How to develop your mind Steve Jobs

One of the qualities that Jobs was famous for - the ability to see what others do not see. About how he succeeded and a technique for the development of his brain he used, we describe below.

Recently, a new book about Steve Jobs Becoming Steve Jobs. The author tells about the events of Jobs' life, with many of them, you will hear for the first time.

Perhaps more than other memorable fact that the current Apple CEO Tim Cook Jobs offered part of his liver. Cook on offer Jobs replied angrily refused, saying that he would never do it. Though after a while, he still agreed to the transplant, many have decided that its waiver due to the fact that the religion which he preached (Buddhism), prohibits a similar intervention body.

The real cause of failure we hardly know Jobs. However, he stuck to the eastern practices, had an impact on the way he coached brain.

Jobs are often engaged in a conscious meditation, in order to reduce the amount of stress and clear thinking.

Biographer Walter Isaacson in the book cited this quote Jobs:

If you just sit and watch, you will see how your mind is boundless. Try to calm him - it will only get worse. But over time, thinking calms itself and you learn to control it.

At this point it awakens intuition and you see all around is much clearer than seen before.

Jobs describes a kind of meditation, which is practiced by Zen Buddhists and Taoists. He studied it for many years. Moreover, he popularized the practice that companies such as Target, Google and the Ford, began to teach their employees to meditate on a regular basis.

And although it seems that the idea of ​​a corporate meditation sounds pretty strange, this is still something there.

Jeffrey James, journalist and editor of the site Inc.comAble to communicate with Jobs on the subject of meditation, long before his death. This is how, according to him, looked Appliances, which was practiced by Steve Jobs:

1. Sit in a quiet place. Perhaps we should put under her pillow, to make you more comfortable. Take a few deep breaths.
2. Close your eyes and listen to your inner monologue. Your brain will sort through disjointed events that occurred recently: transfer on TV, read books, talk with friends. Do not try to stop it.
3. Instead, calmly proceed from thought to thought. Make it a ritual and performed for five minutes every day.

Over time (a week or two), you learn to control your inner monologue, and then we can move on to more advanced practice:

1. Now, when you hear in your head stray thoughts, try to make them quieter and gradually move away from them.
2. Freeing the brain, focuses his attention on those around you the sounds, the smells, the sensations in the body. You may start to feel differently on the skin of the wind or the sound of the refrigerator. It is a sign that you are doing everything correctly.
3. Another sign that you are doing everything correctly: meditation time flies.

On such a meditation technique I wrote hereAnd she was really helpful.

Frankly, over time, I stopped to meditate for one reason. The first few weeks you do not see results, then he finally comes, and you learn to control the thoughts in meditation, focus on different rustles and smells. But after a while the progress slows down again, thereby killing the motivation to do it on.

I did wrong, ceased to meditate, and recently was looking for a new impetus to start doing it. And knowing that Jobs also practiced a similar technique - a great motivation to get started.