Peter Attia· MD
the example I often give is if if you and I picked a random word and we said it a thousand times we're going to be saying it later to today right if we say it 5,000 times we're each going to be saying it tomorrow and over the weekend right why if we know that it's just a silly experiment why would it stay with us because we said it and the brain's mechanisms are designed to hold on to it because we said it a lot of times that's how it goes the same is true of course with what we're thinking right we're just thinking what we think we put into words it's the same it's thought it's neuronal connections that don't want to go away right because this is how how we've developed we've developed to remember things we've developed to not forget things that are important