5 obstacles to the goals that invents our brain

The brain - a powerful weapon. Knowing how to manage it, you can solve a wide range of problems. The management process is composed of two elements, the recognition and involvement.

Awareness - it is understood that such a barrier that causes it, how it impedes the achievement of goals, and how to cope with it.

involvement - a performance of the steps you feel are necessary for the development of new approaches to thinking and acting, as well as the ability to achieve any task.

Disruptions in thinking forms a barrier, but in the end we are slowing down, start to drift and even retreat. These barriers in turn motivate stop performance - in a simulation activity, and dreams - in the green melancholy. Our actions are pointless, ineffective and does not lead to success.

And now look at the five hidden brain barriers and strategies to overcome them.

Barrier 1: self-doubt

Monster inside us. It has many names: a lack of confidence, a sense of insecurity, shyness, low self-esteem, lack of faith in themselves, and so on. When it is not clear what to do, it is scary. Funk blocks the action and inspires a sense of vulnerability. The man begins to doubt his own abilities, intelligence, strength, success. Attention shifts to what needs to be done to defend itself, and it leads to a dead end. You avoid trying new things, to communicate, to be the center of attention and change lives. There is nothing more pathetic than a life in constant fear.

Decision

Doubt is activated when the brain begins to respond to the alarm, but the real danger. To avoid this, you need to train the brain to suppress unnecessary fears. After repeated clashes with the unusual task of the brain ceases to overreact and get used.

Learn what you are afraid. Familiar demon better than a stranger.

Often self-doubt associated with a lack of information. Facts and data switch brain with primitive four-phase scheme "Freeze-run bei give up" on more complex and less emotional, so difficult to suppress you dismay.

In his book "Geniuses and outsiders. Why is one everything and the other nothing? "Malcolm Gladwell writes that success depends on the continued practice and that the best experts in their field behind thousands of hours of experience. Moral: grasp the things which are not able, and do it again and again.

Barrier 2: procrastination

If there is a crime in which no-no, and every person is guilty, it procrastination - procrastination. But the main ingredient of success - action. Without it does not achieve the desired. Since procrastination leads to delays, to give in to it - is the same, that do nothing at all.

Deferring to infinity leads to unpredictable consequences.

In life goals - career, starting a business, financial independence, self-realization - no date given. No timing - there is no consequences of their failure. It also means delayed action. And there is no action - no results. Vicious circle. Enough to postpone the fight against procrastination!

Decision

Sometimes the connection between what is desirable and what to do for this is unclear. When what is to be done, it seems unrelated to your goals, the task gets a low degree of importance and set aside. To clarify the picture and begin to move toward the goal, consider a few things.

What skills do you need? And if you need to perform this task? It is possible to delegate or not at all? If you do still need, what are the options for solving the problem?

Brainstorm. Draw in the imagination as a result can be more alive. A strong desire to get our plans will not let you go astray. Determine in advance how many resources you have, and how many more will need. Make a day at least a little. Bit - a lot.

Barrier 3: Multitasking

For many years it was believed that the ability to do several things at once - an indispensable attribute of any self-respecting a successful person. Later appeared serious side effects: it turned out that multitasking be distracted, to follow through, it causes anxiety and fatigue, the constant feeling rushed.

It's time to destroy the myth of multitasking. This inability to concentrate on something one. This distraction overload and problems with the definition of priorities at a particular moment.

Multitasking is like living inside the brackets: must always begin and finish things, intertwined and confused people at some time of the events thread. This is reminiscent of the example solution:

(14 + (4 × 5 (6 + 1 - 9)) / (6 + 72 / (3 × 3) + 7 + (9 - 4) / 5 × (3 + (8/4) / 5))) ) = x

The more keen on multi-tasking, the more remains unclosed parentheses, and their number is constantly growing.

Decision

Most researchers are four main types of attentional control.

• Focus: turn on the flashlight. Man sees the situation and chooses what to look for. It is like in a dark room to include a flashlight to shine in front of them and see the situation.
• Hold: do not let the light go out. Hold the attention - the ability to focus on something for a long time.
• Selection and neglect: to keep the light at a single point. It is the ability to concentrate on something one and ignore the distractions.
• Switching, or alternation of attention: to move from one to another important task, to stop the process performance, redirect attention to something else, and then return to the task and the delayed start to the place where you interrupted.

In his speech at TED in 2012 by Paolo Cardini it offered the perfect antidote to multitasking - single-tasking. This skill worth developing! Think about your goal. Ask yourself what needs to be addressed at this point, and include single-tasking mode!

Barrier 4: inflexibility

Between the solid position and unnecessary persistence is a big difference. Follow the plan - is perseverance. Refuse to correct it in the changed circumstances - inflexibility. To defend its case - virtue. To believe in his own infallibility - blindness.

The primary action associated with rigidity, becomes resistance. Resistance to change, resistance to change, resistance to progress. The man continues to act and think as before, although the conditions have changed and the old methods no longer work. It ceases to respond to change, its creative thinking and the ability to solve problems extinguished.

Decision

Contrary to the inflexibility - creativity. Here is a simple test of mental agility. Take a sheet of paper or phone and email in a few minutes all the possible applications of socks. How many ways do you come up with? As far as your examples look like each other? How thought out answers? Was it difficult to cope with the task?

Take some urgent problem: it may be a failure to take a decision, the prolonged situation unnerving event - anything that requires action. Secure. Now proceed to brainstorm: write down as many possible solutions as you can think up. Follow two principles: spontaneous association, and they should not be evaluated.

Consciously make adjustments in your routine and habits - the undisputed way to accustom the brain to change.

Barrier 5: perfectionism

Perfectionism is the least similar to the problem. Aspire to perfection It seems to be something necessary and sublime. But the "ideal" and "high level" is very difficult to define and measure, so the purpose of a perfectionist elusive and abstract. For it is unacceptable everything but perfect. If something does not meet the criteria, it is necessary to reject, change or alter. However, in this case, the work will never end. You can always something to improve, change and improve - and still it is not enough, because the ideal is unattainable.

Decision

Perfectionism - is the inability to prioritize. Secondary becomes primary. Background comes to the fore. Wear the right clothes is more important than to enjoy the evening, and serving are given more attention than cooking dinner. Before you start working on a project, ask yourself: "What I seek at this point?" Formulate a simple and straightforward goal, such as "cook dinner" or "to make a presentation for work." Set the iron limitation. If there is preoccupation and concern minutiae, stop and remind yourself of the purpose.

Based on the book "Brain barriers».