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Joseph O'Connor
Founder, Neuroscience Coaching Centre - Taking Coaches to the Next Level
I am going to study Japanese history.
Fascinating. Here’s of Miyamoto Musashi, a legendary Samurai swordsman born in 1584, notable as a philosopher and writer and for his remarkable resemblance to detective Andy Sipowicz, the hero of the TV series NYPD blue.
Knowing Japanese history won’t help me to be a better coach, and I don’t plan to take an examination.
So, why?
I have always been fascinated by Japan, the country, the culture and the language.
And, I have made a habit to study something new every four months or so, something different. My brain needs new input.
Our brain works very well, almost too well, in forming mental models.
Learn from experience and then predict what’s going to happen.
Slowly we get more and more drawn into those things, subjects, types of people and ideas that we already know and give us pleasure. The patterns get set.
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As the (Japanese?) proverb says, ‘Habits start as cobwebs, but may end as chains.’
And by habits, I mean habits of thinking.
They lead us to habits of action that progressively narrow our world despite ourselves.
So, without an effort to create new input, our interests and ideas get reinforced.
First, because we are naturally drawn to those things that we like and worked in the past, and second, the brain’s confirmation bias, makes us notice and follow those things we already agree with and discount those things that go against our existing idea.
Our brain has many tricks and traps to keep us safe and secure in our belief comfort zone.
So, I purposefully threw in something new and random every so often, just to start some new patterns and confuse the search engines. This time it happens to be Japanese history.
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