The Magic of Thinking BIG and How You Can Too!

How powerful is the magic of believing? Before 1954, no one had run a four-minute mile. Roger Bannister changed all that with his thinking, first and foremost. He said, “Fueled by my faith in my training, I will overcome all obstacles. I am brave! I am not afraid to face anyone on the track. I believe this is not a dream. It is my reality.”

What’s strange is that his record was broken 46 days later, and within two years, nine sub-four-minute miles gained the same fame. It seems astounding that we could go through history without ever cracking the mile in four minutes and then all of a sudden 9 athletes succeed at it within two years of Bannister’s record-breaking time. How on earth could that be?

Another anecdote is of a college student by the name of George Dantzig. George liked to study and one early morning, he happened to oversleep for his math class. He arrived 20 minutes late and quickly copied two math problems on the board, thinking they were the homework assignment. After working on them for several days, he turned them in to his math professor.

His excited math professor’s phone call awakened him the following Sunday morning. Because George had been 20 minutes late for class, he didn’t know that the problems on the board were not his homework, but actually two equations that Einstein hadn’t been able to solve. You see, George believed he was working on ordinary homework problems, and thus was able to solve them!

What happened in these two instances? Bannister and the following runners, and George Dantzig, had adopted a winning mindset – consciously for the former, unconsciously for the latter. They approached these events with a mindset of expectancy, rather than one of lack, or impossibility. The reason Bannister ran a sub par 4-minute mile is due to his unwavering faith and belief. He had intent, focused on the reality of winning, and reaffirmed over and over.

What if George had arrived in class on time? Do you think he would have still been able to resolve the two problems that had stumped many before him, including mathematical genius Albert Einstein… probably not. Tainted by the history of these problems, his mind would have accepted that they were unworkable, and erected a huge barrier to his unbiased, creative brainstorming – and his miraculous place in the history of mathematics.

The lesson here is easy to see: let’s not place limits on our thinking, no matter what the project or task we undertake. Thinking big truly opens our path to success.

One man who believed in thinking big was Jose Silva.  Jose Silva was a visionary in mind expansion.  He invested over $500,000 in the 1960′s (over two million in today’s dollars) in researching the mind and how to use its full potential.  Silva’s credentials include over 50 years of research, over one million graduates and over 10 million books sold!

Jose Silva coined his method the Silva Ultra Mind System and it has changed the countless lives.  Jose Silva passed away in 1999 but his powerful method lives on.

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