LinkedIn - Can you re-wire your Brain?
I miss a few things from this article, to name the first: the importance of perception. As far as I see, the same way we try to imagine our simply non-existent "rational brain" (sorry, that is just a small portion of that grey goo of neurons that tries to MIMIC rationality), we also try to forget that our concepts and visions fundamentally defines what we see (different people might see the same story totally different). So I think you might start re-wiring with accepting the fact: the way your brain can see the world is mostly your own reflection ;-)
http://hajnalvilag.blogspot.hu/2014/10/coping-with-infinity-digitization.html
Dr John M. Read
A complex dive here into identity and cognition Lorand, thank you. Speaking of perception I note that you rightly began with "As far as I can see..." The tool I mentioned, RRA works on re-framing perception, and places perception as memory => filtration - 're-wiring'. We break and make new connections, we weight different factors differently than we did in the past. This is constant as well as its argued here can be done intentionally using such a model approach. Caveat here for this who missed it, re-wiring is a metaphor for learning, changing the ways that we perceive situations, as Tinus notes below.
Dr John M. Read As far as I know, the only way to store information in a human brain is to rewire not just metaphorically, because it is in fact (according to biology and neuroscience, but correct me if I am wrong) a giant interconnected network of some billion logical switches. My critics of your method is a bit deeper, I try to explain.
As a SW Architect, I must know the difference between improvement: while a system in a coherent state, we have plans, can measure speed, can set new goals, etc., from refactoring. The latter comes when the system reached its maximum (the planned changes would create more complexity and decrease transparency, stability) but not good enough, so we must blow it up to its atoms, and build a fundamentally different structure from the fragments to support further improvement. During refactoring, the system is NOT coherent, normal plans don't work, and the only aim is to have the SAME operation as before. If you mix improvement and refactoring, you end up in chaos.
Also, as a quality assurance responsible, I know that we all do our best, and it works in the 97% of the time. But the stability of a system, the reliability of a development process, or the true value of a person is that 3%, when things go out of control; and it is HUGE effort to keep some order during that time compared to the normal way. And if you try to avoid that 3% or handle with normal thinking, you just skip the real tests and the chance for real change. Luckily enough, you can't.
Your method looks too nice and polished to me, I don't see despair, pain, guilt etc. mentioned (which are natural reactions when our mind is not in coherent state); you assume that your motivations work for you when you change and you can have a rational control on that process. I focus on the separation of conscious learning and surviving a crisis, when your motivations work against you, when you are flushed away by your emotions, because yes, this is the true operation of a HUMAN brain. I feel that to fundamentally change our attitude, this RRA is a bit shallow.
But you are the talent advisor, I am just a philosophical geek. :-)
