The Art of Compassionate Business, 2nd Edition

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 system (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 focuses on a topic frequently, this person will tend to receive valuable insights (e.g., opportunities, people, places, situations, and information) related to this very topic and any information unrelated to this topic will be automatically ...