Unlock Your Mind’s Full Potential
How to Challenge Your Brain and Achieve Greater Success
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
Imagine if there were a means to exercise your cognitive abilities as you exercise your body. Imagine if you could show up to the mental gym, complete the repetitions, and, over a consistent period of time, start to see the effects and progress of your efforts. Well, there is, and here are three mental workouts you can perform to develop like never before.
Keep Learning from Smarter People Who Make You Feel a Bit Stupid
“If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.” — Confucius
Since it’s a one-way ticket to progress, surrounding oneself with individuals much ahead and wiser than you is by far the most helpful thing you can do. Being near people that challenge your intelligence forces you to stretch your limits and broaden your knowledge. Actually, the discomfort of realising one is less knowledgeable motivates one greatly for studying.
Being naive among other people indicates that you have a lot to learn from those individuals; so, you may either consider this as a drawback or a great benefit as there is so much space to develop. Seize the chance to pick their wisdom, probe questions, and grow from their experiences. This surroundings will help you to develop intellectually and motivate you to reach more.
Reading Difficult Books That Make You Question Your Own Intelligence
Many of your issues can be resolved using books as the likelihood is that if you have one, someone else has already solved it and penned a book on it. Books’ great reservoir of information is a treasure store just waiting to be accessed. Reading introduces to you fresh ideas, viewpoints, and solutions you would not have thought of previously.
Reading novels on the verge of your grasp will push you and help you to exercise your own thinking. Use the Goldilocks rule: avoid reading books too easy or too difficult since you will give up before you complete; instead, read novels just outside your grasp since they will challenge you to grow personally every time. This small task keeps your brain active and advances cognitive development.
Keep Hanging Out with Ambitious People Who Make You Feel Like You Could Try Much Harder
You have to choose another circle if your current one isn’t challenging you. Your attitude and ambition are greatly shaped by the individuals you interact with. Being surrounded by people who are always seeking for more will naturally inspire you to raise your own ambitions and efforts.
Like the first point, you should surround yourself with outstanding people to naturally make you feel like you ought to be accomplishing amazing things as well. Their will and tenacity will motivate you to challenge yourself and aim for greater success. It starts a positive feedback cycle whereby the success of one person drives the aspirations of another.
Actionable Next Steps:
Find Individuals Who Know a Lot More Than You Do: Seek out mentors, join professional groups, and engage in communities where you can find individuals who are ahead of you. Give them enough value so they will welcome you and wish you to stay around; then, turn into a sponge and absorb as much as you can possibly could.
Research Your Own Interests: Choose books on subjects you find interesting and progressively raise the challenge level. Start with simpler readings then slowly challenge yourself with increasingly difficult content. This will sharp your mind and broaden your knowledge.
Look for ambitious peers who have roles you hope to achieve: Talk to them, give value, and grow from their aspirations and experiences. Their accomplishment will inspire you to go for your own objectives with more will.
Including these techniques into your daily life can help you reach great intellectual development and further your objectives.
