[Talisker]

So, now you have to ask yourself, “Am I willing to change my mind in a second?”

No, what we have to ask ourselves is: "why are you trying to undermine our clarity and common sense about standing up to tyranny"?

[arthurus]

allows them to quickly brake through

Do you mean "break" through? That seems more appropriate unless you are slowing madly as you go through.

[Lazlo in PA]

So, now you have to ask yourself, “Am I willing to change my mind in a second?”

I'll pass. This psycho babble sounds like something out of the Regimes reeducation handbook. A lot of the term "Extremist" being used which invariably is code for Conservatives or Tea Party types. Just in case, I had better throw this down. IBTZ.

(I always shoot to be the first, but rarely succeed.)

[cuban leaf]

It is either Brian Tracy or Dennis Waitley that compares the conscious mind to the subconscious as a golf ball attached to a basketball, respectively.

It helped me to give myself a LOT more than a second on a regular basis. And as they also say, it is why, if you are thinking of buying a red sports car, you suddenly see them everywhere. What you think about actually controls what you see and how you interpret the world around you.

[crazyhorse691]

The human brain unconsciously processes everything you see, hear, think, or feel along with intricate details of experiences and outcomes of decisions. All redundant information is discarded and the compressed memories are categorized and given a level of importance. Memories that are associated with values receive the highest level of importance due to the intense emotions associated with conflicts and threatened self-determination. Once the memories are compressed, categorized, and prioritized they are sent through a neuronal network to the regions where they will be stored.

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The above is proved wrong every time I watch my wife shopping at the mall...she is like a kitten running from one shiny thing to another.