You’ve got one of the highly effective instruments in existence rattling round in your cranium. A 3-pound organic supercomputer, the mind is made up of 86 Billion (give or take just a few billion) neurons, with upwards of 100 trillion synaptic connections. This implies your mind is extra materially difficult than the totality of the Milky Approach Galaxy that we inhabit.
Sadly, regardless that each human is seemingly outfitted with this magical know-how, not everybody makes use of it accurately.
The truth is, most individuals frankly use it mistaken.
However don’t fear it’s not your fault! It isn’t precisely intuitive how the mind works, and until you’re a neurologist or a psychologist, nobody ever taught you the way it works. So let’s get into the fundamentals:
The mind does ALOT of stuff:
Your acutely aware expertise is definitely the results of two processes happening concurrently. While you’re awake your mind is busy (a) taking in, observing, and deciphering sensory knowledge out of your physique, and (b) utilizing previous expertise to attempt to predict and anticipate what it is going to expertise.
