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For anyone interested in their own personal development, you may be interested in some new research that suggests that “thinkers’ brains are different”. The suggestion is that the way you think is related to the development of certain regions of the brain – but it’s actually the other way around: the development of certain regions of your brain depends on how much you use them! Your mind power is down to the choices that you make.

Nobody is born a ‘thinker’ – in the same way that no one is born a London cabbie or taxi driver, yet a part of their brains is highly developed and, indeed, bigger than a regular brain because of the hoops that they have to jump through to learn ‘The Knowledge’ – how to get from A to B using all kinds of weird and wonderful routes. Research some years back established that the use to which the London cabbie puts their brain had a demonstrable effect on the size and configuration of their brain.

More recently, neuro-psychological research confirmed that the human brain exhibits a huge capacity for what is called plasticity – in other words, the shape, characteristics and development of the brain depends on how it is used and the extent to which one area of the brain has to take control of the functions of another area that has suffered damage.

The important point is that our brains, their capacity and functionality, depends on what we do with them – not the other way around. Quite a number of people with whom I’ve worked in my practice believed that they were stupid, slow or incapable of intellectualising things that ‘clever’ people understood. Their perception of their own intellectual skills had nothing to do with the physiology of their brains – it was based on the fact that, during their childhood, they had incorrectly learned their strengths and weaknesses which, in later life, prevented them from using their brains in an expansive manner.

We all have limiting ideas about ourselves – we were each programmed during our formative years – today, those perceived inadequacies disable us from understanding and benefiting from our innate potential. The good news is, however, all you’ve got to do to be effortlessly happy and successful is to ignore your misconceived notions. Even the size of your brain will respond to your new found self belief.

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