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Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace until Wednesday morning. I don't know whether

you have children or not, whether you perhaps have nieces or nephews or grandchildren, whatever.

But a few days back I was sat down chatting with my wife who were having dinner and the

kids were in a separate room but kind of a different part of the room and they were watching

TV. As we were chatting, it looked like at first glance as though they were completely

ingrosed in the program. I mean, if you looked at them, I mean they're almost catatonic,

looking at the screen completely sort of locked in. And yet we were having a conversation

and all of a sudden the older one of the two turned round and commented on what we were

talking about. So we had assumed that we were having a conversation that they weren't

really listening to. Thankfully it was, it was nothing bad, but we assumed that we were

having a private conversation even though they were in the room. But clearly despite being

very ingrosed in the TV show, there was an element of his mind, there was the capacity

to hear what we were saying. And I think it's really interesting when we think about in

life just how much we are actually taking in all of the time. Some of it we're consciously

taking in, some of it we're intentionally taking in. But actually the brain is constantly

at work. And it reminded me, I remember leaving a long retreat, the transition from that

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