A short journey with "How To Think Bigger"

Hello all,

In this blog, I am going to share about a book which is recently I read "How to Think Bigger" by Martin Meadows.

I chose this book accidentally. But it has the capability to prevent me from most of the life accidents. 

About Author

I read a fact about Martin which is, Martin is not the author name. Actually, it is a pen name of the author. His intention is not to brand himself. He believes like, it will make the readers more stick with the objective of the book without seeking the personal recognition.

How to Think Bigger

It is not like regular motivational and advice based content. The author referred some more books and summarize the main parts to achieve greater heights. This is a very small book, straight to the point, freely available and worth for your reading time. 

He describes the Art of Thinking Bigger in seven chapters. Don't worry, I am not going to elaborate the seven chapters. Instead of just sharing my thoughts about some points which I liked the most from the book.   

If you want to think bigger and achieve the greater heights, the first thing you want to do is surround with good people. Make a healthy environment. This leads you to keep a distance from distractions. Read good books. Reading books makes you mentally motivated and stronger. Listen from great people. If you have a chance to meet some successful people, please do it. You can get inspired by them and your mind will directly dive into the actions for your dream. Otherwise, try to read success stories of great people. These are the initial thing we want to do if we want to think bigger. 

First, write down whatever you want to do in your life. Not only in your mind and make a deadline with an exact date. Most of the people make their goal like, I will achieve this someday. Like I will build a house someday or I will do this after ten years. These things will not work out. There should be some Sense of Urgency in our action. If there is nothing like a definite timeline, your mind will not leave you to do the particular thing.

While setting up your goal, it should be intrinsic motivation, not external motivation. What is intrinsic motivation?. The thing from your internal soul i.e, the output of your work is an internal feeling. Some example of external motivations are Money, Buying a House, Build a million dollar company. These factors will not lead you to the great. Why? Let's discuss in brief,

Actually, our mind made up of three major parts, not only physically, but mentally too.

       1. Chimp 

       2. Human

       3. Computer

yeah, Chimp is the primary part, which is based on our emotions. We are from chimpanzees, right? Even after changed as a complete human being, the chimpanzee mind is the only thing controls you. Your emotions are the sign of your chimpanzee brain, not yours. If anybody says like, "I am not feeling well" means this statement from your chimpanzee brain, not from the human brain. Chimpanzee always wants to stay in his comfort zone. That's why, if you take any risk or some abnormal activities from your daily routines, your chimp will warn you like I do not like it. So don't do it. This feeling is called fear. 

After tackling the fear, i.e., after getting permission from your chimp brain, your human brain come into action and it will do the plan to achieve the goal or risk and the computer brain get the plan into the action. This is the flow into your brain for every activity in your life. 

From this theory, if you want to make some big goals and try to act for that, first your chimpanzee brain understand like that goal is out of our comfort zone. Whatever the chimp feels like "it is not our comfort zone", it keeps on denying that. So as a human, we need to make our chimp brain to understand. So the first thing you need to do for it is intrinsic motivation. i.e., the feeling after achieving your goal. How you will feel, after achieving your goal like after buying a car, or after buying a house or after built a million dollar company or whatever your goal, feel it like you already achieved it and make your chimp to understand like, this feeling is our only comfort zone. Make the chimp uncomfortable now. Make it realize that our comfort zone is after the success. Not now. If your chimp believes in this. That's all your work, it will automatically pull your human brain to plan according to the goal and you computer brain executed the plan of your human. If we understand this concept and related to our personal lives, you can realize the fact behind this theory. This is the most interesting part for me from this book. You can feel it more than this, once you read the book. 

My final take away is Don't be a Martyr. This word is new to me while reading. But worth to remember. In straightforward don't kill yourself to achieve our goal, which means that spending the whole day daily with your work will not lead you to the expected result. You need to keep consistency in your daily routine. While reading this another quote came into my mind which is worth remembering,

                                             

These content may not in the flow, this is of my understanding from the book. I suggest everyone read the book to get the whole valuable objective into yourself. 

You can find the book from here https://www.amazon.in/How-Think-Bigger-Motivated-Accomplish-ebook/dp/B00WU2J1QK.

You can also get it in google play books at free of cost. I used playbooks. Read it!, Feel it! most important apply it! and enjoy it!. 

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Thank you!