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Music for this entry: *** "You spent your early years developing some neural networks while allowing others to atrophy Some of your neurons got swept away like autumn leaves, and that streamlined your thought process. You added new knowledge, of course, but you did that in areas where your electricity already flowed. If you were born into a hunting tribe, for example, you easily added more useful hunting information, and if you were born into a farming tribe, you bad solid farming circuits to build onto. You ended up with a brain honed to survive in the world you actually lived in. The zip of electricity through your circuits gives you the feeling that things make sense. When the world doesn’t fit your developed circuits, your electricity trickles so you have less confidence in your knowledge." From Habits Of A Happy Brain , p. 124 "This is most evident when we speak of a person’s “passion.” Consider the child who watches a doctor cure a sick family member and ...
