READ: KNOW YOU’RE A GOOD PERSON

For many of us, perhaps the hardest thing of all is to believe that “I am a good person.” We can climb mountains, work hard, acquire many skills, act ethically – but truly feel that one is good deep down? Nah!

5000 Synapses in the Width of a Hair

How much change in the brain makes a difference in the mind? That’s the issue raised by a very interesting comment regarding my previous blog, The Brain in a Bucket. So I’ve taken the liberty of posting the comment here (hoping that’s OK in blog etiquette; still learning as I go), and then responding. Here [...]

The Brain in a Bucket

Have you ever seen a real brain? I remember the first time I saw one, in a neuropsych class: the instructor put on rubber gloves to protect against the formaldehyde preservative, popped the lid off of a lab bucket, and then pulled out a brain. It didn’t look like much, a nondescript waxy yellowish-white blob [...]

Symbols of the Human Brains

Today I would like to share an inspiring way of seeing ourselves. As we know, human beings have an amazing brain and its potential has not yet been fully discovered. It is subjected to always new studies and experimentation. The human brain is a mystery. Still, some great human beings seem to be able to [...]

All Or Nothing

All Or Nothing Where does the all or nothing way of thinking come from? Is it a lack of patience, frustration, determination, or maybe even plain old stubbornness? An all or nothing standard is certainly an extreme that many people force themselves into. How familiar are the following statements to you? I’m never doing that [...]