DoS your brain for good
I’m sure that you had a moments in your life where you were in a panic or you didn’t know what to do. Moments where you need to make very important decision in your work, life or even simpler ones in the supermarket. Moments where the different paths you can take on are numerous.
Most of the time this is the moment where you get upset or even depressed. I’m talking from my personal experience. I saw other people — my friends, family in such situations and you can feel their sadness and confusion, a look that says:
What to do now, huh?!
Attack your brain!
Personally I’m pedantic and a perfectionist. Many times this has led me to situations where I’ve asked myself over and over again “And now what?!”, “What to do now?!”, “Sh*t, so many choices, which one is the most right?!”. I try one approach, try another. Then I think about a few others…
Stop! Don’t panic!
a voice in my head is telling me. Okay! Here we start brainstorming together with the voice — evaluating different ways ouf of the situation, playing a little bit of chess so to speak, trying to guess the next turns of the Universe based on your next decisions. Imagining the board in 1, 2, 3…5 turns ahead. Sharing with a friend sometimes using it just to listen to your your reflections…
Giving the analogy with the Chess reminds me of a very good article:
I agree with it but there is a reason why I give the chess analogy after all…
In such a situation of despair when we have to make a call but the options and variations are too many I start noticing that I have pushed myself so hard…that so my brain is in denial.
I DoS-ed my brain…for good!
In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to the Internet. Denial of service is typically accomplished by flooding the targeted machine or resource with superfluous requests in an attempt to overload systems and prevent some or all legitimate requests from being fulfilled — Wikipedia
I have flooded my brain. Looking at the chess board and all the figures. First the opponent’s one — the situation in which you are involved. Then looking at your figures — where you are located in this situation, how you get in it and how you prefer to go out of it. Back and forth changing the view from yours to the other viewpoint and the opposite. Then you start thinking of all possibilities and different outcomes from this situation and try to find the best one for you... After doing it for awhile you get confused, depressed maybe. If you continue to calculate the variations a little further more, in some not so far moment your brain will be in denial.
And that is good because it will shut down for a moment or for the night leaving the problem out of scope of your consciousness. But for sure you have noticed that the brain is a strange computer because even when shutdown it continues to calculate subconsciously.
So my point is…
Do not give up over the sadness or depression! Attack your brain with positive thoughts, escalating all variations good or bad, trying to ignore the bitter taste and just wait for your brain to give up, to deny everything regarding this problem. Here’s where the magic starts, subconsciously! Later when you return to the issue refreshed and start where you left in denial, you will notice after some time that you actually find a way better creative solution or a whole new perspective or point of view.
