I have read about as much of your post as I have of Daniel Kahneman's book - I am on page 71

Thinking, Fast and Slow

I do not need to read much more of either to grasp the importance and power and weakness of conditioned automated thinking.

We may not know it but we are totally in control of our managed thinking processes - we can switch off the automatic responses if we choose to. We just have to think about it - no need to go into hibernation - just train the mind to stop being automatic. Just keep asking "what did they mean?".

Great post