Friday, December 05, 2008

Of Brain Efficiency

I noticed something interesting today while studying for my exam.

Usually, I have the thing that lets me change the volume of my speaker on the left side of my laptop. So ... whenever I want to tune it louder or softer ... I reach to the left of my laptop.
But I have changed the settings and now, the tune thing-y is on the right side of my laptop. And this morning, when I wanted to crank up the volume ... guess where I reached to?
The left. When the tune thing-y was very obviously lying on the right ... in front of me.

And the incredible thing was that ... it did not happen once. But MULTIPLE times.
I have never thought of what automacy means and how much it is governing my life till this morning. Heh.
Or perhaps I am just slow.

Still ... I was thinking of how much things in my life that falls into the same "category" ... where I mindlessly do these things. Because of repetition ... the brain has helped me save few seconds of processing ... it just jump straight into "solution".
Incredibly ... some part of me has been wired so hard that it has become what we call it a ... HABIT. Makes me wonder about the power of habit.

See.For instance.
If I am used to or ... have the habit of being lazy to think ... it will slowly be wired into me ... and gradually ... my brain helps me choose the fastest way out. No need think.
And even though when I want to think.I will not.Because it is a habit.

Hmmm ...

Amazing.No?

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