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Contrary to popular belief, winning in life has little to do with IQ, your circumstances, your financial resources, or even luck. But, it has everything to do with creating a failure-resistant brain. Every time you think a thought, feel an emotion, or execute a behavior, your neuro-circuitry changes, and the good news is you can take charge of this process,” writes Dr. Jeff Browne and Dr. Marke Fenske in their book, The Winner’s Brain: 8 Strategies Great Minds Use to Achieve Success.
After looking at the latest scientific research and interviewing many individuals, they determined eight key attributes or “Win Factors” which can be developed by anyone to help unlock their brain’s hidden potential to achieve success.
The Win Factors are (Part 1 of 2):
1. Self-Awareness
A winner’s brain has a healthy sense of self-awareness which allows them to be more efficient in every part of their life from the job to relationships. When a person knows themselves well, they’re able to relate to the rest of the world better and vice versa. A winner’s brain has a stable and consistent sense of self, regardless of circumstances, which can be developed through mindfulness practices.
2. Motivation
A winners’ brain can overcome obstacles, push through challenges, and see rewards even when they are very far off in the distance and not guaranteed. The key is to search for rewards along the way as productivity has actually been found to be inversely related to external reward after a certain threshold. “Staying consistently motivated keeps you on a steady path toward success”, the book says.
3. Focus
Winners develop the ability to concentrate on the tasks and activities in the moment even when the moment contains people, emails, phone calls, and texts competing for their attention. Nurturing and developing the powers of concentration and attention can actually change the physical composition of the brain which can translate into improved focus. Meditation and visualization have been shown to help increase focus and the ability to tune out distractions.
(To be continued…)