What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite Quotes

“Simon LeVay, “The mind is just the brain doing its job.”
― David DiSalvo, What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite

“the brain's activity—and, indeed, the activity of our nervous system in total—is our mind.”
― David DiSalvo, What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite

“Years of neuroscience research have led to the current understanding of the brain as a prediction machine—an amazingly complex organ that processes information to determine what's coming next. Specifically, the brain specializes in pattern detection and recognition, anticipation of threats, and narrative (storytelling).”
― David DiSalvo, What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite

“your brain is structured to make sense of stimuli and patterns in any environment you step into, and it's finding patterns in this new environment that overlay well with others you have experienced.”
― David DiSalvo, What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite

“There is always an easy solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.” —H. L. MENCKEN, THE DIVINE AFFLATUS”
― David DiSalvo, What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite

“We as individuals may tend to be more deliberate or more intuitive in our thinking style, but we're all a mix of calculation and intuition.”
― David DiSalvo, What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite

“The second point is that the lives we lead are much more automated than we imagine—or like to concede—and that this is not always a good thing.”
― David DiSalvo, What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite

“other worker was also blinded, in his case by a well-rehearsed internal script in which he played the hero.”
― David DiSalvo, What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite

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― David DiSalvo, What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite