A Mind of A Lion

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“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.”


― Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/292417-every-morning-in-africa-a-gazelle-wakes-up-it-knows)
Life is harsh. You can be the winner of life or a looser. You can be the champions or be the victims. It's all starting with the soft grey part in our head, brain. However, the brain can be also source of bias, confusion and trickery that even sabotages our life from the best in life. Therefore, brain must be trained.

 I believe no lion wakes up with no goal in its life. Every lion wakes up with goal to get food for that day or else it will starve. . That's why we must train our brain every morning by focusing on our goals. Making a list-to-do is a helping tool to help us focus on what we must do in a day. There will be some circumstances that could make us cannot do some of our goals. However, the list makes us aware of what we miss. Or else, the day will be ended in a blink and we drift into ordinary endless meaningless chores. 

 Second, I believe no lion wakes up with hesitation in its mind whether it will get the gazelles or not. Every lion wakes up with determination of getting food. Therefore, we must train our brain to be positive and determined. Don't let doubt shrink your heart. But keep listen to the wise counsel! Doubts  come from the negative irrational words, meanwhile counsels come from rational words. Counsels can check the flaws in our plans and dent it.

 I believe a lion also doesn't wake up with too much plans. It even has only one plan, to outrun the fastest gazelle. A lion doesn't spend the day to make plans and day dream. Same as lion, we should make our plan simple and just do it. Sometimes too much plans are not good for us. Too much plans hinder us to do what we must do. Act now and seize the day!

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