Neuro Pathways

Two weeks ago my fiancé and I hiked Mt. Whitney in California. The hike was 22 miles round trip, 6000 feet in elevation and peaked at 14,600 feet. The hike was as exhilarating as it was difficult. Along the way you have many thoughts as you can imagine. One of the things I noticed was the great mountain seemed to form perfect grooves and pathways from water, snow and glaciers traveling down the mountain for thousands of years. The interesting thing is that with grooves that vast, the water must travel in the same way time after time. As I hiked I began to think that we emulate those mass grooves with our nuero pathways. We have such vast nuero pathways inside of us that operate exactly like the mountains pathways have developed. The same way the water travels repeatedly down the same pathways, so do our behaviors. We often wonder why our results in our lives do not change. We wonder how we get stuck in the same circumstances. We may have even ramped up to relative success, and we cannot break through to the next level.
The reason is deductive versus inductive thinking. The reason our results never seem to change is we get caught in our own heads and our own version of how the world works. We always think we have the right way and resist change. I believe it was Einstein that said, “Absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, and so on are figments of the imagination!” This statement is the basis of Quantum Physics. So how do go from deductive thinking and trying to make everything fit so nicely inside your box (your head) to more inductive ways of thinking to create new nuero pathways? Therefore, you can create bigger and better results for your life.