Upgrade Your Brain Software
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The document recounts a personal experience of bungee jumping, highlighting the stark contrast between the author's first and second jumps. The author reflects on how initial fear transformed into exhilaration and discusses the concept of reprogramming our brains to build confidence before taking action. It suggests that understanding and overcoming our instinctual fears can lead to a more confident approach in various life situations.
Upgrade Your Brain Software
- 2. I remember the first time I went bungee jumping, a long time ago.
- 3. Of course, I've only gone twice, but the first time was WAY different than the second time.
- 4. Even though my conscious mind was totally aware there was ZERO danger, I was still petrified.
- 5. Me and a buddy went to this amusement park, and one of the rides was bungee jumping.
- 6. It was about twenty stories high, and the stairway to the top was inside the skeleton like structure.
- 7. We decided I'd go first, so my buddy watched me walk up to the top.
- 8. He said I was slow, and hunched over, like I was walking to the gallows or something.
- 9. The guy at the top gave me the instructions (just stand at the edge and lean forward), and I almost passed out from fear.
- 10. But as soon as I went past the moment of no-return, something pretty amazing happened.
- 11. My fear was immediately replaced by exhilaration.
- 12. Excitement.
- 13. A feeling like I'd never felt before.
- 14. Pure adrenalin.
- 15. The next time I went, (a year or so later) it was much different.
- 16. Since I knew what to expect, it was exciting the entire time.
- 17. I walked up the stairs faster, and instead of slowly "leaning forward," I leapt off the top platform.
- 18. Most conventional wisdom tells us we have to do something first, and then the confidence comes later.
- 19. Normally, this is true.
- 20. But normally, we're using our brains the way they are hard wired.
- 21. With the factory installed programming.
- 22. Programming that was designed for a time when there were just as many critters trying to eat us as we were trying to eat them.
- 23. As you're well aware, that's not true any more.
- 24. There's rarely any physical danger.
- 25. If you're in a job interview, and you give the wrong answer, the guy's not going to call in a couple of goons to beat you to a pulp.
- 26. If you walk over and talk to a pretty girl and say the wrong pick up line, she's not going to pull out a switchblade and stab you in the eye.
- 27. But our caveman brains don't think so.
- 28. Our caveman (or cave woman) brains are still screaming bloody murder, like there're tigers around every corner.
- 29. The good news is that with a little bit of reprogramming, and some targeted visualization, you can flip the switch on where confidence comes from.
- 30. You can get the confidence FIRST, and then take action.
- 31. Easy action.