When you’re explaining, you’re losing.
That’s what I did a lot of as a religion warrior (pt.1).
Transitioning slowly out of that orientation to entrepreneur management consultant, I had to learn a critical lesson and I had to learn it fast.
Never lie, never coverup, and never get caught explaining.
In hard hitting business any sentence that has more than five words in it is automatically held in great suspicion.
That’s why I learned to love business.
In business it’s simple, either you’re creating economic value or you aren’t.
I like that. I know where I stand. There are clear cut lines of success or failure.
Either you’re making money or you aren’t. I couldn’t explain failure away. Frankly, I didn’t want to. I’m clear with everybody for whom I consult. Either what I say ended up making you money or it didn’t.
I loved living my life that way. It was logical, IT WAS RATIONAL. When I stepped into that world, I became a rational person. But, as I explained in pt. 2,
. . . I was still a mystic.
I needed to understand how that worked. I couldn’t be rational and a mystic at the same time. I guess I could, but I didn’t want to. I wanted a more rational explanation for my mystical experiences.
After a few years of studying the subject, I came up with an answer that satisfied me.
To start, research confirms that there are two actual voices in our brains. That’s what I experienced: the one I use in everyday conversation and a second voice that reflects on what I’m saying.
For example, “when you’re reading a novel and the characters are introduced, you give them a voice. It’s not the voice you speak with, it’s a voice that fits the character in the novel. That’s the second voice in your head.”
I concluded with good reason that the voice I heard was indeed the second voice speaking to my conscious mind.
Again, research tends to confirm that the second voice is most active during stressful times.
Yes, that conforms to my own experiences.
I have noticed that when I don’t seem to be able to come up with a plausible solution, I’m most apt to engage that inner voice.
You have the second voice too. We all have a second voice, and it is acting whether you know it or not. I am very aware of the second voice speaking to my mind, and that the voice comes from a different part of my brain. But, for now, I have made a personal declaration: I love the rational mind that I have worked at developing over the years.