Day 63, Wednesday March 4, 11.40am: I went to a public talk by a psychologist friend of mine last night. Pete Cohen just written a book called “Sort Your Life Out”. I don’t read self-help books because I think they’re daft, but Pete’s a pal, so I’ll make an exception.
The interesting thing, though, was that a lot of what Pete said seemed to be relevant to TRSNYRC. In fact, I felt I had come to some similar conclusions about life and the universe over the past couple of months. I wonder if you have too?
In a nutshell, Pete believes the human mind, while extraordinary in many ways, is also hugely primitive and restrictive. It likes its routines and it sticks to habits, even if those habits are damaging. Unlike a computer, you can’t delete negative thoughts from your mind, however much you’d like to. Your mind commentates on your life (the voice in your head), often working against you by arguing for the status quo rather than for the challenge of change.
Most of our resolutions on this blog, it seems to me, are inviting change.
It all depends whether we have the stomach to push through with them, by deleting old habits and replacing them with new ones. Or whether we allow our mind to talk us out of it.
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