Do you become a dithering mess when faced with a social situation?
Does meeting new people make you want to slide silently behind the nearest pot plant?
For the socially challenged among us, good communication can seem like a magical power, unobtainable to mere mortals.
However, as life generally expands in direct proportion to the connections you make, it’s wise to learn more about this dark art.
We’re fear machines, designed to perceive the world in our mind’s eye just as much as the hard lines of reality.
On an evolutionary level, this made perfect sense.
Predicting an attack from claw, fang and club was high on the decision making agenda and cultivated a fine-tuned cognitive ability to expect the unexpected.
But to what extent have we outgrown our abilities?
Big, scary, existential question time…
What shapes you as a human?
And how much control do you have over your ideology, beliefs and behaviour?
For example, if you think that olives are the devil’s eggs and should be terminated, then…
a) You are correct
b) Why?
Your mind is a puppet master, creating angst and high drama, set to the backdrop of a high octane script.
Thoughts attempt to draw you from the present moment repeatedly, through intricate fantasies played out in a fictional future or reliving a distorted, illusory past.
So, what’s the solution?
You can continue thinking about what’s best for your life, but it won’t help.
Abstract planning won’t solve your problems.
The brain’s a problem-solving machine, constantly computing life’s riddles.
However, it’s only when you take effective action that any meaningful progress is made.
Don’t you wish there was an easy process for rewiring your brain?
Allowing you to maximise your true potential; so you could write that novel, start a business or meet the perfect partner.
If you wish there was a simple process to help improve your daily existence on this little space ball we call Earth, then you might be in luck.
Do you get clammy palm syndrome every time you speak in public?
From strange hand gestures to unnatural voices, it’s difficult to know why we can’t just be cool cucumbers.
So here are 10 persuasive speech techniques to mould your audience like putty.
Do you struggle to decide which colour pants to wear in the morning?
When you make a food choice, are you paralysed by indecision…
Which invariably results in food envy anyway?
If so, you may be a decision-phobe.
Do you put things off until the last possible moment?
Rather than studying for your next exam, do you jump down the Wikipedia rabbit hole…
To learn about goats or the French Revolution?
Don’t you wish you were like Neo from the Matrix?
Able plug into the computer and download all the knowledge you’d ever need.
Unfortunately, reality is rather different…
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