Sublime

the reason that a leader’s boundaries work is that they actually make it possible for people’s brains to function as they were designed.

If the amygdala is the smoke detector in the brain, think of the frontal lobes—and specifically the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC),12 located directly above our eyes—as the watchtower, offering a view of the scene from on high.

Psychiatrist Judson Brewer, at the time at the Yale University School of Medicine, discovered that these "open" or "closed" states of consciousness map onto activities of the posterior cingulate cortex and precuneus complex, part of the neocortical regions engaged when ruminating, introspecting, and daydreaming. Anger and anxiet

When prefrontal regions are either surgically removed or fall prey to some calamity, patients continue to see, hear, and sense. Deficits affect the higher mental faculties, resulting in apathy, a lack of curiosity about the world, and a disability in planning, introspecting, reasoning, and regulating emotions. Patients perseverate or consistently m

La vie n’est que ce que nous en pensons, et nos vies sont les créations de nos esprits. Mais ces idées sont inutiles si elles ne sont pas accompagnées d’une théorie du moi divisé (comme celle du cornac et de l’éléphant) et d’une compréhension du biais de négativité et du style affectif. Une fois que vous savez pourquoi le changement est si difficil

This is the brain that both shapes and is shaped by our mind. This is also the brain that forms one point of the triangle of well-being that is so central to mindsight.