Top performers

One of the more fascinated books I read learning more about the mind was; How Lisa Feldman makes emotions; here, I learned all emotions are basically labels we come up with learned from our surroundings.

Emotions are not coming from one place in the brain, and how we express them is different for everyone.

Being angry means something else to me, then it might be mean to you. It goes back to the past; I learned from some people that doing X is angry. From certain events, I learned when to be angry and how to act.

While going deeper into the rabbit hole, learning from neuroscientists and other experts, I felt less motivated to learn more about mental models or read more books.

All I was doing was learning things from others instead of really understand more about my own mind. Instead of really understanding something, I'm only passing on information I've read.

While watching Tiger Woods play golf, I realized that people like this - top performers - could conquer the mind, or better put, they can have no mind. They are seeking the limits of what they can achieve.

They understand things because they ask the right question. After all, it's always the answer that leads to a new question; I start to believe that the answer is always hidden within the question.

I started to think back at moments in my life where I did things I didn't know I could do. It's here I realized that in moments like this, I was in the state of no-mind. When you let go of everything, you can unlock something you could not do before.

Now I'm interested in how you can unlock this; how can you understand how you achieve something great. That's a question that I'm fascinated by.

What are my limits of understanding?