January 21, 2004

Why does my brain do this?

I continue to be puzzled how the human brain works. Yesterday I worked with a client to assure that various print jobs would automatically select different input trays on the printer. I tested my setup and it seemed to work well.

This morning, as I was preparing to go jogging, it suddenly occurred to me that I had missed setting up the manual input tray. This thought surprised me, as I was not thinking about the client or their printers at all this morning. The thought seemed to come in out the blue.

I have had this happen before. The analogy I might make is it seems as if the subconscious is always working on things and when it comes across something that seems important, it suddenly presents this to the conscious part.

I guess my only question is why my subconscious is not figuring out a way to become wealthy. Although the thought this morning was certainly useful, an idea that could make me a million dollars would be a lot more useful.

Come on brain get with the program.

Perhaps I should ask my niece in California. She’s doing some kind of doctoral thesis on the brain. Maybe see could offer some advice.

Posted by Ted at January 21, 2004 6:49 AM