What is the BRAINCHEF Philosophy?
Anything you want to achieve in life, love, happiness, money, knowledge, fitness, fame, any personal goal, what does it depend on? Of your actions. Laugh often and you will stay happy. Every day you do physical exercise, you are going to stay in shape. If you frequently review your finances and plan, you will do better financially. You read and learn daily, you will improve your knowledge. Every day you do something to improve, you will improve yourself.
Falling over and over again as children, we learn to walk. Drawing letters over and over again, we learn to write. Seeing and counting numbers over and over again, we learn to add. We try to say words so many times until we learn to speak. Every learning process in our lives involves repetition. You can ask a person what is a dog, and they might not be able to tell you a definition. But if you show him a picture of a cat, he knows that’s not it. The concept is formed by hundreds and hundreds of dogs that he has seen in his life until his brain formed an average image in his head. So it is with the other things we learn the more they are repeated, we have a better idea.
A human has more than eighty-six billion neurons. Each neuron can connect through its synapses with up to two hundred thousand others. This forms an impressive neural network of connections that is changing throughout our lives. Every thing we experience modifies our network of connections. This is how we store the information we receive. Everything, absolutely everything, what happens to us, we learn. Understand, learn it, how to incorporate it into the great warehouse that is our brain. If we hear a sound, if we see a photo, if we experience cold or heat. If a bird moves in a tree, if we smell a mango, if we speak, even when we think, the thought process itself is changing our neuronal skein.
This is where the main idea of the BRAINCHEF Philosophy comes from. Our success depends on our habits, our repeated actions. Actions depend on our thoughts. These thoughts are our responses learned over time to the different stimuli and situations processed by our senses. It is a cycle that feeds back and is updated every moment. We act, we reflect and we learn. Faced with each new situation we act again and that makes us reflect again and modify what we have learned again. Exposing ourselves to new experiences is what allows us to be different each time and not get stuck in the same position. Even when we stand completely still, things around us still change and move. Which causes each second to be a new situation, and with each new information our neural network readjusts.
Our mind is like a restless monkey, very sensitive, which reacts to any slight change. It is enough to try to close your eyes and try not to imagine a red cow to understand that the mind does not pay attention. Therefore, it does not seem easy to control our thoughts, to tame the monkey. One of the most common and profitable attempts is Meditation, ancient wisdom of Eastern cultures. It consists of accommodating yourself with your eyes closed in a quiet place, without noise, a pleasant temperature, without strong odors. Without even having eaten to avoid any external or internal distraction. It is precisely for a time to cut off all kinds of stimulation to the body. A total disconnection of all possible alteration. If nothing disturbs him, the monkey will remain calm.
After each meditation it is like leaving charged with new energy to understand what is happening around us. Through the knowledge of the monkey (our mind) we learn the cause of each jump. We act deliberately so that the monkey jumps as and when we want. That is, we begin to influence what we think.
We try to control every stimulus, every experience, every information we receive. This way, we only give the monkey what we choose. In other words, we feed our brain in a controlled way and with the best food. Like a chef we prepare our best dishes to our mind. Choosing what music we listen to every day. Selecting what videos, movies, photos and news we see. Reviewing what we say and who we talk to, what we smell and what we eat. All this information that we are going to consume on a daily basis will gradually change our brain network and our way of doing things. Inevitably, we will end up repeating what we want and preparing the way to achieve it.
You might believe that you choose what you see, what you hear, what you feel, what you eat or smell. However, most of the time this is not exactly the case. We are getting further and further away from that in this modern world, full of technologies and directed information. Currently, the consumption of information through the internet, social networks, streaming platforms, even the information search engines themselves return us results adapted to our profile.
Every search on Google or Safari, every word we type. Every image or news that we spend looking or reading. Video on YouTube that we see, “I like” that we give on Facebook or Instagram. Movie we watch on Netflix or HBO. Everything leaves a trail that these platforms then use to launch ads and advertising specifically directed at you. It’s as if whatever you do comes back to you multiplied many times over. If you accidentally made a wrong click while reading a website. You are hit with a load of information about what you clicked. To add to this, through the many social networks such as TikTok, Twitter, Snapchat and others. We keep up with all the people we know and have met in our life. With comments, opinions and his own vision of the world. Receiving the effect of those people on us.
Not that all this is bad, we live, grow and learn from our social interaction. In fact, one of the great forces that moves the human being is the desire to be recognized. This has been enhanced with these technologies. However, it is more difficult every day to keep consuming what really suits us.
We are a small squirrel perched on a trunk, floating, carried by the intense current of an uncontrollable river. The river is the mixture of everything to which we are exposed every moment. As slaves to the direction and strength of that current, we live. Trying to raise the sail of our own choices and navigate these stormy waters wherever we want. We avoid the content that separates us from the path of our goals, and we strengthen the appropriate one to achieve thoughts synchronized with them. The best of all is that if we learn to choose that content, it will return multiplied and with guaranteed effect.
Cook our own mental food of information. Or at least choose a chef who cooks what we like and suits us.
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