![]() How sad that one seems so important and the other so trivial.īut are your thoughts really so unimportant? Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Beware of what you set your mind on because that you surely will become.” Norman Vincent Peale said, “Change your thoughts and you change the world.” Henry Ford gave that truth a different spin when he declared, “Thinking is the hardest work in the world, which is probably why so few people engage in it.” Then I ran across this perceptive comment by Betty Sachelli: “Two thoughts cannot occupy the mind at the same time, so the choice is ours whether or not our thoughts will be constructive or destructive.” Change your thoughts and you change the world. How sad that we devote so much time to how we spend our money and so little time to how we spend our thoughts. Suppose someone gave you $10,000 this morning and said, “Spend it any way you like as long as you spend it all before you go to bed tonight.” You’d be careful how you spent it, wouldn’t you? I’ll bet you’d sit down and take inventory of what you could do with that much money. Then you’ll start all over again tomorrow.Įvery one of those 10,000 thoughts represents a choice you make, a decision to think about this, and not about that. ![]() You’ll probably have another 8,000 before you hit the sack tonight. If you live to be 75, you will have over 26 million different thoughts.Īlready most of you have had over 2,000 separate thoughts since you got out of bed this morning. 10,000 Thoughts A Dayĭid you know that the average person has 10,000 separate thoughts each day? That works out to be 3.5 million thoughts a year. ![]() But the basic principle of GIGO is still true: Garbage In, Garbage Out. In fact, the human mind is far more complex than the most advanced computer ever designed. That comparison is apt because the human mind has often been compared to a computer. What is true of computers is also true of the human mind. What you put into your mind determines what you get out. If your input is garbage, guess what your output will be? Garbage. Those four letters summarize a huge truth about computers: What you put in determines what you get out. Most computer buffs know what word I’m talking about. It describes in four letters both the cause and consequences of putting the wrong data into the computer. In order to express that truth, a new word was coined. If you put the right data in, the right answers come out. What you put into a computer determines what comes out. Sometimes the neophyte experts entered the wrong data only to discover a universal truth: If the raw data is bad, the computer can’t do anything good with it. In those days not many people knew how to operate a computer and those who did made many mistakes. Almost a generation ago, when the computer revolution had just begun, the pioneers in the field coined a brand-new word.
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