We All Have Basically the Same Hardware
But do all of us have the same internal resources available to us? Do we all have the same mental resources to be influential, confident, creative, and intelligent and so on? The answer is YES! At first this may seem a bit hard to believe but if you study the human brain and the science of neurology (and in recent decades we have made quantum leaps in our understanding of our Brain), you will learn that we all share the same basic neurology or nervous system.
In other words, we all have got basically the same hardware.
If someone appears more superior to you in intellect or is a much more effective communicator, it is not because they have a better ‘bio-computer’. They just have better programs running in their ‘bio-computer’ than you have (currently). It is these programs or thought patterns that enable them to be more motivated, more focused, more analytical, more powerful or to be a better communicator.
When run in optimal mode your brain is truly capable of producing any kind of positive and empowering thought or behavioral pattern, and hence any result that you want. Every one of us was born with almost the same basic neurological makeup. We have approximately 1000 billion neurons (nerve cells) in our brain, each capable of processing information at a speed greater than a Core 2 Duo/Atom personal computer.
It has been calculated that if a super computer were to be built to have anywhere near the storage capacity and processing capability of the human brain, it would have to be the length of fifty football fields and the height of the Statue of Liberty. And yet, your mega brain is powered daily with less electricity than a ten watt light bulb! How awesome. Think about the miracle your brain is and what you can do with it.
If someone you know is extremely good in numbers, it is because he has a lot richer neuro-connections in the area of mathematical-logical thinking. At the same time this person may not be very confident in the way he communicates, because he may have poorer neural connections in this different area of intellect.
The same goes for our emotions and habits. If you are always lazy and unmotivated, it is because your brain cells are wired in such a way that you consistently fire off negative emotions like procrastination.
People who are constantly focused and motivated have a very different set of neural patterns wired up in their brain. The kind of neuro-connections you have now is determined by how your brain has been exposed and stimulated, even before you were born.
Your neural patterns began developing twenty weeks from the time of conception, in your mother’s womb. If you have a gift for mathematics, it could be because your brain had been exposed to a lot of mathematical stimuli by your mother or the people around you. Then, after birth, in your growing-up years, especially before the age of fourteen, behavioral traits like patience or determination, impatience or stubbornness were also installed in your brain through your exposure to role models around you. That is how you got programmed to become the person you are today.
The good news is that if you have insufficient or ineffective neural connections in any area, you can create more useful connections through stimulating your brain in the right way and creating the right kind of mental patterns. You can also reprogram limiting patterns such as phobias and bad habits.
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