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 | Mar 31, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Brain Matter, Life & Career Success
I love movies. One of my favorites is the original Karate Kid series (okay, not Karate Kid II so much but the first and third ones were cool). There is a great line in KK III, where the bad guy “Terry Silver,” (portrayed by Thomas Ian Griffith), tells the...
by Jeff Price | Mar 28, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Brain Matter, Life & Career Success
As a result of standardized testing and the importance placed on performing well, there is the strong potential that we have plenty of wasted intelligence out in the world. Many parents like to find out that their child is special – of course, because who wants...
