Rebooting Your Brain

CHAPTER 9Rebooting Your Thought Process

Within our body we have 7 octillion atoms that merge together to create the 3 billion base pairs of DNA that make us uniquely us. These pairs of DNA have built us into a truly magnificent marvel of science.

They have laid the foundation for a structural system of 206 bones and 230 movable joints. Around these bones flows a network of 100,000 miles of vessels that feed blood, oxygen, and nutrients to the 650 muscles that enable our every movement. Around these muscles runs nearly 90,000 miles of nerves. Feeding information into these nerves, we have eyes capable of distinguishing more than 10 million colors, a nose than can remember more than 50,000 scents, and ears that detect changes in the pressure waves of air by moving less than a billionth of an inch so that we can hear.

However, for all the wondrous things that our body does, by far, the most fantastic and incredible aspect of us floats between our ears. A 3‐pound organ that, if it were a computer, could perform 38,000 trillion operations per second. By comparison, the world's most powerful supercomputer can manage only .002% of that.

Through this mind will bounce roughly 60,000 conscious thoughts each and every day. Over time, these thoughts will come to define every aspect of who we will become, what we will pursue, and what we will avoid. These thoughts will build on the mental foundation that evolution gave us and shape the way we perceive and react to our world.

More than 2,000 ...