“If you were to write out your brain’s potential expressed by the number of possible neural connections it could make, it would take you seventy-five years to write out all the zeroes.
That’s the level of power and capacity you have at your disposal every moment of every day. In other words, your potential to achieve what you want is essentially without limit.”
–The Answer, by John Assaraf and Murray Smith
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I don’t often say “most people,” but in this case, I’m going to:
Most people — including me sometimes — literally have no idea how powerful the human brain actually is, nor that we can actually tap into its power at almost literally any time.
Any single moment of one’s life can be made interesting, if you devote sufficient attention to it, if you bring your full self into it.
And yet…we hold back.
I mean, it seems like we’re so limited, though, right?
It seems like the real world is so gray and heavy sometimes, and that we don’t have the internal resources to return to that younger, more fully alive self, who actually couldn’t wait to rise out of bed and start the day.
Reminds me of one of my favorite philosophers, Colin Wilson, who said that human beings were like great big jet airplanes, flying on just one engine.
Imagine that: we have all these other “engines” — additional sources of energy and life that we could call upon — but we don’t, because we’re not in the habit of doing so.
We’ve been living for so long underneath our full capacity that we’ve forgotten that there’s something more inside that we can call upon.
We can fire up the rest of the engines!
The authors I quoted above, John Assaraf and Murray Smith (their book, The Answer, is wonderful, by the way), remind us of this:
“Your potential to achieve what you want is essentially without limit.”
Whoever shut off your engines, you have the power to turn them back on again. And you should.
I mean, there’s so much personal power available to each and every one of us that we’re just not using…but what if we did?
All the best,
Matt Karamazov
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