How People Can Restore Your Mental Performance
Having the right people in your life is crucial so make sure to know who they are
“Rinse and repeat”
is what the shampoo advertisements used to say when offering instructions for their products.
They’d even show a model with beautiful shiny hair massaging their scalps and making sure that they attended to it in giving it daily attention.
And it’s the same with increasing and restoring your mental performance.
You must attend to it all of the time.
Okay, you don’t just take some shampoo out of a bottle and spill it on your hair and expect perfect mental performance. But you do give your head maximum attention in a similar manner.
Instead of stroking your head with wet fingertips, take that regularity and consistency of the approach and know that when you attend to your brain and mind you’ll maximize its performance.
Why so?
Well, in the past couple of decades it’s been proven that neural plasticity is possible which give you’re the opportunity to perform at a higher level more often.
Neural plasticity denotes that your brain is more plastic-like than being in a fixed shape and size. Similar to plastic, our brains are more malleable than was first thought. The evidence is now present that supports the brain’s ability to reorganize and for the nervous system to change.
Before this realization, science thought that plasticity was limited to the development of your nervous system.
Now, neural plasticity means that the nervous system can make structural changes in response to both external and internal demands.
Although by the time you are born, most of the 100 billion neurons are already formed, the neurons continue to make connections through dendritic branching and remodeling of other connections.
This evidence has led to the phrase:
“Neurons that fire together, wire together”.
This means that neurons can discourage or destruct one another and their speed and ability to perform can decrease as is evident in many neurological degenerative diseases. On the flip side though, once the neurons are healthy, functionally sound, and speedy then their activity can wire positively and allow us to learn new things even into old age.
Experience-dependent neural plasticity is also part of the concept that allows for the physical, social, and cultural environment to impact the wiring of your brain. Although the outside world is unpredictable and idiosyncratic our brains learn from whatever happens and are shaped by it too.
That’s why it’s so important to have the correct people around you throughout your development.
And it’s not just when you`re growing that you need the best people for you around you, it’s the same for all times of your life. Because your brain can create new neural pathways, the people and the experiences around you will dictate how your thinking grows.
If you have negative people around you then your predominate thinking will be negative. But on the other hand, if you`ve positive people around you’ll be more inclined to think positively. And that means you’ll be more likely to put your thoughts into action and do positive things too.
However, we don’t always have the choice to have positive people around us all of the time.
Sure, if you`re old enough to realize the importance of having good people around you, you’ll begin to clean up your social circle, but if you’re forced to be surrounded be by those you need in other ways in life you must get more positive people within your social circle otherwise you won’t be able to construct a positive reality in your life.
For example, if you`re growing up or broke during your late teens or twenties you may be stuck at home with members of your family that are not constructive towards your development. After all, not everyone’s parents are positive. And not everyone’s siblings support them.
Some people have tough times at home and domestic, sexual, or physiological abuse may dictate their home life.
But because of economic circumstances, you may be forced to stay there. Because, that’s where you may have a bed, a meal, and some warmth too.
Temporarily, you can survive yet in the long term you’ll never thrive in this type of setting.
If you`re forced to live with negative people you must surround your friends and acquaintances with people that will be a network of positive power. They must be the ones that will pick you up when your thoughts are down from your home life and transform you to feel as if you’re unstoppable in all areas of your life.
For this is what true friends do.
They pick you up and place you into places of opportunity. Because your presence in their life arises from their choice to put you in it. And that’s why respect and support will be in your life too because those around you want you there.
Being around those that lift you up and appreciate your worth is the network that will motivate you to improve your performance in the first place.
After all, like shampoo, performance is temporary so you need to have control of it every day.
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