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YOU CAN MASTER YOUR BRAIN POWER 你可以掌握⼤腦⼒量 In fact, with practice we can use System 2 to reconfigure certain heuristics in System 1 as more-effective way. This is how we develop SPIN them automatically. UP POWER by consciously practicing virtuous behaviors until they become habit and we do A lot of times in our life, we tend to make decisions about our initiatives and experiences in a System 1 type thinking. We react quickly, we don’t think about it too deeply, we just do something for the sake of saying we did something. We need to take a step back and be more conscious about our decisions around our initiatives to understand what we are doing and why. We need to act in a more mindful, purposeful way instead of reacting in a hit & run fashion. Our initiatives will be much more effective and successful if we can change our way of your Brain Power System 2 (Rational Brain) System 1 (Primal Brain) “The One You Feed” The parable of the 2 wolves puts it more poetically. An old man was telling his grandson about the battle that goes on inside everyone. ‘The battle’, he said, ‘is between 2 wolves that we all have inside us’. ‘One is BAD. It is greedy, arrogant, and full of self-pity and resentment’. ‘The other is GOOD’, he continues, ‘It is peaceful, loving and kind’. The man falls silent. The boy thought for moment and then asked, ‘Which wolf wins?’ The man replied, ‘The one you feed’. SPIN UP YOURSELF