The Brain And The Eye May Have

Few Of Us Can Accurately Gauge How We Will Feel Tomorrow Or Next Week. That's Why When You Go To The Supermarket On An Empty Stomach, You'll Buy Too Much, And If You Shop After A Big Meal, You'll Buy Too Little.

Hateful, Blasphemous, Prejudiced, Vulgar, Rude, Or Ignorant Remarks Are The Music Of A Free Society, And The Relentless Patter Of Idiots Is How We Know We're In One. When All The Words In Our Public Conversation Are Fair, Good, And True, It's Time To Make A Run For The Fence.

Because Your Brain Uses Information From The Areas Around The Blind Spot To Make A Reasonable Guess About What The Blind Spot Would See If Only It Weren't Blind, And Then Your Brain Fills In The Scene With This Information. That's Right, It Invents Things, Creates Things, Makes Stuff Up! It Doesn't Consult You About This, Doesn't Seek Your Approval. It Just Makes Its Best Guess About The Nature Of The Missing Information And Proceeds To Fill In The Scene.

Our Inability To Recall How We Really Felt Is Why Our Wealth Of Experiences Turns Out To Be Poverty Of Riches.

Your Mistake Was Not In Imagining Things You Could Not Know—that Is, After All, What Imagination Is For. Rather, Your Mistake Was In Unthinkingly Treating What You Imagined As Though It Were An Accurate Representation Of The Facts.