The 4 states of mind give you a foundational understanding of your own psyche and the ability to spot the pitfalls that may be dominating your life. Understanding the 4 states of mind allows you to move past what may be hindering your success and create a much more fulfilling life.

We are living in hard times, and there can be no doubt that many of our attitudes towards others, including migrants, refugees and other ‘out groups’ is hardening too. This article explores 5 reasons which may be behind these hardening attitudes and considers why we might want to be aware of these shared human tendencies.

Have you ever had that ‘gut feeling’ that something didn’t feel right? Did you ever chock it off and nothing and just gone ahead and done whatever you were doing ignoring it, only to find out later that it turns out to be a very bad idea? I have. Now I listen to my gut, maybe you should too. What is intuition? That’s a loaded question and the reality is we don’t know but assume it comes from slow brainwaves finding patterns of events in our memory. Let’s talk.

As a high IQ person do you ever noticed yourself talking down at cocktail parties and office parties? I mean, really dumbing down the dialogue? Why do you suppose you do that? Well, it turns out average IQ people are usually there and they really don’t have a lot of cognitive surplus to begin with, and add a little alcohol and you’d swear you were talking to a sub-65 IQ child or chimpanzee. You can only talk about the weather or the last ballgame so long before you get bored or want to start talking about the programming of supercomputers to predict weather and climate anomalies or the future of sports in a zero-gravity environment, which needless to say is way over the head of the average inebriated party goer. Let’s talk.

Should our youth be allowed to take drugs to enhance their cognitive ability? Why not? If they are safe, they can help the child, youth or college student develop their minds. Think of the increase cognitive surplus to our society and civilization, maybe that child will grow up and be a research scientist and discover a cure for Cancer or HIV/AIDS. Maybe they will invent a new form of alternative energy to power the third world without pollution. See my points here.