I absolutely LOVE this chapter.
It deals with wisdom and congnitive thinking.
We use Cognitive thinking all day in our jobs, putting together things, figuring out solutions etc.
She used a wonderful example of trying to find hte solution to a problem but keep hitting a brick wall. Or why suddenly you get the solution in the shower, or swimming in the ocean, or the middle of the night.
Why is it people who have been on vacation, by the end, are so relaxed and ful of brilliant ideas?
Because we allow the cognitive part of our brains to rest. This allows the wisdom we have to come forth.
The take action challenge is pretty interesting. It is asking for you to choose a problem that is giving you a hard time solving and suggesting that you not think about it for a specified amount of time. Be finite with the time and day. If your brain strays there during the time you aren' t thimking about it, prepare a mantra that you will use to remind your self nont to think about it until your time/date.
Mine is my issues at work with my incompetent leadership. Looking for a short-term and long term solution.
I have given myself until sunday at 3PM to come up with a solution based on wisdom.
I will not think about it again until that time and if I do, I will say to myself - this will be adressed on Sunday, don't worry about it now.
I love this plan. So much less stress!
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