If you've been Immersed in the Personal Development World for even a Single Second, You Will have heard of the Benefits of a Positive Mindset.
There are many things people say about the Subject.
You Find What You Look For.
A Positive Mindset Leads to Success.
Nothing is Impossible, the word itself says, "I'm Possible."
You can look and get a list about the Importance of a Positive Mindset, Miles Long.
There is Truth to the Idea.
A Positive Mindset is Important.
Yet...
There are Many People who "Have" a Positive Mindset who Struggle.
They Think Positive.
They Say Positive Things.
They Focus their Mind on Positivity.
They Seek Things to be Grateful For.
They Think Happy Thoughts.
But Nothing.
They Still Find themselves Falling Short.
Again.
And Again.
Flat on their Faces.
Unable to Overcome Their Challenges.
No Matter How "Positive" their Mindset, they Get the Same Negative Results.
Why?
Most People Do Not Realize that Your Mindset Will Not Save You.
You Need a Positive Mindset, Yes.
But a Positive Mindset Alone is Lacking.
How is this?
Well, we can Discover the Reason through "Psychophysiology".
Or How the Body and Brain Interact.
When you do a Deep Dive into this Subject, you'll Discover that there are actually Four "Brain Systems" in the Body (Of which One is the Brain Itself).
Each Brain System is Capable of Thinking and Acting on its Own, and Interacts with the Other Brain Systems.
No Single Brain System "Controls" All the Others Fully.
They Interact, and Different Systems can Supersede Other Systems in Different Situations.
Many people Understand this "Experience" from their Lives.
Have you ever had a Time where you Logically "Knew" You Shouldn't Do Something...
Yet You Still Did It Anyways?
This is Not a Failure of Your Brain as Most People Believe.
Rather, this is Your Brain being "Superseded" by Another Brain System.
Here's another Example.
You Know when people are Afraid of Spiders?
They "Logically" Know in their Brain that the Spider is Harmless.
Yet, when they See the Spider...
They Sprint...
They Scream...
They Cry for Help...
Some people go Significantly Further than this as well...
Why?
There is another Brain System that is "Superseding" the Brain.
This is the Exact Reason Why a Mindset Alone Will Not Save You.
"Mindset" Only Focuses on the "Mind", or Brain.
But Being Positive Alone will not Magically "Align" the Other Brain Systems.
There is another Danger We Frequently Face when we "Ignore" Signs from Other Brain Systems in Favor of the "Positive Mindset" we are Looking to Attain.
You know all those times when you had a "Gut Feeling" something was Wrong, but you said, "Nah, I'm going to be Positive About This!"
Only to get Burned at the End of the Day.
I have been there, More than Once.
This is your Brain Superseding Other Brain Systems, even though the Other Brain Systems "Should" have been Listened To.
All of these tend to Frequently Happen when we Only Focus on the Brain, or Our "Mindset".
So, if we are going to Move Closer to our Potential, we must go "Beyond" our Mindset.
What is Beyond a Mindset Though?
Your "Wayset".
What is this?
Let's Approach it by its Pieces.
"Way" has a few ways to be Understood in this Context.
There is a "Way of Being".
How We Approach Life from "All" Aspects of Our Lives.
It is Not "Just" Our Mindset.
It is about Our Complete Way of Being.
So you can have a Positive "Mindset".
But other Aspects of Your "Wayset" may be Intensely Negative.
A Common One in today's world is Best Understood through Burnout.
What is Burnout?
From a Psychophysiological Perspective, it is when our Body Fails to Produce Enough Energy (Mg-ATP) for So Long that Our Bodies "Literally" are Breaking Down.
Our Bodies are Tearing Themselves Apart from the Inside.
No Matter How "Positive" Your Mindset is, if you Lack Energy (Mg-ATP) in your Body, then your Body "Will" Go Into Survival Mode.
In Survival Mode, We Do Not Think or Act Clearly.
Our Other Brain Systems are Constantly Sending Intensely Negative Wayset Signals that Cause us to Make "Extremely" Poor Decisions and Perform Terribly.
No Amount of "Mindset" Work will Overcome this Negative Wayset in your Body.
So, to Improve Our Wayset, we must look at our "Entire" Way of Being.
But Way has Another Important Definition for our Purposes.
A "Way" is also a "Journey".
When we think of "Mindset" we typically think of it like a Lightswitch.
Positive or Negative.
Turn it On or it will be Turned Off.
But Life is Far More Complicated than That.
To Align our Wayset, we must Adapt to our Situations.
We must Decide Which "Brain Systems" are Best Suited to Different Situations.
Sometimes our Brains "Are" the Best Resource Available and "Should" be Listened To.
Other Times, our Brain is "Horribly" Equipped to Help Us and we should use a Different Brain System.
Discovering which Brain System to Utilize When and Where is a Journey.
Our Wayset is a Journey of Discovering Our Way of Being.
Similarly, we can look at Definitions of "Set".
You can think of "Set" as a way to "Put or Bring into a Specified State".
What is that Specified State of Being?
The Scientists would Call it "Coherence" as well as "Flow".
These are "Technical" ways of saying that our Different Systems are Aligned with Each Other.
They are "Set" and "Brought Together" or "United Together".
Where Many People Struggle is that their Different Brain Systems are Divided, Fighting Against Each Other.
A House Divided Cannot Stand.
So it is True within the "House" of our Being, our Bodies.
If we are Not to Crumble, our Being must be United in our Wayset.
We can also look at "Set" as Adjusting our Being to Perform a Particular Operation, or something we are Fixed On.
What is our Wayset Fixed On?
At the Highest Levels, our Wayset Adjusts our Being to Attain Sageship.
Sageship should be Our Goal.
It is the Highest Level of Success a Leader can Attain in Life.
This is what our Wayset helps us Determine.
Will we Reach Sageship?
Our Mindset Alone is Incapable of Attaining This.
Many Have Tried on their Mindset Alone...
The Vast Majority have Failed.
We must Move Beyond our Mindset.
Focus on your Wayset.