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The Abstract Mind: How Thinking Became the Source of Suffering-And How to Break Free

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Your mind spends most of its time dreaming. It's time to wake up.

Our ability to think abstractly is humanity’s superpower. It gave us language, art, science, and civilization. Before a wheel was built, it was imagined. Before a law was written, it was conceived. Abstraction lets us plan, create, and transcend our immediate circumstances.

But this gift has a shadow. The same mind that builds bridges also builds prisons—of worry, comparison, and endless mental chatter. We fret over insults tha...