OMG! I Can’t Think!

I hate to agree with someone who was demonized, insane and caused death and damage that will last for generations.  But Adolf Hitler was correct when he coined the phrase, “What luck for rulers that men do not think.”

Did you know that by the time you reach 35 years of age that 90 percent of what you do, you never think about? Everyone has 168 hours in a week.  Give yourself an average of six hours of sleep per night which lower the total to 126 hours.  Then there is tv time.  I’ll be nice; say only four hours per day, (much worse according to the L.A. Times. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/11/americans-now-w.html) which subtracts another 28 hours in a week. Final total is: 118 hours which means on a conservative schedule, only eleven hours per week do you find yourself not just acting but really thinking!

Your neural networks are so hard wired by your Dad and Mom’s interactions, reinforced experiences, rejections, success stories, anger, fears, work habits and so on that only 10 percent of the time do you find yourself thinking creatively.  Now that is scary!  So almost everything you do you don’t think about it.  You just do whatever because you are conditioned to act this way.

Query someone as to why they often become angry within a moments notice.  Their response will probably sound like this, ‘I really don’t know.  I’ve been this way for as long as I can remember.’  And how about your friend or family member who just seems to always only view the negative side of life or when confronted with a problem, they focus on the problem and not solutions.

So how about you?  Does any of the above remind you of yourself or your former self?  Feel free to share.

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