The dreaded clear-your-head myth is responsible for untold numbers of aborted meditation careers. I hear people espousing this faulty belief all the time. “I know I should meditate,” they tell me, “but I can’t stop thinking!” People tend to assume they are distinctively distractible—that they exhibit a sui generis kind of lunacy that prevents them, and only them, from ever meditating. I call this the “fallacy of uniqueness.”
