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Shiftheads - Two Thirds of Your Life Runs on Autopilot
You delete Instagram to break the doom scrolling habit. Automatic behaviors still control you. You grab your phone, swipe up, and tap the same screen location. Except now it opens your banking app instead. You're staring at your account balance, wondering why. Your brain executed the pattern before you thought about it.
Two out of three things you do are completely automatic. Your brain fires before you become conscious of the thought. Fish argues this is efficiency, not slavery. Your brain consumes a fifth of your entire energy budget, so it automates to survive. In Muay Thai, you don't…
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