Who Controls Your Thoughts?
“Your brain can only produce one or two thoughts” in your conscious mind at once.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
What does it tell us about the architecture of our psyches that, without our exerting effort or even thinking about it, some voice in our head pipes up to counsel us (and counsel us wisely) on how to do our work and live our lives? Whose voice is it? What software is grinding away, scanning gigabytes, while we, our mainstream selves, are otherwise
... See moreSteven Pressfield • The War of Art
stop making sense to yourself, because you don’t have the mental space to create a story about who you are.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
It recently occurred to me that Inception was really a movie about how easy digital media has made it for a stray thought coming out of nowhere to get lodged in our minds with potentially destructive consequences.
L. M. Sacasas • Digital Inception
Most of our everyday thinking happens without us even being aware of the fact, and we perform many, perhaps the majority, of our everyday actions without pausing for thought, in an automatic and mindless rather than a deliberate and mindful way.