Brain Cells Are In A Way Similar To Semiconductor Memory Cells

I have an hypothesis that our brain cells are in a way similar to DRAM memory cells. Before I talk about that, I have an assertion to make; which is: what-we-think is what-we-become. Let’s see what I mean by that first.

“Thoughts, positive or negative, grow stronger when fertilized with constant repetition.” – David J. Schwartz in his famous book ‘The Magic of Thinking Big’

When we repeatedly think positive thoughts, they gain strength. When we repeatedly think that we can succeed, we will succeed. The how-to-do-it will always appear for the person who repeatedly thinks and relentlessly believes that she can-do-it.

Similarly, when we repeatedly think negative thoughts, they too gain strength. The thing with our minds is that they obey us unquestionably. Whatever we feed them with, they happily accept with open hands. When we repeatedly think fear and failure, given any situation, instead of focusing on potential solutions, our minds constantly look out for reasons that could justify our fears and failure thinking. The why-it-can't-be-done will almost always appear for the person who thinks that she can't-do-it.

For fear to disappear, one needs to do what she is afraid of. As said by a famous American philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson,

“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

But, keeping our minds focused always on positive thoughts isn’t by any means a child’s play. Like how vine plants grow, negative thoughts creep in unless we repeatedly think positive thoughts. This I believe is best captured in a famous proverb,

“An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.” – A Famous Proverb

Let’s look at an analogy between brain cells and semiconductor memory cells to understand this a little better. Shall we?

When we write a value in a DRAM memory cell, the capacitor present in the memory cell gets charged to store that value, as highlighted in green in the below figure. This is similar to how we feed a positive thought to our brain cell.

Now, in the absence of external stimulus, a capacitor’s basic nature is to get discharged, as highlighted in red in the below figure. So, without regular refresh operations, the charge that the capacitor had stored in the initial write operation gets discharged.

Like wise, without the repeated feeding of positive thoughts, our brain cells get discharged of any positive thoughts that we may have fed initially.

This brings me back to my assertion that what-we-think is what-we become. For one to become positive, stay positive and continue to remain positive, she needs to repeatedly think positive, creative and energetic thoughts. If we think failure, failure it will be. On the other hand, if we think success, success it will be, no matter how challenging it could be.