keyword focus The law of substitution is critical to…

Keyword thought keyword focus The law of substitution is critical to how our mind works. We can only sustain one dominant thought at a time. When our mind is on that thought, everything is blocked out. Which means that we must recognize how to identify these two things. What we shouldn't focus on. And what we should focus on .

— from Decisions & Choices (Decision/Choice/Focus/Forethought/Consequences) · Getting to Neutral by Trevor Moawad

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Every moment you spend attending to one thing is an opportunity cost paid against everything else you might have attended to. The mind can hold only one dominant thought at a time, so the real skill is choosing, deliberately, what to put there — and, just as importantly, what to leave out. Learn the difference, too, between useful and useless thinking: most of our mental noise is narrative chatter, while the truly useful thoughts — the ones that solve a problem or stay with the task — are usually quiet. — Decisions & Choices (Decision/Choice/Focus/Forethought/Consequences)

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