Success / 2. Understanding the Brain’s Default Modes
Memory is not designed for accuracy, it’s designed for usefulness. That means it can fail in surprising and systematic ways, even when we feel certain we’re right. One…
MindShifting: Mastering Your Resourceful Brain / MindShifting 5: Unleashing Your Inner Brilliance —The Sage Mindset / 2. Understanding Your Brain’s Default mode
As you’ve seen in earlier modules: the moment we feel absolutely certain, we’re probably not thinking clearly. You have explored how the brain creates scripts, automatic behaviors, and…
MindShifting: Mastering Your Resourceful Brain / MindShifting 4: Mastering Your Mind for Happiness and Success / 3. Recognizing Saboteurs and Scripts
When someone challenges your behavior, suggests a different idea, or gives you unexpected feedback, your first reaction might not be reflection, it might be defense. Your first biological…
MindShifting: Mastering Your Resourceful Brain / MindShifting 1: A Smarter Way to React / 3. Intro to the Brain
Discover the differences between the emotional and problem-solving parts of the brain.
MindShifting: Mastering Your Resourceful Brain / MindShifting 3: Silencing Our Inner Critic / 3. Becoming Aware of the Stories We Live in
“I never finish anything I start.” A personal story like this can echo in the background—until even simple tasks feel like proof that it’s true. Some stories are…
MindShifting: Mastering Your Resourceful Brain / MindShifting 6: The Realist’s Guide to Happiness / 3. The Sage Perspective: Transforming Obstacles into Opportunities
Not everything that’s hard is a failure. And not everything that feels uncomfortable is a sign you’re doing something wrong. Sometimes, the struggle is the point, because it…