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A DO-IT-YOURSELF LOBOTOMY INCISION GOES HERE

What you know hurts you.

Virtually all of the thoughts that you process daily are conspiring to
make you a boring, uninspired thinker.

Scientists tell us that we have billions of thoughts running through
our minds every day. On a conscious level, it’s estimated that we
process between 125 and 130 bits of data every second. That’s over 11
million bits of data—just on the conscious level—each day.
Then there are the subconscious and superconscious levels. Liter-
ally billions of bits of data on or near the surface of our minds.
Think of your first-grade teacher. How long did it take to access that
data? We each possess a veritable supercomputer between our ears.

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HOW THE MIND WORKS (KIND OF)

The
Known

Each of these stars represents a bit of data. Each of us lives in our
own galaxy of thought, where our mind resides almost all of the time
because our thoughts default to the known. My own galaxy includes
thoughts of family, my environment, my favorite sports teams, and
so on.