Humans are bestowed with the power to think. No other creature on earth has that power.
Most people are not aware that animals are incapable of thinking.
It is true that both humans and animals are born with instincts (sex drive, a spider's web, etc.), but humans have the advantage of having thoughts, which no animal on earth has. (Sorry, but you dog doesn't think.)
Thoughts are very powerful things. It allows us to make decisions and have free will.
A thought is composed of two things. Images and words. Within our minds, we are constantly talking to ourselves, and making decisions based on those self-constructed conversations. It is also creating pictures; imagining scenarios and events. This two aspects of thinking is what gives thoughts their creative power.
It is important to note, that it doesn't matter where a thought comes from. What is important is if it is accepted and digested as true. Thoughts can be created within our mind or picked up from outside sources. (If you are brain dead, let me just say that this happens when you read a book, a magazine article, watch a tv program, listen to someone talk, etc.) A thought will have the same creative power after accepting it as something true.
Do you get it?
A thought becomes a tangible thing after being accepted inside our ahead as a real thing. It doesn't matter, if the imagined scenario, conclusion or idea has basis on fact or real science, what matters is if we are convinced that what we have just created and accepted from outside source is true.
We all heard phrases such as "what the mind can conceive it can achieve" and the famous quote by Abraham Lincoln "If you think you are right or wrong, you are right." This is exactly why when you belive that something can be achieved, it can, and when you think it can't, it won't, no matter how hard you try. Trying to achieve a goal believing that it can't be achieved is a complete waste of time. You have to believe it can, and if you do, it will. Let me give you an example.
Two men set out to meet girls. One of them imagines himself already with the girl he wants, having fun, taking her places, doing things together, going out, having dinner with her, etc. He has no real difficulty achieving his goal. The other, sets out to meet his goal with a complete set of imagined scenarious and ideas. He imagines himself having difficulty meeting girls. He sees them inside his head laughing at him. He is afraid of pleasing them because he imagines himself not knowing how to be intimate with them, he can't see himself having fun, but not knowing what to do. He can't really create in his own mind the picture of the person he wants to meet because he doesn't think he has that power. So he creates negatives images, have very negative (unproductive) conversations with himself, etc, and those thoughts bear fruit, he ends up lonely and depressed.
You can imagine different scenarios with the same two individuals setting out different goals. Imagine them going out for the first job interview. Imagine one creating positive images and having productive conversations while the other is creating negative images and having negative (unproductive) conversations. Can you now see how creative thoughts are? Are you examining your own thoughts now? Good.
There is a lot more to say about this topic. I hope this is clear enough for now. Until then, thanks for reading.
Hans Gonzalez.
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