The Surprising Truth About How Many Thoughts We Think In A Day
No wonder we get overwhelmed
How many thoughts do you think we think in a day?
- 5,000–10,000?
- 10,000–20,000?
- 20,000–30,000?
Or is it more?
Well, one study found that we think around 50,000 a day on average.
To be that in context there are only 86,400 seconds in a day so that means we think a thought about 2,100 times an hour or every one and a half seconds or so.
What’s even more impressive is that of those 50,000 thoughts, 98% of them are said to be the same thoughts we thought yesterday, meaning that just 2% of the thoughts that you and I think today will be new. Or to put it simply — that’s about 1 in 50.
I say if they’re right because another study performed at Cleveland Clinic reckons our daily thought count is even higher. Here are the poetic words they said themselves:
“Your brain is a three-pound universe that processes 70,000 thoughts each day using 100 billion neurons that connect at more than 500 trillion points through synapses that travel 300 miles/hour. The…
