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🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences
☘️ How the Book Changed Me
✍️ Top Quotes From the Book
- These five functions, understanding, deciding, recalling, memorizing, and inhibiting, make up the majority of conscious thought.
- To make matters worse, the power to light the stage is a limited resource, decreasing as you use it, a bit like a set of batteries that constantly need recharging.
- Your best-quality thinking lasts for a limited time. The answer is not always just to “try harder.”
- Each time you use your mental stage, allocate it to something important.
- That’s because prioritizing is one of the brain’s most energy-hungry processes.
- Prioritizing involves imagining and then moving around concepts of which you have no direct experience.
- This tendency means scheduling the most attention-rich tasks when you have a fresh and alert mind.
- This means not thinking when you don’t have to, becoming disciplined about not paying attention to non-urgent tasks unless, or until, it’s truly essential that you do.
- The point is, the stage works efficiently when you bring items onto it made up of elements embedded in long-term memory. This also explains why it’s hard to think about new ideas unless they connect to existing ideas.
- While you can hold several chunks of information in mind at once, you can’t perform more than one conscious process at a time with these chunks without impacting performance.
- The key to this is timing: the best chunks take fewer than two seconds to think about or repeat aloud.
- Circuits compete with one another to form the best internal representation of the external object.
- When engaged in conscious activities, your brain works in a serial way: one thing after another.