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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