Managing the mind.
Optimizing its performance.
If you ask a business owner or anyone in a management role, the most challenging task is probably people management. How do you balance optimizing work output against employee morale? Even those not in the business of managing people have one critical managerial task–managing the mind.
The mind is like a large organization, and thoughts are like the people with different roles who work in that organization. Imagine if there isn’t someone like a CEO who can execute a unified directive or plan for the well-being of not just the shareholders but also the workforce. There would be chaos with various departments turning into ‘little islands’ concerned with only their role, forgetting how everything fits into the big picture. In the mind, if we don’t direct its energy, various competing thought forms will seek to control the mental energy. In the process, we are passively dragged along, wasting time engaging with thoughts that are not productive.
Everyone would have seen and heard of the CEO in a large corporation with thousands of employees. But the CEO may not know each employee by name. One mass email by the CEO delivers his or her message to the entire workforce. Similarly, we wield such power over the mind. It materializes when we can step away from the mind and observe it as a whole. We then exercise that power…
