ABUNDANCE

Prof.Dr.Aung Tun Thet

LFH#37
12/26/2020
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ARE YOU READY FOR THE
FUTURE?
• Definitely with 3 lessons

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3 LESSONS

• Think abundantly in world plagued by scarcity complex

1. Forget news and amygdala
2. World’s biggest problems will be solved
simultaneously
3. Think ‘inside right-sized box’, not ‘outside the box’

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LESSON 1: FORGET NEWS AND
IRRATIONAL FEARS
• Today better than ever
• Indefinite pessimist
• Convinced we’re in permanent, downward spiral
• Everything’s going to get worse
• All the time
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LESSON 1: FORGET THE NEWS
AND IRRATIONAL FEARS
• 2 reasons
1. Lizard brain dominate behaviour
2. Look at news a lot

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LIZARD BRAIN

• Structure of brain
• Hungry, scared, and angry
• Fear radar put in ‘fight or flight’ mode

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QUIETING LIZARD BRAIN

• Irrational human behaviour

• Say one thing do another
• Want to be successful but sabotage job interview
• Want to be thin but eat too much
• Contradictions never end
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QUIETING LIZARD BRAIN

• Resistance
• Voice telling us to back off, be careful,
go slow, compromise
• Hate change, achievement and risk

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QUIETING LIZARD BRAIN

• Physical part of brain

• Lump near brain stem responsible for
fear and rage
• Quiet it
• Ignore it

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NEWS

• Blowing everything out of proportion

• Focus on bad headlines
• Shock, horror and fear
• Calm down

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LESSON 2: SOLVE PROBLEMS
SIMULTANEOUSLY
• Face many complex problems
• Looking at them individually a mistake
• Energy, climate change, environmental pollution,
population growth and hunger as separate
problems
• They’re not
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LESSON 2: SOLVE PROBLEMS
SIMULTANEOUSLY
• Eradicating Malaria mean better health
• Improve economic situation
• More people work and more tourists come
• Mortality and birth rates go down

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LESSON 2: SOLVE PROBLEMS
SIMULTANEOUSLY
• Generating high-density energy from algae
• Grown in salt water
• Solve need for more energy
• Lessen environmental burden

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LESSON 2: SOLVE PROBLEMS
SIMULTANEOUSLY
• World’s most complex problems all relate to each
other
• Never solve just one of them
• Progress means progress in several areas

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LESSON 3: FROM ‘THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX’ TO
‘THINK INSIDE RIGHT-SIZED BOX’

• Innovations come from mindset of abundance

• “Failure culture” not trying to fail
• Freedom to experiment
• Spirit to get up and try again after learning from
mistake

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LESSON 3: FROM ‘THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX’ TO
‘THINK INSIDE RIGHT-SIZED BOX’

• Innovation competitions with small prizes

encourage right kind of behaviour
• Force small teams to innovate

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LESSON 3: FROM ‘THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX’ TO
‘THINK INSIDE RIGHT-SIZED BOX’

• Learn to work with what we’ve got to create

something better
• Placing inside ‘right-sized box’
• Get out of it

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ABUNDANCE

• Reason to be grateful
• Right choice

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 Abundance in Life

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1. BEGIN WITH GRATITUDE

• Start with thanksgiving

• Thankful for what you already have
• Produce more ideas and share
• Fruitfulness

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2. DREAM IT

• Everything begin in the heart and mind

• Every great achievement began in mind of one
person
• Dared to dream
• Believe it was possible

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2. DREAM IT

• Ask ‘what if?’

• Think big
• Don’t let negative thinking discourage you

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2. DREAM IT

• “Dreamer”
• Dream of possibilities for yourself, family and for
others
• Reignite the dream
• Fan the flames
• Life too short to let it go!
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3. ALTER MINDSET

• Rich people live in world of abundance

• Poor people live in world of limitation

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3. ALTER MINDSET

• Poor people
• Think there’s not enough to go around in the world
• Fear-based mindset
• Answer “either/or” but never “both”

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3. ALTER MINDSET

• Go for
• Security above love
• Safety before self-expression
• Protection over possibility

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3. ALTER MINDSET

• Rich people
• Creative
• Unconventional
• Open mind
• Build life on “Both!” mentality
• See opportunities once blind to
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4. CONSTRUCT EMPOWERING
REALITY
• Reality subjective
• Believe you can do something about it
• Move forward

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5. STOP MAKING EXCUSES

• Future important
• Decisions lead to destiny
• What you do — and who you really are — determine what
you ultimately achieve

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6. REALIZE YOUR POTENTIAL

• Potential build upon itself

• People you respect - full of realized potential
• Choice
• Contemplating capabilities
• Knocking over obstacles

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7. ATTRACT OPPORTUNITY

• Opportunities and success not something you go after

• Attract by becoming attractive person
• Develop skills
• Keep refining character, health, and relationships

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8. COMMIT TO LIVING YOUR
DREAMS
• Lids blinding eyes lifted
• Completely new world opened
• Notice opportunities
• Change self-identity
• Point of no return
• Whole world changes
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9. NEVER BE SATISFIED

• Not content
• Not the goal
• Climb to see how far you can push yourself
• Humbled and grateful for everything in your life

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10. ADD VALUE TO OTHERS

• Give away praise, recognition, ideas, knowledge and

money
• Plenty to go around
• What you give away will come back to you thousand times
over

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11. MAKE MOST OF INFINITE
POSSIBILITIES AHEAD OF YOU
• Explore unique, endless possibilities within you
• Remember on improving yourself
• Adding to youth, vitality and beauty of your mind!

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