Your Quantum Mind
Bottom Line Up Front: Your quantum mind isn't just philosophy—it's a strategic advantage that determines what market opportunities you see, what competitive threats you notice, and what business possibilities you can create. Leaders who master their unconscious data selection process access breakthrough insights and innovative solutions while their competitors remain trapped in limited, reactive thinking patterns based on outdated mental programming.
Imagine having a quantum mind that has the ability to select the reality you experience. How cool would that be?
Guess what. It's true.
The Many Worlds Theory of quantum mechanics states that there are a limitless number of optional outcomes (past and future) in any situation. Which of those possibilities becomes reality depends on the next step, selection, or action that occurs.
Imagine a limitless number of paths stretching out in front of you, each leading to a different experience. Many Worlds says that we select one of those paths to move forward and that act selects one of those paths as our next experience, one of nearly limitless options for our "reality."
When I heard that theory, I knew it was true. All I had to do was to watch a football game with 2 guys rooting for 2 different teams. Talk about Many Worlds theory in action. They each saw a totally different game, especially when the refs called a foul…
Your Quantum Mind
We all know that our decisions influence our immediate future. Do we turn left or right? Pick the blue pill or the red pill? Our choices in every nanosecond influence our next experience and the next and the next.
So what does that have to do with your quantum mind?
Everything.
Quantum mechanics applies to every human. And not just energetically. Our unconscious minds take their lead from quantum mechanics when it comes to Many Worlds and many options.
Here's a simplistic view of the science.
We take in over 11M bits/second of sensory information. Information we collect through our eyes, ears, feelings and other senses.
Contrary to what many of us were taught, our conscious mind does not process the information we consume. Our unconscious mind manages our information flow.
From that 11M bits/second, our unconscious mind selects 126 bits/second to give to our conscious mind for processing and action.
You read that right. We select only .0000122 of the total information available to us as our moment to moment basis for our experience.
I know, that's hard to imagine. So here's an analogy.
Imagine a stack of toothpick boxes a mile high. That's the data you take into your mind every single second.
Now pick one box of toothpicks from that stack. That's the amount of data you select as your reality, your experience, every single second.
Talk about selective attention!
So Many Questions
I'm a high-tech, data-processing kid. When I originally found this science, I had so many questions.
Any data scientist would see that tiny filter and question the validity of selecting only that minuscule fraction of data as the only possible data to use. Yet this isn't about data filtering. It's about our lives, our very realities.
I just had to ask:
What about all that other information we take in?
How many other realities are present in that 99.99% of data we ignore?
How many different experiences could we construct from that deleted data IF we simply selected different data?
And most importantly….
How do I select that tiny bit of data? Can I change how I select it so I select what I really want to experience???
Ah, that's the key.
How DO We Select Our Reality?
It's simple, and yet it's not.
Our fundamental beliefs, perceptions and biases are all formed from our earliest attention. We then expand and augment them through our continued attention.
Our minds use our attention, and the specific attention density, to define our experience. The more we focus on something, the more likely we are to experience it.
What's attention density? It's the depth of attention blended with the amount of time paying attention. Neuroscience and quantum physics research tells us, if you focus long enough, hard enough and often enough, you can change your neural pathways and brain circuitry. This is attention density. Changing neural pathways and brain circuitry is the scientific way of saying we create and change what I call our mindware apps.
Our minds create mindware apps, based on our attention. Once formed, these apps guide our quantum mind to filter the vast data sets we ingest from the world around us. Since we take in far too much data for our minds to actually process, our mind selects a very small, finite set of data that becomes our reality.
Our minds select our specific information based on our individual mindware, just as a search engine selects the specific information that matches our search term.
Your quantum mind is designed to assume that your attention and what you expect are what you want to experience.
What you or I select is based on our individual mindware and, to some degree, our current point of focus. That's true for everyone on the planet.
Simply put we select the data that matches the beliefs we hold, the things we just know to be true, the principles, values and just plain facts that we hold dear.
Want to make a bet about how many of us select the same 126 bits? Not even.
The bottom line is that we each live in a reality of our very own selection. A reality that we choose and interact with based on our own individual expectations. No two realities are alike.
Think back to that argument after a critical foul called in a sports game - where you have opposing fans in the same room. Or think back to that book you loved, that your associate disliked so much. You each describe it as if it were a different book.
Our quantum mind explains why multiple people can and do respond to the same stimulus with very unique perspectives.
Business Impact: Quantum Mind in Strategic Action
During my 30+ years of strategic consulting, I've witnessed quantum mind principles transform business outcomes when leaders understand how to direct their unconscious data selection:
The Market Opportunity Breakthrough: A biotech CEO was convinced his target market was saturated with competitors. His unconscious mind was filtering for competitive threats and market barriers—and finding them everywhere. I coached him to consciously redirect his attention toward unmet patient needs and partnership possibilities. Within three weeks, his team discovered an underserved market segment worth $200M that had been hiding in plain sight. Same market data, different quantum selection.
The Innovation Blind Spot Solution: A software company's product team was stuck seeing feature limitations and technical constraints. Their quantum minds were selecting for problems rather than possibilities. We shifted their attention focus to customer transformation stories and breakthrough use cases. Suddenly, they saw innovation opportunities in their existing technology stack that led to two new product lines and 40% revenue growth.
The Partnership Paradigm Shift: I was advising a startup struggling to find strategic partners. The founder's mindware was programmed to see rejection and competitive threats in every interaction. We rewired his attention to focus on mutual value creation and collaborative possibilities. His quantum mind began selecting for partnership signals instead of rejection evidence. He closed three major partnerships within 60 days—with companies he'd previously seen as "impossible" prospects.
The Team Dynamics Transformation: A tech company's executive team was trapped in conflict patterns, each person's quantum mind selecting for evidence that others were "against them." Through conscious attention redirection exercises, we helped each leader's quantum mind start selecting for collaboration signals and shared objectives. Team productivity increased 50% in six weeks as they literally began experiencing a different organizational reality.
The Strategic Pivot Discovery: A manufacturing client was losing market share and couldn't see viable alternatives. Their leadership team's quantum minds were locked on decline patterns and threat data. I facilitated quantum mind reprogramming sessions focusing attention on customer success stories and emerging market trends. They discovered a pivot opportunity that tripled their valuation—using the same market intelligence they'd been reviewing for months, but now selecting different data points.
The Competitive Advantage Revelation: A consulting firm believed their market was commoditized and price-driven. Their quantum minds were selecting for price pressure and competitive similarity. We shifted their attention focus to unique value creation and client transformation outcomes. They began seeing differentiation opportunities everywhere, developed a premium positioning strategy, and increased margins by 60%.
The pattern is consistent: when leaders consciously direct their quantum minds to select for opportunities, solutions, and possibilities rather than problems, threats, and limitations, their business reality transforms dramatically.
The Power to Change
Understanding we all select our unique reality is phase one. How do we change what we choose to select and then experience as our unique reality?
That's where understanding your unconscious mind comes in. We spend so much of our lives analyzing and evaluating with our conscious minds. That's not where your true power lives. At All.
Imagine:
Transforming that bad day into an unstoppable sequence of positive events.
Replacing the anxiety you feel about the world and your life with unwavering confidence and progress.
Shifting from that weight of feeling unworthy to knowing your value, your place in this world and living in that exact reality
That's the power of your quantum mind. I used it to leave behind the powerless trauma of my horribly tortured little girl. It's how I became Unstoppable.
You have the power to shift your world, by shifting your focus and expectations. From painful to powerful, from worthless to oh so worthy, from fearful to fully fulfilled.
When we learn to pay attention to what we want, we change what our unconscious mind thinks we want. It changes the information we select from the ocean of data around us.
As a result, we can and do shift our lives.
Your Quantum Choice: Will you let your unconscious mind select for limitations, threats, and problems—or will you consciously program it to select for opportunities, solutions, and breakthrough possibilities?
The same market data, competitive landscape, and business environment can yield completely different strategic realities depending on what your quantum mind selects.
Want to learn more about the power of your attention?
Download my short read, The Power of Attention.
You can also check out my article and infographic, originally published in The Huffington Post
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