Appendix G: Additional Ways to Generate Intuitive Insights
When people regularly focus on their desired states (the goals they want to achieve) they are activating their reticular activating systems (R.A.S.). As seen in Chapter 1, the R.A.S. is the part of the brain which screens out irrelevant information in the environment and helps a person detect relevant data. The working of this system is congruent with a well-known saying which goes “what you focus your attention on, increases.”
In simple words, if a person concentrated on a topic frequently that person will tend to receive valuable insights (e.g., opportunities, people, places, situations, and information) related to this very topic and also automatically discard any information unrelated ...
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