3A-What are you capable of?

Whether we know it or not, the brain is our most vital organ in our body.  It controls everything we do and everything we feel.  Not only is it responsible for our most crucial functions, but it is also powerful enough to control our emotions.  The only problem to this is we need to learn how to control it.  We have the power to control more things than we can imagine.  

"There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so" -- Shakespeare

If someone were to tell you that you could change a situation by simply thinking positively, you would call them crazy.  But are they really? Many studies have found that positive thinking leads to less stress, decreased depression, along with many other things.  This doesn't mean that you see the word as perfect.  We all know that there are circumstances in life that are unfair and cannot be changed.  There are ways, though, that we can look at the unfortunate dilemmas that arise, and see them in a more positive light then we would other times.  This will make the situation easier to deal with more times than not.

 There are many other ways in which the power of thinking comes into play.  In this weeks discussions, we talked about different types of motivation. In intrinsic motivation,  you are examining the short-term goals that you are trying to reach. This is more focused on the physical motivation that people receive such as praise, trophies, and sometimes even punishments.  This quote, in my opinion, has more to deal with extrinsic motivation.  This is when you are thinking about the longer term goals you set for yourself, in which you have to find motivation within yourself.  It is sometimes difficult to find this type because of outlying forces that you have no control over.