Rewiring your brain into greatness
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when they talk about their success is
their mindset they will always say that
it is because of their mindset that they
were able to achieve a lot
now the irony is that even after human
beings millions of years of existence on
this planet there are no set of rules
that are available
you know how you can train your brain
how you can train your mind to achieve
the best out of your brain
think about this
otherwise why does it happen that there
are so many talented people on this
planet so many you know skilled people
on this planet who are not able to
achieve a lot
and the biggest reason for that is
there’s no set of skills there’s no set
of rules that are available
how you can get the best productivity
out of your brain
my name is oliver nagar
there was a point in time in my life in
which
i used to earn
500 rupees per month for more than four
years and then
i changed my business model i changed
the things that i was doing and in the
last four and a half years
my companies have went on to generate a
revenue of over 21 credits of my own
sales
over there i also realized that there
are so many people who are just like me
you know who want to do more achieve
more but they have no set path available
for them and i started with my own
southern bank university which is the
internet marketing university online and
over there they have been more than
1000 plus students or you can say
individuals and business owners to whom
i’ve mentored to achieve more than six
seven eight and nine figures revenue
online and in this talk of mine i’m
going to give you the strategies how you
can unlock the greatest potential that
can be unlocked with your brain
now before we come to the solution let’s
talk about the problem first because
before we actually know the solution
it’s so very important for us to
actually identify the problem because
until unless we know the problem how can
we come to the solution
so there are two biggest blockages there
are two biggest problems that your mind
faces when it comes to you know
performing in the best possible way
number one survival over winning
now to explain this thing to you let me
take the help of
charles darwin
his theory of natural selection
basically
human beings they were not fully placed
into this planet it is said that you
know we have our roots going back to the
apes
now think about it human beings were
supposed to be these newly formed human
beings when they came onto this planet
they were the weakest creatures out of
so many wild predictors that were there
on this planet
now just for the survival just for the
survival the biggest ability of these
human beings was that how how they can
avoid a lot of risk and how they can
avoid a lot of loss because these human
beings these newly placed human beings
had so very little in terms of food in
terms of shelter
in such india so ultimately they will
they will have no chance of survival no
chance of surviving think about it so
ultimately the ones who were good at it
in terms of taking less number of risk
in terms of avoiding the loss at any
cost were the ones who actually survived
and that’s exactly how we have evolved
as human beings so the ones so you know
those kind of genes have actually went
ahead and you know come inside a body
come inside as a human nature think
about it
that’s problem number one so basically
what happens is as a human being when it
comes to achieving more see achieving
more it’s it’s all a game of high-risk
high reward so when it comes to
achieving more we need to take more risk
and when it comes to taking more risk
our human brain it tells us to actually
you know step back to actually avoid all
the risk probabilities avoid all the
lost probabilities and that’s when we
take a back seat that’s problem number
one
problem number two
i will come to the solution in a moment
problem number two
the happy chemicals that are there
inside your brain we call it dopamine
it’s there inside your brain it’s there
inside every single brain
the dopamine is something that gets
relieved inside your body every single
time whenever you feel happy whenever
you feel satisfied so every time you
feel happy and satisfied your brain it
releases these chemicals inside your
brain and that is called dopamine
now think about it
right now
there’s so many things
that can help you achieve that dopamine
hit inside your brain
you can go ahead and watch the movies on
netflix you can go ahead and
play a lot of video games you can go
ahead play a lot of virtual reality
gaming there’s so many things that are
happening right now
think about it think about the
competition that you have when it comes
to the long term growth when it comes to
the long term achieving
in order to do that you have to do a lot
of work think about it you have to send
out a lot of cold emails you have to do
a lot of cold calling you have to do one
more sales call you have to do one more
presentation and there’s so much of work
against that in competition what you
have is you have this dopamine hit in
which you are playing let’s suppose a
video game think about a person who’s
playing a video game and he’s going
ahead and you know uh killing thousands
of terrorists thousands of pilots
just in a moment and think about the
kind of dopamine release and the
dopamine hit that he’s getting inside
his brain
there’s no competition in terms of
satisfaction that you are getting in
terms of putting in the hard work which
is good actually good for your long-term
growth versus doing the random
looking again your mind is dumb you need
to
and that’s the number one reason why
you keep on checking your mobile phones
for those notifications facebook likes
facebook comments because you get those
dopamine hits
that’s problem number two
now to overcome these two problems now
when we have identified these problems
now and to overcome these two problems
we will create a set of new belief
systems
and after that i’m going to give you my
set of habits that’s going to help you
in forming new habits and ultimately
achieving the best out of your brain
belief system number one
david goggins
who is a very famous navy seal officer
and is supposed to be is called the
toughest person on the planet the kind
of things that he’s done
he has this rule
that he calls as forty percent rule and
by this forty percent rule what he says
is that
your body is
asks you to stop
every time
you feel tired every time you feel done
every time you feel exhausted but
actually whenever your mind tells you to
stop you are actually just at 40
potential which means
more 60 percent that you can go ahead
and achieve licking again since your
mind is trained to achieve you at every
single
chance in which you know your your body
can be at risk
your body sends you these signals but
actually you are at 40 percent at that
level you can actually go ahead and do
more if you have done let’s say 20
push-ups you can do 25 if you have done
your work then let’s say x amount of
time you can do actually more like it
again your body says
but again you can actually do more
that’s 40 percent do so keep this thing
in your mind rule number one keep this
thing in your mind when your body says
when your mind says
rule number one
rule number two dopamine how do we
overcome the dopamine
there’s so much of challenge how to
overcome something that’s giving you so
much of happiness so much of
satisfaction you have to create a new
set of reward system for your brain
only then you can overcome that think
about it
if you can create a new reward system
for the work that you are doing for the
long term work that you are doing
maybe maybe give yourself some brownie
points let’s suppose you like eating ice
cream let’s suppose you like you know
like eating brownies
can you do something like this that only
and only when after you have ticked off
all your work for the day after you have
ticked off all the checklist for the day
only then you are going to reward
yourself with those brownies with those
ice cream with those points with those
rewards that you have set for yourself
there has to be something for your brain
to look up to to feel satisfied to feel
happy there has to be a reward system it
can be anything but there has to be a
reward system that will help you in your
brain in again you know in tricking your
brain into feeling that level of
happiness that’s belief number two
now with the help of these two belief
systems and with this set of
habits that i’m going to share with you
we can actually try and do some damage
in terms of achieving more potential
let’s talk about the habit because see
after you have built your belief system
after you have built your belief system
with these two habits it’s actually your
daily routine it’s actually your daily
set of habits that’s gonna define you
and that’s something which is so very
important to form in the right way
because ultimately human beings are made
out of their habits
let’s talk about the habits
number one number one your why
any human being
whenever he or she tries to do something
there is a reason behind that there is a
why behind that why he or she starts to
do something let’s suppose you start
going to a gym or when somebody starts
going to a gym it’s not because they
want to get fit majority of them
something happens something triggers
something like you know they they were
ridiculed at a party they were laughed
off in front of their girl they went to
um
bathroom and have had a look at them
from the side view and they saw that
tummy coming out something like that
something triggered but then what
happens after that motivation gets over
after that why fades away after some
time you stop doing that activity for
example going to the gym so that why of
yours is something that’s so very
critical for your achievement of things
and it has to stay in front of you all
the time you need to figure out a way in
which that why of yours is always
present in front of you so that it keeps
pushing you for the work that you are
doing
and you keep
going for that
that’s habit number one
distractions
when i am in my work zone
there are no phone calls no chit chat no
socializing
nothing at all no whatsapp nothing
nothing my phone is in the airplane mode
and i’m only and only working
again nobody can disturb me in my work
zone
and
it’s like zero distraction 100 focus and
that’s how i’m able to do more
unlike so many other people that’s habit
number two habit number three
the way you do one thing is the way you
do everything there was a point in time
i was actually invited for the college
workshop and uh i had to take a facebook
ads presentation over there it was like
five to six years ago and over there i
was i was assuming that there would be
hundreds thousands of people who will be
sitting over there but it was optional
workshop and what i saw was there was
just one student sitting over there the
one who was organizing the event
now again
see i had a choice
i had a choice he had i can keep it as
an excuse
nobody’s there i can just take a very
random workshop quickly and just move
out of it or
i can do something
and i can still
give my best so here’s what i did i did
a fully packed power packed four and a
half hour presentation
and gave my best gave me gave my all
ultimately ultimately the way you do one
thing is the way you do everything and
let’s suppose you are given a target of
let’s say 20 push-ups and if you have
into a habit of let’s say giving up
right over there you’re going to give up
at every single place in your life and
if you don’t give up at any place you
will give you will not give up in your
work in your life at any single place
and the same thing is right over there
the reason that i gave that presentation
in front of one person is exactly the
reason you know i have been able to give
my talks in front of hundreds and
thousands of people and today i’m giving
this tedx talk because i’ve always taken
my work at that serious level of
commitment and that’s how i go about it
habit number four showing up and being
accountable for your work
but somehow what happened uh the flight
returned back from goa there was some
technical issue and we landed back in
mumbai at 7 25 pm again
i had
a valid reason to say
because of this xyz reason
at 7 25 pm the moment we landed i
contacted the air staff i told them that
just take care of my luggage of course i
knew they are gonna figure out a way to
make it reach to me right
and i rushed off the airplane i rushed
off the security line broke all the
rules over there and straight away went
to the first cafe that i saw inside the
airport and took my presentation again
it you can do something like this in
which you can say that okay you know
what i have a very simple excuse for not
doing something and you can say that i’m
not going to do it but again you have to
be accountable for the things that you
have if
things that you have planned if things
are there on my to-do list for today
they are supposed to happen we don’t
sleep with a no
next habit
change and uncertainty
we were doing the work back in their
doomhammer coupon silicon business that
i told you in which i was earning 500
rupees per month
after that after working over there for
four four and a half years
i started getting some good
opportunities
i i could have done you know more things
over there but then by then i had
figured out
the bigger outcome the bigger potential
is there in the online world and i made
a switch from the offline business to
the online business after working over
there for four and a half years the
biggest lie that you can tell to
yourself the biggest
problem that people have a lot of people
have is when they say something like
this that we have always done it this
way and when you say something like this
to yourself
you’re doing yourself a massive disfavor
because things are changing all the time
things they keep on changing today the
things that you’re seeing did not even
exist a few years ago and you have to
consistently adopt
now before i end my talk
i want to share with you a very
beautiful mind hack a very beautiful
life hack that i implemented in my life
and the same thing i would say for you
to implement so basically
it was around six years ago when i
imagined myself that who do i want to
become let’s suppose in 10 years later
time and the person whom i imagine think
about it i’m imagining
how the naga will be after 10 years and
i imagine that house this uh this
version of naga is going to talk how
this voice is going to react to the
situation how this voice is going to
work
and from that day onwards from that six
years earlier version myself i started
reacting the same way i started walking
and talking in the same way although at
that particular point of time i did not
have the results
all my clothes associates were able to
see that change in myself in my
personality in the way i talked in the
way i reacted in the way i did things
and that has actually made me become
what i am today
honestly
and then on top of it create a set of
habits for yourself that’s gonna take
you to the next level and honestly
from earning 500 rupees per month for
four years to this journey of mine
exactly economically
and this is the same thing that i’m
asking you to do
and honestly if i was able to do all
these things and was able to become what
i have done because of these things if i
can do it you can do it
you