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RE: Learn to Think or Lose Your Mind: The Silent Madness of Auto-Pilot Life
Here’s the mind bomb: Learning to think — really think — is a survival skill.
While I was searching for some funny memes on FB (that's the main purpose of FB for me, 😀), I was forced to watch an ad about procrastination... And, to my surprise, I heard something interesting...
The guy was talking about why we procrastinate, and why we are doing exactly what you said in the post (work harder, rather than work smarter)... Also, you said the main CLUE in the sentence that I quoted... SURVIVAL! Our brain works on "survival mode" and because of that, whenever we want to implement some new idea, to do something riskier, to work smarter, our brain says: "F$ck that... That's too risky... We are going back to routine as that worked in the PAST... Why change it?"
Our brain makes decisions according to previous experiences from the past, and can't predict the future... Whatever works toward survival, and it worked in the past, is the WAY to do it!
PS. Maybe this is a bit off topic, but I wanted to share... and my brain made a connection with your post... 😃
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That is SO recognizable! They should rename it from "FB" to "Memefinder" :-D lol
Survival, indeed! That's the main function of our brain, and everything else is just an add-on to increase the chances of survival. Survival of the individual, and survival of the species. And if you buy that specific type of shampoo, you increase your chances of survival:-D
And again, indeed, all our brain does is to predict the future, based on past experiences, in a way that has the highest chance of survival! And procrastination often fits that. Working your ass of for 12hrs/day to buy the same BMW as the neighbours have, doesn't. But in a way it does... because your survival rate increases when you belong to a strong group...
This is all SOOOO incredibly interesting!!!
But the main question is: why did your brain make the connection with my post.... What's the survival tactic in that? ;-)
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That's a good question... 😃
I suppose it wanted to suck out wisdom from your post and avoid future laziness and lack of thinking! 😃 Or, it kept itself busy not to get up from the computer and eat something unhealthy (snacks)! 😂
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