psychology

She was teaching us that the goal isn’t just having the most ideas; it is having different ideas. Better ones. Twenty-five little lightbulbs went on and we were set out into the world to become creative, status-quo-changing thinkers. That definition

Crime is common. Logic is rare.” Why? Logic is boring. We think we’ve already figured it out. In pushing past this preconception lies the challenge.

What we learn from the past is to maximize the qualities of our future memories, not necessarily of our future experience. This is the tyranny of the remembering self.

Flynn’s conclusion: “There is no sign that any department attempts to develop [anything] other than narrow critical competence.”

Key insight: Building an audience is an act of service, not self-promotion. Find a way to educate or entertain (or both).

Do you see the middle figure as a B or a 13? The stimulus remains the same, but what we see is all a matter of expectation and context. A disguised animal? Not in Holmes’s repertoire, however vast it might be, and so he does not even consider the possibility. Availability—from experience, from contextual frames, from ready anchors—affects

baseline, “resting” state—but don’t let the word fool you, because the brain isn’t at rest at all. Instead, it experiences tonic activity in what’s now known as the DMN, the default mode network: the posterior cingulate cortex, the adjacent precuneus, and the medial prefrontal cortex. This baseline activation suggests that the brain is constantly

People are so proud of their names that they strive to perpetuate them at any cost.

Pugnacity, brutality, greed, and sexual readiness were advantages in the struggle for existence.