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How Do We Regulate Our Emotions? The Answer Is Surprisingly Simple: By Thinking About Them. The Prefrontal Cortex Allows Each Of Us To Contemplate His Or Her Own Mind, A Talent Psychologists Call Metacognition. We Know When We Are Angry; Every Emotional State Comes With Self-awareness Attached, So That An Individual Can Try To Figure Out Why He's Feeling What He's Feeling. If The Particular Feeling Makes No Sense—if The Amygdala Is Simply Responding To A Loss Frame, For Example—then It Can Be Discounted. The Prefrontal Cortex Can Deliberately Choose To Ignore The Emotional Brain.

Every Creative Story Is Different. And Every Creative Story Is The Same. There Was Nothing. Now There Is Something. It's Almost Like Magic.

For Too Long, We've Assumed That There Is A Single Template For Human Nature, Which Is Why We Diagnose Most Deviations As Disorders. But The Reality Is That There Are Many Different Kinds Of Minds. And That's A Very Good Thing.

The Answer Will Only Arrive After We Stop Looking For It.

While Human Nature Largely Determines How We Hear The Notes, It Is Nurture That Lets Us Hear The Music.