In our daily lives, we come across various individuals. Therefore, regardless of the stage we are in, it is vital to comprehend human behavior and learn how to adapt our mindset accordingly.
In our personal life, whether we are students or professionals, our daily interactions revolve around engaging with teachers, friends, family members, and fellow colleagues. This means that our lives are filled with constant human interaction, making it an integral part of our daily routines.
So, life is truly centered around human connections and the pursuit of human ventures, particularly as an entrepreneur.
Let’s embark on a profound exploration! Social Animals: We, as human beings, are inherently social creatures. Therefore, comprehending the thoughts, emotions, and feelings of others holds immense significance, lest we misinterpret them and consequently experience unhappiness. It is our innate desire to be respected and loved within our own network.
**Understanding the Behaviour:** The first language to understand others is words. As we evolve, we comprehend others through structured statements in both writing and speaking, all constructed with words. The second language combines gestures, behavior, and body language. Our face, eyes, and smile convey genuine emotions, while our voice reflects fear and excitement. Although facial expressions can sometimes be deceptive, the voice cannot be concealed. In modern times, even in texts and emails, we can perceive the sender’s excitement. What’s more intriguing is that when we chat with someone, emotions are spontaneously released from both sides. **Relationship to Time:** The way someone acts in any situation, whether they respond immediately, delay or procrastinate, reveals their personality.
Knowing your own Behaviour: Behaviour is either externally or internally generated. Behavior refers to our own motivation & capacity whereas capacity refers to our ability to enact a particular behavior that determines whether our innate strengths & environment we are in can allow the behavior we want to portray. On the other hand, motivation relates to our intentions & the amount of effort we want to portray. So, both motivation & capacity are required to portray our behavior. Ex: participating in a Marathon depends on physical fitness & your desire to push through the race.
Relation between Behaviour & Action: The combination of Thoughts, Emotions, and Feelings is the power of you that comes from inside. Once you manage them effectively you can manage the goals you have in your life, be it getting admission to the premier B School in the world or becoming a Unicorn.
Once you have control over your mind, you can influence your pattern of taking better decisions & improve the quality of your Life & have an enhanced probability to achieve your goals.
The Thinking System: Autopilot & the Intentional system of thinking. The autopilot is run mainly by your intuitions & emotions. It depends on the cognitive processes that happen in the amygdala which help us to take quick decisions like fight or flight in life & death situations. This is also our automated system. In our life there are not so many life & death situations, so the autopilot system captures those small stresses & compounds them to make a well-defined stressful life leading to wrong, long & predictable systematic patterns. Ex: Your body will always seek comfort & would not love to wake up early. Comfort discourages growth.
On the other hand, the intentional system is driven by rational thinking & its processes are conducted in the prefrontal cortex of the brain. This deals with all complex thinking & learning new behavioral patterns.
An autonomic system doesn’t require any conscious effort, but an intentional system definitely requires conscious hard & consistent efforts.
Recognizing Patterns: As you grow up we understand the mix of both autopilot & intentional systems. Ex: When you want to make any important decision, coming out of your comfort zone is most important & that continuous pattern will lead to success & prosperity.
Neuroplasticity: In simple terms meaning rewiring your brain. When you are listening or doing something very challenging, within the brain some structural changes happen & they become permanent pathways. The permanent pathway becomes your second nature. So, now the new behavior becomes your good habit after some consistent repetitions. With repeated actions, the old neuron pathway (message gets transmitted to our brain & then to other parts of our body through nerve cells or neurons) will get replaced by the new constructive neuron pathway. That’s how we come out of our comfort zone & challenge our status quo.
We can change ourselves if we rewire ourselves by reinforcing new behavior repeatedly & with full intensity to replace the old negative pathway with the new constructive pathway. That’s how we not only survive but can also thrive in this fast-changing world & bring novelty to society.
We should label ourselves as positive change agents & also label others the same by sharing our positive energy to make them tread the same path.
Changing Pattern: First, we must assess the old behaviors that we want to change, second we must make a conscious choice to reinforce repeatedly the new choices over the old ones to fit them into solutions, rather than as problems.
When you change your thoughts, emotions & behaviors you can make a change in your performance that will put you in the driving seat of your Life & your Business. End of the day you are the architect of your own identity, the person that you want to become.
I tried to illustrate the dense neuroscience in my own language so that we can understand the science behind the popular saying “coming out of your comfort zone”. We must put our all efforts to be a changed person whether we are a student, professionals, housewives, entrepreneurs, or any character/ multiple characters we are playing in LIFE to put our best on the table.
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