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Input Equals Output

Brendon Harrex - 01/22/2007

Managing your mind should be one of your top priorities. Like a computer, your mind only spits out the data you feed it. Winners work hard at investing the right material inside themselves. There is a tiny membrane in the back of our head known as the “RAS” (Reticular Activating System). The primary function of your RAS is to move you in the direction of your dominant thought at that moment. We naturally act on what fills our minds.

When we become preoccupied with a thought, eventually we want to act on it. This explains a lot of things—such as increased violence among young people between the ages of 12 and 24 years. By then the average young person has seen more than 4,000 murders on TV, not to mention video games.

Universities have studied how the images received impact our brains. For example, adolescents who had a high level of exposure to violence had reduced levels of cognitive function. The more violence they saw the less thinking, learning, reasoning, and emotional stamina they had. Their computer stored the wrong information—now they could only retrieve the wrong data.

We all have limited time to invest in ourselves due to other commitments we may have such as work, family, sport etc. Be careful what you feed your mind, as whatever you input is likely to end up as an output sooner or later.