12/30/2021
If we want to create a new self, we first must stop being the old self. In the process of creation, the first function of the frontal lobe is to become self-aware.
Because we have metacognitive capabilities—the power to observe our own thoughts and self—we can decide how we no longer want to be. This ability to self-reflect allows us to scrutinize ourselves and then plan to modify our behaviors so we can produce more enlightened or desirable outcomes.
The purpose of becoming self-aware is to no longer allow any thought, action, or emotion you don’t want to experience to pass by your awareness. In time, your ability to consciously inhibit those states of being will stop the same firing and wiring of the old neural networks that are related to the old personality, pruning away the hardware that is related to the old self.
Our goal is to unlearn who we used to be, so that we can free up energy to create a new life, a new personality.
Learn more in Dr Joe’s book, “Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself.” https://hubs.la/Q011jpyN0
