Water Water Everywhere But You're Probably Not Drinking Enough!
Water, Water Everywhere... But You're Probably Not Drinking Enough!
Your brain operates on two systems.
System 1: Fast, intuitive, automatic. This is autopilot. It handles everything you do without thinkingā€”driving in traffic, brushing your teeth, scrolling your phone.
System 2: Slow, deliberate, conscious. This requires effort. It's the part of your brain you use when learning something new or making complex decisions.
Daniel Kahneman's book Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow explores how almost everything starts as System 2 (exhausting, conscious effort) and eventually becomes System 1 (effortless, automatic).
Think about learning to drive. The first time, it was overwhelmingā€”mirrors, pedals, steering, traffic. Now you can drive for an hour in bumper-to-bumper traffic and not remember how you got home. System 1 took over.
Here's the problem: your System 1 autopilot is programmed by mass media, advertising, and cultural defaults designed to keep you addicted to products that wreck ...
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