A basic and simple question to most people, one a five year old would be able to answer.
‘With your eyes’, they would reply.
But, it’s not through the lens of your eyes that you have tended see the world and life, but through the perceptions of your mind.
Or, more precisely…..Mindsight!
The super recorder mind.
Your mind is amazing.
Not only can it generate 46.8 thoughts per second (amounting to 70,000 thoughts per day), it can also store some 2.5 million gigabytes of memory. It is the mega computer of mega computers housed in your head. And…it’s always working. Working, evaluating, responding…..and keeping!
You see, it doesn’t just hold data and process images and compute everything from your cost of that snap vacation to Bora Bora to when you last visited Aunt Maud. It records it all.
Your mind is effectively a super tape recorder.
Not only does it hold learned info, it turns that into instructions. Life advice from parents, guidance insight from teachers/authority figures, influences from friends and colleagues, and, yes, even the news and the media. This becomes your ‘guide’ for living; your blueprint of how life and the world is made up and your place in it.
Furthermore is the unknown factor few realise. That mental tape recorder picks up the lot. All your throw away trash thoughts or your ongoing daily self-talk chatter gets picked up and kept in the same internal file named, ‘This is Life and Me’.
Your mind keeps everything. It’s a hoarder!
A world of perception.
What you see, is not what you see.
It’s what you are told to see by your mind from your life storage file. Like a type of artificial reality game playing out for real. Mindsight at work.
When any given situation occurs (directly or indirectly involving you), your mind has already noticed and begins feeding you a stream of beliefs (both personal and impersonal) it has held catalogued in its storage banks. This happens in the blink of an eye. So, before you’ve had time to make up your conscious mind about it, the subconscious has already jumped in and interrupted with a meaning.
This all takes place so fast you believe that these are your actual thoughts and views as you look at something or someone. Here’s an example –
You see a pretty blonde girl/handsome blonde guy you’ve not met before at a bar. You are attracted by the way they look and dress and how their personality comes across. Before you can do a thing about it, in comes the feedback from the ‘This is Life and Me’ file which instantly pulls up….
‘That’s a blonde, the last blonde you dated was a nightmare, stay way from blondes. They say blondes are more fun, but they aren’t very faithful, everyone knows, so steer well clear’.
Your potential dream partner is left standing at the bar and your happy love life with it.
Your mindsight saw her/him and fed you old junk you accepted.
What can you do? How can you override that non-fun file in your mind?
Mindsight isn’t right sight.
Let’s get back to those eyes.Remember what your eyes see.
Sounds a silly piece of advice, but where mental filters are spoiling the view, it’s wisdom you need to recall as often as possible. Your eyes are going to be a major ally in defeating Mindsight.
It will be like removing a mask that’s long prevented you from seeing life correctly. But, you are going to have be switched on eyes wise. Whatever you first see (gorgeous girl/guy, new industry job opportunities, business idea financial support etc), you MUST remind yourself that it IS what you see, NOT what your mind is telling you that you are looking at.
View it as every time you look at something/someone the Mindsight acts similar to a nagging parent when you were a teen or that work colleague that has to give their opinion on anything. Chatter you don’t need. Hear that voice but listen to yourself if what you see appeals to you.
That blonde looks a lovely person so you are going to go on over and find out. That new industry you heard about sounds interesting so you’re going to read up on it more. The unusual business idea you have, well, you’re going to develop it into a business plan and see who is interested.
That’s the skill to develop. To keep in mind Mindsight and how it filters the world.
From now on keep Mindsight at the back of your mind and your eyesight at the front.
Mindsight isn’t right sight for insight!
References – American Journal of Medicine – Amjmed.com – A Selection of Fascinating Facts About the Brain and Heart.
Clinical Neurology Specialists – cnsnevada.com – What is the Memory Capacity of a Human Brain?
Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and who we are. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the Supermind. YOUR SuperMind.
This week – Celebrities.
You can’t move these days without hearing the term celebrity. It seems people who do anything small or were once on a TV show are classed as celebrities. So much has this sub industry exploded it even has it’s own name….Celebrity Culture. As we can’t get away from celebrities then, SMS takes a good look by asking questions about them and their existence in our lives.
1. What does celebrity mean?
Let’s cut to the chase and start big. The label ‘Celebrity’ appears to be attached to virtually anyone these days and not for something momentous or record breaking. Typically until social media arrived a celebrity was a world figure at the very top – THE best actor/actress in the world, a person famous in history, etc. Not anymore. It truly has been dropped many levels. The dictionary definition of a celebrity is ‘The state or fact of being well known, widely discussed, or publicly esteemed’ Which leads to the first question….
Consequently, are current celebrities truly ‘well known’ or simply promoted as that so they will be?
2. Dumbing down or lifting up?
Modern society has been accused of being a cotton wool one. Particularly that every tiny risk or effort or activity is prevented due to worry over minor hurt or damage. The phrase attached to this is ‘dumbing down’. The ‘fall’ of society to this effect has been matched by the rise in numbers of so called celebrities. We used to be as tough as nails as people and celebrity was for the very few. Now we are soft as tissues and celebrity is for the many. Which begs the question…
Are we dumbing down celebrities and their hard endeavours to get there, or elevating ordinary people to think better of themselves?
3. Setting the wrong standards?
Historically celebrities were good for us. They were a small band of pinnacle people at the peak of certain professions. The very best of the very best. World beaters and world winners. They were figures to look up to, to admire, to be in awe of. People who had started like one of us and tirelessly and diligently fought and struggled to get where they are. Presently I’m sure that can’t be said of the current crop of ‘celebrities’ overall, many only barely working for less than a decade and often far less. Celebrities before were standard bearers for never ending determination, persistence, and sheer hard work.
As it takes far less time or effort to be called a celebrity, does that set good or poor standards ? What are they??
4. How many celebrities?
Since the start of the 21st Century the media has been busy making more and more people celebrities. The figure goes up every single week. Truth is, celebrity status was confined to a small group. This protected the very ideal of an exalted person who had achieved something of an elevated nature. This inspired people of all ages. Times have most definitely changed. Celebrities exist across the board, supplied with the title for a fraction of the level or results past celebrities reached. Where there were a handful, now it’s chocked full.
Do we need so many celebrities? Why do we require that many at all?
5. Finally, is it all real anyway?
French musician and record producer, Thomas Bangalter observed this about celebrity, ‘Usually the…celebrity lifestyle can disconnect people from reality’. Perhaps he has spotted something others never have. This whole celebrity thing is merely a bubble that people want to live in with lots of nice things, attention all the time, money to do what they want……and mainly to escape how hard real life is. A bubble life which protects them from the harsh struggles and mental pressures everyone goes through to live.
Is being a celebrity nowadays just a desire to escape from reality?
Ok, that’s another SuperMind Saturday done. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep thinking about these. We need more minds thinking about this issue and the others issue on SuperMind Saturdays. Why? Because it’s needed. Because the world requires new thoughts and ideas. Ones from people like you!!
See you next time for more super thinking.
References – Oxford English Dictionary – Celebrity.
Photo attribution – Free to use under Pixabay Content License by OmarMedinaFilms.
A mega life achievement you wish to come true. Or simply to solve a long standing problem.
Typically, you have in your mind a final outcome – fame, money, awards, freedom to live your life, less struggle and more success, issue sorted forever, you happy.
Your endgame is lodged in your mind and so you set about considering how to make that happen. To do that the normal approach is to think about what you want to accomplish, how you go about getting there, what’s in the way, who could help, what resources you will need, and a proposed timeframe it will take.
Regular or normal logical thinking we can call it.
But, there’s a new radical kid on the mental block that’s busting up this thinking. And it’s not only a surprise approach, it’s completely counterintuitive to how thinking has previously been done.
Welcome to Reverse Thinking.
How to NOT get what you think you want.
Take a look at that header line above again.
Re-read it and take it in. It’s not as confusing as your head first thinks. That’s because yours is currently a mind that is set in rational thinking mode. One that’s been set to operate in only that process. This phrase is anti in nature to its thought recognition and calculation. You feel befuddled.
This, though, is where we start moving into the reverse mindset world.
Default thinking is often at fault. It regurgitates the same old advice that has been around for some time. Tried and tested, you may shout. But, firstly it may not have been updated for the modern world (you wouldn’t advise a Victorian the same as a Gen Z would you!!). Secondly, established thinking doesn’t fit everyone. Some people require more creative approaches or are seeking success in an unusual field or packed market place and need to stand out as different. Or they face a unique complication with various factors causing headaches.
At this point I take it you are reading this blog post because you yearn for success. Or, more likely, you have been trying to break through in some way and it’s just isn’t coming together. Either way, you have an interest or skill or product you want to make more popular (and yourself with it).
And I bet you have looked at, or even been through, the usual routes to promoting it/you. With nada results.
Excellent.
Because now we are going to flip the thinking on its head.
Flip Reverse Thinking.
Let’s go rogue in the mind!
We are going over to the other side.
Marketing traditionally is based around promotion, advertising, profile building and customer acquisition through pushing out your message. The accepted manner by which you sell a product or individual. But, in 2009 Scott and Alison Stratten took on this concept when they wrote a book called, ‘Unmarketing’. Their chief premise was to focus instead on building relationships with customers and people through engaging, listening, and communicating with them rather than chasing sales and profit growth. Giving big value gets their big value multiplied back.
It was a raging success. It broke the mould on the way many approached business thinking.
This flipped mentality is how you can win at life too.
Take your common thinking over a matter and ‘go opposite’. Come at it from the other side. Or it often only takes a changed word or two to succeed at this. Don’t overthink. Simply think tails instead of heads. Learn to think the other way round.
Like this….
Don’t imagine a dream life to inspire you, dream what it would be like in ten years if you did nothing and everything stayed the same as now.
Don’t study how to find love, be more loving ‘as if’ you already had a life long partner.
Or don’t try to be rich and make money for yourself, look to create money for the good of everyone by what you set up or do.
Reverse thinking covers virtually every subject you can think of.
Think again in reverse.
Now it’s your turn.
Take any situation you want to improve or are stuck fast on and apply the flip factor. Reverse think.
How do you stop drinking too much alcohol becomes how to start enjoying different drinks without alcohol (by tasting drinks from around the world).
Desperate to lose weight is reversed to be enjoying fresher natural food (by trying good food of 5 different colours each day).
You can almost make a game of it (TikTok channel anyone????).
It really is endless. I spent years attempting and failing to write a book until last year when I stopped trying to write long meaningful passages and simply wrote ONE PAGE a day and no more. I thought it would kill my creativity. The total opposite actually happened. Every day my mind was ready to go again and full of ideas. The book was written and with it a fully edited second draft in 11 months!
**(I later found out that Ernest Hemingwaywrote in a very similar style)**
It was like a firework of possibility going off in my mind. BANG!
So, go activate your own BANG. Reverse your thinking and with it reverse your fate that appears stuck and your prospects slipping away. If you change your mind in the reverse progress will start coming back to you in a myriad of mega ways.
Reverse thinking gets you going magically forward in life again!
References – UnMarketing.com
Turnerstories.com – Ernest Hemingway’s Tips on Writing.
As 2025 comes to a close and 2026 is on the horizon, thoughts turn to the future. To OUR own future and how it could be happier, more content, become more meaningful, and one we will love to get up each morning to enjoy.
For the majority this takes the form of New Year Resolutions.
The self promise of what you are going to commit to personally changing so that life can change too. You know the sort!
Go to the gym three times a week. Eat healthier. Update the CV and search for a higher paid job. Get out and socialise with the right people. Date more of the right people. And so on. The usual fayre that never lasts past the end of January.
But, did you know there is ONE change that you can make that will not only last all year round but for the rest of your life?
Yes, ONE change that will make life better for ever?
Well you are about to find out and it’s one you can start making TODAY!
New You = New View.
Have you a New Year goal in mind?
One, perhaps, you’ve been promising yourself you would tackle for some time?
The scenarios I gave above fall under that category.
The vast majority (around 90%) tend to choose to sort something – lose weight, take more exercise and the like. Or they are wanting to end something – smoking, or drinking too much and similar.
But, in aiming to do so they are only altering the end result and not the root cause. The habit of eating 3000 calories a day, using the car rather than ever walking, or lighting up a packet of cigarettes a day is the end behaviour. The guaranteed outcome of a certain cause which is rooted elsewhere.
In the mind.
The craving for cake or carbs or cigars is a stimulus from the mindset. One that makes the large slice of cheesecake or Cuban special the desire to match an inner mental need or insecurity that gets met through the habit. A resultant want fed by a wrong wish.
And if you want a new you in the new year, it’s your mind where you need to look fora new view of things.
Mind reset.
2026 has to be your year of a new mindset.
Or in reality terms, a mind reset.
The mindset controls and governs everything else about you. It has longed dictated your actions and behaviours. The level of your self worth and what you deserve lies in its hands. Who you have been, the people you have allowed into your life, the job roles you have accepted, and the environments you have lived and socialised in, ALL flow from the state of your mind.
While today you will swear blind life has just been unlucky and those you got to know let you down or hurt you, in truth trace that all back and your mind set all that ball rolling long before.
What it believed you lived = Mindset 101.
And right there is where a very different life must commence. Right in your mind and its beliefs on life, the world, and you.
Take a look at your current habits and see your mindset echoing back. Bad partners = don’t deserve someone special. Awful diet = comfort food to satisfy your low self image. Smoking and drinking too much = to dull the pain of how bad life is or has become = trying to remove or smother the mentality that happiness isn’t meant for you.
Your life is the mirror of your mindset.
Relook in the mirror.
Take a look again at what you believe.
Relook in the mirror within you.
Take your main 3 or 4 areas in life that have never amounted to much. The ones that have left you in a lower paid job, no or unsupportive relationship, financially pressured, in average health, or poor shape physically. Or whatever ails you.
Now the key mindset part.
PERSONALISE them.
You have to face down your own mental beliefs that are putting you there.
This will revolve around views such as, ‘I’m not worth much’, ‘No-one good looking will fancy me’, and ‘I have no skills to get a better job’.
THESE are your mindset mirrors. You have to look at them squarely in the eye. You MUST NOT be uncomfortable at what they show you and walk away. It’s only a belief rather than a truth. See them for that and nothing else.
As the New Year comes spend every day telling yourself the opposite. EVERY DAY. First thing at night, during the day, and before bed. Write your new higher beliefs down and repeat them so your mindset changes into a stronger mode.
Reset and rewire your brain.
Your Life is a Statement.
It’s said your life is a statement.
If someone saw your circumstances or story it would make a statement to them about who you are. You might want that to be, ‘this person is a talented at understanding people’, or ‘he/she is a fit and healthy looking man/woman’, or whatever you want it to say where it matters to you.
Your life probably doesn’t make the best statements somewhere currently. That’s OK. By following the mirror mindset exercise above, once you’ve gotten over the embarrassing feelings of seeing how badly you believe about yourself, you can begin re-writing them. Re-write and then repeat, repeat, repeat. This will ensure you override the previous beliefs like a new software programme taking over a computer’s operations.
Make sure you write down and speak the best statements about yourself. If you struggle with that let me show you the idea to help you progress –
‘I have many skills that make me great with knowing people’,
‘Everyone has people who are attracted to them and so do I’,
‘I have lots of value as a person and am worthy of all good things that come to me’.
A slight twist and switch of beliefs into self statements that you can readily state and begin to feel AND ACCEPT as the days go by. This is your one goal to make 2026 your best year for a long time….or ever!
Change your mind about who you are and you will change your life. A new statement to the world that this is YOUR life and you are leading it as yourself.
2026 is the year everything changes because you changed your mind. Changed it by you and about YOU!
It’s a special time of loving and giving, caring and sharing, family and friends, food and fun. Work stops and we get to rest and enjoy quality time with each other, often seeing people we haven’t for a while.
But the really special part of Christmas isn’t happening in the heart.
It’s occurring in the mind.
And for the mind, that can be absolute magic.
Come with me into the Christmas mind and experience it.
Do you hear what I hear?
Now that’s another famous line from a Christmas song (by Bing Crosby).
A line then followed by, ‘Do you see what I see’?
This typifies someone already sensing the magic and spirit of Christmas. A mind alive with possibility, with good imagination, with seeing and feeling and believing in positive expectation. For them they have nothing but great thoughts and happy emotions about what is about to unfold over the coming couple of weeks.
Not so most of us.
We fear everything going pear shaped.Horrors fill our head.
Family will be each other’s throats. Someone will be unhappy with their present or plain underwhelmed with what they were bought. The food won’t turn out right – the turkey all dry, the veg has been under or over cooked, fussy eaters turn their nose up at their plate. Add to that everyone gets sozzled, the party games become competitive, and guests outstay their welcome.
Oh the joys of Yuletide.
You see Christmas is a micro version of the rest of the year. We imagine issue after issue and act accordingly. We give no possibility for lovely surprises actually taking place. For family or food problems at Christmas, we continue on into the year making it work colleagues or the weather that represents our expected nightmare.
Christmas is the rest of the year shrunk into two weeks.
Merry Mindsets.
Christmas is more about the mindset than anything else.
Yes we give, and appreciate, and love, but only because we let our mind see and feel these in the first place. We awaken magic in our mind that we then use to light up other people’s lives, and our own as a result inside.
Before we buy a gift we have the vision of the person receiving it and their happy face beaming with the wonderful emotions it makes them feel. We activate a perceived future and make it real in living colour. We access key areas of our mind to fire up our creative field that we project onto the screen of our imagination like a Christmas tree light switch on. And we then go do day after day what is required to bring that into actual reality i.e. find those presents.
Now, we can do this any day of the week or time of the year. It’s not season or Santa dependent.
What we haven’t noticed is that it’s quicker to come true in our lives at Xmas.
You imagine Xmas morning and your loved ones smiling and joyous at what you presented them. You then use that believed outcome and found the gift to match that picture. Time from seeing it in your mind to it coming perfectly true? A few weeks to even a couple of days.
To you that’s Christmas magic only. In normal life that magic won’t or can’t work.
But, that magic is in your mind permanently and can work anytime you allow it to cast its spell.
Magic is real.
Magic isn’t some supernatural invisible energy.
It’s a real living power in your mind. A power you can use whether it’s a Spring day or Autumn evening as much as a Christmas season potion.
Christmas shows what can be created in no time by the mind can be formed with good time in the very same way.
Take out the vision of your family and their wish appearing on December 25th, and in its place add YOUR vision for what you wish coming to you in your life instead with the same sure faith and expected conclusion.
Remove it being a Christmas gift delivered for others, and make it a personal fulfilment brought to you sometime soon. BOTH envisioned, felt, acted upon, and made real by you. YOU and your mind are the magic that sees and delivers. The Santa for others and yourself.
In the film The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy tells Glinda, The Good Witch of The West that she wishes to go back home to Kansas. Glinda reminds her, ‘You have always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself’.
And so do you my good friend reading this.
You have always had magic in your mind. Christmas helps you learn this.
Use your magic mind.
Christmas will soon be over, but the magic continues.
The key is to use that magic in your mind on an ongoing basis.
Start having more ideas – bigger ideas, ideas for yourself, business ideas, ideas for products, ideas of how you wish to live and who to be. They are like your family’s wish list for Christmas you went looking for. Now do the same for yourself and your future.
Hold the vision together with all the excited emotions that will happen when it all comes about.
THEY ARE MAGNETIC.
They pull it all together, the glue to the big plans. And they powerfully fuse it into your whole psyche so that you carry it with you day and night. Every single day you think about your wish. See it, lock into it, follow it. Just like you couldn’t let go of finding that doll or trainers for your kids.
Then keep taking action to get closer (like searching the internet or visiting store after store in December to get those wanted gifts – oh, yes, you couldn’t let go!!). Take some steps every day or week to get to that present. The gift to yourself for every day of every year to come. Be Santa for yourself.
Make the magic come to life.
Through using the magic of your mind that you always had.
