I’m sure you’ve had the experience of intending to go to another room to get \/ do something, and when you got there you forgot what you were doing. <\/p>\n
I recently heard a theory that makes sense of this. <\/p>\n
The very act of going through a door resets your brain to some degree. <\/p>\n
Think about it. You’re in such and so room, which has a certain purpose \/ utility. Then you walk into another room that has some other purpose \/ utility. Your brain is resetting each time. Or, to put it in more abstract terms, our subjectivity is the context for our objectivity. <\/p>\n
If you walk from the upstairs (where the bedrooms are) to the ground level (kitchen, living room) to the basement (workshop, rec room), your brain has had to adjust multiple times. It’s no wonder you forget why you were going to the basement!\u00a0<\/p>\n
You can deploy this to your advantage by intentionally going through doors. E.g., “going outside” can reset your brain because you’ve gone through a door into another reality.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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