PSYCHOLOGY, WHAT MAKES FOR SUCCESS
25 KEYS TO THE MIND Knowledge can be the most effective means of preventing the problems of life. Understanding how the most successful people made it through life to success helps give us a blueprint for success in an uncertain world.
"If only I knew then, what I know now..." is the most common regret of life. It fairly screams the critical importance of knowledge. Yet our educational system has failed to provide the knowledge.
Psychology Controls the Biology of the Brain. Adrenalin, cortisol, and neurotransmitters flood the brain repeatedly from our experiences in life. From the emotional reaction of our mind to a Hollywood horror movie, a put-down from the peer group, or positive emotions from our parents or society, the emotions embedded in our brains by others shape our anxiety and depression or our success in life.
What is it that the best minds in psychology and the most successful people know about succeeding in life against the worst life has to offer? From Lincoln to Oprah, from Mark Twain to Elon Musk, J. B. Rowling, Einstein, Michael Jordan and more, in their own words, the lessons of life that we never learned in school.
What creates success or failure in life? We can learn from the life experiences of others. Few understand how little it takes to set our course in life. Most of us find a direction in life by accident, if we find one at all.
Nobel laureate John Paul Sartre was an avid reader as a child, encouraged by his mother and grandfather. In his book “The Words” he tells how his grandfather saw that he was drifting, with no direction in life, and sat him down and told him that he had the makings of a great writer, like the writers on his grandfather’s bookshelves. But in the meantime, he had to find something to do that would give him a future, like teaching.
Sartre said of his grandfather’s words; “It flowed into my bones. It directed my life.” Yet most of us have little or no direction in life. Learn from the most successful.
Anxiety and Depression are normal reactions of the human brain. After coming out of a long period of feeling anxious and hopeless, Lara Jefferson wrote a profound comment on the nature of anxiety and depression in her book These are My Sisters:
“At least I have learned this, nothing is ever so bad when it is actually happening to us, as when we are dreading, fearing, anticipating it. It is the fear we build in our minds that gives a thing the power to cause us greater pain.”
This sets the table for how we can change our own life, or use parents or the school system to change the course of life that leads to the most critical issues of our time, and change the direction of life, by understanding the stories of others who have been through problems we all face and gone on to success:
The hypercriticism, the put-downs, the bullying, the gossip, and self-criticism, sets the mind on a path of depression, a loss of self-esteem, a lack of direction, and a feeling of hopelessness. Yet we can succeed, if we learn the stories of others who have been there and gone on to succeed. Preventive psychology can be the best way of dealing with the problems of life.
FORCES OF LIFE: PSYCHOLOGY, WHAT MAKES FOR SUCCESS OR FAILURE…
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