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If you’re the CEO of 100,000 Workers, What Are You Telling Them?

Name: If you’re the CEO of 100,000 Workers, What Are You Telling Them?
Uploaded: 2025-05-08T23:32:58+00:00
Duration: 58 s
Channel: Will Humphreys
Description: A short excerpt from a May 8, 2025 YouTube video by Will Humphreys comparing the information-processing capacity of the unconscious and conscious minds…

8 May 2025 · 1 min

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A short excerpt from a May 8, 2025 YouTube video by Will Humphreys comparing the information-processing capacity of the unconscious and conscious minds (estimates given: ~12 million bits/sec unconscious vs. ~126 or ~50 bits/sec conscious) and using a CEO-with-100,000-workers metaphor to explain how repeated internal programs (e.g., 'stress = upset') drive ongoing behavior.

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Now if you can compare that to what the conscious mind can process, the CEO, the thinker, that's about 126 bits per second by some estimation. Some people say 50 bits per second. But just from a ratio perspective, let's say it's 12 million bits per second for the unconscious and 126 bits per second for the conscious. You're around a 1 to 100,000 ratio. In my mind, the way I view that is I'm the CEO and I have 100,000 workers that are going to bat for me every day, 365, 24 7. They don't sleep and they don't ever take PTO. If that's the case, and I have a program running to those employees that stress equals upset equals my life is hard. Those workers are going to work non stop on that. And not all of them will. Some of them are like, well, you have another program that says you want to be happy, but they're not duking it out in your company. And you can't figure out why your stat line isn't going very well from a, just from a metaphorical standpoint.