While Human Nature Largely Determines How We

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

...new Ideas Are Merely Several Old Thoughts That Occur At The Exact Same Time.

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.

People Assume That They Perceive Reality As It Is, That Our Senses Accurately Record The Outside World. Yet The Science Suggests That, In Important Ways, People Experience Reality Not As It Is, But As They Expect It To Be.

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.