Our brain is more attuned to finding problems than solutions..

Tony Robbins has said our society has developed but we still have our Million year old brain.

Meaning our brains still drop pings us to to look out for the Saber Toothed Tiger prowling between us and our next meal, even though there is no such a threat anymore.

How many times have you thought of a goal, a beautiful outcome, but some voice in your head immediately goes to the risks, the downfalls, the downsides and we talk ourselves out of it or suck out any excitement we had prior to the thoughts.

But what if I told you how you can use that part of your brain instead of struggling to silence it.

Truth that part of our brain is essential to survival, gut feelings, or bad opportunities.

Now when it comes to our goals, we can use that part of our brain using what the Stoics call premeditiatio de malorum which translates to “premeditation of evil”

Inversion Thinking - What’s the best way to achieve the worst outcome possible?

Here’s an exercise, ask yourself in the different boxes of your life, how do I become the worst version of myself in (fitness, career, intelligence, relationship), write it out, and then just do the opposite.

Instead of asking yourself “how do i improve my marriage?”

Ask yourself : How would I utterly DESTROY my marriage? Then list all of the ways you would, and after finding every reason, every threat imaginable, which evolutionarily we’re designed to look for, flip it in reverse to find our solutions.

Hope this helps as much as its helped me in using this for my business, money, health and my relationship.