Shawn Healey | Dragon KOI Project Day 12 of 365: WAIT...WHAT?
Dragon KOI Project Day 12 of 365: WAIT...WHAT?: I've been reading a book called "UNTHINK" by Chris Paley. I would highly recommend it if you are at all interested in how your brain works (or doesn't!). The second section starts with "The unconscious does what the conscious thinks the conscious does". Think about that statement for a minute. So basically, our unconscious minds are controlling pretty much everything that we do. Everything that we "think" we have control of... which is basically not much. Humans are conscious. We see things, learn things, touch things, question things decide things, strive for things, and on, and on, and on. In actuality, our unconscious minds make sure that we achieve these things. Our conscious mind just experiences them.
Paraphrased from the book... The unconscious rules and determines the way we behave. Nearly everything interesting about eh way humans act is determined by the unconscious. An experiment done at New York University by John Bargh took two groups of students and gave them words to look at. In an initial test, half were exposed to polite words, where the other half were given negative or neutral words. These students were told that they were going to be given a second test, which wasn't true. When the students finished the first test and were waiting for the second, the tester was involved in a conversation with a friend and ignored the students. 60% of the students primed with rudeness interrupted within ten minutes, compared to about 40% of the unprimed students and less than 20% of the participants primed with politeness.
How do you think that your everyday interaction is influenced is based on who you are around and how they speak to you? How you speak to them? If our unconscious mind has this much control, doesn't it make sense that we learn a bit more about what's causing our actions? Our future? As I said in the beginning of this Dragon KOI Project process... we have our world has unlimited potential.
...but only if we understand the control of the unconscious mind.
Until tomorrow...
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