How Your Brain Can Unlock Hidden Life Opportunities

Published 2025-02-14 08-11

Summary

Your brain filters out most of reality, but you can control what it notices. Like seeing a specific car everywhere after shopping for it, you can train your mind to spot life’s opportunities.

The story

You filter out most of what’s happening around you right now. Your brain has to – there’s too much information coming in. But here’s the cool part: you can actually control what your brain notices.

Ever been shopping for a specific car and suddenly see it everywhere? That’s your brain’s filter system [called the RAS] at work. It’s not that there are more of those cars on the road – you’re just newly tuned in to notice them.

The same thing happens with opportunities. If you’re not actively training your brain to spot them, you’ll miss them completely. No joke – your brain will literally filter them out like background noise.

That’s why things like vision boards aren’t just feel-good fluff. They’re actually training tools for your brain’s filter system. When you get clear on what you want, your brain starts showing you ways to get it.

But here’s what most people miss: those inherited beliefs and social expectations you picked up growing up? They’re programming your filter too. Until you dig into that stuff, you’re basically running someone else’s software.

Want to learn how to reprogram your brain’s filter and spot the opportunities others miss? Check out Chapter 6 of “The Journey – I Wish I Knew This Before I Was 21.” Trust me – understanding how your mind actually works changes everything.

Time to take control of what you see.

This post was inspired by Chapter 6 of my “The Journey – I wish I knew this before I was 21” book, at
https://attilahorvath.net/the-journey/.

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Keywords: motivation, selective perception, cognitive filtering, opportunity awareness