“The Revolutionary” (4% of the population)
Napoleon Bonaparte, Margaret Thatcher, Julius Caesar, and Alexander Hamilton are all classic examples of your brain type, so it’s no wonder most politicians share your brain type. Once you are convinced of a concept, you are an avid salesperson for that cause and want to change the world with your new passion, so use that gift to help others by leading and supporting them in their journey to optimal health and, of course, by spreading the word, as you are also an enthusiastic evangelist of your beliefs and convictions.
You are able to see far into the future with a clear vision, which indicates that the prefrontal cortex area of your brain is more active and accessible than most other brain types. This explains your high willpower reserves, which will help you stay on track with your health goals. This also allows you to stick with your plan, even in the middle of a crisis. If you set a deep enough commitment to this program, it will be hard to knock you off course.
Your ability to see and work toward a clear vision helps you to notice possibilities and opportunities that others might miss. This ability will be inspirational to others and will make them want to follow you. You also tend to have a strong desire to lead, helping individuals and groups work together toward a goal.
Being idealistic, with a strong sense of justice and a clear vision makes you want to create a better life for yourself and others. Your brain finds it easy to form thoughts logically and then debate them with others because of your superior skills in explaining the concepts in your head. This makes you very convincing (both to others and yourself) because you are reinforcing those concepts in your own brain as you explain them to others, who of course are also being reinforced. Due to your passion and drive.
Being an intuitive thinker, you have the ability to formulate brilliant strategies with a strong vision. You are usually able to carry out this vision because of your tenacity and strong work ethic. You tend to be more stubborn than other brain types, plugging away at your goals and not giving up easily, which will serve you well in this program.
The majority of people with your brain type aren’t typically obese, but some could have 20 – 40 pounds to lose. There are more overweight males with your brain type than females. One reason for this could be that “Revolutionary” males tend to pick one major thing in life to focus on, so if they choose to focus on their careers (which most do), other things like nutritional habits can take a distant second place (at best).
Women with your brain type don’t tend to “box out” and “compartmentalize” as much as men so that laser-focus tendency isn’t as much of a problem for them. Therefore, women”Revolutionaries” are better able to focus on their career and their health at the same time.
Men with your brain type can also tend to be more practical-minded – so much so that they can even regard eating food like putting fuel in a car. In this case, they tend to eat “whatever is convenient” in order to keep their focus on their higher priorities, which usually results in fast food or the nearest vending machine.
Both male and female “Revolutionaries” tend to rely most heavily on intuition and hunches (their 6th sense). If something makes sense to you, it’s “go time.” You trust your hunches, so you’re not generally gullible at all. On the contrary, you tend to be skeptical of new situations and concepts, so you often reject concepts that don’t make immediate sense to you wait for something else to come along that seems more convincing. This program, however, will most likely make sense to you because of the research reinforcing the concepts.
You often view the “here an now” through goggles colored by your past. This can cause you to make quick decisions in the moment and to see your future possibilities based on past experiences and lessons you have already learned. You are in a way, taking a “shortcut” to make decisions, based on your risk assessment of that situation, in the frame of your past experiences. We all do that of course, but you tend to do it more than other brain types. It would be wise to slow down and think things through logically when making important decisions.
It will help you to keep an open mind for possibilities you wouldn’t normally consider or imagine for your future if you do have a history of past influences that may not have fostered success. In that case, you may have limiting beliefs that could impede your success if you let them.
If you come from a history of support and encouragement, however, you will find it much easier to envision higher possibilities and to achieve those goals, with fewer limitations to overcome along the way.
Either way, it is important for you to reinforce your own personal worth in your mind every day, convincing yourself that you deserve success, both in your career and in your health. The Affirmation technique and Word Swap technique will be especially helpful to you.
You are able to memorize things quickly and with less effort than most other brain types. Use this ability to remember the lessons in this program, so you can use them to form your present and future opinions and decisions. This gift of memorization will also help you remember the lists of foods to eat and snacks to have with you during the day in order to stay on track more easily.
You have an above average interest in the philosophy of this diet as well as the long-term vision of optimal health. Once you are past your natural skepticism, you will be able to adopt this vision and share it with others. Your gift of communication and words will make you an effective evangelist of this program, allowing you to help many other people.
Whether you believe in your vision of optimal health enough to make it happen for you, will depend on your past history. As mentioned, if that was a history of support and encouragement, you are good to go. If not, you can rewire your brain to fix those circuits and make yourself good to go.
Once you are convinced of a concept, you have a high level of tenacity when carrying it out. This tenacity can even override a challenging past, which can allow you to succeed in spite of it, but you will have a tougher time maintaining those results once you attain them unless you rewire your brain to minimize the effects of any negative reinforcement patterns you may need to correct.
Talking out inner conflicts and struggles with a trusted confidant will be extremely therapeutic for you. It is especially necessary for your brain type because you are not wired to process things internally as well as some of the other brain types. You may think you can and that you are even good at it, due to your strong ego, but don’t let that fool you into being overconfident about your abilities for working things out on your own. It’s always better for your brain type to talk it through with someone – even if that person is just there to listen, without giving any feedback or advice.
Admitting weaknesses and talking through where those might have come from and when they might have started will also be extremely helpful getting them out allows you to step back from them and examine them more objectively. Your ego might tend to reduce your tendency to admit those things but once you get them out, you are able to see them in that objective light, which will make it much easier to find a solution to get past those issues and put them behind you.
I talk about “issues” more with your brain type, because you may have a tendency to let them get in the way of your success. You will still have a clear, optimistic vision of your future, but you can often make that harder to achieve with your own self-imposed sabotage, created by limitations lodged in your subconscious.
People with your brain type who come from a positive and supportive past, on the other hand, have a much easier time achieving their vision. No, this isn’t fair and you may even find yourself feeling resentful about that, but resentment can be whole stumbling block all of its own. If you feel this might be that case (or even if you don’t), using the daily affirmation of, “I forgive everyone who has injured or harmed me in any way” will be extremely helpful for you.
You tend to achieve goals within a general framework based on principles, rather than following strict rules and procedures so you will do better with general guidelines for healthy eating than a specific eating regimen or prescription. You may be able to start out with specifics, and it might be a good way for you to build momentum, but you will quickly tire of any strict parameters, so be sure to focus on staying within healthy boundaries outside of any prescribed and specific program.
One of your greatest strengths is your desire to complete tasks without procrastination. You find it easy to start projects you are interested in and convinced of. You also find it easy to stay on track until completion, even if that means hard work and long workdays. This will obviously help you in this program.
You can be prone to making snap decisions, based on false information, clouded by your own confidence and past experiences, so it’s important to step back and think things through clearly and logically before acting.
Exercise doesn’t work very well for you by yourself, so be sure to train with at least one other person who can push you hard and who can take you pushing them back. You can exercise anywhere, with anyone, either in a large group or with just one trainer or workout partner, but finding people with the same intensity as you will be very important. Make sure it is a safe form of exercise though because you can get caught up in the excitement of competition and participation and lose sight of proper form and your own limitations.
You tend to have a quick temper and less tolerance, which can be directed at yourself as well as other people, causing you to be “set off” easily and “blow your top,” although these eruptions are usually minor most of the time, because of your ability to stay in control. This can still hurt people around you though, especially those with more sensitive brain types, which in turn, makes you feel bad since you also care deeply about other’s feelings. This can lead to emotional eating, so be mindful of that. The Labeling Emotions technique will help with this.
Knowing your tendency of having a shorter than normal fuse, gets you more than halfway to solving it. Your willpower and ability to control yourself is what keeps those eruptions relatively small and short. This same ability will help you minimize those instances over time until your fuse is as long as you would like it to be.
Be sure to be open to ideas that are not your own. Since you base your concepts so much on your own experiences, you may be more close-minded to other’s theories to the point of missing out on some great experiences and projects.
You have a very strong ego, which can deceive you into becoming overconfident in your abilities. This overconfidence could knock you off track at times. For instance, if you are out with friends at a party, you may decide that it’s okay to binge on food you shouldn’t be eating because you assume that you will certainly be able to get yourself back on track tomorrow. That might not be the case though because you typically attribute more willpower to your “future self” than is deserved.
The reason for this is because of your higher than normal amounts of willpower. Since you intuitively know that about yourself, you think it will always be there, but that isn’t always the case.
If you are a leader (which is common to your brain type) you must not let tensions of leadership and a need to feel in control ruin your health. You need to learn to relax and let go of the non-essentials.
Since you are a high achiever with strong vision, you often fear failure to the point of causing undue stress, so you will need to make sure that you enjoy the process of projects in your life and not just focus on the outcome – this project included.
If you fear failure in dieting, an exercise program, or a wellness and health program, this fear may even prevent you from even starting in the first place. Use progress as your benchmark, instead of perfection, which is always behind the fear of failure. Keeping a Success Journal will help keep you positively focused.
You enjoy fun competition, so forming a contest with friends, or joining an online contest or one at your gym will help keep you motivated.
Summary and Recap
Goal setting: Set long-term goals with a clear vision of your “finish line” will look like. Focus on these goals and commit fully to them. Post them where you can see them often.
Best Workout: Big or small group, trainer or workout partner, it doesn’t matter, as long as they can push you hard (in a safe way).
Motivated by: Competition, high-energy people, accountability, exciting goals.
Supported by: Close friends in whom you can confide confidentially, especially with your struggles and challenges.
Areas to strengthen: Tendency for “convenience eating.” Learn how to get back in your kitchen! Put any negatives in your past behind you and focus ahead on the possibilities.
Strengths to use: Tenacity, quick action, self-confidence,
Brain training techniques: Labeling Emotions, Ho’oponopono, Word Swap, Visualization, Success Journal, EFT
