Some people like to fixate on a single idea. For example, if they set themselves a goal, they think only one way to achieve it. Given example. Let's say a certain musician wants to become famous. However, he believes that his talent and good game is enough for success. When he is told that it is necessary to be engaged in advertizing, he waves away, saying that it and so will estimate. In the meantime, less vociferous colleague persistently advertise your product. Who do you think will become famous faster?
People are lazy. Many people do not want to understand the simplest things, because they believe that it is not their business. And as a result, they lose a lot of opportunities that float in front of their noses. You just have to stick your head out of the hole.
Many people sit for decades in one place, not doing anything new, doing some parochial issues. Why don't they take it to the next level?
They're afraid. In their hole they know everything, and in the big world so much unknown!
Many are simply afraid that luck will turn to them. It's so much in life will have to change! Scary somehow, and laziness…
There is already a person should decide what he wants. Be content with little and deny yourself the new and good, or overcome yourself, take risks, try and be rewarded. The second way requires to be open all the time, and also to possess such thing as “breadth of thinking”. It is important that a person consciously decided what he wants.
Breadth of thinking
What is breadth of thought? This is the ability to cover the maximum number of areas of reality when solving a problem. To do this, you need to be constantly interested in new things, invent new ways to do your work, and learn how others do it.
In life it is quite rare that a question is limited to one area of knowledge. Breadth of thought is the ability to see a question in all its diversity.
Any problem can be seen from different points of view. For example, what is a good music track? It is not just a creative product, but also the image of the artist, and advertising and context. It is a complex of different fields of knowledge. Ordinary people see only the tip of the iceberg, but a broad-minded person sees the whole system here.
How to train breadth of thinking?
There are no exercises that can train breadth of thinking in isolation from activity. Therefore, you can expand your horizons only in the area where you want to achieve results.
How to do it? There is one simple recipe-to do work sometimes not so, as usually. To try new approaches, to get diverse experience, to consult, to read. If you do this constantly, then over time we begin to see a lot of ways to solve, and therefore see the problem holistically and volumetrically.
It's like recognizing an elephant blindfolded. You have to feel the whole thing.
Think big
If we want to succeed in something, we need to learn one rule that applies in 90% of cases. It sounds like “ " We get less than expected."
This is due to the fact that people tend to underestimate the amount of effort that is required to achieve a result. In order to achieve what you want, you need to set a bigger goal. Think big.
Want to be the best in town? Set a goal to become the best in the country.
"The most difficult thing in yoga is to spread the Mat»
This quote perfectly reflects the essence of what will be discussed in this article. The hardest part is getting started. Within each of us there is something that does not like the new.
Sometimes it's like an invisible wall that won't let us through. Perhaps it is because we feel that if we take one step, we will have to take a second, and then a third, and so on. We are afraid of choice and its consequences.
Many people know this from trying to do sports. The hardest part is going to the gym or Jogging for the first time. The second heaviest is not to quit after two weeks.
We often spend our lives preparing and bracing ourselves. We're going to get a better job, we're going to start fighting bad habits, we're going to start a new life, we're going to... As long as we're going to start living, life ends.
What's stopping us from moving?
The paralysis of the will prevents us from moving. The will is the commander within us who tells us, " Take and do!”. It happens that the will is asleep and there is no one to give us an order. Then we can't move. What makes her fall asleep?
Somewhere deep down we feel that any unnecessary movement is potentially dangerous. Especially if we have no experience. It's like touching a live wire, even if everyone says it's not live. Still spinning in my head the thought: "what if? Is it dangerous?”
That fear is the wall most of the time. In others, it is a lack of motivation. Sometimes, we just don't have the mental strength.
Any undertaking requires more energy than maintenance. It's hard to move the car, but then it's easier. Our world has great inertia. To change something in it, you need to spend a lot of effort. Many are so busy with vanity that they do not have these forces.
But there is one positive thing. First inertia plays against us, but then it helps us.
How to start?
In most cases, we lack the strength, which means that if we want to start something new, we need to save on something else.
Many of us spray our energy right and left. We never have a moment's peace. Always busy with something. In the morning, instead of accumulating strength, we drain it by watching TV. In transport, when we have a chance to catch our breath a little, we bury ourselves in a phone, tablet or book. Many consider themselves inactive, and yet they just do the wrong thing!
I can offer you one experiment. The next time you can't make up your mind, don't do anything. Nothing at all! You can not be distracted in any way and do something else, but simply immerse yourself in complete inaction (sleep is also an action). The only thing you can do is what you can't decide to do.
Let's say you're afraid to make an important call. Good. Give yourself as much time as you need. But you can't do anything else. I wonder how long you can stand doing absolutely nothing? Personally I can't tolerate more than five minutes. This method is very simple, but extremely effective, in addition, over time brings pleasure. Give it a try.