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5 Easy Ways to Get Mentally Stronger Instantly
We keep seeing others succeed and wonder how they do it. It seems so impossible and out of grasp. It’s not that everyone else is smarter, it’s just they are following a different philosophy.
If we want to be mentally stronger, we can't keep trying to change at the animal level. Human intellect is about creating value and is defined where the emotional meets the conceptual, not where behavior meets a primal need.
Here are five concepts to get smarter and reach your goals faster today:
1. Convergent Logic
We have been trained in school to believe a question has one answer. If we give the wrong answer, the teacher takes away points. If we call the question dumb, we get detention.
If you practice critical thinking on a regular basis, which is taking in a series of perspectives to help make a determination of your own, you’ll find most questions don’t have a single clear answer. They just lead to more interesting questions. (i.e. philosophy, science)
In a more practical sense, a lot of problems stem from trying to optimize something unnecessary or solving something that does not have a solution. When too much effort is put into…
