Mansoor Danish – Decoding Brilliance #8 Unleashing the Power of Purposeful Thinking

			Hi, everybody, welcome back to another episode on the mind mastery series. If you haven't already
subscribed to the channel, please remember to subscribe to this channel. And also remember to like
and share this video. In today's video, we're talking about the filtering process that the brain
uses. Remember, we mentioned in the previous videos that the brain is continuously scanning
information is always scanning the information that you can zoom in the form of social media
content, newspapers, research articles, blogs, and periodicals, which you read, all of these
information is getting scanned in our brain. Now, whenever you are faced with a problem in life, the
		

			brain is using a filtering process to arrive at a solution to your problems, it is not expecting you
to feed in fresh information every time there is a problem, and then it will come up with the
solution. If that happens, the cognitive load on the brain will increase. So the filtering process
is actually reducing the cognitive load of your brain. Now there are different kinds of strategy
that people use one of the strategies, of course of trial and error strategy. If you're faced with a
problem, you're going to compare yourself with another problem that you had three months back, and
you will try to apply the same process that you took, or the same decisions that you took three
		

			months back to the given problem. If it works, great. If it doesn't, I'll again go back and look at
some other problems that I had in the past. So what I'm doing is I'm relying on several
informations, which are already there in my brain and trying to look for a solution. So this is why
it's called a trial and error, you don't really know what the best solution is, you're just going to
keep on trying till you succeed.
		

			This is not a practical strategy, it is a catastrophe at the workplace. As leaders, if you're going
to form decisions on the basis of trial and error, your organization is going to shut down. You
can't take that risk as a leader or even in your personal life. If it's your career, you can't take
chances with your career. The second strategy that people use is the social proof strategy, where I
rely on the opinion of others. So I don't use my own thought process at all, whatever others would
do in a situation, or what others say about a given situation, I use that as a solution to arrive at
my decision for the given problem. The third commonly used strategy is the familiarity strategy. If
		

			a problem in the past worked for me, when I took the following steps, for all my problems in the
future, I'm going to keep taking the same steps. Because I know I'm familiar with this, it has
worked for me many times in the past, it will keep working for me for all my problems in the future.
This is again, generalizing it to another extreme. This is again, not a practical approach, because
in reality, our workplace will come up or throw up new problems, expecting us to face new challenges
and come up with new solutions. So these processes and strategies is not going to really work for
us. So the question is, where is the breakthrough? What is that breakthrough that we are looking
		

			for? In my view, you need to find out what works for you. Instead of trying to rely on past
information, or information, which is the opinion of others. Ask yourself, does this work for me?
From a personal perspective, ask yourself, what will be the outcome of a decision? Or will the
outcome of the decision change the way I live? Or will the outcome of the decision change the way my
organization functions? Ask yourself this question. This is the best way to filter out useless
informations. You are not relying on unnecessary information, useless information, but rather you
asking pertinent question to yourself, consistently get into this habit of asking yourself this
		

			question. Is this the best decision for me? What will its outcome be in my life? Will it change my
life? Or will it change the way my organization functions? When you keep asking yourself this
question consistently, you are filtering out useless information from your brain. Remember, we spoke
about the cognitive load in the brain. We want to filter out unnecessary, useless information. Every
time a problem comes. I don't have to sit down and analyze previous issues. I will straight away ask
myself, what will be the outcome of let's say x decision if I take or why decision if I take, this
is the best way to deal with problems. So I don't go with the familiar approach. For example, people
		

			say if you go to bigger cities, you get great opportunities. This is a safe approach. But will that
work for me? Is the kind of business model that I have as an entrepreneur going to work in the
bigger cities, or will it work in smaller towns or mid sized towns? When you ask these questions to
yourself pertinent questions to yourself, you are not following the familiar approach. You're not
using the social proof approach, or you're not relying only on the past information. You're
filtering
		

			out unnecessary information and asking yourself the right questions. When you ask yourself the right
questions, your brain engages in the right thinking. Thank you so much for watching this video. I
look forward to your participation in the future video where we will see how we can filter out other
thoughts in our mind, which is burdening us and not helping us form effective decisions. Thank you
once again for watching this video. I look forward to your participation in the future video. Before
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