95% Percent of Our Thoughts Are Repetitive ... But We Can Change That
When we train ourselves to constantly travel back and forth through the swinging door of attention & language, we rewire our brains toward a mode of discovery (and that's great for our writing)
Abandoned passenger train car in Lambertville, New Jersey. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection
Negative thoughts are easy thoughts. That’s because for survival reasons (i.e., taking note of threats in order to stay alive), our brains actually defer to the negative. In fact, according to the National Science Fo…