What happens to all the Impressions hurtling through your…
What happens to all the Impressions hurtling through your brain every second?The vast majority are irretrievably lost.
— from The Mind in the Cockpit · Art of the Good Life
In the book
And it runs ahead of itself — predicting what you are about to see and flagging your attention only when the prediction turns out wrong; the conscious mind you experience mostly arrives a beat later, comparing and rationalizing what the fast system has already chosen. Of the millions of impressions hurtling at you every second, the vast majority are filtered out before you ever notice them — you are never seeing the whole world, only the thin sliver your mind decided to show you. And steering all of it, quietly, are your beliefs. — The Mind in the Cockpit