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We have approximately 50,000 - 60,000 thoughts per day. Unfortunately, 95% of those thoughts we had today are the same ones we had yesterday! That would make only 5% of thoughts we think are new each day.
Are you thinking about what you're thinking about? Read that sentence again and read it carefully. It's not a play on words.
People can typically remember about 7 (±2) items in a random list.
The mind is an iceberg; it floats with only 17 percent of its bulk above water - Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
Mind Insights
My life and work has been aimed at one goal only: to infer or guess how the mental apparatus is constructed and what forces interplay and counteract in it.
Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939) Austrian psychoanalyst
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) German-born U.S. physicist Out of My Later Years
If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter
Indian Ink
I took my mind a walk or my mind took me a walk – whichever was the truth of it.
Norman McCaig (1910 - 1996) Scottish poet
"An Ordinary Day"
Mental reflection is so much more interesting than T.V. It's a shame more people don't switch over to it. They probably think that what they hear is unimportant but it never is.
Robert T. Pirsig (1928 - ) U.S. writer
Zen and the Art