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 Challenge yourself to develop your mind and spirit, fulfillment and growth will follow
Abraham Lincoln, in a time of depression, once said, “I would just as soon die, but I’ve done nothing yet to make anyone remember that I have lived.”
Truth is, many of us have a yearning to make an impact. We want our hard work, determination and talent to be quantified by something larger than ourselves. We want to make a difference, in our community, in the world and, ultimately, within ourselves.
This desire is not accidental. It is rooted in our brains. We are, in fact, wired for charity.
In a study published by Science in June 2007, “Neural Responses to Taxation and Voluntary Giving Reveal Motives for Charitable Donations,” researchers at the University of Oregon, observing brain activity via fMRI, found that responses to donating money triggered activity in the same areas of the brain traditionally stimulated by food, sex, sweets, shelter and social connection.
Ilchi Lee, originator of Brain Education System Training (BEST) and author of Principles of Brain Management and the forthcoming In Full Bloom: A Brain Education Guide for Successful Aging, believes this connection satisfies one life’s most core values—to find true, lasting happiness. Lee even suggests that this lasting happiness is attainable, but it first requires you to “Seek Fulfillment.”
From Ilchi Lee (Excerpted from Principles of Brain Management)
On a piece of paper, write down a list of the values and attributes that are most desperately needed in the world. To what extent are you currently helping to provide these to the world? Is there more you can do to help provide these?
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