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The Counter Intuitive Method To Escape The Overload Of Decision Making
If a bus is coming at you, you know exactly how to jump out of the way. Your nervous system helps you to do so without commanding it to start pumping the adrenaline. Similarly, if someone you’re attracted to leans in to kiss you, you know exactly how to reciprocate that advance.
The presence of survival and sexual instinct is so strong within all of us that we don’t need to consciously remind ourselves to take necessary action — the action is invariably instinctive. We don’t need to possess an extremely athletic body to execute those actions requiring sharp reflexes.
Thanks to evolutionary mapping of our genes, we don’t need training to preserve ourselves.
It’s the conscious aspect of our mind that needs continuous practice. We need to consistently keep learning and understanding every aspects of life just to make sense of this ever inconsistent world.
What’s the point here?
Well, the point here is to bring some clarity in not so obvious distinction between the conscious and subconscious aspect of our mind, so that we are in a better position to make sense of their unpredictable interplay.
