A Mere 400 Years After Our Fall

It Turns Out Your Conscious Mind - The Part You Think Of As You - Is Really The Smallest Part Of What’s Happening In Your Brain, And Usually The Last One In Line To Find Out Any Information.

If You Cannot Always Elicit A Straight Answer From The Unconscious Brain, How Can You Access Its Knowledge? Sometimes The Trick Is Merely To Probe What Your Gut Is Telling You. So The Next Time A Friend Laments That She Cannot Decide Between Two Options, Tell Her The Easiest Way To Solve Her Problem: Flip A Coin. She Should Specify Which Option Belongs To Heads And Which To Tails, And Then Let The Coin Fly. The Important Part Is To Assess Her Gut Feeling After The Coin Lands. If She Feels A Subtle Sense Of Relief At Being "told" What To Do By The Coin, That's The Right Choice For Her.

You Gleefully Say, "i Just Thought Of Something!", When In Fact Your Brain Performed An Enormous Amount Of Work Before Your Moment Of Genius Struck. When An Idea Is Served Up From Behind The Scenes, Your Neural Circuitry Has Been Working On It For Hours Or Days Or Years, Consolidating Information And Trying Out New Combinations. But You Take Credit Without Further Wonderment At The Vast, Hidden Machinery Behind The Scenes.

What Has Always Surprised Me When I Walk Into A Bookstore Is The Number Of Books That You Can Find That Are Written With Certainty. The Authors Tell Some Story As Though It's True, But They Don't Have Any Evidence That It Is True!

My Lab And Academic Work Fill My Day From About 9 Am To 7 P.m. Then I Zoom Out The Lens To Work On My Other Writing.