Ten Headlines — pt. 21
№3 Five Simple Tips For Dealing With The Angry Dominant Type
with Gustave Deresse
Good morning. Today’s headlines follow a fun theme — the human brain! That’s enough introduction.
Enjoy!
10. Meet Your Two Focus Systems
They are the conscious and subconscious. One takes little energy and works constantly in the background, the other boosts brain activity and is specially activated for logical and creative purposes.
And if you want a short laugh, consider they’re officially called ‘System One’ and ‘System Two’!
Everyone has these two systems, and anyone can shift from the first and into the second.
You can also look from one to the other, as in the way of introspection. Understanding this is a vital step in your journey to self-renewal.
9. How Long It Takes Your Brain To Replace A Habit
It’s healthy to understand your habits, and what you’d like them to be. The sooner you figure it out, the better.
The speed of change varies by person, habit, reward system used, and the presence of triggers. Not to mention cases where it’s self-control itself that needs to be improved.
8. Ten Ways To Enrich Your Environment For A Healthier Brain
A classic listicle headline. Data shows they haven’t gone out of style yet. These headlines will all touch on the brain.
I won’t spoil this one right now.
If anyone else wants to write this one, consider linking to it in the response section for this article! Next time I want to write on the subject, I may link to it.
This subject is all about creating a stimulating environment, from the space itself, to your routine, your social connections, and more.
Your mental palace included.
7. What Precisely Counts As Positive Stress?
Question headlines do well, but this may be too plain. And the ‘precisely’ might be redundant. Thoughts?
As for the answer to our question: it’s the quick and necessary stress helping you to survive. It’s meant to notify you when you need to take care of yourself or those important to you, and if necessary, to set-off redirecting your blood flow to deal with the issue.
This gives you a boost of energy in all the right places, depending on the situation.
Twenty minutes later, especially when it isn’t survival oriented, you start losing brain cells and time off your life.
Plus, stress reduces your self-control, from your body, to your emotions and your thoughts.
Simply put, unless it’s helping you, it’s killing you, and making you dumb.
6. Achieve Zen Today Through Multi-Sensorial Meditation
This headline is meant to tell the reader exactly what effects should transpire if they read the article and practice its contents. I added ‘Today’ because people typically expect anything meditation based to take years of practice for achieving any results.
Multi-sensoriality is a meditation technique involving a gradual focus on the senses, and is easiest to practice in a peaceful and natural environment.
I’m working on a fictional story for this one.
5. When Trauma Is Right
A short headline that piques the reader’s interest by subverting their expectations. This piece would essentially touch on the value of learning from our mistakes, or gaining new strengths and appreciations in life.
Perhaps we could throw in there an example about touching a hot stove, or biting one’s tongue.
Every negative experience is logged as punishment for something, and that new association retrains your brain. Even severe trauma resulting in PTSD can have life-changing effects. Of course, often it helps people to have support in the healing process.
It’s good for everyone to know.
4. This Article On Procrastination Can Wait Until Tomorrow
Humour in your headlines can sometimes be a good thing, depending on the content. This one might be too on the nose to be funny. Actually, it’s just stating a fact, and isn’t funny at all.
Procrastination itself is a special topic, because it’s so widely misunderstood.
Yes, procrastination can be bad, but it can also be used to your advantage. It helps to understand yourself and the reasons you procrastinate. Then you can choose your favourite techniques for living side by side with your procrastinatory habits.
One of the best ways to deal with procrastination is doing what you love, because your passions create their own energy within you. And the less willpower is drained from your system from doing things you hate, the more energy you can concentrate on what matters in your life.
3. Five Simple Tips For Dealing With The Angry Dominant Type
First, another listicle type, because they’re easy to make on the spot. And I’m sure I could have been more creative than ‘Angry Dominant Type’, but can one be too literal?
Second, there’s a difference between how you should interact with people of all stress types.
You’ll recognize the fighting type by the way they hold themselves, standing tall, moving with strength and precision, and with a tightness in their neck, arms, and jaw. You will also notice them staring closely at the object of their distress, eyes squinted, possibly yelling at whatever or whoever it is.
This person wants to be in control, and takes any sign of being undermined as a direct threat to their security.
Be respectful, listen attentively, show that you accept your own responsibility, and if you must explain anything, be concise and factual.
Definitely don’t interrupt, attempt to overpower, or resort to humour.
I wish you the best!
2. Where To Draw The Line Between Adjoining Personalities
I enjoy the concept of drawing lines between things. The action itself is mandatory for all living things.
The unified ‘self’ is an illusion.
Your perception of reality is based on the finer interactions between nearly one hundred billion brain cells, each activating alongside innumerable chain reactions spanning your entire brain per tiny fraction of a second.
As you age, your brain develops in stages.
Your primary personality types are created early in the first year of being a born, and include your foremost passions and motivations that will stay with you for the rest of your life.
Next, your secondary personalities begin to form.
These are based on reality’s reactions to your primary personalities. You be yourself, the world reciprocates, and you learn how to be.
New personalities can continue forming throughout your life, many replacing old secondary personalities, but they will always rely on operational conditioning from the outside world to develop.
Sometimes, because of one form of trauma or another, different sections of the mind become inaccessible to one another, and these may manifest their own feelings, perspectives and behaviours.
Point being, it’s crucial to recognize the difference between these intermixed parts of yourself, lest you spend your entire life fighting your own driving force.
1. The Foolproof Trick For Remembering Every Face You Meet
People like tricks. Give them tricks. My only question is whether it’s wise to promise anything as ‘foolproof’. Remember, everyone’s different, and you never know what might get in their way of achieving the same results as you.
That said, this technique uses something all brains have in common: association.
The more associations your brain has for a new piece of information, the easier it becomes for you to remember it.
Another helpful component of this technique is to care about the information you receive. Information you value sticks more easily. It’s why many who did horribly in school can still quote all of their favourite movies, song and tv shows.
When you meet someone, mark their face in your mind as meaningful, and attach to it any information you can, from personal details about them, to the conditions around which you met.
Preferably, avoid creating nicknames for people whose real names you don’t already know.
Unless that’s what they want to be called.
Sources —
https://suebehaviouraldesign.com/kahneman-fast-slow-thinking/
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/trade-bad-habits-for-good-ones
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00466/full
https://goodsensorylearning.com/blogs/news/success-meditations
https://www.hprc-online.org/mental-fitness/mental-health/5-benefits-post-traumatic
https://www.business2community.com/strategy/beat-procrastination-use-advantage-01976720
https://bpsmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1751-0759-1-5
https://psychology.fandom.com/wiki/Personality_development
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