" As you learn the secret, you will come to know how you can have, be, or do anything you want, you will come to know who you really are. You will come to know the true magnificence awaits you in life. - from introduction of the secret book.For more information on the film version of the secret visit www.thesecret.tv.

Introduction

Like Aladdin's Genie, the law of attraction grants our every command.• The Creative Process helps you create what you want in three simple steps: ask, believe, and receive. • Asking the Universe for what you want is your opportunity to get clear about what you want. As you get clear in your mind, you have asked• Believing involves acting, speaking, and thinking as though you have already received what you've asked for, the law of attraction moves people, events, and circumstances for you to receive. • Receiving involves feeling the way you will feel once your desire has manifested.

How To Use The Secret

<ul><li>Expectation is a powerful attractive force. Expect the things you want, and don't expect the things you don't want. </li><li>Gratitude ,be grateful for what you have and what you want</li><li>Visualization. When you visualize, you generate powerful thoughts and feelings of having it now. The law of attraction then returns that reality to you, just as you saw it in your mind. </li></ul>To use the law of attraction to your advantage, make it a habitual way of being, not just a one-time event.

Powerful Processss

• To attract money, focus on wealth. It is impossible to bring more money into your life when you focus on the lack of it. • use your imagination and make-believe you already have the money you want, you will feel better about money• Feeling happy now is the fastest way to bring money into your life. • look at your desire and say to yourself, "I can afford that. I can buy that." You will shift your thinking and begin to feel better about money. • Give money in order to bring more of it into your life. When you are generous with money and feel good about sharing it, you are saying,

To Attract Money

• When you want to attract a relationship, make sure your thoughts, words, actions, and surroundings don't contradict your desires. • Your job is you. Unless you fill yourself up first, you have nothing to give anybody. • Treat yourself with love and respect, and you will attract people who show you love and respect. • When you feel bad about yourself, you block the love and instead you attract more people and situations that will continue to make you feel bad about you. • Focus on the qualities you love about yourself and the law of attration will show you more great things about you.

To Attract Relationship

The placebo effect is an example of the law of attraction in action. When a patient truly believes the tablet is a cure, he receives what he believes and is cured. "Focusing on perfect health " is something we can all do within ourselves, despite what may be happening on the outside. Laughter attracts joy, releases negativity, and leads to miraculous cures. Disease is held in the body by thought, by observation of the illness, and by the attention given to the illness. Imagine yourself being healthy and happy living your best life

For Health

• Everything is energy. You are an energy magnet, so you electrically energize everything to you and electrically energize yourself to everything you want. • You are a spiritual being. You are energy, and energy cannot be created or destroyed—it just changes form. Therefore, the pure essence of you has always been and always will be. • The Universe emerges from thought. We are the creators not only of our own destiny but also of the Universe. • An unlimited supply of ideas is available to you. All knowledge, discoveries, and inventions are in the Universal Mind as possibilities, 👇🏻

The Secret To You

waiting for the human mind to draw them forth. You hold everything in your consciousness. 
• We are all connected, and toe are all One. 
• Let go of difficulties from your past, cultural codes, and social beliefs. You are the only one who can create the life you deserve. 
• A shortcut to manifesting your desires is to see what you want as 
absolute fact. 
• Your power is in your thoughts, so stay aware. In other words, 
"Remember to remember."

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• You get to fill the blackboard of your life with whatever you want. • The only thing you need to do is feel good now. • The more you use the power within you, the more power you will draw through you. • The time to embrace your magnificence is now. • We are in the midst of a glorious era. As we let go of limiting thoughts, we will experience humanity's true magnificence, in every area of crea-tion. • Do what you love. If you don't know what brings you joy, ask, "What is my joy?" As you commit to your joy, you will attract an avalanche of joyful things because you are radiating joy.

The Secret To

These are the summaries from the book - the secret Happy reading ✨

Ending

This book will help you understand life and the power of your thoughts and positive thinking.

The tenth-anniversary edition of the book that changed lives in profound ways, now with a new foreword and afterword. In 2006, a groundbreaking feature-length film revealed the great mystery of the universe—The Secret—and, later that year, Rhonda Byrne followed with a book that became a worldwide bestseller. Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life-transforming for all who experience it. In this book, you’ll learn how to use The Secret in every aspect of your life—money, health, relationships, happiness, and in every interaction you have in the world. You’ll begin to understand the hidden, untapped power that’s within you, and this revelation can bring joy to every aspect of your life. The Secret contains wisdom from modern-day teachers—men and women who have used it to achieve health, wealth, and happiness. By applying the knowledge of The Secret, they bring to light compelling stories of eradicating disease, acquiring massive wealth, overcoming obstacles, and achieving what many would regard as impossible.

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Personal Development

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Mindfulness

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Motivation & Inspiration

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Learning & Education

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Books

Rhonda Byrne is an Australian television writer and producer, best known for her New Thought works, The Secret—a book and a film by the same name. By the Spring of 2007 the book had sold almost 4 million copies, and the DVD had sold more than 2 million copies. She has also been a producer for Sensing Murder. According to an article published by Australia's Herald Sun, Byrne has also worked on the Australian TV series World's Greatest Commercials and Marry Me. In 2007, Byrne was listed among Time Magazine's list of 100 people who shape the world.

Rhonda Byrne

The Secret

Thoughts occur to us randomly. Thinking is what we intend to do. It is not something that naturally occurs to us.Thoughts are inspiration.Thinking is desperationGreat ideas come in the state of Non-Thinking. Thoughts come directly from our subconscious mind and it’s the combination of the gut feeling and desire.We always think about things out of desperation. We try to rationalize some decision, not because we want to do it, but because we are being forced by some external force to do it.

Thoughts VS Thinking

Thinking is the root cause of all suffering.Feed yourself this sentence everyday. Before sleeping, after waking up, before and after stepping into the bathroom, wherever you possibly can.Realize that most of the stuff is not in your control. If you can’t control it, then you shouldn’t think about it.

How to stop thinking

Most people do what society tells them to do. Do what you love the most, whether it be writing, teaching, starting a YouTube channel, becoming a historian regardless of how much it pays or how much respect it brings you.Money and fame is not in your hands. Allah has already written the money and fame you are going to receive, so why not do something you love.Your gut tells the truth. The Gut Feeling is just a thought from your subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is a very complex machine.A thought from the subconscious mind is a sign from the Universe, The God.

Trust the Gut

Who said you have to figure out how to do certain things?You just need to know what you want, but not the how.You don’t have to solve the problem. The God Almighty has already given you a tool to solve complex problems; The Subconscious Mind.Henry Ford had very little formal education, but he had a strong intuition that he could revolutionize transportation by making automobiles affordable for the average American. His trusted on his intuition and everything followed.

But if I don’t think, how will I do anything?

The outcome is completely out of your control. What is in your control is the effort that you put into the work.By repeating to yourself that your goal is important, your subconscious mind starts sending signals to your conscious mind, prompting you to improve your efforts.📚If this article helped you, then I’m sure <a href="https://binsletter.beehiiv.com/subscribe">my free weekly newsletter</a> will help you a lot in growing and gaining clarity every week to stay strong 💪

You have no control

If you are like me, you constantly think about things. Our brain forces us to think, because it is necessary for survival. But what we don’t realize is that, this thinking is destroying us. Let me explain.

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Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychology

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Mental Health

Not thinking changed my life forever

‘Don’t forget to reward yourself when you reach a milestone or short-term goal by inviting wholesome activities you enjoy afterward.’

Heal Your living

Focus on positives: friends, family, hobbies. ☺️

It’s important to make time for yourself. 

Embark on a transformational journey with this easy-to-use minimalist, mindful guide to physical and emotional decluttering from the founder of Heal Your Living, the Youtube lifestyle channel with over 250,000 subscribers Heal Your Living is about more than just getting rid of your stuff: it's a holistic approach to a more fulfilling life, in harmony with your deepest aspirations. Youheum Son, the founder of the Youtube lifestyle channel with over 250,000 subscribers, identifies four areas that comprise the Heal Your Living approach: <li>Mindfulness: Meditation and insight</li><li>Sustainability: Low-waste, eco-friendly lifestyle</li><li>Minimalism: Simple living</li><li>Wellness: Self-care and healing</li> Separated into these four sections, this guide contains easy-to-use daily reflections for emotional and physical decluttering, as well as journaling prompts, planners, checklists, affirmations and mantras. With Youheum's guidance, you can recognize a better way of living and arrive at a turning point to release negative habits. You can freely choose to let go of the past and focus your full attention on healing to live fully without limiting beliefs. The decision to heal will bring you health, a positive mental attitude, and a balance between mind, body, and spirit.

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Habits

Youheum Son

Heal Your Living

The depth of my consciousness causes me to suffer. The only way out is through.

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Entrepreneurship

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This <a href="https://productive.fish/blog/habit-tracker-templates/#habit-tracker-hub">Notion habit tracker template</a> is a scope of 3 essential trackers: habit tracker, mobile habits page, and addiction tracker. It provides an overview of your daily habit progress and the tasks you still need to complete. You also can track your daily energy, mood, and productivity score. And with each new week, you can plan your weekly tasks using the ABC method.

Habit Tracker Hub

This is a <a href="https://productive.fish/blog/habit-tracker-templates/#flexible-habit-tracker">free habit tracker template for Notion</a>. It’s a simple and adaptable template. You can set custom frequencies and specific reminders of habits. It also has the integration with Google Calendar. Plus, you can keep track of overdue habits with the 'Don't Give Up' feature.

Flexible Habit Tracker

It’s a 12-month <a href="https://productive.fish/blog/habit-tracker-templates/#google-sheets-habit-tracker">Google Sheets habit tracker template</a>. The tracker helps to set goals and see the progress toward achieving them. It’s fully automatic and easy to use. You can add the numerical trackers for sleep hours, water glasses, etc. And emojis and bar graphs show your progress.

Google Sheets Habit Tracker

This one is a <a href="https://productive.fish/blog/habit-tracker-templates/#free-daily-%26-monthly-habit-tracker-printables">free printable habit tracker template</a>. It’s simple but still effective. The template consists of two pages: a monthly and a yearly tracker. It is available in 7 colors, so you can choose the one you like.

Free Daily & Monthly Habit Tracker Printables

you can find on the Productive Fish blog post: "<a href="https://productive.fish/blog/habit-tracker-templates/">Best 7 Habit Tracker Templates</a>"

Even more habit tracker templates

Habits are simple actions that have a significant impact on us. One of the key points in building a healthy habit or breaking a bad one is habit tracking.

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Time Management

Best Habit Tracker Templates

Problems are different type of juices where the key ingredient is the lessons which upon filtering won't lead you to digest the same juice again.

The key takeaway of the quote above is this : when you are confronting a problem they're not just problems but lively lessons of life in disguise. And once you find the true form (lesson) you have the power to throw the external disguise away and forge a sheild to the same kind of problem. "If you extract the main ingredient away you can't drink the same juice (problem) again"

History Repeats, but Lessons Don't!

Well, relax. If you think you've learnt the lesson from a problem and still the same problem repeats itself, then your perception as 'The lesson' should be transformed into 'A lesson' . will you eat plain rice with interest? Nope. Likewise exist problems of life. You know how problems are! Are they boring like plain rice? Damn not they are a blend of splendid tasted which one can experience the true form of the utter disguise

Problems Repeat, Lessons Don

Use this as a framework on how to aspire optimal key ingredients from the juice you're given.<ul><li>Recall the whole issue from the beginning and hit the initial point and learn the cause Even if there is no fault of yours relate yourself with it so that you can extract the key ingredient</li><li>Think of 'If I did and did'nt do this I could've avoided this whole ruckus'. and implement it over the next course </li><li>Shift perspectives and imagine yourself as the person you're going to be giving advice upon. Provide and listen from your own perspective. </li></ul>

Don't Feel By Heart, Squeeze Your Brain

Yes, the lessons can be countless aswell. The number puts entire dependency upon your brain to assess as many as possible. If you don't agree with me, well wait until you witness off applying the principles or read thisYour partner promised you that they'll never leave you; but did. Here are the lessons<ol><li>Not all promises are real cuz you trust them</li><li>You can't absolutely know if they're trustworthy just bcuz you trust them</li><li>Never believe in promise of this kind, may it be a surprise at the end of your life ifbthey never left or feel happy that you were right if they left.</li><li>Change in person is constant!</li></ol>

It Can Be One, It Can Be One O One.

"You can't solve a problem with the mindset you had while you created them "

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Philosophy

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Problem Solving

Confront, Create, Crave

Are you held back by social anxiety? Here's how to overcome it:<ul><li>Bust negative thoughts about awkward situations</li><li>Practice small talk with friends/family before branching out</li><li>Join a club/group activity to ease into social interactions</li><li>Remember to breathe and be kind to yourself if things don't go perfectly</li></ul>

Embracing Awkwardness

With patience and a willingness to step out of your comfort zone, you can conquer social anxiety and thrive in social situations

Embracing Awkwardness: The Road to Overcoming Social Anxiety Through Desensitization Strategies

Embracing Awkwardness: Overcoming Social Anxiety

LAW 1 - NEVER OUTSHINE THE MASTERLAW 2 - NEVER PUT TOO MUCH TRUST IN FRIENDS, LEARN HOW TO USE ENEMIESLAW 3 - CONCEAL YOUR INTENTIONSLAW 4 - ALWAYS SAY LESS THAN NECESSARYLAW 5 - SREPUTATION—GUARD IT WITH YOUR LIFELAW 6 - COURT ATTENTION AT ALL COSTLAW 7 - GET OTHERS TO DO THE WORK FOR YOU, BUT ALWAYS TAKE THE CREDITLAW 8 - MAKE OTHER PEOPLE COME TO YOU—USE BAIT IF NECESSARYLAW 9 - WIN THROUGH YOUR ACTIONS, NEVER THROUGH ARGUMENTLAW 10 - INFECTION: AVOID THE UNHAPPY AND UNLUCKYLAW 11 - LEARN TO KEEP PEOPLE DEPENDENT ON YOULAW 12 - USE SELECTIVE HONESTY AND GENEROSITY TO DISARM YOUR VICTIM

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NEVER OUTSHINE THE MASTERAlways make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please and impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite﻿—inspire fear and insecurity. Make your masters appear more﻿brilliant than they are and you will attain the heights of power﻿.

LAW 1

NEVER PUT TOO MUCH TRUST IN FRIENDS, LEARN HOW TO USE ENEMIES.Be wary of friends—they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.

LAW 2

To have a good enemy, choose a friend: He knows where tostrike.

CONCEAL YOUR INTENTIONSKeep people of-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense. Guide them far enough down the wrong path, envelop them in enough smoke, and by the time they realize your intentions, it will be too late.

LAW 3

ALWAYS SAY LESS THAN NECESSARYWhen you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more yousay, the more likely you are to say something foolish.

LAW 4

Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.

SO MUCH DEPENDS ON REPUTATION — GUARD IT WITH YOUR LIFEReputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputationalone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable. Always be alert to potential attacks and thwart them before they happen. Meanwhile, learn to destroy your enemies by opening holes in their own reputations. Then stand aside and let public opinion hang them.

LAW 5

COURT ATTENTION AT ALL COSTEverything is judged by its appearance; what is unseen counts for nothing. Never let yourself get lost in the crowd, then, or buried in oblivion. Stand out. Be conspicuous, at all cost. Make yourself a magnet of attention by appearing larger, more colorful, more mysterious than the bland and timid masses.

LAW 6

It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a badreputation.

GET OTHERS TO DO THE WORK FOR YOU, BUT ALWAYS TAKE THE CREDITUse the wisdom, knowledge, and legwork of other people to further your own cause. Not only will such assistance save you valuable time and energy, it will give you a godlike aura of efficiency and speed. In the end your helpers will be forgotten and you will be remembered. Never do yourself what others can do for you.

LAW 7

MAKE OTHER PEOPLE COME TO YOU—USE BAIT IF NECESSARYWhen you force the other person to act, you are the one in control. It is always better to make your opponent come to you, abandoning his own plans in the process. Lure him with fabulous gains—then attack. You hold the cards.

LAW 8

When I have laid bait for deer,I don’t shoot at the first doe that comes to snif ,but wait until the whole herd has gathered round.

WIN THROUGH YOUR ACTIONS, NEVER THROUGH ARGUMENT Any momentary triumph you think you have gained through argument is really a Pyrrhic victory: The resentment and ill will you stir up is stronger and lasts longer than any momentary change of opinion. It is much more powerful to get others to agree with you through your actions, without saying a word. Demonstrate, do not explicate.

LAW 9

INFECTION: AVOID THE UNHAPPY AND UNLUCKY You can die from someone else’s misery—emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but you are only precipitating your own disaster. The unfortunate sometimes draw misfortune on themselves; they will also draw it on you. Associate with the happy and fortunate instead.

LAW 10

Thus a wise prince will think of ways to keep his citizens of every sort and under every circumstance dependent on the state and on him; and then they will always be trustworthy

LEARN TO KEEP PEOPLE DEPENDENT ON YOUTo maintain your independence you must always be needed and wanted. The more you are relied on, the more freedom you have. Make people depend on you for their happiness and prosperity and you have nothing to fear. Never teach them enough so that they can do withoutyou.

LAW 11

USE SELECTIVE HONESTY AND GENEROSITY TO DISARM YOUR VICTIMOne sincere and honest move will cover over dozens of dishonest ones. Open-hearted gestures of honesty and generosity bring down the guard of even the most suspicious people. Once your selective honesty opens a hole in their armor, you can deceive and manipulate them at will.

LAW 12

Everything turns gray when I don’t have at least one mark on the horizon. Life then seems empty and depressing. I cannot understand honest men. They lead desperate lives, full of boredom.

LAW 12 - USE SELECTIVE HONESTY ANDGENEROSITY TO DISARM YOUR VICTIMLAW 13 - WHEN ASKING FOR HELP, APPEAL TO PEOPLE’S SELF-INTERESTLAW 14 - POSE AS A FRIEND, WORK AS A SPYLAW 15 - CRUSH YOUR ENEMY TOTALLYLAW 16 - USE ABSENCE TO INCREASE RESPECT AND HONORLAW 17 - KEEP OTHERS IN SUSPENDED TERRORLAW 18 - DO NOT BUILD FORTRESSES TO PROTECT YOURSELFLAW 19 - KNOW WHO YOU’RE DEALING WITHLAW 20 - DO NOT COMMIT TO ANYONELAW 21 - PLAY A SUCKER TO CATCH A SUCKERLAW 22 - USE THE SURRENDER TACTICLAW 23 - CONCENTRATE YOUR FORCESLAW 24 - PLAY THE PERFECT COURTIER

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The most important of these skills, and power’s crucial foundation, is the ability to master your emotions.

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum.   Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.

Robert Greene is an American author of books on strategy, power, and seduction. He has written six international bestsellers, including The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, The 50th Law, Mastery, and The Laws of Human Nature.

Robert Greene

The 48 Laws of Power

Despite his negative reputation, Severus Snape from Harry Potter is a hero in his own right because of:• His unwavering love and loyalty towards his childhood friend, Lily.• His constant protection and care for her, and her son even in secret.• The sincerity and depth of his love for her, even after her death.One of Snape's most defining moments is when he reveals his true feelings for Lily, saying, "always." This shows that he will always remember her, even after she gets married to another person and even after her death, making him a truly genuine and complex character.﻿

1. Severus Snape

- A loyal friend who showed great love and sacrifice for his loved ones- His unwavering loyalty and love for friends was admirable. -He was a true well-wisher, even at the cost of his own life.

2. Sirus Black

Dobby was a loyal house-elf who always followed his master's orders, even if they were cruel. - Despite this, he yearned for true love and freedom in his heart. - In the end, he made the ultimate sacrifice for the one he truly cared for. 💔

3.Dobby, The loyal house-elf:

- Hagrid is a loyal and supportive friend.- He is kind and protective towards his loved ones.- Hagrid's passion for animals is truly inspiring.- His whole heart belongs to magical creatures like dragons, unicorns, and hippogriffs.He is often seen in Hogwarts with his half-giant stature, and his love for animals is pure and admirable.Hagrid never keeps secrets, which became an advantage for Harry and his friends and always stands up for what's right. He is a wonderful friend to have by your side.

4.Hagrid:

What We Can Learn from Harry PotterLesson 1: True Friendship -Harry Potter is a true friend who is willing to sacrifice anything for his loved ones. -His friendship with Ron and Hermione teaches us the importance of loyalty and selflessness.Lesson 2: Patience and Emotional Stability-Throughout his journey, Harry faces numerous challenges and setbacks.-However, he remains patient and emotionally stable, which helps him overcome these obstacles.

5.Harry Potter:

List of my most favourite characters in Harry Potter.

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Harry Potter 

In 1999, Metcalfe, J. and Mischel, W. from Columbia University proposed that there are two types of processing—hot and cool cognitive system. A 2-system framework is proposed for understanding the processes that enable—and undermine—selfcontrol or "willpower" as exemplified in the delay of gratification paradigm.

Hot/Cool-System Analysis of Delay of Gratification: Dynamics of Willpower

A cool, cognitive "know"system is cognitive, emotionally neutral, contemplative, flexible, integrated, coherent, slow, and strategic. It is the seat of self-regulation and self-control. The cool system is narrative, weaving knowledge about sensations and emotions, thoughts, actions, and context into an ongoing narrative that is coherent, goal sensitive, and strategic.

Cool system (Cognitive)

A hot, emotional "go" system is the basis of emotionality, fears as well as passions—impulsive and reflexive—initially controlled by innate releasing stimuli.The hot emotional system is specialised for quick emotional processing and responding on the basis of unconditional or conditional trigger features.The hot system is largely under "stimulus control," characterised by rapid automatic triggering, conditioned responding, inflexibility, stereotyping, and affective primacy.

Hot system (Emotional)

Hot spots and cool nodes have different characteristics, different qualities, different connectivities to one another, lead to different responses, and are linked respectively to the hot system and the cool system gain-control mechanisms that filter or amplify the input activation on the specific nodes within their spheres of influence.

Spots/ nodes in the hot/ cool system

A subset of the internal hot nodes is contained within the hot system. Hot spots can be thought of as fragments of feeling. They may lead to “hot” responses. The responses determined by the hot spots are typically either approach or avoidance patterns.

Hot spots/ nodes

Apart from the hot nodes, there is also a subset of cool nodes within the cool system. They are typically not immediate or direct approach-avoid patterns but rather verbal or nonverbal descriptions, statements, assertions, and commentaries—reflections rather than reflexes.

Cool spots/ nodes

<ul><li>Developmental Factors</li><li>Stress</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Chronic Environmental Factors </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Dispositional and Organic Factors </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Pharmacological Factors</li></ul>

Determinants of Hot- Versus Cool-System Dominance

The hot system develops early, whereas the cool system develops later. Thus, during the earliest years of life the hot system is functioning, whereas the cool system remains largely undeveloped. As the person ages, there is a shift of dominance from the hot to the cool system.

Developmental Factors

When the stress level increases, the cool system becomes increasingly dysfunctional, leaving the hot system to dominate processing.

Stress

Environmental factors, such as chronic stress, has been shown to be correlated with volume decreases in the hippocampus (Sapolsky, 1996), a brain structure associated with episodic memory, which is a central function of thecool system. Chronic stress might result in a systematic shift from the hot-system to the cool-system.

Chronic Environmental Factors

Endogenous conditions, innate predispositions, physiological conditions, and diseases can impact selectively on the relative functioning of the cool or the hot system with predictable cognitive, emotional, and behavioral consequences.

Dispositional and Organic Factors

Certain drugs may selectively augment or decrease hot/cool system functioning. For example, epinephrine or adrenaline appears to enhance hot-system processing. Propranolol, a drug sometimes used to alleviate hypertension, may have the opposite effect.

Pharmacological Factors

In this paper, the hot/cool analysis on delay of gratification is conducted with the example of the marshmallow test. It is an experimental design that measures a child’s ability to delay gratification. The child can choose to have one marshmallow immediately or two if he/she is willing to wait a bit. The minutes or seconds a child waits measures their ability to delay gratification.

The marshmallow test

Not exactly. According to the marshmallow experiment, exposure to the hot stimuli (marshmallow) made it virtually impossible for most of the children in the experiment to attain their chosen outcomes (wait for two marshmallows), defeating their efforts at willful control and leaving them disappointed.

Does showing the reward help people delay gratification?

Yes. By decreasing the activation of the Hot Spot Leading to impulsive action, it helps facilitate the ability to control oneself and persist to attain instant gratification. According to the marshmallow experiment, when the rewards (marshmallows) were out of sight, 75% of the children were able to wait the full time (15 min).

Does obscuring (e.g., covering) the tempting object facilitates delay of gratification?

Yes. When avoiding attention to the rewards, it reduces the stimulation to the hot system and facilitates delay of gratification. According to the marshmallow experiment, those who attended to the rewards, thus activating the hot system more, tended to delay for a shorter time than those who focused their attention elsewhere, thus activating the cool system by distracting themselves from the hot spots.

Does avoiding attention to the rewards with internal-self control facilitates delay of gratification?

Maybe. If the distracting object were itself intriguing, it would have an even greater effect on diverting activation away from the relevant hot spot. Also, it is important to note that, the exposure to external stimuli should only activate non-relevant hot/ cool system networks. If the distractor activates the cool node that leads directly to the hot spot, the “go” response may be triggered, causing the person to pursue instant gratification.

Does physically presenting distractors facilitates delay of gratification?

Yes. Self-generated cognitive distractions can serve to enhance control and attenuate the power of the hot stimulus as effectively as externally provided distraction. According to the marshmallow experiment, the children were asked to think about something fun, and the average waiting time was more than 12 minutes.

Does self-generated cognitive distractions facilitates delay of gratification?

It is worth noting that when exercising self-control with internal distractions, we tend to think about the reward more if we are told not to think about that reward specifically. The explicit mention of the not-to-be-thought-of object would prime the nodes for that object and thereby draw activation toward it, resulting in the increasing activation of that hot spots/ nodes, and leading to a "hot" response.

Effect of counter priming

Yes. Take marshmallows as an example, a “cooler” version of it can be a photo of marshmallows. The photo contains the cool information about the object, such as its appearance, color, and shape, but it lacks the consummatory fragments that make it desirable and that elicit the “go” response. As one child put it, you can't eat the picture.

Does the exposure to "cooler" versions of the stimulus facilitates delay of gratification?

Yes. According to the marshmallow experiment, even when exposed to the real rewards, the children waited for them almost 18 min if they imagined them to be pictures rather than real. Likewise, delay was dramatically reduced when the children transformed the pictures into the real objects. It was their mental representation of the stimulus, either as real or as a picture, not its physical presence and reality, that controlled their behavior.

Does "cool" self-generated ideation about the object of desire facilitates delay of gratification?

Yes. Delay of gratification tends to become less difficult and more likely with increasing age. When age increases, the cool system becomes more well-developed. The activated hot spot will automatically activate corresponding cool spots. This will prevent leading directly to a hot response.

Does control becomes easier with increasing age?

Metcalfe, J. & Mischel, W. (1999). A Hot/Cool-System Analysis of Delay of Gratification: Dynamics of Willpower, Psychological Review, vol.106, no. 1

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