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THOUGHT

RABBI DR BENJI LEVY

Can any of us honestly say that in the past week we sat down for five minutes and thought about how to solve a problem in our lives? Not a metaphorical five minutes. Rather, literally five minutes.

A recent study at the University of Virginia involving hundreds of participants found that most chose to repeatedly give themselves an electric shock, rather than sit and think. All these people had previously said that they would rather pay money than be shocked and yet when they were presented with the alternative of spending time thinking by themselves, they chose self-inflicted pain.

Look around next time you catch public transport or are sitting in a waiting room and watch how many people take their phones out immediately. Spending time with ourselves and thinking shouldn’t be difficult and yet we constantly seek distractions. Many times, we allow others to think for us through rapid-fire news feeds, which give us everyone else's opinions before

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