training to restore brain health, we needed to reduce, to focus on the parts important to us.
As a business analyst, Jon Thorne used what psychologists rely on to rigorously diagnose mental illnesses to define what a healthy brain does.
recognizing the individual parts it is familiar with and understanding the connections between those parts to form a cohesive perception of the whole.
A healthy brain sustains the cohesive whole by interpreting the world through two distinct perspectives:
We move parts to reshape the whole, creating new opportunities as current ones fade. In this way, the whole transcends algorithms. It continually generates something greater than the sum of its parts. It embodies the principles of Gestalt—what is beautiful, true, and good—the essence of the full human experience.
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Just as an unhealthy body is more susceptible to illness, it is not ill until it is ill; an unhealthy brain is more likely to become ill, but it is not mentally ill until it is.
# An Unhealthy Brain Struggles to Sustain a Cohesive Whole
An excessive concentration on parts lowers the brain's ability to perceive the whole. Without a sense of the whole, we assemble familiar parts in a way that resembles an algorithm, similar to artificial intelligence. An unhealthy brain struggles to sustain a cohesive whole. While each part is vital—since a whole cannot exist without them—it is crucial to train to restore the brain health that is compromised by a focus on parts.
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