Podcast Summary
North Star: Identify your North Star - the clear vision of what you want to create in life, and filter all decisions through it to ensure alignment with your ultimate goals.
To make better choices, you need to identify your North Star - the overarching goal or purpose for your life. By having a clear vision of what you want to create, you can filter all your decisions through this North Star and ensure they align with your ultimate goals. Don't get swayed by distractions or other potential choices that don't resonate with your North Star. Instead, follow your energy and passion, and limit your choices based on what aligns with your North Star. When faced with uncertainty, remember to refer back to your North Star and trust that the decisions that bring you closer to it are the right ones.
North Star and gut feelings: Identifying your core values and goals (North Star) and trusting your gut feelings can lead to better decision making and a more fulfilling life.
Finding your personal "North Star" and trusting your gut feelings can help you make better decisions in life. Your North Star represents your core values and goals, and aligning your decisions with it can give you confidence and clarity. Trusting your gut feelings, backed by recent neuroscience research, can also be a powerful tool in assessing situations and people. It's essential to listen to both your intellect and emotions when making decisions, as they both contribute valuable insights. By identifying your North Star and trusting your gut, you can make decisions that align with your values and lead to a more fulfilling life.
Gut feelings, Interic Nervous System: The Interic Nervous System in our gut influences both our physiological and psychological processes, including cognitive function and memory. Trusting our gut instincts can lead to better judgments and predictions.
Our gut feelings or intuition are not just figments of our imagination, but are rooted in our physical bodies through the Interic Nervous System (ENS) in our digestive tract. This complex system, which has over 500 million neurons, can influence both our physiological and psychological processes in the brain. The communication between the ENS and the brain is bi-directional, meaning they can influence each other. Our gut can even influence our cognitive function and memory. This explains why we experience physical sensations in our stomach when we're nervous or anxious. Furthermore, our gut is connected to the amygdala, the part of the brain that processes fear. Therefore, our gut feelings are not just a vague sense of unease, but a physical response to perceived threats or opportunities. Trusting our gut instincts can lead to better judgments and predictions, even if we don't have all the information. It's important to use both our gut and intellect together to make the best decisions possible. Additionally, taking a pause and paying attention to our gut feelings can help us make more informed decisions. In summary, our gut is a powerful tool that should not be ignored when making decisions.
Decision making pause: Taking a pause before deciding can help shift our brain's processing from reactive to logical, leading to more thoughtful and reasoned choices. The 10, 10, 10 rule can aid in gaining perspective by considering how we will feel about a decision in the immediate, near, and distant future.
Taking a moment to pause and reflect before making decisions can significantly improve their quality. By shifting our brain's processing from the reactive amygdala to the logical prefrontal cortex, we can make more thoughtful and reasoned choices. The 10, 10, 10 rule is a helpful tool for gaining perspective. It involves considering how we will feel about a decision in the immediate future, the near future, and the distant future. By asking ourselves these questions, we can better understand the potential consequences of our choices and make decisions that align with our values and priorities.
Long-term perspective in decision making: Considering future feelings can improve decision making, but too many choices can hinder it. Make a few important decisions per day and focus on long-term perspective for better outcomes.
Making decisions based on how we might feel in the long-term can help us avoid immediate emotional responses and make more thoughtful choices. Using the example of ending a long-term relationship, considering how we might feel in 10 minutes, 10 months, and 10 years can help us weigh the pros and cons more effectively. However, having too many choices can lead to paralysis by analysis and decision fatigue. Limiting our choices and focusing on the most important decisions can lead to better quality outcomes. As Jeff Bezos, one of the richest men in the world, does, making only a few important decisions per day can help us put our full energy and focus into those choices. Ultimately, taking a long-term perspective and limiting our choices can lead to better decision-making.
Personal goals and values as a North Star: Identifying personal goals and values as a guiding principle helps filter choices and make better decisions. Mindset Mentor Plus offers resources to help individuals grow and improve their lives, including worksheets, journaling questions, assignments, Q&A sessions, and a supportive community, all for less than a dollar a day.
Before making any decisions in life, it's crucial to identify your personal goals and values, which serves as your "North Star." This guiding principle can help filter your choices and make better decisions. Additionally, subscribing to Mindset Mentor Plus offers further resources, including detailed worksheets, journaling questions, assignments, Q&A sessions, and a supportive community, to help individuals grow and improve their lives. Ultimately, the goal is to make a positive impact on others' lives and strive for self-improvement every day. Mindset Mentor Plus is affordable, with a cost less than a dollar a day, making it accessible to a wide audience.