psychology
The smell is a link to the experience. Or has hearing a song released a whole stream of memories in your mind?
Kevin Horsley • Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive
our minds are wired to wander. Wandering is their default. Whenever our thoughts are suspended between specific, discrete, goal-directed activities, the brain reverts to a so-called 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
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.psychology baseline state of wandering to detect threats andobstacles
We must remind ourselves again that history as usually written (peccavimus) is quite different from history as usually lived: the historian records the exceptional because it is interesting—because it is exceptional.
Will Durant • The Lessons of History
Historian also falls prey to stpry telling by recording exceptional
Finally, dopamine, like all neurochemicals, amplifies memory.5 This, too, is automatic. A quick shorthand for how learning works in the brain: the more neurochemicals that show up during an experience, the more likely that experience will move from short-term holding into long-term storage. Memory enhancement is another key role played by
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take them to the bank, every cheque was hand signed by Oasis frontmen Liam and Noel Gallagher. With pen and ink alone, the band saved themselves a fortune.
Sam Tatam • Evolutionary Ideas
When we think as a matter of course, our minds are preset to accept whatever it is that comes to them. First we believe, and only then do we question. Put differently, it’s like our brains initially see the world as a true/false exam where the default answer is always true. And while it takes no effort whatsoever to remain in true mode, a switch of
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.psychology our default mechanism is to accept everything as true . Why is it so? Less effort but then isnt it antithesis to our survival. Maybe we need to believe risk immediately that’s why we tend to believe any statement
Shallow ideas can be assimilated; ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.
James Gleick • Chaos: Making a New Science
Self-discipline is not self-deprivation. It is about raising your standards, going for and being more.
Kevin Horsley • Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive
A long-term study of 736 guys showed friends reduced the likelihood of heart problems. Once again, a romantic partner didn’t.