An unquestioned, and often unconscious, belief in Keynesianism is at the heart of clueless conservatism.
On a more emotional and often unconscious level, people in positions of authority often feel that they should have all the answers, display strength and confidence, and give clear direction.
The interdependence of all our senses, often an unconscious interplay, is the reason we can often see what we hear or taste what we see, known as synesthesia.
In other words, we can gesture more than we say, because gesture comes from our unconscious minds and is often way ahead of our conscious thought.
Relying on our intuitions alone for self-knowledge is dangerous, because thanks to the nature of the adaptive unconscious, they are often no more accurate than a shot in the dark.
In fact, our arguments and points of view, the opinions we hold so dear, are often after-the-fact justifications for what our unconscious processes have previously produced.
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Instead of rational beings driven consciously by ideas, we are mostly unconscious beings driven by intents and needs that often happen in the blink of an eye before we are aware of them.
"Horses are often hit multiple times on their head before they are rendered unconscious, " said Nancy Perry, senior vice president of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Our mental and emotional muscles are now so well developed, and dealing with complexity so familiar, that decision making becomes habitual, automatic, and often, as in my own case and that of the golfer, unconscious.
Yet in Britain, only doctors, not paramedics, are trained to intubate a group of patients who often need it most - people with head injuries who aren't completely unconscious.
Weight loss experts frequently explain that addressing the habit of unconscious eating is one of the best ways to lose weight without the sense of deprivation that so often makes diets backfire.
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