7 Areas to work on
- Inner mind
- Understanding and relating to others
- Communication
- World in which we live
- Health
- Success
- Happiness
Brain regions
Frontal lobe, temporal lobe, limbic system, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, cerebellum, and brain stem.
3 of these brains, frontal, limbic, and parietal, combine to form the psychological mind.
Frontal: Human
Limbic: Chimp
Parietal: Computer
These 3 brains frequently struggle against each other, with the chimp often winning.
Development Time
Starting with 10 minutes a day, keep a log book and reflect on the previous 24 hours. Think about how you can do better at managing yourself, and improve the way you are doing things or how you think.
The goal is to improve the ability to recognize when the Chimp is hijacking you with thoughts/feelings/behaviors that you don’t want to have.
The different ways of thinking
Chimp thinks with feelings and impressions. When it has a feel for something, it uses emotional thinking to work out what is happening, and form a plan of action. This means that it guesses and fills in detail by assumptions based on hunches, paranoid feelings, or defensive thoughts. Therefore, it will get the right interpretation of something being bad, like a gut feeling.
The human will search for the facts and establish the truth. The plan of action is formed by logical thinking.
First Impressions
Research shows that if your Chimp gets this first impression wrong then it
will take it about seven more meetings with that person before it changes its
mind about a first impression.
Building Bridges for Better Relationships
Do not expect the other person to meet you halfway. Instead, do the bridge building and let them decide and then you decide if they are worth it.
“Successful people don’t make demands of others but set the scene so that the Human in others can respond, rather than their Chimp.”