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    The Great Gordino Newsletter - Issue 287 - Mon 7th Feb 2005
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    Hi There,

    I hope you had a good weekend.

    Last week I talked about how much good or bad we absorb from
    our parents, the amazing goal achievements of Elvis, and
    whether Einstein was stubborn or just persistent.
    If you missed any, you can read them via the main archive link above.

    I'm going to start today with a quick nod to the New England
    Patriots, who won their 3rd Superbowl in 4 years last night.
    It's enough of an achievement to win it once, so to keep doing it
    is truly noteworthy.
    What also makes the team noteworthy is just that - the team.
    Unlike a lot of NFL teams that try to cram as many star names in
    as they can, The Patriots concentrate on the team ethic, and the
    rewards of doing that can be seen in their results.

    Last week I saw a documentary called 'The Man Who Slept For
    19 years', which is my kind of title!

    It concerned a man that, er, well, slept for 19 years, effectively.

    After a car crash, he went into a coma, which turned in time to a
    vegetative coma.

    His mother never stopped believing he would wake up, and after
    19 years that's exactly what he did.
    Even more astonishing, he was able to talk!
    What I really liked about the programme was that it had brain
    experts telling how the brain can be affected by head collisions,
    and how the various sections of the brain work, what they do.
    With a coma, the brain switches back to default method, sort of
    wiping the hard drive, and it has to be retrained afterwards.

    At the end of the show, one of the experts gave a 3 word answer
    which really hit home.
    When asked to what extent he would recover, her response
    was 'we don't know'.

    The brain is so complicated, we are nowhere near the stage
    where we can fully understand it.
    In my own experience with depression and the happy pills, I was
    told the theory behind how they work, which is basically a
    correction of chemical production in the brain, but I also know
    the theorys that go against those arguments.
    They say that the actual clinical proof regarding these brain
    productions is not there, that it's a large amount of guess work.

    What I am convinced of though, is that we *can* retrain our
    brain.
    The forming of neurological pathways seems to be generally
    accepted as fact, they way they are formed, and they way we can
    *change* them.
    It's like reprogramming ourselves - we first need to work out
    what programming is faulty, and then we can take action to
    correct it.
    We don't get a receipt, we can't take our brain back to the shop,
    send our brain back for replacement, we have to get stuck in
    and fix it ourselves.

    I'm a firm believer in this, and it's one of the keys of self
    improvement, goal achievement and wealth creation.
    I've done it myself, and I'm sure anyone else can too!

    Ok, that's it for today, and here's the thought - do you have
    faulty programming that you can correct?

    'Til Wednesday,
    Health and Happiness,
    Gordon
    email me at gordon@gordonbryan.com - you'll have to copy and paste
    thanks to the idiot online spammers!



    
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