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It’s simple and convenient to think of your brain as an intel processor, shifting and organising the input to help to produce the output that you desire.

This would be to suggest that our brains our ‘super computers’ that run on electricity with no other external factors, needs or requirements.

This of course if wrong and while the speed of processors in computers has increased exponentially year on year for the past 15 or 20 years (you can read a wonderful account of the history of processors in Good strategy Bad strategy by Rumlet if you so wish) the speed of the human ‘super computer’ has not.

What used to be a wonderful and significant event for most humans 30 years ago, probably repeated quarterly, twice yearly or yearly are now the things that we do daily.

No body ever waits for a Christmas present any more, no body ever waits for a birthday present, if you need a bike you buy one. The Xbox that we buy is only to replace the Xbox that we already have.

The same applies to events both in your life and your work. Everybody wants a major social event at least once a week. Everybody wants to ‘make a contribution’ every single day at work.

It’s fine to do that, it’s fine to eat your favourite food everyday, to go to the cinema four times a week, to go out partying as many nights as you can and to have the ideas and do the work which makes a huge contribution on a day-to-day basis. The problem with this approach though is there is no time to consider what you’ve done, to lock the memories and the sensations and to learn.

Computer processors burn out over time, but it’s fine, we can just go online and order a new one…

… the same is not true for us.

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