Free NLP Ebook
Imagine this: you wake up one morning and the next thing you know you’re sitting in your car. You are freshly showered, appropriately dressed, and there’s a travel mug of coffee next to you. You have no conscious memory of how any of this happened and you’re already halfway to work.
We have evolved to run complex routine procedures on autopilot. Our unconscious processes are faster, more reliable, and often more subtle than our conscious efforts to understand and influence the world around us. We do not need to know much about ourselves to get through an average day. We just need to go along for the ride.
So what’s the point of all the efforts we make to remember and discover who we are? Why get to know yourself better if yourself runs just fine without you? The short answer is this. It’s hard to make it through a whole day without learning something about yourself. The people with whom you connect, the stories you hear or tell, the things you do: all of them give you information about yourself.
One of the many automatic processes that drive you is the process which causes you to pay attention to information about yourself. Paying attention allows you to choose whether to incorporate new information into existing patterns or to let it go. You cannot change without knowing something about yourself and you cannot live in a world of change without changing yourself.
So even though it slows you down and introduces all sorts of existential difficulties, it is hard to avoid learning more about yourself. Fortunately, if you are active and intentional, getting to know yourself better has real benefits. It can be a fun process that leads to results you like. It can give you choices you would not see on autopilot and better results when autopilot is running your life. It can even grow your brain.
So take a few minutes and read this book. It’s short. You can even read some of it on autopilot while your attention bounces around all the things you should and might and look forward to doing.
The book won’t mind your monkey mind and monkey mind won’t prevent you from noticing what you need to notice to get the results you want. Just notice the funny parts. There’s no reason to let monkey mind have all the fun. Your conscious mind knows how to play, too.
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