Brain-Heart Connection EXPLAINED
The following chapter is from the Modern-Day Polymath
As of late, there have been studies with the HeartMath institute that has shed research & insight into the intelligence of the heart.
The researchers and scientists have conducted experiments to see what role the heart plays on the brain.
They have done studies showing how the brain waves are influenced when we center our attention on the heart. Jagged brain waves come in sync and harmony through a gratitude practice.
There is some type of intelligence in the heart that we can unlock when concentration is on our side. With concentration, we unlock intuition, creativity, fearlessness and much more.
What separates a modern-day polymath from other types of ‘smart people’ is the strategic use of emotions.
When I talk about emotions, I don’t mean sitting on your butt and crying about your feelings with others. This is often the first image that comes to mind when ‘emotional intelligence’ is bought up. I’d much rather call it energy intelligence.
This type of intelligence is the key to becoming braver & showing more humility.
2 fields where pride must be controlled is in journalism and science. Both fields are meant to propose a hypothesis after viewing the observable universe.
But the second the data from the experiment is not congruent with the hypothesis is the second the hypothesis should be dropped!
However, plenty of prideful journalists and scientists are nowadays doing the opposite. They are doubling down on faulty assumptions. They are looking to distort the data to fit their hypothesis.
This is silly.
It shows how pride can destroy a person who is aiming to become a master in any field. The intelligence of the heart is not accessed by someone who is prideful.
Becoming secondary to knowledge is the formula for a genius.
With that perspective, it’s easier to let go of a hypothesis and narrative which does not match the results.
To unlock the brain-heart communication, you need to:
- Improve concentration while building a system and expanding it.
- Control your pride.
Trying to control your pride without building anything is difficult.
That’s like telling someone to just stop a bad habit. Some people can do it. Especially if the bad habit has caused them a lot of traumas beforehand.
But most people need to replace a bad habit. By replacing the bad habit, it becomes easier to get rid of the bad habit.
I know a guy who stopped smoking cigarettes by reading comic books!!
Similarly, controlling your pride by itself is difficult. It’s much easier to be building something where you are constantly being proven wrong.
When you are being proven wrong, it’s not in a malicious way. It’s when you get a lot of information on a topic and think that you have chosen a side. Then suddenly, another side presents itself.
That’s when you are like:
‘Hm, I can see a case for the other side as well.’
There was a moment when I was seeing a bunch of businessmen on my Twitter feed. Everything they were talking about was business, business & more business. Market research, follow up sequences, optimizing each sale etc.
At first, when I heard that, I was like:
‘Okay, that makes sense.’
Over time, I didn’t like their content. I noticed everyone was typing like each other. They were a group of puppets & I didn’t want to be like them.
One day, I discovered this one poet who talked about being an artist. He was saying a true artist can go against the herd. This allows them to unleash their peak creativity.
When I heard this, I was shocked.
This artist was putting a voice to my experiences.
‘Yes! Screw these lifeless business puppets. They don’t know what true heart is. That’s why all their content sounds the same.’
For the next couple of weeks, I started to build a disdain towards a lot of the businessmen because I identified as an artist.
One day, I had a friend whose dog was about to die from a serious illness. He asked me for 1200 dollars for his dog’s surgery & said he would pay me back.
This was when I was first starting my business and had just spent 5000$ on initial expenses. I looked at my bank account and realized that I couldn’t comfortably give him the money. Technically, I could give the loan, but I would feel scared seeing my bank account that low.
Eventually, I decided to give him the money.
Waiting to get paid back felt like hell. I kept wondering:
‘When is this guy going to pay me back?’
I didn’t really care about his dying dog as much as I cared about my money.
That’s when I realized:
‘Wait a minute! I see exactly what these business guys are saying.’
Now their monetization strategies began to make much more sense.
I realized the volatility of the mind.
When new information is presented, the mind can SUDDENLY change perspective.
- I understood the perspective of the artist.
- I understood the perspective of the businessman.
And most importantly, I understood the 2 fields can coexist together.
‘An artist and a businessman coexisting together?’
Yes, it’s called an entrepreneur.
- Entrepreneur = Businessman + Artist
A few weeks earlier, I was pitting business and art against each other.
Now, I was learning that the 2 could work together.
1 side leads and the other side complements.
This whole experience made me say:
‘Yo dummy, don’t be so prideful!’
A prideful guy or girl is quick to want to put labels on themselves and identify with something. Humans are natural recruiters. They want to keep recruiting others to their line of thinking.
The intelligence in the heart can only activate inner genius when the ego is replaced with true knowledge.
By being in knowledge acquisition mode, it’s easier to tame the pride.
When taming the pride, it’s easier to make connections from a variety of fields.
Your level of genius will correlate with the level of pride that you have controlled.
