What if your mind goes blank?

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My mind went blank.

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In a "busy" environment, I will eventually go into sensory overload and my mind will go blank.

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Pinker believes we live in a world that prefers to see the mind as a blank page ready to be overwritten by culture rather than something already shaped by our genes and evolution.

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Ms. PROSE: Historical fiction in the first person - I mean my mind is now going blank.

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He is the author of several critically acclaimed books including How the Mind Works and The Blank Slate.

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You just blank it out, the mind forgets it.

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Presumably cardinals change their mind more often during the voting process, so distributing extra blank ballots makes sense.

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In Mindnode, you start a mind map by writing your overall goal in the middle of a blank screen.

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The term Blank Slate comes from a translation of the medieval Latin tabula rasa, implying a smooth tablet or a mind unmarked by experience.

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