The Neothink Society · Psychology and Self-Leadership · February 2012
A changed way of thinking is the first result, and it shows up where life is hardest.
The Neothink mind is a way of using the human capacity for thought that already belongs to every person. In the Neothink Society, self-led men and women across 140+ countries apply it in the places that usually break people: strife, loss, and the difficult situations that arrive without warning. What changes is the relationship to the problem itself. The mind that once flinched learns to go deep, hold steady, and work the situation through to its resolution.
The First Result The way of thinking changes before the circumstances do, and that change is what makes the circumstances move.
What you understand, you can control. A member who learns to read a hard situation clearly stops being moved around by it and starts moving it. That is the shift the framework produces, and it carries into the ordinary hours of a life: the way a setback is read, the way a decision is made, the way creative capacity finally has room to surface.
The first result of the Neothink mind is a changed relationship to difficulty: the same situations that once moved a person around become situations he moves, and the creative capacity that pressure used to bury finally has room to surface.
The Creative Opening When the mind stops bracing against difficulty, the energy it spent flinching turns into making.
Creation is one of the clearest signals that the change has taken hold. People who never thought of themselves as writers begin putting their own feeling, and the feeling of others, onto the page. One member, working through exactly this opening, wrote a poem of his own.
In through your dreams, though impossible things may seem, someday, somehow, you will get through to the goal you have in view. Mountains may fall and the seas divide before the one who is in his stride, who takes a hard road day by day, sweeping obstacles away. Believe in yourself and in your plan. Say not "I cannot," but "that I can." The prizes in life we fail to win because we doubt the power from within.
Common Questions
What does it mean that the Neothink mind changes your way of thinking? It means the first and most visible result of using the Neothink mind is not a solved problem but a changed relationship to problems. The mind that once flinched at strife, loss, and sudden difficulty learns to go deep, hold steady, and work a situation through to its resolution. The change in thinking comes first; the change in circumstances follows from it.
How is this different from positive thinking or coping? Positive thinking and coping work on the feeling about a situation while leaving the reading of the situation unchanged. The Neothink mind changes the reading itself. A member learns to see how a hard situation actually works, which is why control follows. The aim is accurate sight under pressure, not a better mood about being stuck.
What is the mechanism that produces the change? The mechanism is a changed relationship to the problem rather than a changed problem. When a person reads a difficult situation clearly, he stops being moved around by it and starts moving it. The same circumstances that once controlled him become circumstances he controls, because he now understands how they work.
Why does understanding give a person control? What you understand, you can control. A situation a person cannot read moves him around at will. A situation he reads clearly becomes something he can act on with cause and effect on his side. Understanding is the operating cause; control is its result. This is why the Society treats clear sight, not force of will, as the source of power.
Why does a changed way of thinking release creative capacity? When the mind stops spending itself bracing against difficulty, that energy is freed to make. Creation becomes one of the clearest signals that the change has taken hold. People who never considered themselves writers begin putting their own feeling, and the feeling of others, onto the page. Creative capacity was always present; the changed way of thinking gives it room to surface.
How does this connect to the wider work of the Neothink Society? The Neothink mind is a way of using the human capacity for thought that already belongs to every person. A changed way of thinking under difficulty is one lived result among many that members apply across business, relationships, health, prosperity, and self-leadership. The individual result and the integrated life are the same practice seen at different scales.
Further Reading
- The Neothink Mind: the way of using thought that produces a changed relationship to difficulty.
- Integrated Thinking: the cognitive mechanism behind reading a hard situation clearly.
- What You Understand, You Can Control: the principle that makes understanding the source of control.
- Self-Leadership: how members move situations instead of being moved by them.
- Creative Capacity: what surfaces when the mind stops bracing against difficulty.
Membership is by application.