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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
What it turns out is that we think we're multitasking, but we're not. The brain is sequential tasking: we flit from one thought to the next very, very rapidly, giving us the illusion that what we're doing is doing all these things at once.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our brains are very, very good at self-delusion. What happens is, it releases the stress hormone cortisol in the brain, which leads to foggy thinking, so you're not even able to judge well whether you're working well or not.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Information overload refers to the notion that we're trying to take in more than the brain can handle.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're making a bunch of little decisions - like, do I read this email now or later? Do I file it? Do I forward it? Do I have to get more information? Do I put it in the spam folder? - that's a handful of decisions right there, and you haven't done anything meaningful. It puts us into a brain state of decision fatigue.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because you've been exposed to Western tonal music, you know after a certain chord sequence what the next possibilities are. Your brain has compiled a statistical map of which ones are most likely and least likely. If the song keeps hitting the most likely notes, you'll get bored, and if it's always the least likely ones, you'll get irritated.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an ancient connection between movement and music. Most languages don't make a distinction between the words 'music' and 'dance.' And we can see that in the brain. When people are lying perfectly still but listening to music, the neurons in the motor cortex are firing.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
The left brain is responsible for making order out of chaos, for making sense of things in the world that don't always add up. To do this, it often makes up stories, fantastic confabulations in some cases, just to be able to explain what we're experiencing.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music can be thought of as a type of perceptual illusion in which our brain imposes structure and order on a sequence of sounds. Just how this structure leads us to experience emotional reactions is part of the mystery of music.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you aren't taking regular breaks every couple of hours, your brain won't benefit from that extra cup of coffee.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became interested in structure when I was in graduate school. How is it that the brain perceives structure in a sometimes disorganized and chaotic world? How and why do we categorize things? Why can things be categorized in so many different ways, all of which can seem equally valid?
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a simple country neuroscientist, not an expert on democracy, but I do know something about how the brain works and how opinion-reinforcing bubbles can distort the picture of reality we build from the information we encounter on a daily basis.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take actions in the present that will bring us to a better future rather than a worse one.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
- Different Parts
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020