The Trouble With Trying To Control Our Thoughts
We have two mental systems that work side by side whenever we are thinking about something or feeling a certain way, these two systems are intentional and monitoring systems.
- The former orients our attention to focus on our tasks or our goal state and it requires a lot of effort to do this.
- The latter's only job is to recognize if our attention is being deviated from said task or goal and alert the intentional system to work harder.
Now, there is an imbalance in the task difficulty between the two systems .
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