10 Top Lessons From the Book “Incognito”
📗Book Review
📗Book Review
1. Thoughts don't seem like physical things.
They don't seem like they exist in a tangible form, but that's exactly what is going on.
✅The physical structure of the brain determines the thoughts that flow from it.
They don't seem like they exist in a tangible form, but that's exactly what is going on.
✅The physical structure of the brain determines the thoughts that flow from it.
2. Hidden Mode
👉Consciousness is the smallest player of our mind. Most of our brain operates in a hidden mode.
👉Consciousness is the smallest player of our mind. Most of our brain operates in a hidden mode.
3. Conscious Mind
🟢Your conscious mind is like a newspaper. It delivers headlines but rarely show you what's going on behind the scenes.
🟢Your conscious mind is like a newspaper. It delivers headlines but rarely show you what's going on behind the scenes.
4. Bingo!
👉When you say, “I just got an idea!” You are actually referencing all sorts of work your brain has been doing behind the scenes for minutes, days, or months.
👉When you say, “I just got an idea!” You are actually referencing all sorts of work your brain has been doing behind the scenes for minutes, days, or months.
5. Alert
You have to realize that conscious thought should NOT be involved in most decisions and actions.
❌If you had to decide every damn thing you would never get anything done.
You have to realize that conscious thought should NOT be involved in most decisions and actions.
❌If you had to decide every damn thing you would never get anything done.
6. Required Time
Conscious awareness takes about 0.5 seconds.
Hitting a baseball takes 0.4 seconds.
It's literally impossible to consciously hit a baseball.
🟢Your brain makes the choice to hit and swing with unconscious information.
Conscious awareness takes about 0.5 seconds.
Hitting a baseball takes 0.4 seconds.
It's literally impossible to consciously hit a baseball.
🟢Your brain makes the choice to hit and swing with unconscious information.
7. The only way society functions is by groups of people consciously focusing on things.
👉We are all running on autopilot in nearly every area of life, but each of us has the capacity to be consciously focused on a few things.
👉We are all running on autopilot in nearly every area of life, but each of us has the capacity to be consciously focused on a few things.
8. Vision
🟢Your vision is simply a cone of vision where you point your eyes.
We all live our lives by viewing only the world of vision that is inside this little cone… without even realizing it.
🟢Your vision is simply a cone of vision where you point your eyes.
We all live our lives by viewing only the world of vision that is inside this little cone… without even realizing it.
9. Egotism
👉People tend to love reflections of themselves in others and on products. This is called “implicit egotism.”
We like people who share our birthdays, have names similar to our, and so on.
👉People tend to love reflections of themselves in others and on products. This is called “implicit egotism.”
We like people who share our birthdays, have names similar to our, and so on.
10. The mere exposure effect proves that our brains tend to like things that we are exposed to often.
🟢Similarly, we tend to associate two things with one another if we hear that pairing often.
🟢Similarly, we tend to associate two things with one another if we hear that pairing often.
Wrap Up:
1. Practice self-discipline. Gain freedom.
2. Find your purpose. Unlock your passion.
3. Chase your vision.
Change your life.
Think like a scientist.
Practice critical thinking.
Start reading 100 Mental Models :👇
gumroad.com/a/691639411/Ax…
1. Practice self-discipline. Gain freedom.
2. Find your purpose. Unlock your passion.
3. Chase your vision.
Change your life.
Think like a scientist.
Practice critical thinking.
Start reading 100 Mental Models :👇
gumroad.com/a/691639411/Ax…
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