How to change themselves and their lives, using black box method
Motivation / / December 19, 2019
Here are three defining factor approach that helps you to understand yourself:
- You - a black box. Recognize that you do not know yourself as well as you think, so to predict your behavior is quite difficult in the future.
- You can learn himself. Test your habits by introducing new processes, change the environment in order to watch the output.
- You can "hack" themselves. Realizing their actions, their passions and impulses, you can simulate the processes so that they work for you.
1. Imagine yourself as a black box
Daniel Kahneman in his book "Think slowly resolved quickly"Describes a number of experiments, confirming how easily we deceive ourselves. For example, if you ask a group of people about the likelihood of a critical event, they greatly inflate this probability.
Fast forward the example of a normal life. Provide a list of possible events for next Saturday:
- Surf;
- to read;
- to do a hobby or project;
- spend time with friends or family;
- buy food and prepare meals;
- sleep.
If you watched long enough for yourself, you're pretty accurately predict their behavior. If not, then most likely, you have overstated the likelihood of productive activities and social interactions, and underestimated the likelihood of non-productive. Test yourself by writing their suggestions and watch a weekend.
This approach will help to get rid of stress. Many feel it at work, constantly torn between urgent tasks and not noticing progress in important matters. You may even feel that you made a mistake in the choice of fields of activity, is not suitable for this profession, that you will not succeed.
Considering himself as a black box, you can avoid it. You may say to yourself, "The work I do (or not do) - it's not me. It does not define or limit me. "
Instead of hating yourself for what you have done little for the day, think about what you can do to get more done.
Think of your job as a complex series of interactions between you, your environment and your colleagues. Then you can put in some change workflow.
2. Watch yourself
It is best suited for this conscious meditation. In other words, it is the daily practice of observing the mind, body, and in the moment. Thoughts drifting in your head, do not characterize you as a person. This realization will help get rid of many of the factors causing stress.
After a few weeks you will begin to notice for a recurring mental and behavioral patterns. You will notice that they are largely shapes your surroundings and thoughts feed off each other no matter what your goals for the day. To achieve the intended and not drown in the flow of thoughts, you may have to enter a new action schemes.
Stanford University professor B. J.. Fogg (BJ Fogg) introduced the concept of "motivational wave". According to his conception, man's desire to do something rise and fall just like waves in the ocean. Therefore, it is natural that during the day there are moments of recession, when all else fails. Try to determine their lifting periods and downs of motivation and planning matters in accordance with them.
3. "Hackney" themselves
People who achieve their goals, try to "hack" their nature, to move forward, despite their weakness.
For example, actor, stand-up comedian and writer Jerry Seinfeld (Jerry Seinfeld) forces himself to write by using the calendar. Every day, finished writing, he puts on the calendar in bold red mark. "I formed a chain of such marks, and gradually it grows and grows in a few days. You will be pleased to see their chain, - says Seinfeld - especially after a few weeks. Then your task will be simply not to break it. "
Cal Newport (Cal Newport), author of the book "In work with head"Emphasizes the importance of in-depth work. It is characterized by a high level of attention and involvement of the brain to the task. To delve into the work, he advises to give up habits that distract attention (for example, to sit on the phone), and start a habit that improve it. This task scheduling, timing, interval work with interruptions. These habits will help accelerate progress toward any goal.