"Possibilities!"
DOUG BENCH'S
NEUROSCIENCE SELF-MOTIVATION NEWS
Volume:01 Issue:02
Trust Your Greatest Achievements to Neuroscience.
Teaching You the Science of Permanent Self-Motivation
Knowledge is Light! Absorb All That You Can!
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The Science
of Permanent
Self-Motivation!
TRUST YOUR
SUCCESS
TO SCIENCE!
Self-Talk Inventory
Last Newsletter we gave you information on the brain’s plasticity. That means
that the brain is constantly changing and constantly forming new neuron
pattern connections as we think, experience, and learn. In an upcoming
newsletter we will show you the latest scientific research news and
techniques to “burn” into your brain, new neuron patterns that are
POSITIVE THOUGHTS only, and why positive thoughts make your chances for
success much greater and higher and longer lasting!
But first you need to be aware of just how many of your day-to-day thoughts are positive or negative. Have you heard of the process called self-talk? These are the words we say to ourselves (usually not out-loud) all day long. Sometimes these positive or negative “thoughts” are spoken out-loud, to ourselves or others.
But most people are not even aware of just how negative this self-talk usually is.
Scientists estimate that the average person spends about 80% of this self-talk in the negative pool (the shallow end), and only about 20% in the positive. For the next few days, why not take inventory and find out just how much of your self-talk time is wasted on the negative. Get yourself a small notebook, and each time you have a negative thought, make a mark!
Each time you have a positive thought, make
a mark! You should make a mark for each thought you have, verbal or
internal. You will be amazed how much time we spend being negative and
forming MORE negative neuron connections. Take the Self-Talk Inventory
test and let me know what you found!!
It’s a Jungle in There!
When you create a thought, a connection is made between neurons. The more
often you repeat this thought (internal or verbal), the more neuron
connections you make, and the easier it is for FUTURE thoughts to go down
those neuron-nerve pattern pathways again and again! It’s like clearing a
path through a rain forest jungle.
The first time through, you have to use a big machete to fight and chop your way through the undergrowth. The next time through, it’s not as overgrown and you go down that path more easily. But if you don’t go down that path again for a long time, with all the rain, it will grow over again quickly, and your brain may not realize that there even was a pathway there.
But if you keep going down
the same path, it gets easier and easier to stay on that pathway. Maybe
there’s a lesson here?! Stay tuned! Watch for the next newsletter! We will
try to explain a technique from one of the books we have reviewed, which
will hopefully help us go down only the positive pathways!
Brain Learning Expo
I will soon be in San Diego, at the Brain Learning Expo which
is being billed as the “Most comprehensive gathering of educational brain
experts ever assembled” (They were not including me in that group-list!
:-). This event is being co-sponsored by Eric Jensen (a very strong
proponent of brain-based learning), his Jensen Learning Institute, and The
Brain Store. What is Yours Truly, a motivational speaker, doing going to
such a gathering? All of this new scientific evidence about the brain, so
far, is being used for medical and educational purposes. This certainly is
a noble and fantastic thing, if they are able to find a cure for
Alzheimer’s disease, and able to help school students learn better.
But it
is my belief that within this new body of brain facts lays the basis for
fantastic performance improvement and success if you can sift through it
and apply it to Success Education!
It will work for everyone who learns
it! From Contractors and home builders, to Cosmetologists, to athletes to
business owners, to secretaries: Science for Success! I am very excited to
go, and I will tell you all about what research and information we obtain
there, in future Newsletters.
Doug Bench
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BOOK REVIEWS
Each Newsletter we will review a few of the books and/or research articles and
studies that we have read. All of these books will have been published in
just the last few years, since about 95% of what science now knows about
the brain has been discovered in just the last 4-5 years! We will rate
these books on a scale of 0-10 with ten meaning DON'T MISS IT! and 0
meaning DON'T TOUCH IT! All opinions will relate only to the book's quality
and functionality as it relates to the FOCUS and MISSION STATEMENT of
Science for Success Seminars (see our website)
MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR MIND, Tony Buzan PhD, Simon & Schuster, 1988. (Ed.
Note: Although this book is more than 5 years old, it is based on the
science-research findings of its day, therefore included herein)
The author of this book is more well-known in England and Europe, than
here in the United States, for his expertise in memory function and
techniques. However this book is a good read from our perspective.
Particularly good, is the information in the first few chapters. They
combine a clinical review of neuron function, memory, and conscious and
non-conscious brain levels, with the motivational message that we are no
where near using the full capacity and functionality of our brains! I
certainly agree with his major postulate that none of us have lived up to
our full potential, not because of some fundamental inability, but because
we have not received enough information about ourselves and the way we
work! The book also contains a chapter on creativity, which is an asset
that most of us feel we do not have, but which clearly can be developed
through practice, practice, practice. RATING: 6.8
THE HUMAN BRAIN, Susan A. Greenfield MD, Perseus Books Group, 1997.
Although this book may be slightly beyond the average reader’s interest,
you may want to take the time and jump in! I had difficulty at times
understanding the language used, but the overall message confirms our
beliefs about the enormity of the brain’s capacity for learning and
achievement. The author, although very learned, does not attempt to talk
down to the reader, nor does she pretend to have all the answers on brain
function and memory. A tuff read, but it will solidify your science-based
belief in your enormous capacity for success! RATING: 5.9
WRITE IT DOWN, MAKE IT HAPPEN!, Henriette Anne Klauser, Simon & Schuster, 2000.
There is no need to mince words, and no doubt about it! This is one of my
favorite books! It is recent, and therefore based on the latest scientific
research! It is practical, in that not only does it tell us the ‘what’ and
‘why’, it also tells us HOW! Write it down! The book also is very
readable. I did not feel intimidated by the level of superior knowledge
that this author clearly has! If you come to one of our seminars, you will
hear me quote from this book, as well as use some of her exercises and
techniques. Why? Because they work!!! Scientifically!
RATING: 9.5
MANAGING YOUR MIND, Gillian Butler PhD and Tony Hope MD, Oxford University
Press, 1995.
One way that you can tell if a book is good, on-topic, and filled with
practical applications of science-based motivational and achievement
oriented materials, is by looking to see how many pages contain my orange
highlighter markings. This book contains only two such pages. Need I say
more? It is not brain/science oriented, but rather fluffy, pop-psych, crap
oriented. It will not have a long-term effect on your self-motivation
levels. Pass. RATING: 1.5
Doug Bench
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Let's face it! Sometimes learning can be boring. Especially if its about
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if it's presented by some professor, they may talk at a level way above
us, and we don't understand what they are talking about anyway!
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