Your mind was shaped before you could choose. It is still being shaped now.
Every day, thoughts pass through your mind and quietly influence what you fear, what you trust, what you pursue and what you postpone. Some began in the first thousand days of your life. Others entered through family, school, culture, success, loss and the stories you learnt to call your own. Today, news, social media, algorithms and artificial intelligence compete to shape what receives your attention next.
In A Poisoned Mind, Kurt Gassner follows these influences through the most intimate laboratory available to him: his own life. Combining personal narrative with carefully framed insights from neuroscience, developmental psychology and epigenetics, he develops three connected practices: Mind Nutrition, Mind Digestion and Mind Hygiene.
This is not a promise to erase the past or think positively at all costs. It is an invitation to become more curious about the forces shaping you — and more conscious of what you choose to shape next.
Freedom does not begin when influence disappears. It begins when influence becomes visible — and choice returns.
