How to reprogram your brain

Your mind is the ultimate computer and your best one. But in many cases your brain just seems to have its own brain and way of doing things.

In many times you can feel that your brain can make decisions turns out to be against your good.

So how would you reprogram it to perform what you really want?

In computer science and engineering, Software refers to the code that controls computers and is written for them to make them work. That code can be stored on drives and updated when needed. Without that software they are worthless.

In embedded systems arena, Firmware refers to the embedded software code written to processors and microcontrollers embedded in devices to perform specific functions.

Firmware is stored on more hardware drives and can be updated just as software.

Application Specific Hardware, is the hardware that has been built for certain application and cannot be changed.

The human brain differs from all those types of systems.

The human brain is plastic. Neuroplacticity and Synaptic plasticity are the phenomena describing how the brain builds new connections to perform new functions.

The process of making new connections in the brain is not something as fast as downloading new software on your computer, nor is it as simple as reprogramming firmware on embedded systems applications.

But it’s not also strict and cannot be changed like application specific hardware.
Instead, brain circuits and connections are plastic and can be changed to perform and optimize performance.

It only takes time for these circuits to build.

Myelination is the process of adding matter around synapses to enhance signals sent between neurons.

Myelination is performed by repetition.

So what to do to reprogram your mind to do something?

Just do it. Don’t get depressed, don’t get frustrated because you are not able to do it.

You just need to start and repeat. Myelination will take over and your brain will be changed as you wish. And then wait to see the fruits of that change in your behavior, skills and performance.

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How the world is formed just as brain connections are

Today I had a thought of something that I wanted to share with you. It’s part philosophical and part Neuroscience. So let’s begin.

How the world is shaped

The world is formed by people’s behaviors. Famous people make trends and fashions. Media is forming crowd mind. Inventors are changing people’s lives by their new gadgets and tools.

But how does all that happens?

It all happens by coincidence. People see their each other and are influenced by most dominant power on the society.

Most people are reluctant to change and hate to make any shift in their lives except when they have to.

Only pioneers and people who literarily think out of the box who like to make thing by their own in new ways of doing and thinking.

When those people first start to make something that is different than what most people do, they face negligence, irony, prevention, backlash and then if pioneers survive after all that they win.

They make their point and then what they were trying to prove or change becomes part of the society. 

Things that have been refused become accepted to the crowd minds.

For example, if someone has been dreaming of making a machine that could make people fly from one place on earth to another that would be a total daydreaming in times the nineteenth century.

But after Wright Brothers’ experiment that proved controlled flight to be possible now in the twenty first century commercial flight is a fact and part of our daily lives.

When someone like Elon Musk wanted to introduce new products to the people in form of online banking, reusable space rockets or elegant powerful electric cars many people stood in his way all the time and many others just thought he was crazy.

Just when he made his products ready to the market is when they became reality and part of our lives.

When people react to regimes of their countries you can see how they tend to behave just as they were told to do. Most of them do so.

It just happens that minority of them don’t find it normal to act like part of the flock. So they behave different.

They may refuse to obey rules, they may try to make revolutions. At the beginning, those people are fought by the regimes themselves for obvious reasons and also by other people of the society who hate those people being different.

It may happen though that those people with revolutionary ideas spread them and make large supporting base for them in the society.

This could result in a great social revolution and complete change in systems. That’s why people having different way of thinking are disliked by regimes like this.

They may end up with more supporters as they resist and fight for their ideas.

So it all may happen by coincidence. One person gets and idea by coincidence that can change a whole society or may even change the world.

Brains Altered by Coincidence

Also in Neuroscience, coincidence plays a major rule in brain circuits’ formation.
According to Hebb's Rule, Neurons that fire together wire together.

The child brain at early stages of life have too many Neurons generated by so little brain connections between those Neurons.
Coincidence Neurons firing at the child’s brain make Neurons with closely firing times have more tendency to wire together forming early brain circuits.

Also in grownups, coincidence in internal brain events or stimuli in the environment that can cause Neurons firing result eventually in changing brain circuits to make new structures according to Neuroplasticity.

In other words, you may have your brain changed by a sudden sound coming from the window, a news headline your eyes catch on the fly, or by something you eat for breakfast.

Unless you control what gets into your mind you may end up in the mental rollercoaster.
But I believe that all coincidences cannot be totally prevented on the world level and on the brain level.

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The easiest way to change your state

Emotion is created by Motion. Tony Robbins

Today I’m sharing with you how I could be able to change my state and realization to many things in my life as being native and bad things to being positive and motivating things.

The main thing I’m talking about today is how motion has changed my state during going to work.

The Negative State

I remember couple of years ago I actually heated going to work. Waking up in the morning looked as a way of self-torture.

Although I didn’t hate waking up in the morning because I needed more time to sleep but what I really hated is waking up to go a job I didn’t like at all.

The Decision to Change

What has changed in my life is that I’ve decided to go to work on foot. 

That wasn’t because of I liked to make some kind of work out on the morning – although I’ve always wanted to work out on a consistent basis – but that actually because there were not much regular scheduled transportation to my work.

The irregularity of transportation times that made my commuting to the work looks like a daily battle was all the inspiration I needed to get started.

On a typical day I thought to myself: “Why don’t I just try to go on foot?”

Then I realized it wasn’t so bad at all. The distance were only about four kilometers I traveled in about an hour.

The Turn Over

What happened next was a game changer. I started to read books and listen to audio books and seminars on my phone. 

It has always been my dream to read and to listen to those stuff and to learn more. I remember in earlier years when I used to save many of those books hoping to read them on someday.

It seemed that this day has never come. Only when I started to walk to work then I started to read more books and listen to audio books and seminars about human development and all useful stuff. 

Even technical material I loved much. I had the chance to feed my mind with useful content that filled my mind with positive ideas that left no more space for negativity.

I finally believed what all those self-help writers were talking about. Only when you dedicate time and effort for improving your mind then you start to find the outcome.

Working on a daily basis

Because I worked on it on a daily basis then I’ve got what I’ve been looking for.

Sometimes I walk, sometimes I run and I feel like flying. That feeling of frustration of going to work has gone forever.

Waking up in the morning to go to work had a new meaning for me. It means that I have more time to spend downloading important stuff into my mind.

It meant meeting new people (authors and inventors) and getting in touch with new ideas in the world.

Reading regularly had become like addiction to me.

Human development has changed my way of thinking and looking to the world. Now I’m on my way to learn more about Neuroscience as the scientific approach for human development.

Neuroscience by Coincidence 

After learning more about Neuroscience it seemed like it was the thing I’ve been looking for all my live and didn’t find until only last year.

• I’ve always wondered; how people seem to be like they are programmed to do stuff?
• Always asked: why can people be able to simply make things – good or bad – while others think they are far from their reach?
• What makes people look different after some time they spend training on one field of expertise?

All those questions and more I found in Neuroscience and how the brain works. Just like the computer, you can program your mind.

And you can choose and reprogram that mind with whatever you like.

Today I’ve been listening to Tony Robbins Personal Power tainting course. He has been talking about how to change your mental state through changing you physical state.

I realized that this is exactly what has happened to me.

Walking and running on a consistent basis has helped me go through the state of stress and frustration to the state of happiness, fulfillment and productivity.

Even after changed from the state of thinking only to live day by day I started to think like investors and businessmen to look ahead to see further.

I don’t need to look for the paycheck month after month anymore.

I realized the importance of changing the way one must think to grow in his life.

Swim to Work

If you find walking or running to your work as exhausting task you have to make even before going to the actual exhausting work you have then think again.

I guarantee that your physical fitness will be improved so you can feel energetic and you won’t be tired again at work.

I heard about that guy who went to his work swimming every day. Can you imagine this?

Some people might be hating the idea of going to work on foot, on a bike or running. And that guy goes to his work every day swimming for half an hour!!!

How has he managed to do it?

What we can see for now is that success leaves clues. He just didn’t make his progress without making some effort.

But he has alleviated his performance to become what he wanted to be.

This leaves us questioning about it but that’s a topic for another day.


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How travel can change the way your brain works – Neuro scientific approach to the benefits of travel to your brain

Travel can be thought of as a way to have fun, leisure time to relax or as an escape. But travel can have many other benefits to your mind and soul.

Neuroscience has studied brain behavior and different ways to enhance its functions as a way to make our lives better.

One of the things your brain can thrive while doing is traveling and visiting new places. It’s not crucial to travel to farthest place on the planet to say that you have traveled. It only takes to go out for a while and to try new things.

Some benefits of travel to the brain

Seeing New places

This includes new sensory inputs to your brain. Things like new places to see, new voices to hear, new creatures to encounter or new odors to smell are so important to brain connections formation.

New sensory inputs keep your brain active and avoid feeling of boredom.

New experiments

Being isolated form the daily routine you are familiar with keeps your brain challenged and willing to learn more and thus grow by experiments.

Different cultures

As you meet new people with different cultures, different norms and different customs you know things that you can never read in books.

Adapt to uncommon situations

Think of how many times you were bothered to sleep on the couch at your home or at your grandma’s. Then recall when you were traveling and had to stay on the floor for twelve hours for transit at the airport.

In fact there is a website that’s called coach surfing where you can find and rent couches to stay abroad. 

That coach surfing might be the best thing you have tried in your travel. And by facing many situations of that kind can make you more adaptive to many other situations in your life.

Being immersed by new languages

Some researchers and neuroscientists think that language is the main form of cognition. Thus learning more languages make us more aware and conscious.

Traveling to new countries takes you to a new place where you can be totally immersed in new languages you might never heard of.

Creating new memory palaces

Memory palace is an ancient way of deliberately remembering things by anchoring them to real physical places. This ancient technique has been recently scientifically verified using brain imaging techniques which showed that geo-special area of the brain is active when trying to remember memories.

This means that as you see and visit more places the more you have memories and the better your memory is.

Being connected to experiments not to things
As you try more experiments you become hungry for more of them. And fortunately, the world is full of new experiments to try.

Being hungry for trying new experiments is a healthier habit that being obsessed with hording and collecting physical stuff.

Do yourself a favor and change your mood by traveling abroad or just by getting out to a new place in your city.

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Why I stopped reading self-help and human development books….

Why I stopped reading self-help and human development books….

I’ve been a longtime fan of human development books and seminars. I’ve been reading and watching self-help books and courses since I was a teenager and until just a short period of time when it all started to change.

Just until recently I came to see that self-help (as the name implies) is that same person and only him who is able to help himself using his own free will and personal power.

The coincidence that started it all

I’ve started to get board of such books that I saw all of them repeating same words. It looked as if they were all agreed to some set of words that they all keep saying in all books and seminars.

It was like hearing the same old Bla, Bla, Bla…..
Just as a twist of fate when I saw that book that had a strange title and how it could help everyone to be better.

The brain that changes itself, Norman Doidge
I’ve been completely new to the subject. Although I’ve heard a lot before about how you can train your brain in the same way you train your muscles. 

That’s how you can enhance your skills and even change yourself.

The book started with many examples from patients who suffered from severe brain damage cases from injuries or comas that made them unable to do tasks that normal people can.

Even some other persons who have been born with brain damages that made them lack some skills. 

In all those cases mentioned in the book, the writer goes with how doctors have been able to deal with those cases who have been thought upon to be hopeless.

On the contrary, they dealt with them as people who need to be trained or as patients with muscle injuries that need some physical therapy and training for these muscles to get better with training.

At first, the book may seem as a book that gives hope to people who have seen those kind of injuries or suffered from them with someone close to them.

But for normal people who need to know about something as self-help it looked completely irrelevant.

Here comes the hypotheses, if people with severe brain damages can be trained to compensate for the skill their brains lack because of damage or injury then there must be a fact behind the old saying that the brain can be trained like a muscle.

Then I thought that this book may be implicitly saying that normal people can benefit from this virtue of the brain to make their lives better.

Practice makes perfect

And here comes the answer for me right after the first part of the book. While people think that learning might be just a thing like software that you can get easily and forget easily, it has been stated clearly that the brain can and does change itself thought every moment of all of our lives to optimize its tasks.

The continuous process of brain change through Neuroplasticity and Synaptic Plasticity is what makes the brain so dynamic and adaptive to whatever tasks it performs.

Even from the first attempt to do something your brain starts to figure out how to make it. Then as you repeat this process the brain also tries to master it by making more connections (synapses) involved with this specific task.

Then as you keep repeating this task comes the optimization stage that includes making those connections more efficient and reliable.

Just as and more better that electric circuits, brain connections become better at conducting signals at the correct speed, at the right time, to the specific destination and with the correct amplitude.

As you practice more of what you do, this process is enhanced inside your brain.
Physical skills, intellectual skills or even emotional skills all are dealt with same concept.

This means that the way you train your body to play tennis is just as the same way you train your brain to calculate mathematics and as the same way you train your emotions to feel positive or negative about something.

Trained to think negatively

Can you believe it? It means that if we train ourselves to think negatively we will master the skill to think that way all the time and be professionals at it.

On the other hand, of we train ourselves to think positively about things or even see them just as they are not worse than they are our lives can be better.

Neuroscience from a new perspective

When I came to read about another book that deals with skills from a self-help point of view but also mentions the concept of brain change through something called Myelination. 

That made it clear for me how the brain is able to change and what mechanisms can speed up that change and make it last for longer times.

Here is when Neuroscience had a whole new meaning for me. I found out that Neuroscience can be a major explanations to many questions I had in mind about whether those self-help speeches were true or false.

Neuroscience and top performance

After reading many books about top performance and how researchers studied people of rare talents, I found a major pattern in all these books.

We have been convinced that talent is the major element in human success in any area of life. 

This idea has been settled upon from early ages of humanity.

But only in the last couple of decades that scientists came to ask the same question about whether innate talent is the major factor related to success or not.

All those books had some ideas about innate talent and how it’s not the principle factor to success. Even in some cases talent come to be the reason of failure in life.

What these books state is the most important factor of success is deliberate practice. Practice can be viewed in the simplest form of repetition. 

While repetition only is not so important but what is more important is how your repetition looks like.

Deliberate practice means that you pay attention to whatever you do and make every time you do it to be better than before.

Practice is no so easy and fun that it also requires a lot of patience and will power to continue.

Here comes the secret that researchers come out with: talent is not important. 

The most important is free will and circumstance. Environment is more important than genes. Nurture is more important than Nature.

But where is the will power located in the Human Brain???????!!!!!

That's what I'm trying to figure out on the next days.

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The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Anything

I've just started reading this amazing book.
The Talent Code.

I've heard Tony Robbins recommending it on one of his podcasts.

Amazingly, this book deals with some subject I'm really concerning these days, neuroscience and neuroplasticity.

I was first introduced to neuroplasticity from the book The brain That Changes itself. I read about how neuroplasticity has helped many people with brain damage and injuries become better and make their way to partial or complete mental health.

This book is exactly what I've been looking for. Neuroplasticity for healthy people to become more productive and talented.


This amazing book I've just started reading by the end of 2016. I hope I finish it before the start of 2017. Even with not being able to end it before the start of 2017, it's a good book to start the year with.

The Myelin, the main subject this book is targeting, that little component of the brain responsible for the skills and talents we acquire through our lives.

When you continue reading this book, you find explanation for all Phenomenon around you. From historic skilled icons to current skilled celebrities in the world. And even about skills you acquire yourself, you find explanation for them all.

The book introduces you to the process of generating and growing Myelin. It also mentions the factors speeding its creation.

For example, it's grown by repetitive practice of a certain skill. And this growing process is speeded by deep practice. This term defines the process of performing the skill in a certain way of repetition, passion, observing faults, corrective actions and repeating again.

I guess your way of looking at the world will not be the same after you start reading this book because your brain will never be the same at all.



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