Personality Test
Here below is a simple personality test to see whether you are a conscious
mind thinker or not. Whenever you let your conscious mind direct you, you
live a life of over-caution and indecision. In the conscious mind there is
always
a reason to be wary, suspicious and alert! This can lead to stress and
paranoia. Also, decisions are very hard to make because you have two voices
in your head telling you two different things at the same time. Most people
use the conscious mind to direct them in their lives, which is risky. To see
whether you do, just see if the below questions ring a bell with you. Do
these seem familiar? Please tick the ones that you can relate to:
What
does this mean?
If
you ticked
less
than five,
you probably feel O.K. most of the time but you sometimes worry and feel
down.
If
you ticked
between six and ten,
you have a generally negative outlook on life. You are probably not the life
and soul of the party and are not having a fantastic life, to say the least.
You are a conscious mind thinker.
If
you ticked
more
than ten,
you are in the grip of conscious mind thinking and you really need to absorb
and apply every
bit of information in The Principles of Life book. You worry constantly and
feel mentally and physically overloaded. You need to take charge of your
thinking as you are on a collision course to mental burn out.
Conclusion
Through studying people throughout my adult
life, I have come to some startling findings with regard to the different
mindsets of the two types of people that we encounter: the super-successful
and those who are averagely successful. Less than 5 per cent of the world’s
population actually goes beyond the success level of the average person and
into the realms of the super-successful. Most people (the other 95 per cent)
are slightly above the average, become the average or are below the average
in terms of success. So what separates these two personality types? The
biggest difference I have found is that the super-successful people of the
world are predominantly subconscious inner wisdom thinkers while the average
person is predominantly a conscious mind thinker. What does that mean? Read
on!
The
conscious mind thinker rarely aspires to anything great because the
conscious mind is always looking to find fault and criticise any thought,
which it believes is too ambitious. Whenever an ambitious thought or idea is
brought to mind (from the subconscious) it is immediately analysed and
criticised until the conscious mind finds a fault. Soon, whatever the
thought or idea is, is mentally pulled apart until it no longer seems
sensible. This process of over-analysis is employed whenever a new thought
or idea may take a conscious mind thinker outside the comfort zone.
The
conscious mind thinker takes these negative conscious mind doubts very
seriously indeed and nine times out of ten “back heels” the idea. He or she
uses this frustrating process all of their life and this is
what keeps them from ever really taking the chances that actually
might have yielded a better outcome. The conscious mind is always ready to
dream up some negative scenarios to throw a spanner in the works on any new
plan or idea. The more those doubts are accepted — whether they are personal
doubts or perceptional ones — the more they become conditioned ways of
thinking. For example, if a conscious mind thinker thinks about starting a
new college course and becomes excited at the prospect of starting it, the
conscious mind will usually try to sabotage the idea with negative input and
scenarios to put them off. The doubts creep in.
Somebody
who is heavily influenced by their conscious mind thoughts may abandon the
idea now that they are “thinking about it realistically”. For the conscious
mind thinker there is always reason to doubt, always reasons to be wary and
there is always a “But what if?” to watch out for. This sorry state of
affairs is the reason that so many talented, able people never reach their
true potential and instead live average lives. Why? Because they believed
the negative chatter of the conscious mind instead.
On the
other hand, the subconscious inner mind thinker has learned either
automatically or through experience that the negative chatter of the
conscious mind is not important and therefore is not to be taken too
seriously. Instead of running with and analysing those negative thoughts
they immediately dismiss them into the wastepaper bin in their mind and
forget about them.
Through
experience the person has found this the best
way to live or perhaps they have done this automatically. This
thinker understands the power of thoughts and rather than using them to
destroy their potential they use them wisely, to propel themselves into
success. They understand that there is no practical benefit in thinking such
ridiculous thoughts, so they don’t do it. The subconscious inner mind
thinker is a cool customer and remains so when others are getting stressed.
They are
able calmly to think through the best options for solving problems and are
able to make good judgements because of that. Self-belief is not something
that such a person has to keep reinforcing in themselves as, without the
chatter of the conscious mind, their thinking is clear and knowing anyway.
No self-bolstering is needed for the inner subconscious thinker as they are
wisdom thought-driven. Fault-finding and self-criticism are not wise either
so they do not play any part of the daily routine for this person.
Without
the constant annoying chatter of the conscious mind to bother them, the
subconscious inner wisdom thinker is very goal-oriented and looks forward to
taking on new ventures. Whether they be new career directions, new hobbies
or anything which excites and gets the juices going, such a thinker never
questions whether they can do it or not. Failure to succeed never comes into
the equation as this person has total faith in their inner wisdom to guide
them.
When
things happen in life that some people may call “negative” the subconscious
inner mind thinker looks at solving the problem rather than focusing on the
problem itself. Thinking that every challenge that life throws at us is a
lesson from which we can understand and grow wiser from is another
characteristic of such a thinker. This thinker typically makes good
decisions and can be perceived as “lucky” by some people who have the
majority mindset. They do not take
seriously the negative doom and gloom of the conscious mind so they remain
unaffected by it.
So there you have it I know this is going to
be a difficult decision but which part of your mind are you going to use for
your life? Your conscious or your subconscious? For a detailed plan of how
to make the switch check out The Principles of Life book
which is featured
on this site.
