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Listen to Your Subconscious Mind!
Brilliant insights and solutions are waiting for you there
If you study the lives of people who have had Eureka moments, you’ll discover that their breakthroughs almost always came after extended periods of intense, conscious effort.
They worked. They struggled. They abandoned all hope. They recommitted — and then the breakthrough came. And often at the most unexpected of moments.
They weren’t buying lottery tickets at their local deli hoping to win a breakthrough fortune. They were digging for treasure in their own back yard.
The Scientific Method was revealed to Rene Descartes (Mr. “I-Think-Therefore-I-Am”) in a dream. Elias Howe arrived at the final design for the lock stitch sewing machine in a dream. Richard Wagner got the idea for his uber work, Das Rhinegold, while stepping onto a bus after long months of creative despair.
In other words, the conscious mind works overtime in an attempt to solve a problem or achieve a goal.
Unable to come up with the solution, the challenge gets outsourced to the subconscious mind, which then proceeds to figure…
