Mind Your Mindset Quotes

“The story presents a curious pattern. Adam and Eve both go beyond requested facts to offer explanations. What’s the significance? Early on, says Pearl, “we humans realized the world is not made up only of dry facts (what we might call data today); rather, those facts are glued together by an intricate web of cause-effect relationships.” What’s more, he says, “causal explanations, not dry facts, make up the bulk of our knowledge.”
― Michael Hyatt, Mind Your Mindset: The Science That Shows Success Starts with Your Thinking

“The little bit you know prevents you from learning the things you don’t know but need to know in order to succeed.”
― Michael Hyatt, Mind Your Mindset: The Science That Shows Success Starts with Your Thinking

“The difference is that in the brains of healthy people the two hemispheres can still communicate, so the stories are more reliable. But the impulse is identical. When we ask why something happened or why things are the way they are, we’re acting on a biologically driven, neurologically wired need to understand what’s happening around us. Otherwise, our experiences would seem random, leaving us with no way of knowing how to navigate through life. That’s the Narrator. Its job is to interpret all the raw data of experience and offer it back to us in a way that connects the dots. It provides the explanatory glue that holds it all together.15 And it’s got a mind of its own.”
― Michael Hyatt, Mind Your Mindset: The Science That Shows Success Starts with Your Thinking

“Gazzaniga has studied other patients with similar results. The left hemisphere has a need to explain and doesn’t mind making stuff up to do it. Gazzaniga says this finding is “the most stunning result from split-brain research,” especially when we realize it applies to healthy brains too.13 “This is what our brain does all day long,” he says. “It takes input from various areas of our brain and from the environment and synthesizes it into a story that makes sense.”14”
― Michael Hyatt, Mind Your Mindset: The Science That Shows Success Starts with Your Thinking

“Thanks to the severed communication, the left hemisphere had no idea what was going on. But, says Gazzaniga, “It would not be satisfied to state it did not know. It would guess, prevaricate, rationalize, and look for cause and effect, but it would always come up with an answer that fit the circumstances.”
― Michael Hyatt, Mind Your Mindset: The Science That Shows Success Starts with Your Thinking