once you finally understand the reticular activating system, everything clicks. your brain deletes 99% of what's around you and only shows you what you told it matters. that's why you keep seeing proof you're not enough,…
Reticular Activating System Explained
A scientist claims you can mentally time travel to supercharge your memories
Metacognition: the act of stepping outside your own mind and watching it work. picture that sudden moment where you forget how to let breathing or heartbeat happen naturally and apply it to thoughts instead. when you…
metacognition defined
The tiny gap between feeling something and doing something about it is where meta-awareness lives | most of us feel and then react on reflex, but a metacognitive mind stops inside that gap, turns the thought over, and…
Four signs of high metacognition
Brain keeps insults for 20 years but praise only lasts 30 days
People who talk to themselves are more intelligent and better at decision making #Science
Shaming yourself to force change actually blocks the ability to learn and make that change happen
Your brain takes a hit every time you sit in complaint mode, and staying locked on what's broken makes it less able to adapt
The brain treats predictability like oxygen and will grab the familiar even if it is unhealthy just to avoid the cognitive cost of uncertainty. That pull toward the known is why three specific habits get dropped after…
neuroscience brain adaptation
Being able to think about how you think is apparently the top tier of intelligence, and they call it metacognition
Act like the person you're trying to become, don't sit around waiting to turn into them
Repeated attention is what carves the groove your neurons default to, and that cuts both directions. Sit with what's wrong long enough and the brain gets faster at hunting down more of it. Park yourself on the good…
Neuroplasticity and how attention rewires the brain
Quantum mechanics, game theory and cognitive load theory are the ones people rarely bring up first, but they count | the list runs from psychology and psycho cybernetics through neuroplasticity, atomic habits,…
Which concept shifted your perspective
Thirteen disciplines to expand your mind start with metacognition and bilingual cognitive processing. Pattern recognition and neuroplasticity sit alongside game theory as core learning areas. Subconscious reprogramming…
13 subjects to expand your mind
Psychologists propose we don't generate thoughts but rather receive them, suggesting the difference between 'THINK' and 'RECEIVE'
