What secrets super achievers have? Why are they achieving so much while other people can’t even grasp a little? Is persistence the answer?
Flynn wrote something about it and here it is:
Deep inside everyone of us there is a knowing that we are capable of so much more than we are achieving, that we are not living our true potential, that a dormant greatness is locked somewhere within, a super self that wants to get out, but doesn’t know how.
For each of us, there is someone in life, or history, that we admire, someone that we can see has actualized their super self, shared their greatness. They inspire us, sometimes they make us fee worst by comparison, but they always make us wonder how did they do it?
They did it and do it, by engaging the most mysterious part of themselves, the part that mostly goes untapped – our super brain. Our super brain is the most recently evolved part of our brain, a part of our primate brain. Specifically it is the frontal lobes. The region responsible for all our higher functions: creative, abstract thought, joy, love, logic, higher reasoning, insight, paranormal encounters, enlightenment, transcendence and all other peak experiences.
In most cases the super achievers that we admire stumbled upon their super selves through happenstance in their lives, luck in other words. Circumstances contriving for them, in such a way that allowed engaging in specific, but consistently repeated activities which in time developed a natural ability to operate from their super.
Specifically the activity is one that has to make you feel good. The better you feel doing it the more effective it is in activating your frontal lobes. It has to be something that is easy for you to do consistently, something you are passionate about doing, and need to do, to feel fully alive. Some people call it ‘their calling’, others their passion, Joseph Campbell described as “following your bliss”.
When we are children, we naturally engage our super brain. We are full of imaginings, fun and play. We have dreams, a calling, and we are excited and full of confidence that we will realize these aspects of our super self. But, as we grow, all kinds of events and circumstances cause us to lose hope in our dreams, and we settled for less. Gradually we lose our joy of life, and our passions are lived vicariously through the self-actualizing achievements of others. In time, our super brain becomes mostly dormant and our sense of our own greatness becomes a gnawing quiet ache.
Most people live and die with the ache. It is one of the tragedies of our human condition. But it is more so, because it is unnecessary, at least at this point in our species history. We now know how to re-activate our super brain, turn on our mind’s power, and actualize our greatest potential.
Following our passion is the natural and probably easiest way to go about turning on our super brain again. When we are entirely engrossed in an activity, we are on super brain “auto-pilot”, and are actually in a meditative state. Of course it might be that you no longer know what your passion is, or even if you do, you don’t know how to get there because your thinking has been operating from the part of your brain that can’t think creatively, the part that makes you to feel hopeless and negative. And of course repetitive thought patterns become self-fulfilling over time, confirming your suspicions that you can’t achieve what you want.
So how do you break out of the cycle and begin to turn on your super brain?
Mystics have known for centuries the power in meditation to do this. And science has caught up. Meditation activates the frontal lobes, and is undoubtedly one of the most powerful techniques for achieving this result. But there are others: prayer, chanting, rhythmic activity…. And albeit more mechanical, there are also tools specifically designed sound and visuals aids that will achieve the same result.
Once the process begins, one’s thinking style slowly begins to change, becoming more positively colored, hopeful, creative, and resourceful and the possibilities for one’s life start to re-emerge. It is not an overnight process, just like losing one’s dreams it won’t happen overnight. Like everything else that is worth the having, it requires patience and a little trust in the power of a processes occurring over time. But it is wholly achievable, as many are now coming to know.
What do you think?
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Just Dropping by hoping for a link exchange!
Super achievers never quit and always looking forward to win!
Hey Mr. John Lazy – your name is exactly the opposite of this article.
I agree with Mam Snow, Super Achievers never quit. Persistence is what separating super achievers and dreamers. 
P.S. OT – I don’t know if this is true (pardon if I am wrong – hehe), would you want to make your Post Permalink either date based, category based or post based. I guess it would look nice and favored more by Search engines.
To Infosoftz- Thanks for dropping by. Take care. Don’t worry brother I will include you in my friends list.
To Ma’am Snow – Yap you’re right Ma’am Super Achievers have the Super Will. Take care!
To Bloggista – Thanks for dropping by Sir, I dont really know how to date based category based or post based the post permalink Sir, can you teach how to do that. Take care!
It is achievable, but not easy. If you think about it, we have to change years of psychological programming. Our beliefs and habits from childhood, the limitations imposed on us, and the things we have accepted growing up.
Super achievers possess certain personal traits. The truth is that we can also never become super achievers until we start to posses those traits. If we continue doing what we are doing, then we will continue to get the same results.
The ingredients of success are a lot. Being passionate of what you do and being persistent are parts of the ingredients, but these two ingredients alone are not enough. I believe the secret of the super achievers are kept secret. And as it being passed onto students, the information becomes diluted.
I’ve met many super achievers in various fields. They do admit to one thing; that they know something that the competitor doesn’t know. That’s what gives them the edge.
Sometimes we already know what they know, but the difference is that we don’t know the combination on how to rearrange the knowledge and information to make it work.
Nonetheless… All things are possible… if you want it badly enough
To Malupa – Well said, maybe they started with trial and error until such time they already know the combination. So practice and a lot of determination to improve maybe the key.
I agree with Snow and bloggista, we should never quit. And to avoid wasting time on trial and error, lets learn from the expert’s experience in life, be open minded, and focus.
To Jason- Thanks for dropping by bro. You’re right let’s learn from others experiences. Take care!