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Scott Young • Can you get an MIT education for $2,000? | Scott Young | TEDxEastsidePrep
see neuroscientists as the “new high priests of the secrets of the psyche and explainers of human behavior in general.”
Sally Satel • Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
The issue is that personality is extremely individual. Traits that play a critical role in peak performance—such as your risk tolerance or where you land on the introversion-to-extroversion scale—are genetically coded, neurobiologically hardwired, and difficult to change. Add in all the possible environmental influences that come from variations in
... See moreSteven Kotler • The Art of Impossible
Alison Gopnik and Robin Carhart-Harris come at the problem of consciousness from what seem like completely different directions and disciplines, but soon after they learned of each other’s work (I had e-mailed a PDF of Robin’s entropy paper to Alison and told him about her superb book, The Philosophical Baby), they struck up a conversation that has
... See moreMichael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
attention and focus are the raw materials of human creativity and flourishing.
Nir Eyal • Indistractable
The human species was given this tremendous gift of neuroplasticity, the ability to change ourselves and be better in deliberate ways. My definition of greatness is anyone that’s making that effort, even in a tiny way, just to take this incredible machinery that we were given—our nervous system—and to leverage it toward being better, feeling better
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Adam Alter • Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most
The Mind: Leading Scientists Explore the Brain, Memory, Personality, and Happiness (Best of Edge Series)
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Becoming sensitive to the background causes of one’s thoughts and feelings can—paradoxically—allow for greater creative control over one’s