Sublime

motivational theory.

also read Descartes’ Error, by the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio.22 Damasio had noticed an unusual pattern of symptoms in patients who had suffered brain damage to a specific part of the brain—the ventromedial (i.e., bottom-middle) prefrontal cortex (abbreviated vmPFC; it’s the region just behind and above the bridge of the nose). Their emotionali

self-observation, realization, reorganization, and stabilization.

The emotional load sharing and efficiency of the “group mind” leaves each individual’s prefrontal cortex with a lot less work to do than it would have on its own.

as exemplified in the pathbreaking work by Tania Singer on compassion and Richard Davidson on neuroplasticity.

Of the many emerging descriptions of our social brain, for me the simplest and most elegant is the highly regarded Social Baseline Theory of Lane Beckes and James A. Coan, two researchers at the University of Virginia.

Carl Rogers

The ‘prison’ of the ‘self’ is made of concepts and belief. Do not get embroiled in the affairs of others.

Kakonomics is the strange yet widespread preference for mediocre exchanges insofar as nobody complains about them.