I’d like you to reflect on this for a minute. As you sit there right now reading this article, information is entering your brain through your sense of sight. But you are also hearing various sounds, sensing bodily feelings like the force of the chair touching your buttocks and back, the touch of the clothing on your body, and the air temperature and movement on your skin. You are also receiving information through your nose in the form of smells. And of course, you’re receiving information in the form of a variety of tastes on your lips.
And how about the emotional thoughts that you are presently experiencing? That is also information that you’re currently processing. We reside in an information intensive world. Thanks to the Internet, almost anything and everything that a person could ever want to know is only a few clicks of the mouse away.
Recently I read an editorial that said that even in a tranquil and peaceful setting, we are bombarded by sixty thousand stimuli per second. And that’s occurring sixty seconds out of every minute, and sixty minutes out of every hour. And it goes on twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, week in...