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« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2016, 01:33:57 AM »

7. Most of your decisions are made subconsciously



Do you think about all the decisions you make, weighing all the options and calculating the impact of each outcome? You might think so, but you’re wrong. The majority of your decisions are made in your subconscious because otherwise – your conscious mind would be overwhelmed with information, and you’ll probably get mentally frozen. The reason for this is that your brain receives over 11 million bits of information every second, and there’s simply not enough “brain power” to go through all of it consciously.

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« Reply #7 on: June 27, 2016, 01:34:11 AM »

8. We can only store between 5 and 9 bits of information at once



The average human can only keep an average of 7 bits of information at once in their short-term memory. Each of the 7 bits of information can be comprised of several pieces of relevant data. The best example is remembering a phone number – it can be anywhere between 9 and 14 digits long, so we break it into segments country code, area code, and a set of numbers we split (usually to 3-4 digit groups).
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« Reply #8 on: June 27, 2016, 01:34:27 AM »

9. We prefer shorter lines of text, but read longer ones better



Sounds counterintuitive, but while we might prefer to read narrow columns, we’ll read the same information faster if it’s spread to the width of the page. The only reason you don’t notice that is because you visually prefer the shorter layout.
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« Reply #9 on: June 27, 2016, 01:34:44 AM »

10. We want more choices, but choose better with fewer options



Professor Dan Ariely tells in his book “Predictably Irrational” about an experiment he and his colleagues performed: They set up two booths that offered jam for sale. One booth had 24 different kinds of jams while the other only had six kinds of jam. The table with fewer options managed to sell six times more jams than the one with more options. This reverts us back to #8 – our brain just cannot process too many options.
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« Reply #10 on: June 27, 2016, 01:35:02 AM »

11. We think other people are more easily influenced than us



We can see the effect advertising has on other people more clearly than its impact on ourselves - this is known as the “Third Person Effect”. We can tell how an ad affects our peers, but deny its effects on ourselves, and it gets worse when it’s an ad for something we have no interest it. You have ly not realized it, but all the advertisements you see every day have a subconscious effect on your mood, desires and even attitude.
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« Reply #11 on: June 27, 2016, 01:35:24 AM »

12. Your brain doesn’t stop working when you sleep



Your brain is just as active when you sleep as it is when you’re awake. Scientists have discovered that the only time your brain clears out toxins and waste is when you sleep. It is also believed that during the sleep cycles, your brain sorts out all the data from the previous day and creates new associations.

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