The Butterfly Effect: How to be a Doer Not a Blatherer Batmans friend said: Its not who your are inside, but what you do that defines you. The Butterfly Effect is the property of Edward Lorenz, of MIT. Small changes lead to massive reactions. His work on predictability raised the question Does the flap of a butterflys wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? If you choose to activate the following baby-stuff strategies you initiate small-changes, which lead to major reactions in your ability to learn, remember and create new ideas that attract success in your life. 1. Why should you believe it? Intelligent humans do not add techniques and strategies to their lives without evidence and proof of powerful usefulness. Many of us who are contrarians skeptics and sarcastic, require a massive amount of proof before we believe and change our habits. Dr. Richard Petty, Ohio State University, started his research on the effect of physical (behavioral) modifications on confidence in 2000. In July 2003, they published his results in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. It has been replicated internationally and is a given, even though you never heard of it until now. 2. Nodding Nodding your head (up-and-down), reinforces your confidence, and a light goes-off in your brain that convinces you that you are right in your belief. This action of nodding, and its affect on your subsequent actions and belief applies whether you are nodding in belief or disbelief. When you nod your head (slightly or vigorous), when you have an idea in confirmation or disgust (negativity), you are adding your sensory and motor contices to your thinking and understanding. Adding your body-language (physically nodding) to your left-and-right brain skills creates a surge of endorphins (pleasure neurotransmitters), that signal your mind you are on the right-track. What happens when you shake your head from side-to-side creating a No! body-language? You reinforce your confidence that the idea or action you are engaged in - is lousy! Hold it! If you nod that something you believe is bad, wrong, negative you reinforce your confidence of that reality, AND when you shake your head that the idea or behavior stinks you also confirm that you must reject and deny it. Exactly right its easier to negate than be positive. 3. Get this! Dr. David Lykken, University of Minnesota, says this: Emotions combine internal feelings, together with physical-responses that provide feedback to our brain. The secret of emotions is our limbic-system, and in particular the amygdala, and hippocampus. After we come to a cognitive decision simultaneous (within a half-second), we have a veto window-of-opportunity to not continue to a behavioral-reaction. Right you want to strangle your boss but decide override the action. A half-second in brain-time is an enormous period our non-conscious mind processes eleven (11) million bits of information per second. 4. So Whats the Point? Use this knowledge to create your self-confidence, self-esteem, and become self-actualizing. Most of us are dependent on the reactions of significant-others to decide if we are smart, ethical, and deserving of success. Not you you have a secret feedback-system to learn faster, remember more, read faster, and be creative. It takes some practice, but results begin the first day, and get stronger. For maximum results you must rehearse your Nodding a minimum of three-times daily, for twenty-one (21) consecutive-days the Law of 21. Remember a slight nod of your head up-and-down is as powerful and wide-movements. Both create feedback to our brains. 5. Why Bother With Fooling My Brain? The answer is humans have weak-confidence in their own decisions and beliefs, and will surrender their initial-conclusions in the face of rejection, denial or a scowl on a listeners face. We are strengthening our personality and character by the use of Nodding to reaffirm our decisions. The more you nod to your ideas, the more creative you become. Confidence is the difference between successful folks and the spear-carriers who follow the orders of others. Endwords Nodding and shaking our head often work automatically they are on auto-pilot. The tennis player who misses his backhand return, and shakes his head cursing himself is reinforcing his confidence in failure. His feedback to the brain is negative, and leads to a greater likelihood of another failure. If you take five-minutes daily to install a Duchenne-Smile (eyes-and-teeth), on your face three-times daily - Law of 21 you improve your health, quickly recover from illness, and enhance longevity. Use this nodding smiling or choosing to laugh for sixty-seconds 3x daily for the next three-weeks to improve your immune systems. But only if you desire to live a long-healthy life. If you are a contrarian test these strategies that are completely under your control, require no financial investments, and are scientifically valid. Your choice. See ya, copyright 2006
H. Bernard Wechsler
www.speedlearning.org
hbw@speedlearning.org
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