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Saturday, December 13, 2008

Eyes Wide Shut

You have an important decision to make. You lean this way and then you lean that way. Indecision is making you crazy. What do you do?
“Sleep on it.”

A cliché maybe, standard fare when you’re facing a difficult problem that needs a solution, but research suggests that it might also be the best possible advice you can give or get.

There is a growing body of evidence indicating that unconscious thought is superior to conscious contemplation. The unconscious mind is far more capable of absorbing and analyzing information than its more limited wide-eyed counterpart.

Think of conscious thought as the data stream and the unconscious mind as the central processing unit. Yet despite its superior capacity, the unconscious mind remains a mystery to us.

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