Managing Your Brain Part 9: Your Brain is an Operating System: Which of the Four Brain Operating Systems is Your Current Brain Operating System?

The human brain operates in a very similar way computers operate except that the human brain has greater processing power and does a lot more things than what even the most advanced computer can do. Of course, it must be like that because even the most powerful computer was conceived, designed, developed and built by the human brain. This whole thing about artificial intelligence must not be taken too literally because artificial intelligence is a product of natural intelligence.

Now your computer, your mobile phone and your notepad are all have operating systems. Most computers have Windows or Mac Operating Systems, so are many mobile phones. Mobile phones also have Android as their operating system. The operating systems set the boundaries of what your laptop, mobile phone or notepad can do.

When you use your mobile phone or your computer you do not see the operating system. It is stored in the computer and operates in the background. The operating has many ‘programs’ and applications. These applications do specific work and produce specific outputs. Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Express are examples of programs. These programs need an operating system to work.

You work with your computer or mobile phone using interfaces; platforms that allow you to interact with the applications to do what you want to do. Unless you are a software technician or software engineer, you do not need to know anything about the operating system and the applications because the interface has very easy ways for you to use the operating system and the programs and the applications to produce what you want.

Your brain, my brain, the human brain is very similar. The only difference is that we do not have a ready made manual to use and also we do not have an easy and simple interface or platforms for interacting directly with it to produce the performance and results that we want and to stop or prevent the results that we do not want. In addition, we have no clear manual to tell us exactly how the brain works as an operating system although we advances in science and neuroscience, we are not modelling the brain as an operating system and getting good results. If we are able to understand the brain and use it the way we work with computers and mobile phones, we are achieve more because research suggests that we humans produce a very small fraction of the brain’s capabilities and capacity. In addition, on its own, our brain is not as effective and as efficient as it should be especially in areas such as decision-making, logical reasoning, creativity, problem solving and self-management.

The Four Major Brain Operating Systems

Now every brain is unique operating system. This is why no two human beings are exactly the same even when they are Siamese twins. There are some factors responsible for these differences including the influence of the random gene which generates random differences in human beings even when they are from the same cells. However, humans do fall into specific categories and it is possible to group people according to some similarities. So here as starting point to pinpointing your own brain operating system, lets talk about four generate systems into which you may finding fitting into one of them.

The Shark Brain Operating System

When your brain is using this operating system;

·??????You believe that there is shortage in the world

·??????You believe in aggressive, ruthless, winner takes all competition

·??????You believe in the “survival of the fittest” modus operandi

·??????You don’t care winning at the expense of others

·??????You can rob others without any shame

·??????You operate in a win-lose mode and you seek to win at all costs

·??????You create victims in the process of what you want

·??????You lack empathy for others in your dealings with people

·??????You have high levels of selfishness and greed

·??????You believe in fate

·??????You have rigid world view

·??????You do not learn from your mistakes

·??????You are present or past focussed in your main view point

The Victim Brain Operating System

·??????You believe there is a shortage of things in the world

·??????You see yourself as a powerless victim

·??????You dwell in blaming others for your circumstances

·??????You are always complaining about why things are like this to you

·??????You are always seeking help

·??????You do not have the sense of helping yourself out of your situation

·??????You treat yourself with self-pity.

·??????You believe in fate

The Fake-Dolphin Operating System

·??????You talk like a dolphin but deep inside you have characteristics of a victim or shark.

·??????You project dolphin qualities in public and in talk but in private and in deeds you are not

·??????You pretend to believe in choice but deep down you believe in fate

The Dolphin Operating System

·??????You believe there is general abundance of things in the world

·??????You believe that personal abundance or lack is more a matter of choice than fate

·??????You believe, think and operate in a win-win-win mode

·??????You have high levels of self-awareness that allow for self-correction

·??????You are future-focused, investing most of your time and energy in creating a better future

·??????You think and act beyond yourself

·??????You have a higher purpose for your life

·??????You are highly developed emotionally

·??????You have a balanced and evolving view of the world, of human beings and of life

Looking at the four brain operating system, which one fits your current brain operating system? Which of the four operating system would be most desirable for you?

The good news is that you can change and upgrade your brain operating system through awareness, learning, training and replacing undesirable elements of your brain operating systems with what you desire.

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?Simon Bere, 2023