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The average person enjoy about 10% of their potential and other 90% is left unused throughout their lifetime. Well, recent research shows that statistic is not true. The average person only use 2% of their potential. And the other 98% is stored like treasure buried in the ground and it is never used.
And what do people use their 2% for? Well, they use it mostly for conversation at work with their friends. They use it for watching television. Average person watches a screen 3 to 5 hours per day. They are watching a screen of some kind whether it is a computer or an iPhone or an iPad or a television. And most of what they are watching is in category two. It is completely irrelevant. It makes no different in their lives at all. But whatever you do over and over again, it become a habit.
So today, we have an entire generation of people who have the habit of watching screens all the time. As a result their lives go very slowly.
Because the way you think, the quality of your thinking determines the quality of your decisions and choice. Your decision and choices determine the actions you take. The action you take determines the result. Your results determine the quality of your life. And it all starts with your thinking. Thinking is the most valuable work.
Number one reason for success is people focus on things that have high potential consequences. Number one reason for failure is people focus on things that have low or nor potential consequences. Very worst use of time is to work intently on something that need not be done at all. And one of things that is holding back entrepreneurs, business owners is killing them by the way and it is wiping our entire generation is this obsession with technology. And so distraction, technological destruction today is keeling you. It is destroying your hoes for your future. It is killing your busy. And at the end of the day, you have accomplished noting and you are exhausted.
Acceding to a recent report every time that you respond to a new impulse and a new destruction. It burn up part of your brain energy. At end of the day, of typical day today, the average person’s IQ has decreased but ten points.
When you start in the morning, leave things off. Do not check your computer or your IPhone or anything else. And the sale for screen today is leave things off.
And so it thinking is the most important think, you do because of the consequences of think determine, the entire quality of your life, the quality of our think determines the quality of your life. And so the more time that you spend thinking and think well and thinking clearly, the more successful you are. When you mind it calm, your brain functions at the highest level, like turning up at the light on a dimmer switch. It is turning like a Christmas three. Bur when you get upset and angry, what happens is your thinking reverts to your emotional system and your ability to think clearly demises dramatically. And you make a lot of mistakes. That is why when you are facing a difficult situation you have to use every skill trick, game, whatever it is, to stay calm. And that is why they teach you to meditate.
Average people think short term. They think for immediate gratification. They wanted to do now. They watch television. They do things that give them immediate pleasured.
Top people think long term. They have long term goals. They study and take course and read books and come to courses in order to develop skills for the long term. So the more you think long term, the more guaranteed you are to move up in your life, your work and your income.
50 years of research at Harvard it was said all that matters in how far you think. So if you think five or the years ahead and you are willing to sacrifice and this turned out to be the world in the research if you are willing to sacrifice pleasure, TV watching fun in the present in order to work and prepare yourself of the futures, then you will have a wonderful future. So people who think long term are the ones who move up faster in the ladder of success.
Thomas Edison said, thinking is the most important think that we do and yet it is the most difficult which is why most people won’t do it. Most people do not do thinking. It is too hard. And thinking requires that
Ou stop the clock, turn off your cell phone shut off phone and spend some time thinking.
If you sit calmly by yourself with no notice, no distraction, nothing to read just sit quietly which takes tremendous discipline. The first few times you do it, at about 25 or 26 minutes your mind goes clear and any problem the have been working on the solution just pops into your mind. Any issue that you have been dealing with the answer just comes to you. It is almost like a miracle.
You see, better decision making comes from the better thinking habits and better thinking habits comes from practical experience learning both what to do and what not to do.
Aristotle once said that wisdom which is the greatest at all human desires wisdom is the ability to make good decision. Wisdom is combination of experience plus reflection. On other words, you have an experience and then you reflect on the experience and you think about it.
Socrates says the unexamined life is not worth living which means that a life when you do not take the time to reflect on y9our experiences. Aristotle said that wisdom is an equal measure of experience plus reflection. And the reason so few people have wisdom is what they have is experience. But they never take the time to sit back and reflect on what is happening to them, reflect on what they are leaning.
Learning from your setback. This is one the charter ices of high performance men and women is that every single time they have problem or a difficulty, they sit back and they dissect it and they learn everything possible from it. They try to develop general principles from each setback.
So reflecting on your experience and the best way to do that is to go for a walk. Just going for a walk where you cannot listen to anything. Do not take an IPod or anything. Just go for a walk 30 or 60 minutes and just walk. And while you are talking and reflecting upon something that is going on at work or at home, you will be amazed at the quality of ideas that will come into your mind. To improve your thinking, talk it over with someone else who you like and trust and give them the details and ask them to give you their feedback. Other person give a perspective that completely changes your ideas. A good way to think well is to ask and think what will be assuming about this. And here is the key to good thinking, be open to doing something completely different. And what does is it opens up your mind and your perspective, so you can see all kinds of possibilities that you may not have seen before. So clear thinking is the discipline practiced by most successful happiest and wealthiest people in our society.
