Think! All you have to do is think! Assuming you are telling yourself this then it’s a bit crazy as it’s your Frontal Cortex, which I’ll shorten to FrontC, letting your FrontC to do what FrontC does – think. By think I mean to take in information, mix it with memories, and try and come…
Amygdala or AmyG, the always on guard dog of your nervous system takes information from sensory systems, bilateral amygdala (BLA), insular cortex, and the periaqueductal gray (PEG) to name but a few. The information doesn’t stop there as there is either reaction to the information or it is recognised and then ignored. Here we look…
If you are sitting somewhere just chilling out, not a cafe in the world then that’s great. Nothing to worry about. This state means your mental guard dog is resting. She may look like she’s asleep and not paying any attention but she is always on and always there to give you a heads-up when…
How the body produces emotions that you have no control over. Autonomic nervous system: sympathetic (SNS) and parasympathetic (PNS) SNS – norepinephrine (nor-epin-ephrine like ‘nor-epee-neffrine’) or noradrenaline, and adrenal epinephrine or adrenaline from the adrenal medulla found above the kidneys (medulla – marrow or middle). Norepinephrine works on just the alpha recepetors in the blood…
Layer 2 and a half? Memory So far I’ve explain the brain in three super simple layers with each layer doing a different thing (remember it’s a model not a reality). What I didn’t mention was something fundamental to a lot of the work of the brain and that is memory – recalling stuff that…
Sheila Heen and Douglas Stone – the art and science of giving feedback.
We start our journey at the smallest scale of us – our cellular biology. We start here as it help set some of the foundational interactions that at scale make you you, me me and them them. The very basic cell Life is incredible. That incredibility can be looked at different ways. One way is…
Why do cells divide? Why don’t cells get bigger and bigger? Nerve cells are massive and still work. Fat cells are also massive. It’s all about connectivity, efficiency, and identity. A human being is roughly an assortment of 3.7±0.8×1013 cells or 37,000,000,000,000 which is a big number. But why so many? Bacteria are tiny tiny.…
If you want to get ahead get a hat. If you want to get a mate get a brain. Today I’m going to talk about why having a brain is really helpful if you have any intentions of moving for some reason perhaps to find food, escape something that things you are food or find…
When I talk about leadership I’m really talking about influence through behaviour of a person on another person either consciously or unconsciously (you can be a leader and not even know about it). To get a very, very basic understanding of how influence works we need to understand how we detect it and how we…