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2. It's easy to get stuck in a rut.

3. Sure, it's pretty safe, which is why they
happen.

4. In fact, the "rut" itself is a metaphor
for the grooves that build up in a road
where carts go over the same path
over and over.

5. If you are a big civilization, these are
very, very helpful.

6. If you tried to take your cart through a
bunch of bushes every day, you
wouldn't get very far.

7. Societies in general are built on the
idea of trade and exchange.

8. Everybody builds, makes or grows
whatever they can, meet in a central
place to trade.

9. Around these central areas cities grow.

10. And two and from these cities are
roads, many of which are made solely
by many people going back and forth
over them again and again.

11. Building those "ruts" which make
pulling your cart easy.

12. But it also keeps you from going other
places.

13. Off the "beaten path."

14. Now, just doing things differently for
the sake of doings different is pretty
silly.

15. But if you have an inkling that maybe
there's something BETTER out there,
then you HAVE to try something
different.

16. If life were exactly the same, every
single day, it would be REALLY boring.

17. Imagine if you watched the very same
episodes of the very same TV shows
every day.

18. Which brings up another point.

19. Most of us "outsource" our "doing
things differently."

20. We go to the same job, come home to
the same house, eat the same food.

21. Talk about the same things.

22. The only thing different (for a LOT of
people) is what's on TV that night.

23. Since TV entertainment is meant to
dull your senses, it's not the best brain
food.

24. What IS the best brain food?

25. Actually DOING things differently.

26. Go to the same restaurant, but order
something different.

27. Take a different route to work.

28. Cook something completely different
for dinner.

29. Take up a new hobby.

30. ANYTHING.

31. If you make a habit of actually DOING
something different a few times a
week, you'll develop incredible
flexibility of mind.

32. You'll think more outside the box, look
at things differently (and much more
resourcefully) and feel a lot less
"stuck" in many situations.

33. There are plenty of EASY exercises you
can do on a daily basis, without ever
leaving your house, that will get the
same effect.

34. When you start to go exploring inside
your brain, you'll discover the
VASTNESS that most people take for
granted, and therefore NEVER use.

35. What about you?

36. Are you willing to put in a few minutes
a day to MAXIMIZE your greatest gift?

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