Sublime

In this book we tell the story of the new science of children’s minds.

This early research with animals established an important point—a brain can physically expand and contract and change depending on experience.

Annual Review of Neuroscience 32 (2009): 289–313. For recent thinking on the amygdala, see: FeldmanHall, Oriel, Paul Glimcher, Augustus L. Baker, NYU PROSPEC Collaboration, and Elizabeth A. Phelps.

‘a curious octopus.

To effectively help colleagues, people need to step outside their own frames of reference. As George Meyer did, they need to ask, “How will the recipient feel in this situation?” This capacity to see the world from another person’s perspective develops very early in life.

After meeting Joel, I realized that the most self-confident leaders are not the ones who need to talk, but the ones who ask the best questions.

Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett,

In childhood, there are no bounds to the creativity of identity.

Moreover, the representations that result from learning influence how the brain processes new experiences. Experience changes the brain, but then those very changes alter the way new experience affects the brain. The sequence of development seems very important: choosing one path early on may heavily influence which paths will be available later.