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good points
many will say that we create our reality, I like the idea too that when your mind open up for a new idea it never gets back to the original size again (was it Einstein?)
now, how sure are you that attention creates thoughts? maybe there's a stream of thoughts that could happen regardless of your attention but you can uses your attention to keep them or leave them...
what do you think?
I don't know if there is a clear answer to this in the literature, but at least to me, it seems like it's a bit of both.
On one hand we just get random thoughts all the time, but on the other hand, things that you have paid attention to in the past tend to appear in your thoughts as well.
I'm sure advertisers would know the answer to this, because they pay a lot of money to be in the minds of the people.