Experiments in Red
Experiments in Red
This assignment… Bluh.
I lost track of the number of times I stopped reading this post to go do something else. Usually something inane and useless.
Even sitting here writing this blog post, I find myself constantly distracted with that want to do anything else.
Usually I very much enjoy information on the inner workings of the mind, but when someone tries to use them on me…? Especially in such a blatantly obvious manner… I find it a very big turn off. I find it inspires me to do the exact opposite of what they’re trying to suggest.
Now, I did get through the post. And I have followed the assignment. The rest of this post will be dedicated to going over it.
Throughout the day, and the majority of last night (when I actually read that assignment post) I didn’t notice the color red standing out any more than usual for me.
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I just had another of my moments where my mind wanders off from what I’m typing, so I paused and let my eyes wander as I worked on finding my thoughts again.
I decided, during that time, to run a small test.
I sat, thinking of the color red absently as my eyes wandered about. Sure enough, my eyes paused on every red icon on my desktop (I work in medium-sized windows rather than full-screen, which means my desktop and background are always partially visible).
Not really all that surprising.
I tried the experiment again, this time focusing on blue.
Yup, sure enough, I see far more blue than I noticed before.
In all honesty, it reminds me of a bit of a Tony Robbins video I saw. At one point he has the crowd close their eyes and tells them to “think of red, think of red, think of red. Open your eyes. How much brown do you see in the room?”
Most of the crowd chuckled. Myself included.
I think it was actually back in the psychology class I took in high school that I learned about directing the mind.
I did not, however, learn about it in quite this useful of a fashion. The knowledge that the mind could be guided was always there, but applying it in so specific a way wasn’t an active consideration.
As sinister as it might sound, the human mind is surprisingly easy to manipulate. And, depending on how you use that ability, it’d not really sinister at all.
Let’s take raising children as an example.
As a parent, if you want your child to do something, it’s likely far more effective to lead them based on what they want.
This actually works for pretty much any age.
Find out what a person wants, tell them how what you want them to do will give them what they want. Bingo, they want to do what you say. Usually.
Some of us are contrary and just like to be difficult. *chuckle*
Okay, so how do we take something and make it mean what we want it to mean?
Let’s take a supposedly “tough” one. Losing a job.
Most people lose their job and they panic, right? Scrambling to find another. Their focus is solely on getting money flowing back in and their only known way of doing that is with a job. So back out, beating the pavement to find another.
They view losing a job as a bad thing.
It doesn’t have to mean bad, though.
Income is needed, sure, but if we shift our focus a little bit that same “terrible occurrence” can translate into a benefit. An opportunity.
Most people don’t like their jobs, from what I’ve come to understand. Most people are bitter and go about their work grudgingly because they believe it to be the only way they’ll have money to pay their bills and put food on their tables. Several work more than one job, pulling 50-60+ hours a week to make ends meet.
For them, that loss of one job could be a very good thing, if looked at right.
They have a chance to have time. Sleep. Collect themselves.
But the panic mindset needs to be overcome first.
We don’t think our best when we’re panicked. We aren’t at our most creative when we’re focused on impending doom, otherwise known as all the worries that plague us. (And in this economy, creativity is borderline necessary to keep money coming in.)
So a lost job can mean….what?
Lost income, sure, we know that.
Time freedom.
An opportunity to exercise creativity.
It really boils down to our attitude. How we choose to see things. What we decide to have them mean to us.
I’m not saying the bad aspects of something don’t exist. I’m saying that we can acknowledge them, but not let them decide for us how we feel about it.
We get to choose how we handle a situation.
We get to decide what we make it mean.
Will a recently ended relationship mean that you refuse to get into another anytime soon? Or will it mean that you learned a characteristic or a trait that you’ll either look for or avoid in a future partner?
Will that car accident mean that you won’t drive again? Or will it mean a decision to be a little more cautious about whatever caused it?
We get to decide.
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Since I think I’ve completely lost track of where I wanted to go with any of that, I’m just going to cut it here. This is long enough (perhaps too long).
I do want to say just one last thing…
If you are hurting for money, and are interested in doing as little work as possible to make more…
Give Banners Broker a look.
Seriously. I started up with them maybe a couple months ago, if that. I think I’ve been on the site for less than 2-3 hours total, most of which has just been to log in and see what it’s doing while I’m off focused on other stuff.
That’s what it’s been doing.
I let the money roll back into it for now to get it going nice and good. There’s a number of people that live very comfortably off just BB alone.
If you’d like a video of some very big earners talking about it, here ya go:
Easiest business ever.
Even easier than this, and that’s saying something. *chuckle*
P.S. - Facebook is starting to block Free Speech, and I invite you to Protest with me - just go here, and follow the assignments: DOWN WITH OPPRESSION!
This assignment… Bluh.
I lost track of the number of times I stopped reading this post to go do something else. Usually something inane and useless.
Even sitting here writing this blog post, I find myself constantly distracted with that want to do anything else.
Usually I very much enjoy information on the inner workings of the mind, but when someone tries to use them on me…? Especially in such a blatantly obvious manner… I find it a very big turn off. I find it inspires me to do the exact opposite of what they’re trying to suggest.
Now, I did get through the post. And I have followed the assignment. The rest of this post will be dedicated to going over it.
Throughout the day, and the majority of last night (when I actually read that assignment post) I didn’t notice the color red standing out any more than usual for me.
-
I just had another of my moments where my mind wanders off from what I’m typing, so I paused and let my eyes wander as I worked on finding my thoughts again.
I decided, during that time, to run a small test.
I sat, thinking of the color red absently as my eyes wandered about. Sure enough, my eyes paused on every red icon on my desktop (I work in medium-sized windows rather than full-screen, which means my desktop and background are always partially visible).
Not really all that surprising.
I tried the experiment again, this time focusing on blue.
Yup, sure enough, I see far more blue than I noticed before.
In all honesty, it reminds me of a bit of a Tony Robbins video I saw. At one point he has the crowd close their eyes and tells them to “think of red, think of red, think of red. Open your eyes. How much brown do you see in the room?”
Most of the crowd chuckled. Myself included.
I think it was actually back in the psychology class I took in high school that I learned about directing the mind.
I did not, however, learn about it in quite this useful of a fashion. The knowledge that the mind could be guided was always there, but applying it in so specific a way wasn’t an active consideration.
As sinister as it might sound, the human mind is surprisingly easy to manipulate. And, depending on how you use that ability, it’d not really sinister at all.
Let’s take raising children as an example.
As a parent, if you want your child to do something, it’s likely far more effective to lead them based on what they want.
This actually works for pretty much any age.
Find out what a person wants, tell them how what you want them to do will give them what they want. Bingo, they want to do what you say. Usually.
Some of us are contrary and just like to be difficult. *chuckle*
Okay, so how do we take something and make it mean what we want it to mean?
Let’s take a supposedly “tough” one. Losing a job.
Most people lose their job and they panic, right? Scrambling to find another. Their focus is solely on getting money flowing back in and their only known way of doing that is with a job. So back out, beating the pavement to find another.
They view losing a job as a bad thing.
It doesn’t have to mean bad, though.
Income is needed, sure, but if we shift our focus a little bit that same “terrible occurrence” can translate into a benefit. An opportunity.
Most people don’t like their jobs, from what I’ve come to understand. Most people are bitter and go about their work grudgingly because they believe it to be the only way they’ll have money to pay their bills and put food on their tables. Several work more than one job, pulling 50-60+ hours a week to make ends meet.
For them, that loss of one job could be a very good thing, if looked at right.
They have a chance to have time. Sleep. Collect themselves.
But the panic mindset needs to be overcome first.
We don’t think our best when we’re panicked. We aren’t at our most creative when we’re focused on impending doom, otherwise known as all the worries that plague us. (And in this economy, creativity is borderline necessary to keep money coming in.)
So a lost job can mean….what?
Lost income, sure, we know that.
Time freedom.
An opportunity to exercise creativity.
It really boils down to our attitude. How we choose to see things. What we decide to have them mean to us.
I’m not saying the bad aspects of something don’t exist. I’m saying that we can acknowledge them, but not let them decide for us how we feel about it.
We get to choose how we handle a situation.
We get to decide what we make it mean.
Will a recently ended relationship mean that you refuse to get into another anytime soon? Or will it mean that you learned a characteristic or a trait that you’ll either look for or avoid in a future partner?
Will that car accident mean that you won’t drive again? Or will it mean a decision to be a little more cautious about whatever caused it?
We get to decide.
--
Since I think I’ve completely lost track of where I wanted to go with any of that, I’m just going to cut it here. This is long enough (perhaps too long).
I do want to say just one last thing…
If you are hurting for money, and are interested in doing as little work as possible to make more…
Give Banners Broker a look.
Seriously. I started up with them maybe a couple months ago, if that. I think I’ve been on the site for less than 2-3 hours total, most of which has just been to log in and see what it’s doing while I’m off focused on other stuff.
That’s what it’s been doing.
I let the money roll back into it for now to get it going nice and good. There’s a number of people that live very comfortably off just BB alone.
If you’d like a video of some very big earners talking about it, here ya go:
Easiest business ever.
Even easier than this, and that’s saying something. *chuckle*
P.S. - Facebook is starting to block Free Speech, and I invite you to Protest with me - just go here, and follow the assignments: DOWN WITH OPPRESSION!