Choose your experiences, they define you.
August 20, 2007 at 5:59 am | Philosophy | No comment
Whoever you talk to, everyone can pretty much agree that people are vastly affected by their experiences, may they cause them to be cynical or naive, angry or calm, people are basically a product of their experiences.
The way our experiences affect us is linked to our subconcious, on a concious level we may be thinking one thing, but often as not we’re feeling another.
Our subconcious, our instinct, our ‘bones’, our heart, they all tell us the sum of our experiences even when we conciously choose to ignore them.
This is why when some-one trys to change themselves, to be mentally stronger, more confident, more outgoing, whatever; unless they make big moves in this direction the change is relatively short lived.
We are our subconciouses, we as humans are not truly concious beasts.
How much time have you spent honestly thinking at a concious level today?
Not a huge percentage I would wager, you leave most of daily life to your subconcious and occasionally it gives you a nudge and says ‘Hey, wake up, there’s a decision to be made!’.
So when we make a decision to change we conciously think “Right, I’m going to act this way now!” which is fine, when we’re thinking.
But as soon as we hand things over to auto-pilot we revert almost instantly to our old ways.
That is why when you make a decision to change, you have to go out and do something BIG, experience something that begeats the kind of personality you want to have.
Want to be mentally stronger? Throw yourself into a conflict!
Want to be more confident? Go out and pretend you’re confident until your subconcious believes it!
By choosing what experiences you throw yourself in to, you can choose who you are.