Sublime

relevance. Your brain adjusts itself according to what you spend your time on, as long as those tasks have alignment with rewards or goals.

volitional

When the alarm bell of the emotional brain keeps signaling that you are in danger, no amount of insight will silence it.

Melanie Boly, a neurologist and neuroscientist at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is painstakingly collecting EEG data from long-term Buddhist meditators during a state known as pure presence, an experience with no self, no discursive thoughts, and no perceptual content except for a luminous expanse, an empty mirror. Att

The mind has an inherent negativity bias.

The only people who are immune to this mistake are neurologically impaired patients who can't feel any emotion at all. In most situations, these people have very damaged decision-making abilities. And yet, because they don't feel the extra sting of loss, they are able to avoid the costly emotional errors brought on by loss aversion. Consider this e