Neuroscientists have a phrase, "What fires together wires together." What this means partially is that while we can't always control external events, we do have considerable choice in the way we think about those events. Apparently it's true, neurologically speaking, that the thoughts we focus upon ("what fires together") become more prominent ("wires together"). Our thinking then obviously affects our behavior, outlook, circumstances, and maybe even the big world beyond.
Bob Dylan really said this first, didn't he? Here's the way he puts it in "She Belongs to Me":
She's got everything she needs, she's an artist
She don't look back
She's got everything she needs, she's an artist
She don't look back
She can take the dark out of the nighttime
And paint the daytime black
So it is. As artists, which can mean all of us, we have everything we need. We don't have to look back.
That's what I'm working on wiring into my brain.
Even in these very uncertain times.
Thank you, Mr. Dylan.
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