Thoughtober Day Five
How flexible is your thinking?
This is a fun one today.
Your brain will predict the outcome of a scenario multiple times, having many endings to attempt to ‘prepare’ for what is to come.
This happens on a limbic system and cerebellum setting.
This can lead to prediciton error based on emotional dysregulation. In particular with groups that have been exposed to fear conditioning paradigms.
Do you want to improve your flexible thinking?
Hell, yes you do.
So take any event, experience, habit, action, behaviour and encounter and instead of your limbic system and cerebellum predicting the outcome let you prefrontal cortex use its magnificent insight, motivation and problem-solving objectivity to come up with all the possible different endings there could be.
Have fun, use your imagination (also a frontal lobe function!), get creative and enjoy!
“When the whole world is entrenched in the bunker of physical and often emotional isolation, only flexibility and ingenuity can revive us to remain grounded and imbibe the bolstering sunlight piercing through the canvas of chaos.”
I'm not sure I understand this. This morning I had a situation at work and was thinking of all the things that could go wrong- I thought there was something I should have done but hadn't, panicked then found out that I had actually done the right thing some time ago. What is the difference with the first scenario and the second where you say coming up with all the possible different endings there could be? Surely some of these will be negative so where is the benefit? Am I missing something?