Publisher's Synopsis
We possess perhaps the most complex thing in the universe - our mind. Consider it as a complex tool, a tool with which we shape what we think, feel, say and do. If we use this tool well, then our thoughts, feelings, words and actions will be apt and help our self and the people that we affect to have a better life. If we use this tool poorly, then our thoughts, feelings, words and actions could be inapt and could hinder our self and our others from having a good life. Indeed, if we use any tool poorly, we end up with poor results! The better we understand any tool that we use, the better use we can make of that tool. While we spend many hours learning about the tools and equipment that we use (such as our computers, work equipment and hobby items), we spend little, if any, time learning about the most important and complex tool that we use - our mind!
In this book, we explore the mind, so that we may better understand it, and thus better use it. Explorations are offered throughout the book to help you to explore the mind yourself.
In the initial explorations, you will discover what features you have in your mind. Importantly, we are not exploring the physical features of our brains (such as neurons, the cortex, thalamus, amygdala...). In this book, we restrict our explorations to those features in our minds that we can personally explore, such as our thoughts, memories and feelings.
Next you will discover humps - what I consider to be the most important features of the mind. We all have humps, many of them. Mostly we are unaware of them, and unaware of what enormous effects they have on us. Understand the characteristics of humps, and you understand the characteristics of your mind!
Next you will discover why it is important to know about your humps. You discover that your humps shape what you think, feel, desire, dislike, look at, the meaning you make of what you look at, say and do.
Finally, you explore how your humps are shaped by the humps of other people, the humps in your culture and the humps (or patterns) in the world around you.
This book is the third book in the series Exploring a Good Life, Wisdom and the Mind.
