Quotes About Growth

This process, if we do it right, actually repatterns our brains and changes our biology; the new experience will reorganize the old programming, and in so doing, it will remove the neurological evidence of that past experience.

So as soon as you think a new thought, you become changed—neurologically, chemically, and genetically. In fact, you can gain thousands of new connections in a matter of seconds from novel learning, new ways of thinking, and fresh experiences. This means that by thought alone, you can personally activate new genes right away. It happens just by changing your mind; it's mind over matter.

Without learning and experiencing, we never upgrade our neural architecture.

My definition of genius, then, is to be uncomfortable and to be okay with being uncomfortable.

If you keep the same routine as yesterday, it makes sense that your tomorrow is going to be a lot like your yesterday.

For now, it's enough to keep in mind that if your goal is to effect change and you haven't been able to make it happen with all your external-world resources, then clearly you'll need to look outside the limits of what you see, sense, and experience for your answers. You'll need to pull from other sources you haven't yet identified—from the unknown. So in that sense, the unknown is your friend, not your foe. It's the place where the answer lies.

This is possible through mental rehearsal. This technique is basically closing your eyes and repeatedly imagining performing an action, and mentally reviewing the future you want, all the while reminding yourself of who you no longer want to be (the old self) and who you do want to be. This process involves thinking about your future actions, mentally planning your choices, and focusing your mind on a new experience.

Absorbing knowledge (knowing) and then gaining practical experience by applying what you learned until a particular skill became ingrained in you (knowing how) is probably how you acquired most of the abilities that now feel like a part of your being (knowingness). In much the same way, learning how to change your life involves knowledge and the application of that knowledge.

El mayor hábito que debemos dejar es el de ser el mismo de siempre.

ha incorporado a nuestro «yo» biológico y ya se ha convertido en nuestra segunda piel.

If emotions are the end product of experiences, then by embracing the same emotion every day, the body is being fooled into believing that your external world is staying the same. And if your body is being conditioned to reexperience the same circumstances in your environment, you can never evolve and change. As long as you live by this emotion daily, you can only think in the past.

desaparecían,

Un nuevo estado del ser crea una nueva personalidad, y una nueva personalidad produce una nueva realidad personal.

To change is to think greater than how we feel. To change is to act greater than the familiar feelings of the memorized self.

How did I do today? • When did I fall from grace, and why? • Who was it I reacted to, and where? • When did I "go unconscious"? • How can I do better the next time that happens?

That's why I say you have to think greater than the way you feel to make any real, lasting changes.

We] have to be given obstacles in order to overcome those obstacles - to become stronger, more aware, more involved, more responsible.

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

7º MANDAMIENTO: MEJORAR LOS PUNTOS DÉBILES

check of how training went that day. Review your workouts. Find one thing you did well. It does not need to be a big deal.

Start doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

remember from my own

If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.

Maturity is not something that happens all at once. It is not a border between two countries where once you cross the invisible line, you are on the new soil of adulthood, speaking the foreign tongue of grown-ups. It is more like a distant broadcast, and you are driving toward it, and sometimes you can barely make it out through the hiss of static while other times the reception momentarily clears and you can pick up the signal with perfect clarity.