We only make use of a tiny percentage of our ability to create thoughts, considering that the brain has the potential to generate 4 sextillion of them. Here's how to use more of that capacity, writes StevenCHayes
The average adult American knows about 46,000 words, and from there we can count our possible thoughts.Miguel Á. Padriñán/Pexels
Ponder that odd question and don’t proceed until you come up with a few really good answers. Don’t worry—after a few seconds, answers will start to flow.Perhaps you could use your cell phone to design the scissors. I spent a few minutes on the internet and found more than 1,000 relational words or phrases like “is the father of.” I was just scratching the surface. Every emotional word can be made into a comparison as can every physical feature . But let’s be conservative and say 1,000.found that the average 20-year-old American knew about 46,000 words, word variants, or distinctly meaningful word phrases , and 60-year-old people edged that up another 6,000 or so over their lifetime.
It turns out that you could give examples like that for most of the words or word phrases you know. Books likesuggest that at least half of the words you know are like that, so let’s just cut the 49,000 “lemmas” in half and assume that 24,500 of them you could give examples of…we will set aside the others for now.
Sentences vary by context and topic. Most sentences in most types of writing are 15 to 20 words long, while scientific writing is, on average, a bit longer—in psychology, it’s about 25 words long. Since we are asking how many thoughts are possible, let's go with 25. Now, how big a number is that? I could say it in words, but it won’t help you . Instead, let’s use a metaphor.
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