nop90.net

I have touched upon how state of mind is very important to be successful in your ventures. A lot fo what I will talk about I stole from Richard Bandler who stole these ideas from someone else. Many people view Mr. Bandler as a bit of a charlatin etc. To a certain degree these allegations are true. But regardless you can get valuable information where ever you go.

One of the things he often talks about is placebo effect and the power of the mind. Placebos are amazing things, every new medicine before it goes to market has to be tested against a placebo. One of the reasons Freud came up with modern phsyciatry is because his study of placebos. These things are amazing, in some cases even with terminal diseases such as cancer etc, they can cure these disease with rates as high as 30%. This is absolutely amazing, a sugar pill which does absolutely nothing can cure a deadly disease, and often better then real medicine. You would think that modern medicine would look into this :).

One of my favorite stories is about a man who had no money. All he had was just $10. His life was horrible, he had no job, absolutely no future. Where ever he looked all he saw was doom and gloom, and the world seemed to be out to get him. Anyway he was wandering around the market place, wondering what should he do. This merchant jumped out in front of him, holding in his hand is an old scruffy black tophat (kinda like the one abe lincold wore).

“Sir would you like to to buy this blackhat ?” the merchant cried.

“What that worn out old thing, you think I am a fool, all it is fit for is the rubbish heap”

“No sir, It is a magical blackhat”

Intriguged the man hesitated for a moment, and looked at the hat, but it did not look like anything special just old, worn out and black.

“When you put this magical blackhat on sir, every where you look you will see opportunity to make money. For you my friend only $25.”, the merchant continued.

“Ahh but I only have $10″

“No problem good sir, you give me $10 now, and then next month when the blackhat starts working for you you give me the other $15″

The man is desperate. He thinks what do I have to lose. All I have is $10, and that will not last me long. If the magical blackhat does not work then I will kill myself, and end this suffering.

They do thier exchange, and the man puts on the blackhat. Nothing really happens. Thinking he has been scammed he regardless wears the blackhat and goes to find a place to sleep. The next day he wakes up, he sees the blackhat sitting next to him, mocking him, ohhh how could i have been so foolish he cries to himself. I could have used that $10 to buy a bottle of booze and atleast I would have some comfort if only for a short time. Well what the fuck, I paid my $10, I will wear the stupid hat anyway.

He puts on the hat, and nothing happens again. He starts to wander arround the market place. I am going to prove that this stupid hat does not work. Stupid fucker ripping me off, I will prove him wrong and show him hat does not work. See I am going to wander arround the market place and I will see no money. Why look at that rubbish heap, all there is in it is old tin cans and other garbage. What can I do with the tin cans ? Well besides selling them to the metal dealer that is.

With in a short time he becomes one of the largest scrap metal / recycling dealers in the area. Soon he is able to buy a large house and many other things. Many times he went arround trying to find the merchant who sold him the blackhat to pay him the $15 he owed him, but the merchant had disappeared.

Many times he has been interviewed by newspaper reporters. One question they always ask is why does he always wear that scruffy old blackhat. They are alway perplexed when he replies back. “I owe all my fortune and success to this hat”.

How many times do you have a new idea, but instead of acting on it you ask your friends, so called experts etc. They ussually tell you, that it is a foolish idea. Or they point out the reasons why it will not work etc.

That why i hate so called experts, they always point out why things will not work, instead of looking for solution.

Or in life instead of looking at what you have, you waste your energies on looking at what you do not have. You always are saying stuff to yourself, like if only I had _______ then I would be able to do _______ . Or this will not work out because of ______. Well instead of looking at why things do not work, look at how you can get things to work. Take a self examination, make a list. Put on the list all of your assets, talents etc. If need be the list start very basic, like for me i did.

• laptop fairly good make
• pretty good internet connection
• ability to code in many languages
• ability to reverse engineer things
• good at playing strategy games like railroad tycoon, civilization, starcraft etc
• …… and so on, list everything you are good at, regardless how stupid it may seem.

Then start to make another list. This list will be of things you can do, with the assets you have listed above. Not the assets you wish you have. This list should be a on going thing. You will be surprised with what you can come up with. Remember list should only contain things that you can do with assets you have. If your idea involve coding, but you are not a good coder, do not put on list. (You can later make a list of goals, as in maybe learn how to be a coder ).

Or the simpler way is just to buy a magical blackhat

This entry was posted on Saturday, October 27th, 2007 at 1:54 am and is filed under mental states. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.