by Jeff Price | Jun 16, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Brain Matter, Life & Career Success
How we make decisions is an argument between our rational and emotional brains. We should always at least entertain competing hypothesis (Lehrer 247) and continually remind ourselves of what we don’t know (Lehrer 247). General and former Secretary of State Colin...
by Jeff Price | Jun 14, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Brain Matter, Life & Career Success
Have you ever had that situation in which you struggled with a problem and when you thought of the answer it was so obvious that you wondered why it took you so long? That’s essentially because your mind has been spending its time coming up with numerous,...
by Jeff Price | Jun 14, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Brain Matter, Life & Career Success
If our dopamine is supposed to help us make good decisions, why do we continue to make bad decisions, like getting into debt, thinking irrationally, and pursuing the short term benefit, rather than seeing the long-term outcome? Because dopamine isn’t the only...
by Jeff Price | Jun 13, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Brain Matter, Life & Career Success
Dopamine. Turns out that little awesome molecule is an awesome indicator predictor of events and helps us make decisions (Lehrer 34-35). When our nuclear accumbens (NAcc) is stimulated (that’s a part of our brain that generates pleasurable feelings) it triggers...
by Jeff Price | Jun 9, 2013 | Life & Career Success, Parenting
Ever notice how some friends you have for life, while others you have just for a period of your life? I’ve often wondered why. Also, why is that boys and girls go from playing with each other and hardly noticing their gender differences, to being repelled by one...
