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The Neuroscience of Creating Our Own Success
If you are anything like me, you’ve found the path to success to be a circular one. We push, we make some gains, and then we start sliding back again.
When we start to slide back down, it feels familiar, like we were expecting it.
We almost lean into the slide back down. Not because we want to lose the gains we made, but because we resign ourselves to the familiar.
This is why truly creating our own success is so difficult. We have to stop sliding down our familiar pathways. We have to break the mental bonds of our past.
Here’s where the Neuroscience comes in
‘Familiarity’ is the key word to focus on. It can be either a help or a hinderance, depending on what your own personal ‘familiar’ is.
Have you ever noticed that for the majority of us, people born into wealth stay wealthy, and people born into poverty stay poor?
What we are familiar with manifests itself in our outer world. Just as what we are familiar with is wired within the structure of our brain.
The environment we grow up in sets the tone for how our brain is wired.
