Mind Hacking Secrets Quotes

“Recently Elon Musk, the founder of Paypal, SpaceX, and Tesla Motors, imagined using spaceships to make traveling faster on Earth. We all know rockets were invented to carry spacecrafts into space, but Musk’s imagination was altogether on a different spectrum. He presented the idea about using a spaceship, which will start from destination A on Earth, travel into space, (where it will travel much faster since there is no gravity), and then land at destination B on Earth. If this idea works, it could cover the travel between any two locations in the world in less than one hour. You could travel from Shanghai to New York in under 40 minutes.How does that sound for a change? You can see Musk’s amazing video here at Travel Everywhere In Earth Within 30 Minutes.[12”
― Som Bathla, Mind Hacking Secrets: Overcome Self-Sabotaging Thinking, Improve Decision Making, Master Your Focus and Unlock Your Mind’s Limitless Potential

“It works like this: Whenever you are in the middle of important work and there is something coming to hijack your attention, apply the ABC formula described below: A: Be Aware of the options in front of you. B: Breathe deeply and consider your options. C: Choose thoughtfully after considering your main goals. If the new thing that popped up during your important work helps you to progress on the important work, accept it. If not, then choose to assign lower priority to the new thing, after your important work.”
― Som Bathla, Mind Hacking Secrets: Overcome Self-Sabotaging Thinking, Improve Decision Making, Master Your Focus and Unlock Your Mind’s Limitless Potential

“Here, it’s important to apply Hanlon’s razor, because this theory will help you to put your preconceived notions aside and assess the other side’s behavior with a clear and neutral mindset. Applying Hanlon’s razor in our day-to-day lives allows us to better develop relationships, become less judgmental, and improve rationality. Hanlon’s razor allows us to give people the benefit of the doubt and have more empathy.”
― Som Bathla, Mind Hacking Secrets: Overcome Self-Sabotaging Thinking, Improve Decision Making, Master Your Focus and Unlock Your Mind’s Limitless Potential

“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by neglect.”
― Som Bathla, Mind Hacking Secrets: Overcome Self-Sabotaging Thinking, Improve Decision Making, Master Your Focus and Unlock Your Mind’s Limitless Potential

“He suggested whenever you want to make some decision on any important aspect, you should have no less than 40% and no more than 70% of the information required for that decision. He states less than 40% of information means we are bound to make wrong decisions. But if we continue to search for more than 70% information, we will end up taking so much time that the decision itself will not deliver any meaningful results, because it’s already too late.”
― Som Bathla, Mind Hacking Secrets: Overcome Self-Sabotaging Thinking, Improve Decision Making, Master Your Focus and Unlock Your Mind’s Limitless Potential

“Confirmation bias is our general tendency to interpret the new evidence as a confirmation of our existing belief system. We are so glued to our old beliefs that instead of learning something new or different, we cherry-pick the information that confirms our existing belief system.”
― Som Bathla, Mind Hacking Secrets: Overcome Self-Sabotaging Thinking, Improve Decision Making, Master Your Focus and Unlock Your Mind’s Limitless Potential

“Duration of the experiment does not count. It’s only the peak (best or worst moment) and the end of the experience that gets registered in our memory, which forms the basis for taking our all future decisions.”
― Som Bathla, Mind Hacking Secrets: Overcome Self-Sabotaging Thinking, Improve Decision Making, Master Your Focus and Unlock Your Mind’s Limitless Potential

“(1) the impulsive, automatic, and intuitive System 1; and (2) the thoughtful, deliberate, and calculative System 2.”
― Som Bathla, Mind Hacking Secrets: Overcome Self-Sabotaging Thinking, Improve Decision Making, Master Your Focus and Unlock Your Mind’s Limitless Potential

“Your brain makes physical changes based on the repetitive things you do and experiences you have. Now we can say the quote by Jim Rohn has some scientific backing too, when he said, “You are the average of the five people you spend most time with.”
― Som Bathla, Mind Hacking Secrets: Overcome Self-Sabotaging Thinking, Improve Decision Making, Master Your Focus and Unlock Your Mind’s Limitless Potential

“Let’s understand “you” and “your mind” as separate with the help of one example. Understanding this difference is so fundamental for hacking your mind, but it is entirely missing in our everyday lives. Sir John Hargrave, an entrepreneur, comedian, and author of the book Mind Hacking: How to Change Your Life in 21 Days, compares your mind with a movie. Assume you are watching a movie—a very engaging one—and you are completely immersed in the movie. It might happen that for few moments you will feel as if you are part of the movie. Maybe you’ll find yourself crying watching some sad scene in the movie or maybe you get spooked by watching some gory scenes there. But in reality, it’s you who is watching the movie being displayed only on the screen.”
― Som Bathla, Mind Hacking Secrets: Overcome Self-Sabotaging Thinking, Improve Decision Making, Master Your Focus and Unlock Your Mind’s Limitless Potential