So, you know
how you have always wanted to write a book but never got around to writing it?
Well, this is one of those things you write instead. It is a very hard thing to
sit, organize your thoughts, research, and dig/maneuver through billions of
memory units in your brain to find the best-fit scenarios to drive home your
point.
When you are
doing something worthwhile and requires using your mind, time is irrelevant but
it sure does move slowly simply because you are engaged in tasks more grueling
than physical laborers who earn wages. Your brain uses up more energy than most
of your daily activities combined.
Your brain is
physical and can be seen (via scan while you’re alive, via touch when you’re
dead and taken for autopsy) but your mind is invisible. Occasionally, we would
point to our head when referring to our mind, technically, that may not be
correct, but hey, who cares where it is, as long as it works.
Then there is
what we call heart (not the muscle) or conscience, which is supposed to be
resident in our mind (which we can’t locate yet), our moral compass if you
will, but it keeps us in touch with our humanity, there resides all of human
emotions—love, hate, joy, sadness, faith, hope, jealousy, envy, strife, et al.
These emotions, depending on if they are constructive or destructive, drive our
minds to come up with thoughts, ideas, and schemes to interact with others
positively or negatively.
A phrase is
apt, which says, “what goes into a mind comes out in a life”, yet another one
says “watch your thoughts, they become actions, watch your actions, they become
habits, watch your habits, they become lifestyle, watch your lifestyle, it
reflect your character”. The above is clear on the function(s) of your mind; it
is a processor, making use of the data made available to it. You however, have
a choice what you feed your mind, because that is exactly what it will work
with.
Once we
configure our minds to certain dispositions, beliefs, orientations, we become
biased, see everything else through that colored glass we’ve put on.
Prejudice is
born out of these predispositions to persons of certain race, age, sex and does
not help us give or get the best out of others. In this day and age, the best
way to live is to unlearn and relearn all the ideas that formed our thinking
for the major part of our growing up years. The word mindset is apt at this
juncture because just like you have concrete being set in a cast but not used
until after it is dry, that is how our mindsets form over the years but don’t
come into full usage/effect until after they are set and we are thus stereotyped.
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