“The human animal is amazing at making plans, modifying its brain if it

wants to. But the human brain or the human animal is also dreadfully
bad at doing what’s best for us…because our reward systems are not
designed for things that are just good for us. They’re designed for things
that optimizes the progression of our species, but they’re also, grab unto
any behavior that makes us feel good. The human brain is not really
optimized for making best choices.”

There’s a challenge behind that, a problem that must be solved, and can
only be solved by the individual himself by teaching himself to optimise
the reward system unto doing what is good for us, what progresses us,
and for making the best choices for the best possible future aimed at the
Highest Possible Goal of the Highest Possible Good.

Five Things of the Brain:

1. Sensation - bound or restricted by the receptors in the body. The
nervous system of humans are designed to extract physical phenomeno
from the universe. Non-negotiable.
2. Perception - which sensations are you paying attention to. Perception
is like the spotlight. Negotiable.
3. Feelings - link between emotions (bodily sensations merged with
perception).
4. Thoughts - it is spontaneous, constantly giving you pop-ups. But it can
also be deliberate.
5. Behaviors and actions

But what does it want to accomplish?

Take the perceptions of the outside world and merge those with the
perceptions of the inside world and to link those in a way that’s
operating on an environment in the appropriate way.

Mindfulness - awareness of your internal state.

By this, you can use it as a tool by using it as a monitoring tool of

yourself in order to match yourself to the environment well.
We are constantly updating our internal state to match external
demands.

The brain is customized to in the early part of life and implement those
algorithms in that circuitry to implement for the rest of your life.

Power of focus can change the brain. So, it is focus, the ability to access
deep rest and sleep, and the dopaminergic reward system that change
the brain.

You will really experience stress and agitation as you begin, it is part of
the process in entering the portal of intense focus. Accept it, and you
will access that powerful focus.

The dopaminergic system puts us in the right path. It is released when

we achieve a milestone or think we are in the right path. So ask yourself,
are you in the right path. It pushes the noradrenaline backdown, and it is
good for when we accumulate so much acetylcoline or noradrenaline,
we are bound to quit. So if you’re in the verge of quitting, reward
yourself or think of the importance of what you are doing. When we are
on the right path, we achieved a milestone, dopamine is released and it
tightens our focus more for that activity. The dopamine system is
designed to be generic, if it narrows down, you will have a bad quality of
life for it is addiction.

The dopamine system is connected to those states of focus, it is what

mother nature designed in order for you to continue those behavior
again into the future. So the main problem human beings have is the
vulnerability to engage in maladaptive behaviors, the good thing is we
can teach ourselves to engage in adaptive behaviors that progress us
and creates the best possible future of the Highest Possible Good of the
Highest Possible Goal. When you start getting a convergence of
norepinephrine, level of agitation; duration, path, and outcome;
acetylcoline; and dopamine, now you’re starting to wire in the behaviors
that make people really good at certain things. //if you can enjoy the stress
and agitation part, and the high focus state, you will be really good at those
behaviors.
Success in any endeavor is very closely related to how much focus we can
bring to that endeavor. The reward system is entirely internal. // in order
to succeed in life, one must have intense focus on the set of games in life and reward
himself internally (cognitively) - joy. GROWTH MINDSET - the stress and
agitation you feel in the beginning phase of immersing oneself in an
endeavor is the recognized gate you need to get into the focus
component and then if you can reward the effort process, you really start
to feal joy and low levels of excitement in the effort process. It is the
bridging of the adrenaline and dopamine system.

The process of rewarding yourself from micro-milestones out of

milestones that are part of the higher goal in the state of intense focus
for neuroplasticity is GROWTH MINDSET. It is loving effort.

NOREPRINEPHRINE
ADRENALINE DOPAMINERGIC
ACETYLCOLINE GROWTH MINDSET SYSTEM
SYSTEM

Why do we quit? Well, when we do effort, a certain amount of

noradrenaline in the brain is released and there’s a sort of a counter in
the brainstem. And at some point, enough noradrenaline is released and
it shuts down cognitive control, deliberate control over the motor
circuitry, and we quit, that’s it. But the thing that can restore those
levels, reset those levels lower, and give us more gas is dopamine. And
the dopaminergic system is connected to the prefrontal cortex so we can
subjectively reward ourselves by reason or statement.

We have to be very cautious of how much we attach the internal

reward to the external reward if we want to continue to grow, pursue,
and focus.

Duration - how long it will gonna last

Path - what will happen
Outcome - what ultimately will happen
 Learn to control the duration, path, and outcome (DPOs) and
attach internal reward. The more often we can self-reward some process
of the process provided it is in the right direction of what we’re trying to
achieve, the more energy we have for that, the more focus we have for
that.

In the dopaminergic system, it is really important to set out milestones

for yourself. To set micro-goals out of that ultimate goal in order to
reward yourself more clearly. If you set out goals inside of the goal and
reward yourself for that achievement of goals, you will have an infinite
amount of energy to pursue the goal pr those goals of yours. Attach a
sense of meaning and slice the day, week, month, year into micro-slices
(milestones) and then rewarding yourself from getting into that
milestones (Grit and Resilience).

It is very important to have good sleep in order to analyse the DPOs very
well and execute it more sharply.

The adrenaline response is designed to move us! Not to keep us

stationary!

Holy Grail of Neuroscience - how can I modify my brain? By putting

yourself in that discomfort and using that as propeller to move you into
action. The way to control our nervous system is behavior first then
thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and sensations. If you change your
behavior then your thoughts, feelings, perceptions change. Behavior is
the control panel.

The highest agitation and stress is associated with the moving forward
response, it gets us into action! Moving forward throught the gate of
stress and agitation! Stress and agitation is designed to move us
forward.

Learn how to self generate adrenaline! To shift from low energy to high
energy. And learn to compress focus, learn to calm the nervous system -
physiological sigh.

Learn internal control!

Tools of Internal Control: self-monitoring, focus compress, adrenaline
self-generation, physiological sigh.

Diaphgram is a real-time control. How many times you breath is

associated with the energy your brain will release. Also the eyes which
are two central nervous system that were designed to control our overall
arousal state. Mental focus follows visual focus. Visual focus is what
brings the rest of the brain into cognitive focus. Concentrate on your
milestone!