That Little Voice In Your Head: Adjust the Code that Runs Your Brain
call this model: Be–Learn–Do. Be before you learn and learn before you do.
Mo Gawdat • That Little Voice In Your Head: Adjust the Code that Runs Your Brain
In my research I found that thoughts, and only thoughts, have the single biggest impact on our state of happiness.
Mo Gawdat • That Little Voice In Your Head: Adjust the Code that Runs Your Brain
No event, I dare say, in your entire life ever had the power to make you unhappy unless you granted it that power by turning it into a thought and running it through your head over and over to make yourself miserable.
Mo Gawdat • That Little Voice In Your Head: Adjust the Code that Runs Your Brain
Nothing is real until your brain decides that it is.
Mo Gawdat • That Little Voice In Your Head: Adjust the Code that Runs Your Brain
4 (wrong) Inputs that distort our perception of the truth. 3 (exaggerated) Defences that keep us safe but make us suffer. 2 (opposite) Polarities failing to stay in balance. 1 (harmful) Thought that causes all the unhappiness you have ever
Mo Gawdat • That Little Voice In Your Head: Adjust the Code that Runs Your Brain
tend to group them into five categories: observation, conditioning, recycled thoughts, trapped emotions and hidden triggers.
Mo Gawdat • That Little Voice In Your Head: Adjust the Code that Runs Your Brain
Your happiness is greater than or equal to the difference between the perception of the events of your life and your hopes and expectations of how life should behave.
Mo Gawdat • That Little Voice In Your Head: Adjust the Code that Runs Your Brain
We teach it to comprehend and control everything around it, but we rarely ever teach it to understand or control itself.
Mo Gawdat • That Little Voice In Your Head: Adjust the Code that Runs Your Brain
No event in your life ever has the power to make you unhappy until you choose to grant it that power by turning it into a thought and ruminating on the negative side of it to torture yourself with unhappiness.