第12页 Part One: Chapter 2

1⃣️【trapped by categories】
We experience the world by creating categories and making distinctions among them.Without categories the world might seem to escape us.
The creation of new categories is a mindful activity.

Mindlessness sets in when we rely too rigidly on categories and distinctions created in the past.Once distinctions are created,they take on a life of their own.The categories we make gather momentum and are very hard to overthrow. We build our own and our shared realities and then we become victims of them — blind to the fact that they are constructs,ideas.
To be mindless is to be trapped in a rigid world.

2⃣️【Automatic Behavior】
The automatic behavior in evidence has much in common with habit. Habit ,or the tendency to keep on with behavior that has been repeated over time,naturally implies mindlessness.

3⃣️【Acting From A Single Perspective】
So often in our lives, we act as though there were only one set of rules. Once we let them in, our minds snap shut like a clam on ice and do not let in new signals.