Harmonising 3 parts of your brain for wealth creation
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Man is a brain-powered creature. This is one notable difference between us and other lower creatures. In fact, other creatures are lower than man because they are not endowed with intelligence and imagination like us. The brain is an important part of the human makeup. It is one visible object that creates invisible objects. For instance, the brain is visible but it is an organ through which ideas, imagination, brainchildren, etc, are born. And these items are invisible. I can’t see your ideas; neither can I see your imagination. But they are real even though they may be invisible.
Since we think, move, run, sleep, walk, work, wake up, cry, write, read, and do virtually everything we do every day by the help of the brain, it is not surprising to say that the brain is also involved in the wealth creation process. The brain is made up of three parts. They are: the left brain, the right brain and the subconscious brain.
The left brain generally refers to that part of the brain concerned with reading, writing, speaking and logic. Children who do well in school all have well-developed left brains. Examples of people with the left brain are writers, scientists, lawyers, accountants, doctors and schoolteachers, etc.
The right brain on the other hand is often associated with pictures, art, music, and other non-linear relationships that require creativity and imagination. Designers, architects and musicians are professions for people with these dominant intelligences.
The subconscious brain is the most powerful of the three brains because it includes what is called the “primitive brain.” The primitive brain is like an animal’s brain; it does not think but rather reacts, fights, flees or freezes. It is that intrapersonal intelligence part of man. As Robert Kiyosaki put it, “…it is a person’s intrapersonal intelligence that ultimately determines if they are a success or failure in life, love, health and money. This is because the subconscious mind is the most part of the brain, especially in pressure situations.”
It is the subconscious brain that causes an individual to freeze and not take action out of fear of making mistake, or stay at a job for security rather than the love of work. People think differently when their subconscious is controlled by fear. If people are fearful, they may say, “I can’t do that. What if I fail?” or “That’s risky.” Compare that to a person who is in a fight-state subconsciously, who might say, “I’ll show them. I’ll get that deal just to prove I can do it.” People with high intrapersonal intelligence have the ability to control the subconscious brain’s desire to fight, flee or freeze. If frozen, they may choose to fight. The point is, they have the intelligence to choose the appropriate subconscious response. If angry, they can speak calmly. If afraid, they can confront their fear.
The reason most people are not rich is because the subconscious brain is the most powerful of the three parts. The subconscious brain is the emotional aspect of the brain. According to Robert, “to develop your financial genius, it is important to first know how to get all the three parts of your brain to work in harmony rather than against each other.”
For instance, if I might ask a person, “Do you want to be rich?” most people will say from their logical left brain, “Yes. I really want to be rich.” The problem is not found in their logical left brain. The problem is the subconscious brain saying, “Not you. You’ll never be rich,” or “How can you be rich, you don’t have any money?” So you see, the subconscious brain wields a tremendous influence on how our lives turn out. Some people can give you 1,000 reasons why they wouldn’t be rich, can’t go to school, can’t marry, can’t be healthy, can’t survive in a country like Nigeria, while all they need to motivate themselves is to find just one simple reason why they should, and use this single reason to knock down their giant doubts and fears. It is the subconscious brain that keeps a man/woman doing a job he hates for 20, 30 years and even retiring on it. It is the subconscious brain that keeps young men who have been jilted before by the women they loved not to make any attempt to try again because of the fear of being jilted once more. It is one reason that imprisons certain people from making career or business changes because of the fear of failure. In other words, the subconscious brain controls your life regardless of who you are.
We see a battle of the brains when it comes to the issue of money. Many people live below their means when in reality they want to improve their standard of living and be rich but are held back and down by the fear and freeze emotions from their subconscious brain which tell them they won’t be successful if they try. Many are living on the island of procrastination – pushing back what they should be doing today to the next day and on and on until the fire to go on goes out of their ember.
What I have been trying to say all along is that regardless of what and how you feel, by developing your intrapersonal intelligence, you will be able to control how your life shapes out, especially by doing what you need to do whether you feel like it or not, so you can have what you need to have regardless of whether anybody likes it or not. Therefore to improve your financial life, go out there and do what you need to do in spite of your emotions. Leave that seat and move. Until you move nothing moves for you. Until you write that proposal, apply for that job, start that business, talk to your bankers, talk to prospective investors, until you try, nothing will rise for you.
Let me end by sharing the story of the owner of Honda. This guy wanted to start manufacturing motor bikes. He had the skills and training. He built his first garage but during the Second World War, the garage was bombed. He had to borrow his wife’s jewelleries. He used the money he generated from selling it to build another garage. It was also bombed. He was discouraged and had no money but didn’t give up. So he built scooters and commuted with them to work every day. People started demanding for his scooters. With the money he made from selling his scooters, he built a prototype of his motor bike and sent it to the US. He also wrote 5,000 letters with his hand seeking for buyers. Orders started coming from the US and that was how he started Honda and at a point even went into cars and different products. Today, you drive assorted types of Honda cars. But remember the Honda brand is a standing vision of a man who refused to be controlled by negative emotions; but who channelled his emotions rightly to fulfil his greatest ambitions.
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Harmonising 3 parts of your brain for wealth creation
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Man is a brain-powered creature. This is one notable difference between us and other lower creatures. In fact, other creatures are lower than man because they are not endowed with intelligence and imagination like us. The brain is an important part of the human makeup. It is one visible object that creates invisible objects. For instance, the brain is visible but it is an organ through which ideas, imagination, brainchildren, etc, are born. And these items are invisible. I can’t see your ideas; neither can I see your imagination. But they are real even though they may be invisible.
Since we think, move, run, sleep, walk, work, wake up, cry, write, read, and do virtually everything we do every day by the help of the brain, it is not surprising to say that the brain is also involved in the wealth creation process. The brain is made up of three parts. They are: the left brain, the right brain and the subconscious brain.
The left brain generally refers to that part of the brain concerned with reading, writing, speaking and logic. Children who do well in school all have well-developed left brains. Examples of people with the left brain are writers, scientists, lawyers, accountants, doctors and schoolteachers, etc.
The right brain on the other hand is often associated with pictures, art, music, and other non-linear relationships that require creativity and imagination. Designers, architects and musicians are professions for people with these dominant intelligences.
The subconscious brain is the most powerful of the three brains because it includes what is called the “primitive brain.” The primitive brain is like an animal’s brain; it does not think but rather reacts, fights, flees or freezes. It is that intrapersonal intelligence part of man. As Robert Kiyosaki put it, “…it is a person’s intrapersonal intelligence that ultimately determines if they are a success or failure in life, love, health and money. This is because the subconscious mind is the most part of the brain, especially in pressure situations.”
It is the subconscious brain that causes an individual to freeze and not take action out of fear of making mistake, or stay at a job for security rather than the love of work. People think differently when their subconscious is controlled by fear. If people are fearful, they may say, “I can’t do that. What if I fail?” or “That’s risky.” Compare that to a person who is in a fight-state subconsciously, who might say, “I’ll show them. I’ll get that deal just to prove I can do it.” People with high intrapersonal intelligence have the ability to control the subconscious brain’s desire to fight, flee or freeze. If frozen, they may choose to fight. The point is, they have the intelligence to choose the appropriate subconscious response. If angry, they can speak calmly. If afraid, they can confront their fear.
The reason most people are not rich is because the subconscious brain is the most powerful of the three parts. The subconscious brain is the emotional aspect of the brain. According to Robert, “to develop your financial genius, it is important to first know how to get all the three parts of your brain to work in harmony rather than against each other.”
For instance, if I might ask a person, “Do you want to be rich?” most people will say from their logical left brain, “Yes. I really want to be rich.” The problem is not found in their logical left brain. The problem is the subconscious brain saying, “Not you. You’ll never be rich,” or “How can you be rich, you don’t have any money?” So you see, the subconscious brain wields a tremendous influence on how our lives turn out. Some people can give you 1,000 reasons why they wouldn’t be rich, can’t go to school, can’t marry, can’t be healthy, can’t survive in a country like Nigeria, while all they need to motivate themselves is to find just one simple reason why they should, and use this single reason to knock down their giant doubts and fears. It is the subconscious brain that keeps a man/woman doing a job he hates for 20, 30 years and even retiring on it. It is the subconscious brain that keeps young men who have been jilted before by the women they loved not to make any attempt to try again because of the fear of being jilted once more. It is one reason that imprisons certain people from making career or business changes because of the fear of failure. In other words, the subconscious brain controls your life regardless of who you are.
We see a battle of the brains when it comes to the issue of money. Many people live below their means when in reality they want to improve their standard of living and be rich but are held back and down by the fear and freeze emotions from their subconscious brain which tell them they won’t be successful if they try. Many are living on the island of procrastination – pushing back what they should be doing today to the next day and on and on until the fire to go on goes out of their ember.
What I have been trying to say all along is that regardless of what and how you feel, by developing your intrapersonal intelligence, you will be able to control how your life shapes out, especially by doing what you need to do whether you feel like it or not, so you can have what you need to have regardless of whether anybody likes it or not. Therefore to improve your financial life, go out there and do what you need to do in spite of your emotions. Leave that seat and move. Until you move nothing moves for you. Until you write that proposal, apply for that job, start that business, talk to your bankers, talk to prospective investors, until you try, nothing will rise for you.
Let me end by sharing the story of the owner of Honda. This guy wanted to start manufacturing motor bikes. He had the skills and training. He built his first garage but during the Second World War, the garage was bombed. He had to borrow his wife’s jewelleries. He used the money he generated from selling it to build another garage. It was also bombed. He was discouraged and had no money but didn’t give up. So he built scooters and commuted with them to work every day. People started demanding for his scooters. With the money he made from selling his scooters, he built a prototype of his motor bike and sent it to the US. He also wrote 5,000 letters with his hand seeking for buyers. Orders started coming from the US and that was how he started Honda and at a point even went into cars and different products. Today, you drive assorted types of Honda cars. But remember the Honda brand is a standing vision of a man who refused to be controlled by negative emotions; but who channelled his emotions rightly to fulfil his greatest ambitions.