Engineering your Mind

Autopilot
(1. automatic reactive

  1. feelings, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors
  2. triggered by an event)
  1. Reverse engineer an autopilot
  1. Do CBA (cost / benefit analysis)
    of your existing autopilots
  1. Identify access points
    for altering your autopilots
  1. Create and deploy
    helpful autopilots for a happier life

Reactions

Event (Captured by Physical senses) => Trigger

All possible interpretations (Stories)

Beliefs (/Biases)
[Sub-conscious mind]

Stories framed by Beliefs

Feelings,
Emotions,
Thoughts

Action

Strengthen beliefs

Stories don't match with our beliefs

Rejected [Trash bin]

Result

  1. Benefits from running my autopilot
  1. Cost of running my autopilot

Comfortable

Looking good, being nice

Avoiding taking action

No peace

No fulfillment

No accomplishment

  1. Inertia of Autopilot

Increase the impact value

Character => A set of traits
with coherent system of beliefs

  1. Find Positive Intentions and Come up with other ways to express it.
  1. Altering / Removing /Adding Triggers (Events)
  1. Altering Emotion
  1. Altering Action
  1. Altering your story

What would somebody else say about what happened?
Come up with new stories

Change your environment to force a different action

  1. Altering your beliefs

Question beliefs?
Ask yourself - what if I had a different belief?

  1. Altering the character

What would your role model say?

Positive Feedback Loop
(due to Good results)

Feedback loop

Find positive intentions
and come up with other ways to express it.

Use successful character

Create new structure
for positive feedback loop

Visualize your
Perfect autopilot

  1. How do you see yourself?
  1. What do you feel?
  1. What’s your body experience?
  1. What way of being do you have?
  1. What quality do you now possess that you didn’t have before?
  1. What role, a character, are you at this moment?
  1. What are you doing? What actions are you taking?
  1. What results do you produce?
  1. From that place in the future what do you say to yourself in the present?

Victim

Vocabulary

Improve your life by upgrading the
programs running in your mind!

Autopilot => Acting without thinking about what you are doing, usually because you have done it many times before

You're easily controlled by others

Autopilot ignores evidence that contradicts our beliefs

Character => A set of traits
with coherent system of beliefs

To pick these stories, we need to be in the
awareness state and listening mode.

  1. Internal
  1. External

Fulfillment, Bliss

Depends on others (Our happiness is in the hand of others),

  1. Materialistic nature or 2. Appreciation
  1. Do Cost benefit analysis