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Second conclusion is that the ability to conceive of a given event in two different ways, such as "cause something to go to someone" and "causing someone to have something," I think is a fundamental feature of human thought, and it's the basis for much human argumentation, in which people don't differ so much on the facts as on how they ought to be construed.

I'd also seen a few kung fu movies, and secretly I kind of thought I might be able to learn how to fly, but I was very young at the time.

I hadn't really thought that it could be sort of preventative in nature, until I was about 20, when a number of things happened in my life in quite quick succession, really serious things which just flipped my life upside down and all of a sudden I was inundated with thoughts, inundated with difficult emotions that I didn't know how to cope with.

By that I mean not being lost in thought, not being distracted, not being overwhelmed by difficult emotions, but instead learning how to be in the here and now, how to be mindful, how to be present.

There was a research paper that came out of Harvard, just recently, that said on average, our minds are lost in thought almost 47 percent of the time.

Now we're not here for that long anyway, but to spend almost half of our life lost in thought and potentially quite unhappy, I don't know, it just kind of seems tragic, actually, especially when there's something we can do about it, when there's a positive, practical, achievable, scientifically proven technique which allows our mind to be more healthy, to be more mindful and less distracted.

It's more about stepping back, sort of seeing the thought clearly, witnessing it coming and going, emotions coming and going without judgment, but with a relaxed, focused mind.

Now, what usually happens when we're learning to be mindful is that we get distracted by a thought.

Let's say this is an anxious thought.

Everything's going fine, and we see the anxious thought.

Or it might just be that one little nagging thought that just goes round and round your mind.

So I thought, "I wonder what'll happen if I put the two together?"

And I think that moment of completely new thought perhaps creates a freedom that spreads to the rest of other people's lives.

When I was in the third grade, I wrote a book for the first time, "The Owl Who Thought He Was The Best Flyer."

He instantly saw that I was the cause of the commotion, and for the first time in my life, I was sent to the hall, and I thought, "Oh no, I'm doomed.

And I thought, "Oh no.

And I loved that thought, of being able to share my ideas through the printed page.

So after this experience, my art teacher, Mr. Shilale, he brought in these picture books, and I thought, "Picture books for kids!" and I started writing books for young readers when I was a senior in high school.

And I got this picture, and I thought, "This picture is going to live within his consciousness for his entire life.

So the girls thought for a moment, and one girl suggested, "Why don't we just take the dance in the jail?"

Because we know that the fathers are even leaving with this one thought: What type of woman am I preparing to put in the world?

I just totally transformed what you thought of me, in six seconds.

And what was remarkable about it was in the past when we think of chemical messengers within the body, we thought of complicated things like estrogen and insulin, or nerve transmission.

Well, having found that and published that, I thought, well, what's it doing?

We thought that maybe nitric oxide affected cell death, and how cells survive, and their resistance to other things.

And we then thought to ourselves, with those big stores, I wonder if sunlight might activate those stores and release them from the skin, where the stores are about 10 times as big as what's in the circulation.

Well, I'm an experimental dermatologist, so what we did was we thought we'd have to expose our experimental animals to sunlight.

So we looked for a universal translator; I thought there would be one out there.

Had he shown his father, "My boy has finally lost it," he would've thought.

My secret was that I had this gun loaded with hollow-point bullets pointed at my head by the man who I thought was my soulmate, many, many times.

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