Originally Posted by MindGames
How do you think you learned math as a child? All you have to do is learn math.
By the way, yes, you can influence your brain to restructure itself well into your adult life. It's called neuroplasticity.
I know about that, but VVVV
Originally Posted by Dianeva
I haven't looked into it, but my common sense tells me that the brain is very powerful, and people can change their brain structure to a certain extent, making themselves better at solving problems, memory, etc. I've always believed this, just from witnessing what I'm able to do with my own brain. But I wouldn't be surprised to find out there is a limit to how good someone can get at something, at least in some areas, and that limit might be different for different people, but maybe not.
I pretty much agree with this. I've had experiments and experiences with my own mind too, confirming this for me, even before I heard of neuroplasticity. However, most people can probably only do it to an extent. Research has also shown that some people are better at it than others.
Maybe given enough time, like if we achieved immortality, it would be possible to change your brain completely. Maybe.
But my understanding is that geniouses and savants etc. have fairly different brains to the average person, which enables them to do these amazing things and I'm not sure whether it is possible to change your brain that much. Of course I may be wrong, but no one knows at the moment.
Originally Posted by Dianeva
As for things in the real world, I think a lot of it unfortunately is luck. For example, the chance that a particular business has of succeeding, no matter how creative and innovative and charismatic and intelligent its members are, since there are so many businesses that are just as ambitious, is going to be due to what we might as well call random chance. A potential customer happens to be dating the boss's daughter, etc. It's analogous to winning a lottery, but maybe with better odds.
Originally Posted by MindGames
I believe differently. I believe that if a product is innovative and very useful, people will want to buy it, and will recommend it to others. There are many determining factors which go into how successful your business will be. Whether or not the business takes all of these into consideration is where their success is determined.
Agreed.
This kind of thing isn't really chance. There's definitely determining factors. It's just a case of whether you know what they are. Of course it may be impossible to determine all the factors. But that doesn't mean they aren't there.
For example if I decided to set up a company which sells "small portable telephones".
It would most likely fail. But there could be a lot of people in the area where it's set up which have a good sense of humour and decide to buy one and it could spread from there. But you can still determine whether a demographic has a sense of humour which would help this company succeed.
Unless, I just realised, you might be talking about people who don't research these factors and just start up a business and just happen to succeed. But then there could be sub-conscious processes at work, "telling" them to set up this business, who knows.
But now I have forgotten why I am arguing this.
Oh yes (that analogy wasn't very good and I thought I was arguing solely about that for a second lol), if you're leaving it up to luck, you have a high chance of failing. 50% chance. No amount of wanting to succeed will increase your chances. This is proven by the studies in which "psychics" etc. fail to score any better than chance for a given task. Unless you make an exception for stuff which isn't physically possible.
But that's kind of contradicting your belief isn't it.
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