{"id":162694,"date":"2023-04-23T12:26:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T17:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/we-make-thousands-of-unconscious-decisions-every-day-heres-how-your-brain-copes-with-that"},"modified":"2023-04-23T12:26:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T17:26:16","slug":"we-make-thousands-of-unconscious-decisions-every-day-heres-how-your-brain-copes-with-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/we-make-thousands-of-unconscious-decisions-every-day-heres-how-your-brain-copes-with-that","title":{"rendered":"We make thousands of unconscious decisions every day: Here\u2019s how your brain copes with that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-make-thousands-of-unconscious-decisions-every-day-heres-how-your-brain-copes-with-that3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you remember learning to drive a car? You probably fumbled around for the controls, checked every mirror multiple times, made sure your foot was on the brake pedal, then ever-so-slowly rolled your car forward.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to now and you\u2019re probably driving places and thinking, \u201chow did I even get here? I don\u2019t remember the drive\u201d. The task of driving, which used to take a lot of mental energy and concentration, has now become subconscious, automatic\u2014habitual.<\/p>\n<p>But how\u2014and why\u2014do you go from concentrating on a task to making it automatic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember learning to drive a car? You probably fumbled around for the controls, checked every mirror multiple times, made sure your foot was on the brake pedal, then ever-so-slowly rolled your car forward. Fast forward to now and you\u2019re probably driving places and thinking, \u201chow did I even get here? I don\u2019t remember [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}