like, bawling. And I'm like, I didn't know how to feel about it. mindlessly following the crowd of a disco and turn the lights on, then that's where real power is.
Day it's hard to imagine this but there's only so much chocolate people can eat what they had done is they just started mindlessly accumulating chocolate without actually thinking about well what are their goals so the next part of the research was well is there a way that we can prevent this from happening and what might this do in terms of people's well-being so the researchers put an
and the reason for that is the differences in motivation when you're stretching you're focusing on what your actual goals are you're not just trying to mindlessly accumulate the proverbial chocolate you're trying to think think what what are your goalss what are you trying to accomplish do you really need this amount of capital or do you really need this amount of people or do you really need this type of title to
but understand that when you take this focus from the amygdala to the insula, there's no muscles in your brain, but you're building up more gray matter. You can run mindlessly .
But I thought of how before Copernicus, the general assumption that everybody accepted was that the Earth was flat, right? They accepted that mindlessly . Because then better. I think the equivalent of the pre-Copernican flat Earth assumption in our society is the delusion that in order to succeed, achieve, accomplish, change
proof he James offered an analysis of The Iliad and the early books of the Old Testament in which all the characters behave like puppets mindlessly following Divine orders without ever having any internal reelection and when I set out to try and find out what the worldwide web with a sufficient complexity might
Because we know that exercise is beneficial. And if you did nothing but mindlessly exercise, run, and lift weights, and do all these things, that's great. You will get many of the lifespan benefits of exercise, which is to say, your risk of heart disease, and cancer, dementia, metabolic disease will go down.
We calculated it out. So they're not just doing it mindlessly .
control because you'll need less if you recalibrate your palate. But I'm not going to mindlessly eat it every single day when I'm just on my computer and not really getting the most out of that meal.
They're extraordinary. They enhance our lives in so many different ways. But if we use them mindlessly , they can do a lot of damage. We have news cycles of 24 hours.
Already, being off social media, I'm so much more productive at work. I'm actually doing things that I enjoy outside of just mindlessly scrolling. I don't know if you've thought about this or have the answer, but something I'm just thinking about is the condition of the screens.
doing so because you're like, you know, I really want three cookies, not that you went through the day and all of a sudden couldn't even recount what you kind of mindlessly grazed on. So if it's a treat, really enjoy it.
I value this moment in my morning where I can drink a latte and write in my journal and reflect on what's coming up in my day. That conscious, intentional spending is very different than mindlessly buying a $5 coffee every morning and then, at the end of the week, complaining that you don't have enough or wondering why you're still in credit card debt.
happier eating the chocolate and the reason for that is quite simple they had calibrated between what their actual goals are how much chocolate they could earn uh and how much they actually worked they didn't overwork they didn't mindlessly accumulate chocolate now we can think about chocolate as a metaphor for what we do with a lot of our resources in life life whether we're trying to grow a business
but it's not a spoonerism. This is not a show where you are putting it on and the kid is just sitting watching mindlessly .
And then this is something I also noticed, obviously, when I quit drinking. But I never seemed to have the money to do it because I was sort of just mindlessly spending money on whatever else.
So I really do think this is-- the only way you're going to know whether you're getting the benefits is how it shows up in your own life. But if it truly makes you happy to vanquish your enemies and be endlessly, mindlessly acquisitive,
One of the things about exertion is that often, we just mindlessly exert.
Get them to think a little bit, get them to reflect, or don't do things mindlessly .
Yes. Because like in many computer games, you don't just mindlessly mash on buttons.
But then after that-- this one doesn't have a mouth-- but anything that you wrote as an instruction and put in its mouth, it would just follow mindlessly
To get my little thing back, and say, OK, do that, do that-- mindlessly pushing that button to tell it to update.
But it's important to actually think about it, and to be mindful about it, and not to mindlessly go along, because that's what everybody else is doing.