Tag: Philip Dodson

The fall of dripping water wears away the stone

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That was written by Lucretius the Roman poet and philosopher and aptly describes why taking small tiny steps constantly day in, day out, is the route to achieving what we aim for in life.

If you took a giant sledgehammer to a huge rock face you would be there an awfully long time before you’d break or wear anything. You would wear yourself out quicker than the rock and give up.

However, a small tiny trickle of water over time can wear away something that is so hard to break with a hammer.

Don’t wear yourself out, be committed, be patient and good things will come.

What we do now shapes our future, but we have to wait and keep doing it.

Reprogramme the brain by what we think about

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We were told until more recently, that by the time we were adults, that’s it, the brain is set in cement and we can’t change.

‘Leopards can’t change their spots’. Really?

Convenient for the system, as it avoids too much curiosity.

The fact is you can reprogramme the brain and you can change almost everything. It is question of choice. 

We can retrain the brain by what we think, imagining positive futures where we achieve our goals and dreams stops the brain from blocking progress, which happens when we are more pessimistic about likely outcomes.

What’s the plan for this one life you have? We get this one shot at it? What will you programme your brain to do?