Day 5: Barriers and Biases - Mindset Can Remove These!

Our minds are amazing. We can do absolutely unbelievable things with our brains! One thing we can do is we can very effectively filter and sort information. This is a huge benefit to us, but can also cause a lot of problems in the form of cognitive bias. This just means that as human beings the way our brains function can actually bias us toward or away from certain things like steering us away from those areas that might be uncomfortable and toward familiarity. But what if you could take some of this knowledge about your brain and use it to turn potentially negative biases into an advantage. 15 years ago, the first time I really realized that you could hack your brain’s normal functions, my mind was blown, too.    By the way, if you want to get this sent straight to your email box to you can always go to FigureItOut.co and drop in your email address. And that will get sent right to your email box. Or you can text HAPPEN to 44222 and you get the exact same thing.

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