Scott Adams is a great source and always a good read and very often has some of the best tweets on Twitter. This, I think, is one of them. A quick outline for how you can reprogram yourself.
Something from which we can all benefit, in one or more corners of our lives. (I used Thread Reader to simply your review of all the tweets in his thread).
Here’s a reframe that will change some people’s lives forever: Your mind is the outcome of genetics, traumas and hacks.
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) April 3, 2021
Here’s a reframe that will change some people’s lives forever: Your mind is the outcome of genetics, traumas and hacks.
If you don’t learn to hack (program) your own brain, the default is that you are little more than genes and traumas.
An example of a brain hack is education. It is a conscious choice to physically alter your brain via learning. Another hack is intelligent skill stacking.
Associating self-rewards with habits you want to deepen is a hack.
Learning to reframe your experiences is a hack. Learning to see reality as subjective is a hack. Learning to avoid “emotion pollution” from entertainment products is a hack.
Reframing sleep as a skill that can be learned is a hack.
Learning to put things in context is a hack. Practicing optimism is a hack.
If you make it your system (habit) to routinely learn and test new hacks, you become the author of your own mind, and — because your experience of reality is subjective — the author of your own experience.
Be the hack, not the trauma.
