Imagine how many thoughts you had yesterday — hundreds? Thousands?

I mean, if each bit of thought is its own thought — if every word of a sentence counts — then we’re talking hundreds of thousands.

And where are they now?

All those bits of data,
all those words,
pieces of language,
images,
sounds…

Where are they in your mind?

Did you put them on a shelf somewhere?

Can you still see them?

Can you remember even 1% of them?

Probably not.

And yet, you pay so much attention to thoughts.

You give them so much weight.

They’re all gone within 24 hours.

Most of them are gone within seconds.

So, why do we give them so much power when they never stick around?

If you don’t act on a thought — like you play the music in your head but never transfer it into behavior — what happens to that thought?

Let’s say you think, “I really feel like eating some chocolate,”
but you don’t eat the chocolate.

What happens to that thought?

If I were to tie you to a chair so you couldn’t move — and you had to sit there as your thoughts came and went, without acting on any of them — What would happen to you?

Let’s say hours go by, and you don’t get to act on a single thought.

What happens then?

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