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HOW MUCH IS YOUR MIND - WORTH?

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent”, are the words of Eleanor Roosevelt. To an extent, the way people treat us is a product of our mindset, nothing more, nothing less. “How much is your mind worth?” is supposed to be a question every man must answer, in one way or the other in life. Whether we answer it or not, every man on the face of the earth a price tag. Some would say that the worth of a man is priceless; of course, it is a statement of fact, but not a statement of truth. The truth is, in as much as we posit that man is priceless, yet not everyman is. The worth of a man is a function of the content of his mind. Some individuals would be worthless just because of the content of their mind. We must understand this that all of our actions, feelings, behaviour – even our abilities – are consistent with the content of our mind. What we have, usually, is what we reflect for others to see. Whether we realize it or not, each of us maintains within the spectrum of our mind a personal recorder. We must become extremely particular concerning the type of data that is fed in our mind and permitted to take root, for the sole function of the mind is to follow the instructions given to it implicitly – like an obedient personal computer reading its program and responding automatically. That is to say, the value people place on us is determined by our worth. If I may ask again, “what is your mind worth?” is it worth the price of a video CD? Is it worth the time wasted gossiping? Is it worth the time given to mills and boom? Or is it worth the devastating news of low self esteem with a combination of inferiority complex? Is it worth the price tag given to flimsy excuses? Is it worth how much time you spend sleeping without achieving anything? Is it worth the price of friends you keep? Of course, if I continue this line will be endless. We are nothing more or less what is in our mind. I write because from observation that most people don’t take time to consider their self worth. “Before the atomic age, scientists estimated that a person’s worth, from a strictly chemical and material stand point, was approximately thirty – two dollars. In recent times, the estimation has undergone startling changes. Researchers now calculate that if the electronic energy of the hydrogen atoms in the human body could be utilized, a single person could supply the electrical needs of a large, highly industrialized country for nearly a week. One noted theorist claimed the atoms in our bodies contain a potential energy charge of more than eleven million kilowatts hours per pound; in effect, the average person, by this estimation, is worth nearly 85 billion dollars”

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