Every time you make a deposit or withdrawal your bank sends you a message and you check your balance.
Your portfolio accumulates junk. Penny stocks, vanishing companies etc. Then a clean up is done. Loss making stocks are sold. In case something else appears more attractive, a relative choice is made.
In our bank account, if we see a transfer of money of Rs.100 that we did not do, we will bring the bank down!
Yet, this wealth we guard with our life is not as important at the wealth lying in our brain. Our knowledge, perspectives, interpretation, thoughts, desires, wants, motivations, moods, decisions have been left unguarded.
Every day your home gets cleaned, garbage removed, dishes washed, pest control done, air purifier keeping the AQI just right. If a visitor is expected, the house goes for a deep cleaning.
They tell you Net Worth, IQ, EQ, but what no one tells you is about Brain Quotient!
Our real wealth, one that cannot be stolen, inherited or willed away and one through which we become who we do, is actually between our ears. Yet we pay the least attention to what garbage lies within! If I give you an old newspaper, you won’t keep it in your locker. Our brain however is an involuntary and indiscriminate storage of all the rubbish that has come our way. Words people have said, incidents one saw. In Mahabharata, every character except Krishna is carrying memories of past insults and injustices that they now seek to revenge!
Reading, new languages, new skill or discussions with those who are masters in their subject improves our brain balance. This is one thing that cannot be bought by a fat bank balance.
Education is a start but the pursuit of knowledge is an endless journey. Education atrophies with time. Unless we constantly feed our Brain with new knowledge, it’s balance begins to slowly deplete. Most people live a life of repetitive experiences by living their life on default mode. With age we stop learning new things. We defend our crystallised opinions and untested convictions!
Anxiety often comes from unfinished and often conflicting thoughts and desires. A clean, clear, decluttered mind will produce beautiful thoughts.
The ability to purchase an experience does not guarantee the ability to enjoy it. It’s good to have a healthy bank balance but critical to have a healthier Brain Balance for the quality of our life depends solely on the quality of our thoughts. Not by raising our standard of living but raising our standard of thinking is the path to finding Joy.
They have sold us the pursuit of a beautiful body. Exercise, diet, make up, anti-ageing. There is no money to made in selling you a beautiful mind. Yet the life we experience is through the mind and a beautiful mind is even more desirable than having a beautiful body!
Charlier Munger says the goal should be daily going to bed a little wiser than you were when you got up.
Be a learning machine. Focus on growing your brain balance.
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