#1025  Math Test
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Take this simple test.

It takes less than a minute to take it, the answer follows.

>> > Don't cheat !
>> > This riddle must be Done In Your Head and 
>> > NOT using paper and a pen.
>> > As usual, please do not cheat.
>> > Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 
>> > 1000.
>> > Now add 30. Add another 1000.
>> > Now add 20. Now add another 1000. 
>> > Now add 10.
>> > What is the total?
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>> > Did you get 5000?
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>> > Scroll Down
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>> > The correct answer is actually 4100. 
>> > Don't believe it? Check it with
>> > your calculator!

Here's what happened

You had it right for the first 6 math operations.
at the point where you were told to add ten, the
total was 4090.

The thing is, YOU KNEW IT WAS 4,090.
I don't want to seem like I'm so smart because I 
did the same thing as most of you when I took
this test.

The last instruction was "now add 10".
The previous instruction was "now add 1,000".

You automatically went from 4,090 when asked
to add 10 to 5,000 instead of 4,100. Why?

Because you had been lulled into adding 1,000 so
many times that it seemed like 10 added to 4,090
Was 5,000. It looked like the next number SHOULD
be 5,000. Obviously it wasn't but this teaches us a 
very valuable lesson about how the mind and the
World works.

We can get so entrenched into patterns, that we 
can't see obvious truth. Even when it adds up.

If you stopped to add up some things in your life
you may come up with a different total than what
you think. If you add with clarity, your total
will be much more than you figured.

One day, I'll give you the life addition test.


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