Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share a blog post from Peter Diamandis.
He shares "What made Steve jobs, Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk succeed? Was it the technology or their mindset?
Your mindset is the filter through which you see the world. It determines how you spend your time, what decisions you make and where you invest your resources.
Before you choose which mindsets to focus on it helps to understand how mindsets work. Here's an analogy, if you've been following developments in AI you know that we can train neuro nets to do image recognition. The challenge with these neuro nets is that they're only as good as the data you feed them.
For example, if you showed the neuro nets thousands of pictures of cats and then you show them a picture of a dog. The algorithm will tell you that the dog is actually a cat. It doesn't know any better.
The same is true for our brains, which are also neural nets. If you constantly feed your brain with negative perspectives, your outlook will be negative, you won't know any better. So how are you training your neural net?
Most of us don't realise that we're doing this training. It operates in the background, for example through social media echo chambers or in our daily news intake of the CNN: crisis news network. So what shapes your mindset? What are the things that have you trapped thinking the way you do? What would you need to change?
The two key inputs that shape our mindsets are the people we spend time with and the media we consume. If you want to be fit, hang out with friends who exercise. If you want to think big and aspire to change the world, hang out with people who have moonshots and a massively transformative purpose.
The other point is garbage in equals garbage out. The news and media we consume are data that we allow to flow into our brains AKA our neural nets. What is your news diet? What kind of movies or documentaries are you watching? What books or blogs are you reading?
Do these inputs reinforce the mindsets you want? Or do they reinforce mindsets you're trying to avoid?"
I hope this blog will inspire you to reconsider, what you are feeding into your neural network this coming week? Thank you all for listening.
