Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To
Dean Burnett
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The brain apparently thinks logic is a precious resource to be used only sparingly.”
“I'm also part of the great conspiracy of global scientists to promote the myths of climate change, evolution, vaccination, and a spherical earth. After all, there's nobody on earth wealthier and more powerful than scientists, and they can't risk losing this exalted position by people finding out how the world really works.”
“One of the brain's most prominent skills is the ability to ignore anything that becomes too predictable, no matter how important it may be”
“Procrastination is motivation to do the wrong thing.”
“Feeling in control makes most people feel secure and safe. It doesn’t matter how much actual control we have. Every human is technically a meaningless sack of carbon clinging to a rock hurtling through the uncaring void around trillions of tonnes of nuclear fire, but that’s too big for a single human to be aware of.”
“Sadly, the words "reliable" and "accurate" can rarely be applied to the workings of the brain, particularly for memory.”
“Or how about the fact that stress can actually increase your performance at a task? It’s a neurological process, not just “something people say.” Deadlines are one of the most common ways of inducing stress that provoke an increase in performance.”
“As J. P. Gillard said in 1959, ‘An individual’s personality, then, is his unique pattern of traits.’ Note how it says ‘his’; this was the 1950s, and of course, women were allowed to have personalities only from the mid-1970s.”
“So the more privileged and comfortable someone’s life is, the harder it is for them to appreciate the needs and issues of those worse off. But as long as we don’t do something stupid like put the most pampered people in charge of running countries, we should be OK. We”
“Overall, personality tests would be more useful if our personalities didn’t get in the way.”
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Book Keywords:
memory, mind, perception-of-reality, brain
