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P. Start creating a garden in your structured brain
We already know that creating a fluid garden brain that can adapt fast and is not afraid of the unknown, is not looking for quick fixes is the need of the hour if you want to survive in today’s age of AI.
We also already know that it is hard to change the way a structured brain works. Therefore, you need to adopt a hybrid approach. The approach is that of planting a garden in between your city of rigid structure, rather than getting worried, or hurrying to change the entire brain model.
I provide you with a model of how to start. You need to create this model and nurture it while accepting that you may not see any immediate results.
Create a farmer mindset. Prepare the ground, add fertilizers, wait for the right weather, sow seeds, and water the seeds, when the plant comes out protect them from insects, birds, and pets, nurture the plants, and finally when the plant grows, harvest and enjoy the food. You must be ready for a bad weather destroying your crop. But you start again.
- Prepare Ground: Start communicating with more languages(for example Hindi, Kannada, English, Spanish), etc. Learning a new language is much easier today with different technologies. (For example, South Indian languages like Kannada, Telegu, Tamil, and Malayalam have a lot of similarities, you can start learning them).
- Plowing: As you create the grown, find people to converse regularly on different languages. Watch movies and shows in different languages. This will make your prepared ground much more productive.
- Collect Seeds: Seeds are your ideas. You need to categorize them first: a) Relationship(separate: Romantic, parental, child, siblings) b)Friendship c) Habits d) Information e) skills f) tools g) professional problems h) finance i) personality, j) Life’s events, etc. Remember seeds are real, not stories. So you need to take a dairy and partition the dairy into sections and start writing it down.
- Sow the seeds: Once you have written in your diary the relationships you have, the existing tools, skills, what you are good at, and what you are not good at, your aspirations, your ambitions, your existing wealth, your responsibilities, your habits, your experiences, you read them. Then you try to translate them into different languages and think of them in different languages. (You are sowing the seeds in your brain now, so now you will not overthink but rather start thinking about them).
- Water the seeds(ground): Now you will put the right amount of water into each of the seeds. Start looking for a beginner’s book on different seeds. You can go to an old bookshop and ask for help. You are not going to gather your information from news and 15-second videos and WhatsApp. You will read books. As you read the books, make hand-written notes on the relevant section of your diary. After reading one book, look into your notes and think about them in different languages.
- Germination: Now for one book on one area in life that you have written a summary, you draw block diagrams of the summary. Also, think about a life event to which this block diagram can be applied. Write down the life event and how applying this block diagram will be beneficial. The result will be the first plant in your garden brain.
- Sunlight: You need the plants to have sunlight, but not too much of it. Sunlight is experimentation. Every block diagram that you drew, you apply to the area of life which you have written down. Start small. Take baby steps and write down the observations. You are now not looking for success or failure, good or bad feelings. You are just exposing your newly born plants to enough sunlight, and allowing their roots to become stronger.
- Monitoring: You will track your progress. You can simply measure your anxiety and your success probability with the free tools provided in this article. You will compare your progress every week. If there is no improvement, you will sit with your diary and identify what are the things that are not working well. You will make small changes in them.
- Eliminate grass and unwanted plants: When you start creating a garden brain, you will have several more ideas, and new ideas will keep coming in every day. Remember, this is a garden brain where there are no stories. So every idea needs to be written down. When you observe that some ideas are not beneficial, you will write rejected beside those ideas with a date. In this way your brain will keep healthy and productive plants.
- Nurture: Now your garden and your farm would need much more care. You will increase reading, writing, experimenting, and observation every day.
- Fertilize: You have to use a lot of fertilizer on the ground. This is done by investing on more tools and books, reading and implementing them. Now your books will not be beginner level, but rather intermediate to higher levels. You will focus on history, and case studies.
- Market: Having a productive garden and giving your better solution for abstract problems is not enough. You have to make them sellable. So you need to build your trust and reliability. The way you do this is not by sitting at home with technology, but by being around real people and implementing the solutions with them, making prototypes that work, churning small business models, and testing the models, publishing your learning experience through videos and blogs. The more people know about you, use your methods, follow your guidance, start seeing success, the more you will be trusted and relied upon.
- Fruit: Now consume any problem, and take a virtual tour of your garden. Unlike a structured brain, you are not looking for the shortest path to solve the problem, but a process that can create tools necessary for solving the problem. A new tool will be created by your brain for each of the problems. Your way of using the solution will remain the same. You will test the solution(like we taste the fruit), measure, and decide.
- Sell: Once a process start giving result, over and over and over and over again, that process is your fruit. Offer the process and the tools to consumers.
- Save, Spend, and Invest: Now you will become economical like a farmer. Any financial gains out of your hard work need to be divided into three parts. One part you will use, one part you will save, and one part you will invest back into your ground(books, tools, experiments, interactions). You are now a mental agriculturist, and you have to remain ready for a bad season like a draught or flood, and at the same time take good care of your ground.
Throughout human history, it is being observed that any new skill takes about 10,000 hours of practice. Considering that you are putting in 5 hours a day, it will take about 7 years for you to have a brain that is valuable in the age of AI, that is free from the risks of manipulation, depression, anxiety, and impulsivity, and that will not remain struck.
Seven years appear so much of time, isn’t it? The beauty of the system is that you are not looking for perfection, you are not looking for instant results, you are not looking for any output. So you will not be under pressure to perform and succeed. If you start today, at least you will be in a position after 7 years where AI can not replace you.
Do I even have to tell you what will happen if you do not start?
Q. Conclusion
Finally, when you get any new idea, either you can use the idea as a tool, or as a seed. You can choose to use the idea to produce something beneficial for you immediately, or you may use the idea as a seed and plant it in your ecosystem to grow.
For instance, you are in a job and want to do something of your own and become an entrepreneur. If you are using this idea as a tool, you may immediately quit your job and start a business. You still do not know how productive the outcome will be or, how sustainable the outcome will be. So you will never know the outcome of your decision for a very long period of time.
On the other hand, if you plant the seed of entrepreneurship in your brain, the seed will grow slowly into a plant. You will know in time if it is a tree, shrub, herb, or creeper. You will know how productive is the plant and how long will the plant supply you with the resources you need to solve your life’s problems.
You will harvest more plants when you observe the seed to have grown into a long sustainable productive plant. This plant can now be a fully grown business structure, where you know the end-to-end process of the business, challenges, finances, benefits, and competition. When you finally become an entrepreneur, your chances of losses will be less as you have already seen the idea to grow from a seed to a fully sustainable harvest.
When you have a rigidly structured brain, you always have to take decisions and remain in decision anxiety, but when you harness a forest brain, the brain guides you through the path. The first one gives you a quicker result, but an unknown outcome, and the second slower result, but a much-known outcome.
Life is yours, choices are yours, and so are the consequences.
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