Are you thinking on purpose?

Zayn Patel
9 min readNov 21, 2020

Thought worms are a piece of our brain that leads to the understanding of where an idea starts and where it ends. Let’s start by discussing what a thought worm is. Thought worms are simply points within our brain that represent our thought activity each day. Our brain inhabits a new point in that space every moment, leading to the concept of thought worms. When our brain moves to a new thought, we create a new thought worm as a transition to our next thought.

As humans we endure a huge mental tax everyday and generate around 6,000 thoughts/thought worms. Yet, how many of thoughts…

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Zayn Patel

Working on space technology and policy, improving government with data science, and launching a cubesat mission.