We’ve been told atleast once in our lives that the capacity of our minds is ten times that of a computer. But computers wouldn’t leave their keys locked inside the trunk. Computers wouldn’t miss red lights. Computers wouldn’t leave the headlights on overnight. Meanwhile, my own supposedly more superior mind would.
Although it is merely a myth that we use only 10 percent of our minds, there might be some truth to it in a sense that our minds are limited. Among all the thoughts floating around our minds how many of them are mindful thoughts? How much of thoughts are intentful, in the moment? We can’t think of everything all at once.
Lately, I’ve been suffering from a lot of absent mindedness and it’s been a struggle to prioritize the things that preoccupy my conscious mind. This inability to multitask and to think about more than one thing at a time springs from the bottleneck in my brain that funnels my conscious thoughts. Whether it’s 10 percent, 2 percent, 50 percent, or 100 percent, it’s time to prioritize what thoughts my brain focuses all the attention and intention to. Filter before the funnel.